It's always been deeper than the sea and there's a lot more we can do

Lenny 2022-04-17 09:01:13

Most people will have memories of making ice cream at home. Pour the ingredients into a homemade mold, or directly throw the boxed yogurt or beverage bottle into the freezer, and when you take it out, it is a lump of ice, the feeling that you want to eat quickly but can't pry it open , really makes you regret why you freeze it in.

In the movie, when a lot of people go back to their mother's house and use a spoon to impatiently dig the "sweet water ice", which is very light and full of refrigerator smell, 10,000 grass and mud horses must have run by in their hearts. It's just one of the most insignificant things in life. In the long river of time, there are no major events. In the constant confrontation with firewood, rice, oil, salt, and salt, we have passed many milestones in life.

"Deeper than the Sea" has its own distinctive features compared to other films by Hirokazu Koreeda.

The arrival and departure of typhoons serve as a bright thread to connect the whole story. The series of actions that arise from the need to pay child support as a result of many divorces is also a main thread that drives the story forward. There are also some narrative lines in which he draws notes about his late father, plot lines in investigation of divorced objects, emotional lines about butterflies, and so on. Therefore, this film has a relatively clear plot direction for the director's other works.

Abe Hiroshi's image in "Bihai" also shows the joy of small people: unable to let go of the dream of writing, but his book has been unable to sell, secretly photographing different stalking objects in order to threaten to make money, and immediately go to the stadium to gamble after earning money. I lost everything and couldn't let go of my ex-wife, so I followed quietly and was secretly angry. I didn't have money to pay for child support, but I was poor and generous to buy Mizunon shoes for my son, and my desire to buy Mizunon gloves was postponed again and again... The joyful little person has brought us closer, and it is easier for us to experience the sourness and sadness that he reveals under the mask of cynicism. At the same time, it also makes some scenes more dramatic, such as many in the bedroom of grandma's house, carefully asking ex-wife if you are "that" with that man, and then humiliatingly act on ex-wife, provoking A big punch from an ex-wife, the collapse of an adult is no more than that.

Food and refrigerator have a new interpretation angle in Bihai.

Although the son complained constantly about the "sweet water ice", the mother immediately refilled the glass with sweet water and froze it in the refrigerator after sending her son home; It has been half a year, but it has attracted the common ridicule of my mother and ex-wife-men are too sensitive to dates. In "Walking On", the daughter said that when she looked at the stuffed refrigerator, she told her mother that the refrigerator was for refrigerating stuff, but the old man said: Only when it is stuffed can you feel safe. The expressions of the two films are different, but they both seem to tell us that what is in the refrigerator is the most unreserved expectation that parents have for their children, and it also hides the secrets that parents will never say in their hearts. In my grandma's house, the place with the most stuff must be the refrigerator. My grandma's refrigerator always turns out countless delicious foods, which warmed my entire childhood until today.

Many fathers who have never appeared also play a very important role here, and the pawn shop is an important place to realize many fathers' personalities. The image of "pawn" appears three times in the whole article. The first time was when a lot of people were secretly looking for money and found that all the stamps they had saved before had been pawned by their father; Knowing that his father's painting was a fake; the third time he finally found an inkstone worth 300,000 yuan. When he was happy, the boss asked him to sign the book he wrote, because his father had published many new books. At the time, I bought a lot of them one by one for my neighbors and friends, thinking that my children would be very successful in the future.

In the eyes of many people and their families, this is a small citizen father who likes to buy lottery tickets when he is idle, and only has a good handwriting. In the pawnshop, we can gradually see a father who pays silently and is secretly proud of his children. Just as we can't deny his failure and lack of progress, we can't deny his love for his children that is deeper than the sea.

On the night of the typhoon, a lot of money secretly searched for the mother's hidden money, and after a lot of hard work, they found the stockings on the top of the cabinet, but it was the trap and ridicule that my sister had already prepared.

In her memory, her mother said to many: if you don't do something in time now to keep the people around you, no matter how much you miss in the future, you won't be able to bring back those who left; Bluer", he said: I have never loved anyone deeper than the sea... The reason why life can go on is because we haven't done it before, so we can find happiness.

It was also on the night of this typhoon that the father and two ran to the slide in the heavy rain. The father said to the child in a rare and serious manner: It doesn't matter whether you become the person you want to be, what really matters is whether you are working hard to realize your dreams. It seems that "living hard" has gradually become a high-profile cry in the drastic changes in Japanese society, but in Hirokazu Kore-eda's films, this slogan has found its more realistic and down-to-earth destination. There are also different forms of expression.

These clips made me cry less in "Deeper Than the Sea". It's because in my opinion, this movie gives us a room for redemption, a chance to choose, which means we have a chance to see future actions here. Many can have a better state with their children and ex-wife, can reconcile with their sister, and have a chance to repay their mother.

And does the mother really have no love deeper than the sea? No, she said it just to make things a little easier. The grandson's words "take grandma to live in a big house" can make her cry, she can humbly ask many ex-wives "is it still possible" and quietly cry, how can there not be someone who is deeper and more loving than the sea? ?

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After the Storm quotes

  • 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.

  • Shinoda Ryôta: I'm not... who I want to be yet. But, you know, it doesnt matter whether I've become what I wanted. What matters is to live my life trying to become what I want to be.