It is the desolation of the middle-aged loser depicted by Hirokazu Koreeda that is heart-wrenching, and those who resonate with him have more or less a sense of failure in life. The middle-aged uncle played by Hiroyuki Abe had a bad reputation for writing in his early years. , When a person is middle-aged, he loses his temperament. He is working in a less decent job, and he is divorced and cannot pay his son's support. Every blow is fatal, but there is nothing he can do.
Because of her experience, the empathetic old mother in the film has already learned to accept this repetitive life. The only way out is to live the life in front of you, to find the little luck in life, and to arrange this ordinary life to the best of her ability. To the extreme, become the most respectable person in the eyes of grandson and the hero of the family. Yes, it is indeed the hero of the family. Without the glue of the old lady, perhaps this small family building has collapsed.
There is no great happy ending, because life is not like this, it is always torn and destroyed, just like the ex-wife said, "Do you think that at this age, you can live by love alone?" There is warmth in cruelty, and anger in warmth. Its not to fight, life just goes by silently, where do people go when they reach middle age?
What kind of life does the father want? This is a question that the three generations of old, middle-aged and young people have to face. The middle-aged father said to his son, "The life you thought was so easy to get." The deceased father was poor all his life. When looking for and looking for failure, you must also find a scapegoat, that is, the general environment of the era of external factors will not work. Why don't men cherish the present? They stare at the life they want in the future, they can't get what they want, sigh and reminisce about the past, and fantasize about recovering what they lost, but it's futile. Bondage, bondage, if you don't give up all your life, when will you be freed?
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