"Grandma"-Trees Xilin Yaji-Matsuoka Moyu-lily Franky Nobuyoshi-Ando Sakura Shota-City Hinoki Yuri-Sasaki Miki No.4 Guest-Ikematsu Zhuangli
Briefly describe the composition of this family: Xindai and Jieyue murdered their husbands and made a living by cheating. After meeting an elderly "grandmother" who had no relatives, they decided to live with each other. Yaji ran away from home. Departed to the "father's stepfather's ex-wife" who had a relationship with each other, and then the letter generation and the knot "picked up" Xiangta when he was stealing, and finally Yu and Xiangta "abducted" Yuri. Therefore, the six members of the thief family are completely unrelated by blood.
【Abandoned child】
The only two complete families in the film, Yuri's family and Aki's family, are actually not as harmonious and loving as the "thief family". This also continues the proposition of "Is blood relationship equal to family affection" discussed in "Like Father Like Son". There are three abandoned children in the film:
The first child abandoned by her parents was Youli, who was known to have been "abducted". Her parents' attitude toward her was often hot and cold, and she didn't even report her disappearance for two months, which was almost equivalent to being abandoned.
The second is Xiang Tai. According to the oral account during the final interrogation, Xiangta was accidentally discovered by Kazuyoshi Nobuyo when he smashed the car window to steal something in the parking lot. Xiangta herself said that she has no memory of her biological parents, so it can be seen that she was about the same age as Yuri when she was "retrieved". Such a child is forgotten in the back seat of the car, anyway, as normal parents can do, it is likely to cause suffocation as it is written in the news, and they did not report the case after Xiangtai disappeared, no matter from which point of view , all want to abandon Xiang Tai.
The third is Aki. Aki, played by Matsuoka Mayu, uses the pseudonym "Saika" in the workplace. The name comes from his own sister, because the parents prefer the second daughter, probably who she wants to be. So Aki ran away from home. When "Grandma" Shibata Hatsue came to visit her ex-husband's house, she saw Aji's photo and asked her whereabouts. The "grandma" I saw on the Internet lives with her.
[“What role do we play?”]
Ando Sakura's acting in a one-man show at the final interrogation was amazing. Holding her hair alone, holding back her tears, she repeatedly asked herself "what do you want them to call yourself?" In fact, Shinyo wanted to be a mother, just because she couldn't bear children. After picking up Shoda, because Shoda wanted to play with Knot even more (the phrase "Wouldn't it be happier for two men to be together?" in the car), she didn't experience the feeling of being a mother too much, so Wanting to "abduct" Youri, he silently squatted on the ground the moment he sent her back. When Xindai took Xiangtai to the croquette shop, the clerk said, "Let my mother buy one for you." This is the happiest moment in the whole film.
At the end, Xiangtai went to visit Shindai, and Shindai recounted all the scenes of picking him up at that time. Because she has always been waiting for such a day to give him the right to regain his life.
Jie's father role has never been successful. He gave Xiangtai his childhood name, imagined saying hello to Xiangtai after returning home at the construction site, and chasing the bus all the way... But until the end, he did not listen to Xiangtai. My own word "father". In fact, it includes going to buy a croquette together, going to the old car to comfort Xiangtai who is angry alone, and telling Xiangtai about "European style" and "Chenbo" at the beach. These are all tasks that belong to my father, and he has done it very well.
【The core of the thief family】
In fact, Nobuyoshi played by Ando Sakura is a wise man, the greatest character in the whole film, and the core of the thief family. She is bound up with the no-brainer, and has always been the one who makes up her mind. Whether it was killing her ex-husband, living with "grandma", picking up Xiangta, or adopting Lingling, it was her decision.
When Xindai finally chose to take the blame alone, he said that he had a criminal record, which should not be referring to the murder of his ex-husband, because during the trial, Xindai said, "That matter can be regarded as self-defense." It can be seen that no guilty verdict was made at that time. Then the previous record of the knot is very likely to be caught for stealing.
She has always been very accurate. When Yuri first entered the house, Xindai said, "She is not that kind of child"; during the final interrogation, he also said, "Does Yuri say that she wants to go home? This is not what she said."
There are many scenes of joking between Xindai, colleagues, and Jie, and she has always been gentle with the two children, and she is more concerned with "grandma" between him and "grandmother".
