Japanese are more reserved. It was the same with Hirokazu Kore-eda, who seemed to be calm and calm, but there was an undercurrent in his heart, and none of the climaxes that should have been pulled down.
The beginning of the film is to talk about typhoons. This year's No. x typhoon is coming. Literary works often pay attention to the use of imagery. Typhoon is also an imagery. On weekdays, the wind is sunny, and the typhoon day will be violent. Therefore, the typhoon here is used as a metaphor for the life of the protagonist. There will also be a storm coming.
The first half of the film is almost all laid out and brewing, preparing for the climax of the film, explaining the protagonist's many families, the past glory, the current embarrassment, and the messed up life. The goal of the story is also very clear, how to help many get rid of the difficulties in life and return to the normal track of life. The key obstacle of the story is many broken marriages, and the ex-wife has a new love at this time.
The climax of the film was on the night the typhoon came. The film also spent almost half of its time describing the emotional conflicts and collisions that occurred that night. First of all, many took advantage of the opportunity under the same roof to make out with his ex-wife again and get back together. But she was rejected badly, and then the highlight was the old mother's efforts. She asked her daughter-in-law if she had the possibility of getting back together with a lot of people. When she learned that there was little hope, she couldn't help but burst into tears and cried, "I don't know how it happened." The old mother knew that The virtue of his son did not require his daughter-in-law to behave, but the potential turning point had come, and the daughter-in-law's inner fortress had begun to loosen under the tears of the old mother.
In the night of the typhoon, the emotions of several protagonists are full of emotions, and the waves are surging, so that they can't sleep all night, many of them want to spend more time with their sons and let them remember the time with them. Yu took his son to the Shell Cave to listen to the rain and have supper. His wife, Xiangzi, also went out to look for his son. The three gathered together to search for the lost lottery ticket for his son in the rain.
The lottery ticket here is another image. It is not gambling, but a lot of explanations in the film. It is a dream, a hope, the hope of a new life, and the hope of a future life that cannot be lost if you lose it. This is also a shimmer that implies that this family can continue.
On the night of the typhoon, the old mother's teaching to her son was also one of the key points of the turning point. "Why don't men know how to cherish the moment? They are always chasing after what they have lost, thinking about unfulfilled dreams, and being trapped by these things, how can they be happy every day?" This is the wisdom of living in the moment, and it can be regarded as a whole The movie's most intelligent flash point, bar none.
Don't always live in regret, depression, and memories of the past, which delays the present time, so the old mother threw away all the father's things, and live every moment of the present seriously, and don't always live in fantasy and do nothing In the actual dream, it is hoped that gambling or buying lottery tickets will bring economic prosperity and change everything in the moment. It is the right solution to live every moment of the moment in a down-to-earth way. Don’t expect too much, just do it. My mother has been watering the orange tree for decades, and I didn't expect it to bloom and bear fruit in any year. If it doesn't bear fruit, the water that should be watered every day is still watered as usual. The one who lives most clearly is the old mother.
The typhoon has finally passed, and the days are about to return to light and clear, but life at this time continues, and it is different from before the typhoon. When a lot of people want to pawn their old father's inkstone again, the pawnshop owner tells the story that the old father was proud of his book. Will a lot of people still pawn this inkstone?
Here, the inkstone is another image. The inkstone was used by the old father to write, and many as a novelist also wrote the words. When the old father was the most difficult, he did not pawn the inkstone. Will many of them pawn it? Writing is the foundation of many lives in this life, it is his destiny, and it should be returned here, not lost again. Although the director did not say it clearly, when the end of the film came out, he still held the bag, which was the hope of his new life.
The ending is still open, and everyone has their own interpretation. The author prefers to interpret it as, this is not a pure mourning movie, there are conflicts and storms, but after the storm, you can see the beautiful colorful light of the rainbow.
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