This is a very common fantasy story related to ''time': the family just had a second child, and the eldest suddenly had a younger sister, who became an older brother overnight. The "future" sister repeatedly rubbed and matched. After all kinds of hysterical roars, crying, and screaming, the brother met his future sister, his great-grandfather, his mother, and finally his grown-up self.
I can probably know the director's intention: from the birth of my sister, back to the past of this family, down to the future of this family. Those bloodlines are connected with real tenderness, and all frictions and contradictions will eventually be understood, and the family will finally usher in a happy future with a smile.
This theme cannot be said to be cliché. However, the mode of expression is too clumsy. The director simply divides a story into several segments—meet the dog, sister, mother, grandfather. This kind of small story is arranged in a series. There is no problem, the problem is the lack of a "story thread" that connects these little stories. These small stories that introduce the stories of family members are more of a series, rather than a progression or a foil, which directly leads to the extremely loose structure of the whole film and lacks a gripping tension.
After watching the movie, I have a lot of impressive scenes: my sister competes with the dolls, my brother's tears turn into countless tropical fish, my mother and my brother play pranks in the house, my grandfather is confident on a motorcycle, and the terrible horror in the subway station The announcer, the younger sister, held her brother's hand and fell in the air... The scene is beautiful, and the piano and the plot fit very well. I also know the director's idea: I want to express some sincere family affection from the daily trivialities. But I don't know if the time is limited, and the film ends hastily. It is always superficial and lacks the feeling of sublimation of a theme.
But I don't think this film can be turned into a bad film. At least I feel that the color tone is very comfortable after watching it. The green leaves and colorful tropical fish are very pleasing to the eye, and it is not a must for the mind.
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