There are not many direct opponents of Aki Kazuyuki and Nobuyo. He Jie asked him when it would be better for the two of them to go to bed, and Jie said, "We are connected by heart", which can be regarded as the most direct and moving line before the ending. In the opposite scene with Xindai, he just went home after he was with guest No. 4, and Xindai said that he and Jie were also "call girls and guests" before they got together. Later, it can be learned that the two were actually partnering to murder their ex-husband, so Xindai should not be a call girl at that time. This sentence is a "white lie" temporarily made up to take care of Saxiang's emotions and give her confidence in love.
【Same wounds make us recognize each other】
When Yuri was first adopted into the house, "grandmother" helped her apply ointment to the wound. When Yuri and Xindai took a bath later, Xindai told her that she also had a wound that was scalded by an iron. There was a line at the time that was "same wounds make us recognize each other" or something.
The character line of Aki, played by Matsuoka Mayu, has been deleted because of sensitive content. In fact, it is a story of mutual dependence as a call girl and "Guest No. 4" played by Soryo Ikematsu. After the two chatted in the hotel, Saka asked him where the wound on his hand came from, and the answer was "hit yourself". At the end of the interrogation clip, it can be clearly seen that Saka has the same wound on her hand, presumably she has tried to "beat herself" like this.
【"Thank you so much"】
The "grandmother" played by Shu Xilin was buried in her own home after her death, and 16 stacks of 30,000 yen were found. This is the 30,000 yen she "cheats" from her ex-husband's stepson's house, knowing that she will be despised by others, and she wants to leave it all to Yaji once a month. It's a pity that when the money was turned out by the knot and letter generation, Aji was lying on the side, completely ignorant of the meaning, and later thought that "grandma" lived with him for money.
While at the beach, "grandma" poured a handful of sand on her legs and gently said "thank you" to everyone, presumably knowing that her life was over.
In the marble game store, "Grandma" also took the opportunity to steal a basket of marbles and smiled at others. I think that's how she and Shindai knew each other from the beginning.
【Smart kid】
The title of the title tells Xiangta about the "window breaker", which is what the latter two did when they were in the parking lot. At that time, Yu said that the "window breaker" was very expensive, and it cost 2,000 yen. Afterwards, Mrs. Xiang has been grinding things.
At the end, Xiangtai and the knot were fishing by the river. It was an agreement between the two after they stole the fishing rod and returned, but they planned to sell it directly because "money" was more important at that time. The knowledge about "soft fishing bait" mentioned by Shota was the question they asked the clerk when they stole the fishing rod.
Shota took Yuri back to the Yamamoto House (what is the name) and found that it was closed. It wasn't that Shota didn't know the meaning of the word "Jizhong" and went to the window to look. Because Xiangtai is actually a very smart child, she studied at home by herself, and finally said "the eighth place in the class in the Mandarin exam". The reason why I look around, I personally think it is to spy on the world of the dead from the perspective of a child, or simply look inside.
In the end, when Shota came to Yu's place, I tended to think that Shota had already decided that this was the last time he would see him, so he offered to stay for the night, and he didn't look back on the bus the next day. He really wanted to kill him. cut off the past life. In fact, in the second half of the film, Xiangta has gradually realized that "stealing is wrong", "could have gone to school", "his life was deprived by knot and letter generation", "they have chosen to leave themselves and escape", etc. He subverted his understanding of his outlook on life time and time again, so he chose to take the initiative to be arrested-here I think that he was really actively arrested, not to cover up his sister's sacrifice to save others.
【Director's method】
It is Hirokazu-eda's story that is delicate. Many places are shot like this first, and then slowly tell you the strangeness in it. It is ingenious that you need to think twice and think twice to realize it. "The Thief Family" also first filmed the warmth of the family gathering for dinner, and then slowly revealed the secrets behind everyone. Specific to a certain detail, for example, first let the knot take Yuli to practice pulling the latch, and then shoot the three of them to steal the fishing rod.
Aki finally returned home alone and walked in from the back door, which is also the only setting in the whole film to enter and exit the house in reverse. Before, outsiders walked in through the front door, and the family of thieves escaped through the back door.
When Nobuyoshi and his colleagues at the laundry decided who was to be laid off, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who deliberately used a "duel"-style shot, with Nobuyoshi and his colleagues standing on the left and right of the camera. Of course, as with all "duel"-style shots, the heroine Nobuyo, who carries the viewer's perspective, is on the left. However, the colleague on the right also said that she needed this job very much. After all, she was doing odd jobs in the laundry, so she must have had a hard time.
However, facing her colleague who threatened her, Nobunyo said with firm eyes, "If you inform me, I will kill you." At the time, we thought it was a casual threat from Xindai, but only later did we find out that she had actually killed someone. It seems that the meaning of this sentence has changed a lot.
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