Is blood relationship more important, or is family more important?

Every time I think of the Japanese film director Hirokazu Kore-eda, the scene in "Never Stop Walking" always comes to mind, where the mother asks her grown-up son to open his mouth to see if he has cavities. In the eyes of parents, children are always like children. It was Hirokazu Koreeda who was good at making family movies, and made a "taste of tea and rice" like Yasujiro Ozu. A lot of details of daily life always let us touch the real family. This is the case of "Never Stop", 2014 Shanghai The same is true of "Like Father Like Son" screened at the International Film Festival. The father and son take a bath together. The father holds water in his mouth. When the son presses the father's chest, the water is sprayed on the son's face like a switch. This detail of "Like Father Like Son" is full of imagination and warmth.

"Like Father Like Son", which won the Grand Prix of the Cannes Jury, may be too dramatic compared to "Walking": due to the dark psychology of nurses, two babies born on the same day were artificially adjusted. Six years later , the matter is exposed, but for the two families, how will they face their own son and adopted son? This cannot be regarded as a new subject, such a story can be interpreted in various versions: suspenseful, detective, criminal, comedy... It is Hirokazu Koreeda who shows the family, the people in the family, and the family in the way he is most familiar with There is no such thing as the relationship between people.

Two children who grew up with very different family backgrounds were told one day that they were not born to their parents, and that they were going to "place each other" and become each other's parents - children who were strangers but were their real parents. It is Hirokazu Kore-eda who is smart. He knows how to compare and contrast. In a movie like "Baby Tune-Up", the more different the two families are, the more they can play. Nonomiya, an architect, works in a first-class enterprise and lives in a hotel-like home. He let his "son" Qingdu play the piano and learn etiquette. Zhaimu Xiongda, the owner of a small electric appliance store in the countryside, a family of five living in a crowded hut. He taught his "son" Liu Qing to live a free and happy life. Although the "son" drinks drinks, bites straws, and eats with his hands, the father and son are happy together. . Just think: When Qing Duo and Liu Qing walk into another family with completely different origins, cultures and educational backgrounds, what kind of story will be staged? What kind of sparks will collide with the new members of the family?

Nonomiya Ryota seems to be an arrogant and selfish person. Faced with the sudden "change", he was a little shocked at first, and then he wanted to use money to buy custody of his two children. In the end, the concept of blood gained the upper hand, and the exchange came His own sons, Liu Qing, and Saiki Yuda, although lacking in culture and upbringing, are genuine and straightforward people. He has strong hands-on ability and spends his spare time playing with his children. He was also shocked by the "change" of his family, but he could not tolerate the many insults that Nonomiya used money to insult him. Qing Duo will use all means to expel his strangeness and let him integrate into the new family.

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who wrote the most about Nonomiya Ryota. This unqualified father always wanted to use his own style to shape his son. It used to be Keita, but now it's Liu Qing. Qingda is docile, but Liu Qing doesn't buy it. . Nonomiya Rada finally put down his body, and Liu Qing also began to fight, but Liu Qing still said that he wanted to go back to his original parents' home. This was a heavy blow to Nonomiya's mind. Is blood relationship important, or is the family relationship that has been cultivated over a long period of time important? Didn't he have the slightest concern for "son" Qing Duo in his heart? Looking at the photos that Keita took for Nonomiya Ryota in the camera, the corners of Nonomiya Ryota's mouth twitched and tears filled his eyes. He and Keita originally loved each other, and it had nothing to do with blood. The movie ushered in the most sensational scene: Nonomiya Ryoda kept chasing after Keitao and kept saying: "I'm sorry, Dad really wants to see Keitao... I have been your father for six years, although it is very unpromising, but still a father... ...You took so many pictures of me with your camera... The 'mission' is over..."

Nonomiya Ryota once tricked Keita into going to Saikio everyone, saying that it was a "mission", and now the "mission" "finished. In the panorama at the end of the film, all members of the two families come together and walk into Yuda Saiki's electrical store. We don't know who Qing Duo will live with in the future, or whether Liu Qing will stay in the Zhaimu family in the end, but one thing is certain: all of them, regardless of blood relationship, will treat each other like Treat yourself like family, treat like relatives.

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