After waiting for a long time, I finally finished "The Thief Family" by Hirokazu Ee. Full satisfaction.
After reading it, I finally understand. What surprised me before was that many Japanese thought it was the Palme d’Or, which was a national shame: Why export the image of a Japanese thief to the world?
In order to refute this argument, tell the truth about the movie I saw.
"Except stealing, I have nothing to teach them."
At the beginning of the movie, the "father and son" of the thief family are stealing things in the supermarket, and they are as familiar with them as they are going to buy things.
Even after stealing home, Mrs. Xiang remembered that she forgot to take shampoo, just like "forgot to buy shampoo."
Such a plot is of course humiliating. But at the end of the movie, when the police asked his father why Zhi taught his children to steal, Zhi answered like a slap in the face.
Some people can only use the materials we have at their fingertips. And this is the truth about Japan's growing urban poverty.
The "pension" in the movie is also a reality: Japan's 2010 national survey found that 11061 "centenarians" had actually passed away long ago, but their family members concealed the news of their deaths just to pretend to receive their pensions.
Another set of data is: Among the existing 1,500 trillion yen of financial assets in Japan, people aged 20-30 only account for 0.3%. Among informally employed female employees aged 15-34, about 80% are struggling with poverty.
Each of us may live a life like a thief family, can we do better?
"It's still useful if you die."
After grandma Chuzhi passed away, her family secretly buried her in order to pretend to receive her pension. After burying, Zhi thought, will I be buried like this when I die?
I think of Xizi in "Deeper Than the Sea" saying: I'm all this age, but I have never loved someone who is deeper than the sea.
This is also the truth of life: when we are old, we discover that we will never be able to live the life we want, and we are all embarrassed in the face of death.
Compared to the plot of protecting his family and saving the world, Hirokazu Ke said that he wanted to describe the moment when an ordinary person, a somewhat dirty world suddenly became beautiful.
So when the grandson said that after winning the lottery, he wanted to build a big house and let his grandma move in. Xizi cried and laughed and said: I am so happy that you said that.
Just like on the beach, the dying Chuzhi said: Thank you.
These are the beautiful moments left after the director used cruel shots to tell us the cruel truth of life.
"Those who truly love you will hug you tightly like me."
Family is an identity established by blood relationship. It seems ironic in the movie: The six members of the thief family have no blood relationship, but their mutual love is no less than that of a normal family.
Just like in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Nature is Evil", those degenerate hippies and addicts know how to care and understand others better. Because of the lack of warmth, they understand the importance of warmth to a person.
Therefore, Xindai hated his mother, but gave two unrelated children all the love.
This is also the truth of life that we have to admit: blood-related love is sometimes hypocritical, while stolen love is more real.
It is Edible Hirokazu: The movie is not for trial, but for the audience to bring the problem back to life and think over and over again.
So even if Japan won the Cannes Palme d'Or after a lapse of 21 years, the long-faced Prime Minister Abe was silent. Because in his great country mythology, there is no despicable hardship of small people.
It was Hirokazu Ke who put the despicable hardship of the little man before us, because this is the truth.
Such truth is not a shame, but turning a blind eye is shameless. Facing these bad things squarely, it is possible to become better.
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