almost sister

Let me give you a few scenes, please guess the relationship between the hero and heroine:
1. The man and woman go home together, and the woman suddenly has a urgency to urinate. Take off your pants and squat down behind a tree, telling the man not to look at her.
2. The man is the real breadwinner: food and drink, clothes, toilet paper... These daily necessities are almost all brought by him.
3. Men teach women how to use irons and wax to refurbish old scratched skis and always complain about women's clumsy hands.
4. The two had a big fight. At night, the man said that he couldn't sleep without a woman to accompany him. The woman took the money and put him on his stomach, and the two cuddled for the night.

Choices: A. boyfriend and girlfriend; B. siblings; C. divorced but forced to live together; D. mother and child; E. unrelated roommates
Correct answer: D, B. This is a mother and son who face outsiders as brothers and sisters.

This is a seemingly realistic and very absurd movie. The title of the English version, Taiwan version, and Hong Kong version is related to "Sister", and the title of the French version is relatively neutral - "Children in High Places". According to common sense, looking at the poster, you can quickly guess that this is a pair of siblings. Sister Louise (Louise) is pretty in her twenties, and her younger brother Simon (Simon) is a smart guy in his teens. But this movie doesn't want you to be so comfortable and smooth, it challenges ethics and morals everywhere.

First, Simon skipped school at twelve and stole for a living. They lived at the foot of a ski resort, and during the ski season, when the mountain was crowded with people, it was Simon's start. Skis, helmets, glasses, clothes, gloves, money, even sandwiches, etc., are all targets. He will try his best to sell the ski equipment, as for the food and so on, it is his and Louise's rations. Most of his customers were the less well-off, or the lower-middle class: kids in the same neighborhood, chefs at ski resorts, and even truck drivers on the side of the highway. If you are a thief, you can't have any dignity. You can't say anything if things are sold at a low price, and you can only swallow your anger when the goods are blatantly robbed. Simon wanted to ask for help, but the person who was robbed said, "Are you kidding me?! You are the only thief in this group of people!" Similar to how sex workers are always robbed.

Once accidentally, Simon wanted to go to the chefs' warehouse to steal some food, but unfortunately was caught. However, it was unexpectedly discovered that the chef was also a thief, who stole the skis and planned to sell the stolen goods to the UK. When the chef heard that Simon was stealing for the most basic livelihood, he acquiesced. From then on they became a gang. However, after a few business deals, the pair finally broke up. The reason was that Simon brought in a younger ten-year-old child to start with children's snowboards and children's pocket money. The chef finally couldn't stand his ethics being so subverted, he couldn't just sit back and watch a picture of such depravity, couldn't bear watching the young child who should be like an angel follow him to be a thief, so he slammed away Simon, There was also a hint of fear and wonder. And Simon didn't think there was anything unforgivable, maybe he was even younger. In the face of survival, what is ethics and morality? There are no moral issues here, there are only technical issues.

There is no doubt that Louise is an unqualified mother, who hangs around with scumbags all day, and sometimes sells herself. I often ask my son to ask for money to spend, to eat food from unknown sources, and even a decent pair of jeans was bought by my son. But she never questioned Simon where the money came from. Maybe she knew that every penny was unclean, but she didn't have the courage and no need to pierce the window paper. Her son is twelve this year, and 80% of the time she was only fourteen or five years old when she was pregnant. A girl's mother, no education, no ability, poor family background, poor popularity. Drifting in the world alone.

According to our common sense, the mother and son are usually acting as siblings. The director uses the mouth of one of Louise's suitors to reveal their true relationship to us. The two "siblings" were driving in the man's car. Louise and the man smiled and looked at each other, and the man touched Louise's hair.


At this time, Simon's bottom line seemed to be violated: "This is not my sister, she is my mother."