Originally born from the same root, naturally together

Cornell 2022-04-22 07:01:48

After the critically acclaimed "Like Father Like Son", it was Hirokazu Koreeda who met us with "Diary of the Sea Street".

The life of the four girls together is fresh and natural, just as moving as the sea, cherry blossoms and mountain scenery.
In fact, the core of the movie is a very sad story, but in addition to the sisterhood, the various emotions between women, and the warm fireworks in the world, they help each other and comfort each other.

Four sisters, each with its own story.
After Kota Kota's parents divorced in high school, his mother fled and his father lived with another woman. From then on, her eldest daughter took care of her younger sisters like a mother, and with resentment towards her mother, she wanted to be a "good mother". But in life, she also fell in love with a man with a family, and invisibly repeated her mother's fate. In fact, she identified with "father" in her heart and wanted to rewrite her own destiny in childhood. When she saw Xiao Ling, it was like seeing herself back then. He looks sensible on the outside, but is actually extremely depressed and painful inside. So inviting Xiaoling to live with her is actually redemption. The reconciliation with my mother was also reconciliation with myself back then. The knot of growth stagnation was opened, so I had the courage to separate from that man.

Kaano's love failure is not unrelated to her parents' divorce. She identifies with "bad mother" and "bad father", so she develops her intimacy by drinking and making random friends. It is only when you are drunk that you are willing to face your true self.

When Qianjia was still young, her parents were divorced, and she couldn't remember what her parents looked like, but there was also a problem with her identity as a male and a female. When she was very big, she appeared ignorant. It was obvious that the store manager was much older than her. man. When she chatted with Xiaoling, she showed the envy of her father's impression, which showed that she was still a little girl who didn't grow up.

Xiaoling sent away her last father. But he kept getting along with his father in the bottom of his heart and became his own secret corner. That gentle man is the source of love and pain in her life. So she has become a "good mother" on the surface, but she is very capable and sensible at a young age, but she has a lot of burdens in her heart. Fortunately, the new life embraced her, and she embraced them. Slowly, under the healing of Master Time, she was finally able to open her heart and grow up healthily.

At first I thought it was sisterhood, and then I looked into it carefully. There are a lot of thoughts about life, such as the funeral at the beginning and end of the movie, and Kada Yukio works in a hospice hospital.
Everything is as natural as life, the fireworks display, the sea cat cafeteria, and the passing of Aunt Ninomiya are all so quiet and beautiful, so I can walk on the beach after attending the funeral and watch people come and go.

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