From the time sequence, it should be the same routine of walking with grandma and walking non-stop.
Walking with my grandmother, I used the one-day reunion with my grandmother to experience the life of the maverick grandmother. The reconciliation between the three generations has a buffer between the two, and the transmission of intergenerational emotions is also natural and smooth.
It's a special day (the eldest son's death anniversary, but I didn't tell you about it directly from the beginning to the end), the whole family reunites, and in the natural eating, drinking and chatting, the contradictions in the family are understated, The thoughts of daughters, sons, daughters-in-law, and children, the worries of elderly parents, and the old age themselves are slowly spoken out.
But in terms of the idea of the story, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who went further.
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The second son is watering the eldest son and telling his daughter the origin of the yellowing of the butterfly, which is exactly the same as the action and story of the mother's reunion on that day. Keep walking, generation after generation, and in the unknowing passage of time, there is always something left over from the previous generation that becomes part of you.
There is also a sadder dimension to the non-stop, the reunion of sons and parents, one of which is the last to leave. The second son did not go to the ball game with his father, nor did he drive his mother to go shopping.
Hirokazu Kore-eda doesn't seem to be emphasizing that "the child wants to support but the parent is not there", we keep walking, we always have to move forward, the legacy of the previous generation becomes part of us, and you have to accept their departure while the existence continues. . Rational to your understanding, but your turn may not be so rational.
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In the summer when cicadas are singing, everyone eats watermelon happily, but they are also carelessly burying thunder, and it is even difficult to detect. In the second half of the walk, my grandmother casually lit two bombs. In Haijie's diary, a match was already lit to prepare for a thunderstorm, but then the fire went out again.
While walking, the daughter-in-law minds that the mother-in-law did not buy pajamas for the son brought by the remarriage, but only bought pajamas for the husband. All day long, the mother-in-law said to the child, "You are very polite" and "do you want to eat?" Such things, but The daughter-in-law said, "I only treat him as a guest, not a family member", and the casual chat in front of him exploded.
Not to mention the record that the old lady took out during dinner, I couldn't feel any smell of gunpowder from taking it out to listening to it, until the old man couldn't help but ask, the old lady said the reason, "That's because I heard you sing to other women. I went to buy a record of the same song the next day." After finishing his clothes, he went out.
No one knows how many years have passed between this, this kind of thunder is too like the dull thunder of summer.
4. It was Hirokazu Koreeda that made my favorability value for Japan soar, the quiet and natural scenery, the trams that can be seen everywhere, and the polite, restrained and somewhat cold emotional connection between people.
I often feel that emotions travel naturally to a certain place, and after thinking about it carefully, I will feel that most of the emotional stimulation between relatives comes from guilt, and sometimes getting along with family members does not come from inner thoughts, but It was pushed by the sense of crisis of parents getting old. In short, an exaggerated generalization can be, rationally pierce the lies of family love, haha.
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That night, the old lady suffered a heart attack. The old man walked back and forth beside the ambulance who wanted to help but couldn't. Recording this scene from his son's point of view made people cry.
It is Hirokazu Kore-eda who is a master of tear-jerking, not sensational, switching angles freely, and the observation of those neglected details, allowing the viewer's perspective to be brought in naturally, and emotions will be evoked. Those who have the slightest expectation of family love will fall into it.
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Ah, this generation can't beat it.
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