When you were 14 years old, you once again ran to borrow money from your sister's biological father. He lay in his taxi to sleep, you dare not disturb him, waiting nervously on the discarded tires of the garage, waiting for the end of this man's sleep.
I don't know how long it took before he finally woke up and walked out of the car without looking at you. Your face is calm and your eyes are stuck on him, like an invisible person.
A simple fragment from "Nobody Knows".
In 1988, the famous Nissugamo abandoned baby incident occurred in Japan. People found the body of a child and three other children living with the corpse in an apartment in Nissugamo. The mothers of the children have remarried. Others, abandoned these four children.
Fifteen years later, it was Hirokazu Ee who adapted the story and moved it to the big screen. The director's lens is like an unsentimental bystander, re-given the story with meaning that it shouldn't have with his almost demanding calmness.
The film starts with a single mother secretly bringing her four children into an apartment. The joy began, and the mother abandoned her four children for a new life without warning. The children continued to live habitually, and all the changes were written in the details.
The shoes that keep coming into the mirror gradually become dirty from brand new, and gradually run out of clean clothes, so I have to keep trying on clothes before going out.
The people who avoided the water bill until the water and electricity were cut off, the food changed from seaweed rice to instant noodle soup.
The youngest sister fell to her death due to negligence and was buried in the airport that she had always wanted to see during her lifetime. The children received money from their mother and continued to depend on each other, struggling actively.
From many perspectives, the director is turning this tragic story into a warm and inspirational movie, but the true story is particularly cruel.
There are five children from ABCDE in the real Nishisugamo apartment. The eldest boy, A, did not have a kind friend like Kisa to take care of the family like Ming in the film. The youngest E was violently tortured to death by a bad friend A made . The cause was just that the hungry E ate A's instant noodles. The naughty Mao in the film also starved to death at home, and his body was hidden in the closet.
After being finally discovered by the landlord, the matter caused great repercussions. A was forced into custody for one year for the crime of hiding the body, and the mother who abandoned the child was given a suspended sentence and asked to continue to raise the two surviving daughters of B and C.
It is strange that when Hirokazu Ke chose to adapt the film, he chose to weaken the conflict of the story. The mother abandoned four children and left a note, and the children also acted as if nothing happened.
Once there was a question on Zhihu, asking about the precursors of economic collapse, one respondent gave a curve of the suicide rate in Japan. Obviously, in the early period of the economic recession, the suicide rate in Japan reached a peak. The collapse of human relations has a foreseeable talent , and the unknowable story also happened in 1988, just two years before the collapse of the Japanese economy.
Under such a tragedy, of course there should be a cold villain. However, the villain mother portrayed in the film looks like a sunny mother when she doesn't spend much time with her children.
She takes the children to have fun and play together, and she does not forget to praise the waiting children when she is drunk. Even if he leaves mercilessly, he will still draw a big smile in the message . The director does not intend to accuse the mother, this story is an accusation of something else.
There is a scene in the film where the landlord’s wife went to Ming’s house to ask for rent. She opened the door and found that the unsupervised child was in a mess with the house. She was shocked.
Four pairs of eyes looked at each other. The landlady was wearing a watch, ring, and necklace, and a dog in her arms. The children in the house were sitting on the floor wearing simple clothes. After being astonished, the landlord patted the dog in his arms and turned and left, as if he hadn't seen all this . I think this is what the director wants to accuse.
There is an economic explanation for the feeling of alienation between people in the city: the higher the population density, the less chance you have to meet a stranger for the second time, and the more and more expected return you will have to help a stranger. Less, strangers naturally become indifferent to each other.
This explanation seems too cold and impersonal, but the truth is not so, but it is as complicated as we are, while accusing no one to help the elderly cross the road, while complaining that the three aunts and six poems are too enthusiastic about their lives.
" People are too indifferent nowadays. " You often say that.
In "A Foolish Man in a Dangerous Building", the protagonist gives up the opportunity to escape and returns to the two dangerous buildings to evacuate the residents, in exchange for being beaten to the ground by the people he rescued.
Living at the bottom, in order to make a living, he dared not let the police arrest and abuse her husband. When the enthusiasm that has been talking about really came to your side, you backed down in horror and refused, turning back and returning to your room. Until that day there was a bang, and the building collapsed.
You understand, it is not "others" who are indifferent, but all the indifferent groups including you.
The young of us all hope that, like 20-year-old Wang Xiaobo, there is nothing in the sky or the earth that can beat me, and we generally dislike any undesirable concern as indispensable chewing gum. Maybe if we keep a little acceptance of any non-malicious friendship, the Nishisugamo incident will be less likely to happen?
"Nobody Knows" is a unique movie. The director polishes a human tragedy into a warm movie with every detail. There is no emotional catharsis, just like Ming's eyes, melancholy, forbearing, and unforgettable.
The film finally freezes on a sunny afternoon. The children receive money from their mothers, and they can support each other in their lives. No one knows.
The world is very cold, but fortunately you and I are still together.
It is Hirokazu Kee, a director I like very much.
When other directors get this theme, they will open the BGM and say: all cry for me.
But in his hands, there is always a ray of sunlight shining on these children, keeping a touch of warmth.
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