everyday miracle

Troy 2022-11-25 18:23:14

I've always liked Japanese movies about family, with a Japanese aesthetic, peaceful, calm, and the whole narrative feels like nothing happened and everything is different.
In the process of watching the movie, I remembered a collection of Japanese contemporary short stories I read when I was a child. The stories in it are all short stories from parents: mother-in-law, father-daughter, husband and wife, and all the conflicts that can occur within the family are written. But none of the stories are boring, each one is told softly, peacefully but undercurrent. (The book was later lost QAQ during repeated moves.)
This movie made me feel the same way. It seems to be just a slightly bad life for ordinary people, but a little bit makes us understand that we should cherish the present, cherish the present, and protect the beautiful things.
Everyone has something missing, and everyone wants to try to save it. Just like the character played by Hiro Abe, I hope I can go back to the past and reunite with my ex-wife. As grandma said: "How did it become like this?" How did the good family of three become like this? Why don't you cherish it when you have it?
Not everyone's life is magnificent, everyone can love a person deeper than the sea, and they can pursue their dreams and dreams regardless of everything and become famous. But every quiet night, when you worry about trivial matters and work and still feel happy, hold on to the happiness you have. Those seemingly ordinary routines are often the most difficult miracles to demand.

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Extended Reading
  • Jaqueline 2022-04-14 08:01:01

    too tender. A story where almost nothing happens, but every detail is moving. The ice that could not be cut at grandma's house, a pair of spiked shoes that were intentionally worn out, my colleague laughingly tossed coins into the video game machine, the party under the slide on a typhoon day, and the ending song with the lyrics that fit the scene, made me cry in the movie theater Trembling all over. How many people can grow up to become the person they originally imagined? But the kindness and warmth of life will not change because of this

  • Halie 2022-04-18 09:01:20

    Cinema Museum, Art Cinema. It’s still just the beginning of the movie. The most appropriate part of Uncle Kuan and his mother eating ice cream together: shaving off the ice on the upper layer that is stained with the smell of the refrigerator, and then smashing, poking, slicing, and digging with a spoon, with an unpleasant noise, squeeze out a little sweet. The flavored ice slag is sent to the mouth. -- Life.

After the Storm quotes

  • Shinoda Yoshiko: I wonder why it is that men can't love the present. Either they just keep chasing whatever it is they've lost... or they keep dreaming beyond their reach.

  • Shinoda Ryôta: The lottery isn't gambling.

    Shiraishi Kyôko: Of course it is.

    Shinoda Ryôta: No, it is not.

    Shiraishi Kyôko: What is it, then?

    Shinoda Ryôta: It's a dream. A dream you buy for 300 Yen.