I re-watched the work "Nobody Knows" by Hirokazu Koreeda in the early years. On a late Saturday night with nothing to do, I watched this film while eating crayfish from the takeaway on the balcony, accompanied by mixed feelings in my heart. .
The film tells the life of a group of abandoned children. They were abandoned by their mother in an autumn. The four children depended on each other for life. The eldest was only 13 or 14 years old and had no ability to survive. 10,000 yen, in the days and nights no one knows, they spent a hard year. The movie ends after the unexpected death of the younger sister, and the other three continue to live without seeing tomorrow.
This is a movie with a lot of stamina, so that I still can’t let go of it when I think about it at this moment, and I especially want to know how the group of children abandoned by their mothers will end up in the movie. The background of the movie’s story is full of cruelty, but When the camera of the movie is aimed at the slapstick and play between children and the little things in life, it is full of tenderness.
The more cruel, the more gentle, this is the most tangible feeling when I watch many of Hirokazu Kore-eda's films.
In my opinion, the movie "The Thief Family" is also full of cruel undertones. On the surface, the movie creates a happy family. In fact, every member of the family has its own cruel or unbearable past. A family of six, three Children are all neglected or neglected members of the original family, and the three adults are not strictly kind.
The movie spends a lot of time telling a seemingly normal and warm family routine. Father Azhi works at the construction site, mother Shinyo works in the laundry, sister does emotional comfort work in a shop with erotic hints, and grandmother Hatsue is a gentle-natured person. The old grandmother went to her ex-husband's son's house to "extort" a sum of money every month. They lived together in a crowded house with high-rise buildings. Go to the supermarket to steal things to supplement the family.
After a theft was completed, they brought back a little girl who was alone at home. The little girl's original home was always full of quarrels. When her mother was upset, she would always take her anger out. The arrival of the little girl added some contradictions to the family. But as the family members get used to it, everything has passed smoothly. In the movie telling about the ordinary bits and pieces of the family, the highlight moment is the family's beach trip. Grandma is sitting by the beach with kind eyes, parents Taking three children to tread water on the beach, everyone was very happy. Grandma watched all that and said to herself: Thank you.
As the boy was caught after stealing once, the cruel background behind the warmth of the family was revealed one by one. It turned out that his wife Shinyo and her husband Aji had joined hands to kill someone, and the younger sister, Aji, adopted by the grandmother Hatsue, was her ex-husband's second marriage. The eldest granddaughter and son Xiangtai was also rescued by Xindai and Azhi in a parking lot a few years ago. Their family of six has no blood relationship. They rely on each other like a group of marginalized people to keep warm together. own purpose.
The old grandmother was willing to take them in because she was afraid of dying alone. Xindai and Azhi were willing to support the old grandmother, but they were just coveting her grandmother's pension. They were willing to adopt children because Xindai could not bear children. They got what they needed and leaned together, and in the process of getting along slowly, they gave birth to a warmer atmosphere than the original family.
The characters in the film, under some circumstances, more or less expressed some views about parenting and family relationships. Does family organization have to be based on blood ties? Does having a child necessarily mean that you can raise your child well? Behind this temporary "thief family", behind every family member, there are one after another of broken marriages, families, and parent-child relationships.
A very paradoxical phenomenon is that when Azhi was questioned by the police, why did he want the children to steal, he said, I have nothing to teach them. When we heard Azhi's answer, we didn't feel how absurd or sad, but more of an indescribable warmth and moving.
The strange and superhuman combination family brings us a strange tenderness with cruel undertones, and those complex emotions and complex emotions, under the lens of Hirokazu Ededa, gave me another "thumping" with strong stamina. .
At the end of the movie, the boy Xiangtai was adopted by the "orphanage". After getting along with his "father" Azhi for a short time, he took the bus and went away. Looking at Azhi who was running all the way behind the window, he finally softly called out that he had been The word "Dad" can't be called out.
And the little girl Yuri was taken back to her home, and once again the one who was left out was still at home. She played marbles on the balcony alone, then stepped on the stool, and looked at the other person who had stayed briefly with expectant eyes. a "home".
It is Hirokazu Kore-eda's movie, which never gives an answer. Everything is still pending. Every time, he always only tells a cruel and gentle story. There is no obvious end. Everything that comes to an abrupt end will eventually change. It has become a stagnation that cannot be separated from the tumult of your heart and mine, and this stagnation is precisely the most charming place in Hirokazu Koreeda's film.
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Head image: Poster of "The Thief Family"
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