The relationship and connection between people is the eternal theme that Hirokazu Kore-eda explores.
From the unrelated "family" in "The Thief's Family", to the "brothers and sisters" in "Nobody Knows" who are forced to stay together for warmth, and then to the fetters of two families in "Like Father Like Son" Family love in movies is never a relationship based on blood. In these emotions, there is always a deep and twisted parent-child relationship, a product of the taciturn and poor expression unique to East Asian fathers. I believe this also stems from the director's personal experience.
I read this book a few years ago, probably because I always use fragmented time to read the story and emotions. Here I have to praise the fairy casting of the movie. Qing Duo's eyes are really like a deer, gentle and loving, and the four parents' interpretations are also very suitable for the roles, especially the many of Fukuyama Masaharu, which is exactly what I imagined look. The story is actually very simple. It tells the process of growing up as a father, as a father and son, how to learn to love and accompany him, and to reconcile with his father. The same discussion on the relationship between father and son is actually there in "Walking On" and "Deeper Than the Sea", but this film is definitely a master of the relationship between father and son in the branch universe. It connects the emotions of three generations well and leads to the end. A warm ending.
Chinese people have always attached great importance to blood ties, which is not unrelated to the legacy of the feudal era, but it is also supported by science. In genetics, blood connection means the transmission of genes, which is manifested in the similarity of traits. There are always similarities in appearance, personality and traits between parents and children. These are undeniable. But I always believe that blood has little effect on emotional connection, and the necessary and sufficient conditions for the establishment of emotions between people are only the companionship of two-way choice. If bloodline played a role in this, it only provided the soil for the trees to grow in the initial stage, and the sunlight and nutrients in the future all came from the accumulation of the accompanying process. But this soil is not only provided by blood. In the movie of Zhizhi, this soil can be the warmhearted sympathy for each other, and in real life, it can be the casual beginning of every emotion. If there is only soil without nutrients, it is impossible to produce emotional sprouting. Like a mother who abuses her child in a thief family, even if she has the blessing of blood, it will not be worth living with a few strangers for a few months, because there is love there.
It is Hirokazu Koreeda who can always capture the cruel reality with a warm feeling and the trivial life into people's hearts. I will always love him.
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