On a quiet summer day, when the mountains and flowers are blooming and the trees are shady, the young lives are growing, like three innocent children; the aging hearts are mourning and silently guarding the passage of time; but the lives that have passed have never been. leave.
The movie tells a story that happened in one day. Another year, the eldest son's memorial day reunites the family members, and the Yokoyama family is laughing again. Death brings a family reunion instead, a conflicted relationship that hints at the estrangement and the shadow of death behind an apparently joyous family day. For this family, the death of the eldest son is like a stone that has been sunk in the water for many years, sinking in the hearts of every family member and affecting their peaceful lives.
The old father was serious and rigid on the surface and insisted on principles. He was often serious and mean and did not give face. When the family was taking pictures, he would leave when he was unhappy. But he also has a real and amiable side, such as "instructing" his grandson to study medicine, and going downstairs as soon as he smells dinner. He has always been brooding about the death of his eldest son and the unwillingness of his younger son to inherit his career. As he grew older, he became powerless in treating illnesses and saving people, and his pain and sense of powerlessness became stronger, which also intensified the relationship between him and his children. gap between.
The younger son was always angry with his father. He was reluctant to follow his father's arrangements since he was a child, and left home alone to pursue his own ideals. He was always free and easy, because at that time, there was still a brother. But the departure of his brother made the responsibility of the family fall on his shoulders.
A mother is a traditional woman who is gentle and loving. She spoils her children. She always faces everything with a cheerful smile and maintains the relationship between family members. But she also has a "cruel" side, such as the dissatisfaction and discrimination against her daughter-in-law in her heart; the story of the record exposes the secrets between the old couple over the years, they are not like the husband and wife they see most of the time; every year on the anniversary of her death, she invites The boy who was rescued by his son came to the house to be a guest, in fact, to make him feel uncomfortable and let him always remember that his life was bought by his son... This kind of even a little twisted mental state is because he can't let go, because the white The grief of sending someone to sweep the grave of the black-haired person makes people sad and sympathetic.
There is also the little boy Tun Si who insists on being called his stepfather Ah Liang. He also experienced the death of his biological father, but he did not understand the meaning of missing and dying at a young age. This journey was an inspiration to him and to Ah Liang.
However, it is Hirokazu Kore-eda's film is not about death, he wants to tell about the impact of death on this ordinary family. As a result, within 24 hours, there were large sections of family conversations, characters came in and out of the kitchen, living room, bathroom, the same summer breeze as before, and the day was short for parents, and some secrets were inadvertently revealed one by one. They talked and laughed, but they all had heart problems and unsolved knots in their hearts. Social issues, relationships between family members, issues of life and death, everything is glimpsed through this small ordinary family. When Ah Liang's family finished their two-day and one-night journey and got into the car home, Ah Liang finally thought of the name of the double flutterer, and he felt that he was always slow. At this time, the mother who sent away her son also remembered the name, but she said that it doesn't matter now. This coincidental setting is the climax of this bland movie. Both mother and child care about each other, but they are always a step behind because of the rush of time, words that are too late to say, and love that is too late to express...
On the way home, the old father told his wife that they would come back in the New Year, but at the same time, Ah Liang told his wife that there was no need to go there in the New Year, but only once a year. At this time the family of three sat together, because they could finally go home, they looked very happy, yes, they won't go back, because Ah Liang now has a family of his own. What a sad irony this is, when we were young, we were the focus of our parents' lives, but when we grew up, the children became the focus of our lives, and it seemed like a cycle, or retribution, in the past, present and It will be repeated in every future generation. At the end of the film, the old man left, and A Liang did not drive his mother out once.
Calm narration, the fixed camera waits until the parents stumble out of the picture, there is no heart-wrenching awakening, but I would rather believe that when Ah Liang repeats his mother's watering action and what she said at the time in front of his brother's tombstone , he may have understood the meaning of returning home. That ordinary summer is like a microcosm, forever fixed in his life, where there are father and mother, the mountains and forests in the afternoon, the summer breeze, the words of the family...
The whole film is clean and thorough, without any hustle and bustle, only the quiet and imperceptible beauty of life. The long fixed lens patiently recorded what happened within a day and a half. Everything was explained and thought-provoking. This is Hirokazu Kore-eda's "taste of life".
The long and peaceful breath of summer, the sound of crickets, the lush mountain forest, the mottled shadows of the leaves in the sun, my grandmother's house and the dishes my grandmother made are also my childhood memories. Maybe a few decades from now, this will be the summer I'd rather trade everything for.
"You are only 25 years old, you can be whoever you want to be." This sentence seems to be said to me now, life is still in a constant cycle, how to love, bear, cherish, in everything before it was too late.
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