After watching The Thief Family, I couldn't help but think of the countless quarrels with my mother.
In front of my face, the person I said the most vicious words turned out to be my mother. It's just sad to think about it. Why the first people I think of when I am most helpless and sad are my relatives, and why they also become the people who bear all my negative emotions and viciousness at the same time.
It feels like the movie answers my question to some extent.
Even though Shibata took care of Shota like a real father, the scenes of playing and making a snowman with Shota are very heartwarming. However, at the end of the film, when Shibata Haru didn't want to bring Xiangta back to raise it, there was still an insurmountable hurdle in his heart.
The questioning in the middle of the night, and the angry words "Actually, I was caught on purpose." when I said goodbye in the morning, I felt like I reached myself. Even if I calmly think about this is wrong after getting on the bus, I don't have the courage to call "Dad" in person. I can only look at the old father who has been desperately chasing the child's footsteps behind the bus, and secretly call "Dad". ".
Maybe my understanding has strong personal feelings, but I think that Shouta's "Dad" is not a kind of reconciliation, nor does it represent anything else, it is more like a kind of saying to myself. An apology for half the truth (actually caught on purpose by the clerk to protect my sister.).
Isn't that me? There are things and thoughts that parents won't and don't want to tell their parents completely because they feel like they might never understand themselves, so they choose to hide half of the truth and make it seem like a cruel truth.
In the movie, everyone's confusing life experience is simply hidden in a few words. For example, the grandma who loves to play video games, is she really living with Aji for money? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe at the beginning, but after living together for so long, the relationship with Aki may be far beyond the 30,000 yen, but it is impossible to avoid the estrangement and the final outbreak brought by 30,000 yen - know 30,000 yen Will the truth Aki still believe that grandma loves her?
The warmth of living together is real, the warmth of the bed, the feeling of knowing that Aki has cold feet is real, but the truth of hiding the truth for 30,000 yen is also real. They exist at the same time and are not contradictory. It’s just an assumption we are accustomed to, that family relationships should be selfless. Any emotion mixed with money makes people feel awkward.
After reading it, I can't help but sigh in a worldly way: Maybe this is life, and the deep and moving emotions are buried in other places.
And life is when the child learns how to eat croquette and instant noodles from his father, and his father is secretly proud of it.
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