A group of children who are derailed from normal life, an adult who never grows up, and a corner forgotten by society, constitute a movie story full of stamina. At the same time, this is also based on a real news event in Japan. It was Hirokazu Koreeda who told us a story full of guilt from the very beginning, using the rhythm of his familiar documentary, and this guilt is directed at those irresponsible adults. There is a knowledge point called "high concept" movies and "low concept" movies. High concept refers to: the movie mainly uses hooking plots, exciting scenes and contradictory relationships between characters to continuously advance the movie narrative and arouse the audience's excitement. Interest; low concept is more inclined to the characterization of characters, the mining and analysis of characters' emotions. It is Hirokazu Kore-eda who is a veteran of low-concept movies and a master. Just as we can discover everyone's character in "Nobody Knows", we can really participate in their lives and enter their real emotions. In my opinion, this film is not only oriented towards social issues, but also has a clearer personal orientation. This is a typical story and cannot be copied and pasted as a common phenomenon, but each of us will find that deja vu in the corner of the movie to some extent.
teenage long hair
The director team spent a whole year to shoot the movie, and it happened that the narrative in the movie also took one year. This shows that the director team is attentive and serious. The first summer we saw Ming, his face was clean and handsome, his clothes were neat, and his eyes were full of immaturity, expectations for a better future and innocence. Especially striking is his long black and clean hair.
However, as his mother left for a month and disappeared forever, fear, confusion and loss appeared in his eyes, and holes continued to appear in his clothes. Ming, who originally adhered to the bottom line of morality and did not steal things, also had to go to the pharmacy to steal things after his sister Xiaoxue stumbled and fell. In the movie, his mother only cut his hair once, and while cutting it, he joked about his younger brother: Why is Mao's bangs so short?
Gradually, his hair became longer and messier, and his younger brother Mao's hair also became thick and sloppy. Once in a professor's book, he said that hair is something that people care about very much when they are teenagers and even when they grow up. We also have a strange system of compulsory haircuts when we enter the school, but when their hair grows wantonly, standing in any system What a helpless pain it was when I was outside the bars of the rules.
stretched time
Many movies are told in the order of seasons, which is also a technique used by many famous directors at home and abroad, such as "The Red Lanterns". But in "Nobody Knows", we will find that this year has become particularly long because this group of children has been derailing for a year. For normal people, every day is It's a waste of life. In Nietzsche's words, these days without dancing, every day is a betrayal of life.
Therefore, the director not only gave us a chance to stare, but also gave us a reason to think. Who caused these hopeless wastes that started from a young age? Can we cherish the opportunities we have? Going a step further, can we take responsibility for our own relationship first, and stop pulling the already extremely limited time into a single line of nothingness.
tears
It is Hirokazu-eda's works that often have a certain threshold for audience acceptance, and everyone's tears have their own reasons. In the first half of the film, Ming still can't wait for his mother to come home at Christmas, so he goes out to buy holiday gifts for his younger siblings. In front of the store opposite, the clerks were selling strawberries, but the price was beyond his means. We all know that something like strawberries needs to be kept fresh, and if no one buys it, the result is only a discount and a deal. So Ming obediently hid behind the surging crowd and waited for the price of commodities to drop.
He has endured a lot of weight that he should not bear at his age. If waiting for strawberries is still light, then the sister's fall and death will be enough to crush people. Ming and Saki hastily buried their sister next to the airport, and when they returned home, their eyes were full of exhaustion, helplessness, and sadness that was completely beyond pain. When Ming Zai received the money from the mother who would never come back, we couldn't directly feel the turbulent waves in his heart. This is a child whose despair has been polished to no edges. Therefore, I have never acknowledged Xiaoxue's death. At the end of the movie, the four children came home happily, hand in hand in the bright sunshine, and my tears, for some reason, came down.
If there are a few words to describe this movie, I think it should be: bright sadness. It is because we can see the quiet Japanese streets, beautiful campuses, and comfortable downtown parks from the lens of Hirokazu Koeda. We can see green and cherry blossoms. But further down, it is the disqualification of everyone, causing the loss of focus in every corner, and the blindness of the entire society. The director never lacks a sincere heart and real emotions. He tries to use his sincerity to dig out the mechanism of the reality he is in, and bring us the cornea, so that we can see a clearer reality and a more detailed existence.
In the middle of the movie, Ming and his brothers and sisters went out for the first time. They saw the little red flowers growing in the sewers. The children picked up the seeds carefully. My sister Xiaoxue said: They should have been thrown here. I think these little red flowers may be sad labels for children, but they are indeed striking warnings for us.
When the money came, we could not directly feel the turbulent waves in his heart. This is a child who has been polished to have no edges and corners even in despair. Therefore, I have never acknowledged Xiaoxue's death. At the end of the movie, the four children came home happily, hand in hand in the bright sunshine, and my tears, for some reason, came down. If there are a few words to describe this movie, I think it should be: bright sadness. It is because we can see the quiet Japanese streets, beautiful campuses, and comfortable downtown parks from the lens of Hirokazu Koeda. We can see green and cherry blossoms. But further down, it is the disqualification of everyone, causing the loss of focus in every corner, and the blindness of the entire society. The director never lacks a sincere heart and real emotions. He tries to use his sincerity to dig out the mechanism of the reality he is in, and bring us the cornea, let us
See a clearer reality, a more detailed presence. In the middle of the movie, Ming and his brothers and sisters went out for the first time. They saw the little red flowers growing out of the sewers, and the children carefully picked up the flowers.
Seeds, sister Xiaoxue said: They should have been thrown here. I think these little red flowers may be sad labels for children, but they are indeed striking warnings for us.
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