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Aaliyah 2022-04-23 07:03:45

After watching this movie, I feel very depressed, from the plot of the movie, the direction of the characters, and the colors of the whole movie, all of which make my heart heavy. At the beginning of the story, you can learn that her mother Keiko deliberately concealed her other three children from the landlord in order to successfully move into the new house. When I first saw this, I felt that Keiko was too selfish and did not care about the landlord's right to know. Then as the story progressed, I became more and more angry at Keiko's selfishness as a mother. First of all, it is not responsible for the child. Children are not allowed to go to school. Because of the black households, the children can only hide in the house and cannot go out, which deprives the children of their right to education and freedom. Secondly, he is also not responsible for himself. Four children with different fathers were born before and after, and these men were all unknown and disappeared. The same woman, although I have not yet reached the point of getting married and having children, I still deplore Keiko's lack of self-respect and self-love in the movie. In the end, the most selfish thing is to leave four children and marry someone else. There is a detail in the movie, Ming called her mother after she left, and then the mother's self-proclaimed name on the other end of the phone has changed. After a Japanese woman gets married, she will change her surname, so when Ming heard it, she understood that her mother had abandoned her. took them. The most pitiful and innocent people in the whole film are the children. After the mother Keiko abandoned them, the money left behind was almost exhausted, the house was not cleaned, and they were also faced with the situation of water and power outages. Ming can't go to work to earn money under the age of sixteen, and the weak children are powerless and desperate, especially when Ming wanted to call his mother after his youngest sister accidentally fell to her death, but he didn't receive the last three coins. When my mother called, the sense of powerlessness and despair rushed out of the screen. Ming put his sister's body in the pink suitcase and buried it. This suitcase also witnessed his sister's life and death from the new home, which is really embarrassing. There are many reasons for this tragedy, such as the mother's selfishness and lack of self-love, the lies of those unknown men, the indifference of people in the surrounding society, and the attitude that it has nothing to do with oneself. The kids went from neat to ragged, the obvious changes anyone noticed, but no one really helped them. At the end of the story, the close-up of the children's backs in the sun has left us with infinite reverie. No one knows what kind of life the children will face in the future. Whether the road ahead is hopeful or hopeless, we do not know. Everything is unknown.

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Nobody Knows quotes

  • Keiko, the mother: Now that we've moved into a new home, I'm gonna explain the rules to you, one more time. Let's promise to keep 'em, okay?

    Yuki: Okay. How many are there?

    Keiko, the mother: Okay, first of all: No loud voices or screaming. Can you do that?

    Yuki: I can.

    Keiko, the mother: Okay, next: No going outside.

    Yuki: Okay.

    Keiko, the mother: Can you do that? No even out on the veranda.

    Yuki: Okay, Mommy.

    Keiko, the mother: "Okay, Mommy." Can you keep that promise?

    Yuki: Sure!

    Keiko, the mother: Can you do it, little Shige-runt?

    Shigeru: MEEEEEW!

    Keiko, the mother: You gotta promise hardest, huh? Right? Absolutely no going outside. Can you do that? Bet you can-can.

  • Pachinko Parlor Employee: Shit. I'm 10 yen short. Lend me 10 yen.

    Akira Fukushima: Ten yen?

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: No big deal, huh? Lend me. What the hell is with that big wallet? What the hell is this?

    Akira Fukushima: It's a hand-me-down from Mom.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: From who?

    Akira Fukushima: From Mom.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: You moved, right? Roomy, huh? Any pubic hair comin', yet?

    Akira Fukushima: No...

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: Bullshit. I got mine in fifth grade.

    Akira Fukushima: No way.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: No bullshit.

    Akira Fukushima: Well...

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: What the heck are you smiling about, huh?

    Akira Fukushima: Well, It's just that single mother's gine, well... there's no money...

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: Whoa. I don't have any money. What've you got left?

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: About 10,000 yen.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: Oh, that's enogh, huh? You know, I'm in a hell of a jam. My stupid girlfriend, you know, she totally maxed out my credit cards. I'm badly off. I'm working my ass off, slowly paying it down, man. Uh, this is all I've got on me. This is it, the last time, huh?

    Akira Fukushima: Thanks, thank you.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: Okay. I'm outta here.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: By the way, Yuki ain't my kid. Every time I did with your mom, I used a prophylactic, huh? Good bye.

    Akira Fukushima: See ya.

    Pachinko Parlor Employee: Bye-bye.

    Akira Fukushima: Thanks for this.