The story of "Like Father Like Son" is not new, and it can even be said to be more old-fashioned than the title of "Who Changed My Father": Two families hold each other wrong at the moment when the child is born, until the child is about to enter elementary school It was only when they found out, so the two families tried to exchange their own flesh and blood.
There are too many stories about family warmth, especially oriental films. Japanese films, after implementing the fine creative spirit of the Japanese nation, turned a simple story into a Cannes award-winning film.
The specific plot is not listed here, only a few concerns of the film.
The first is to discuss the inevitability of blood and kinship. A child, you think it is your own child, raised for six years, suddenly one day tells you that this is not your biological child, at the same time, you need to exchange the child with another family, what will happen to you at this moment Mood.
The male protagonist Nononomiya, played by Masaharu Fukuyama, is a builder by profession. He is not only an elite member of the society, but also a successful person with ideological progress, but he learns that his son Nonomiya has lived under the same roof for six years. Keita (played by Ninomiya Keita) is also naturally confused and conflicted after he is not his own biological son; especially when he sees his own son, Saimu Liuqing (played by Huang Shengxuan), in his adoptive father Saiki Yuda (Nakagawa Yasushi). After he has formed the same habit as his adoptive father under the influence of his family, he feels that he is out of tune with himself.
This is the contradiction of patriarchy - the children around you are not biological, and the biological ones have long become the shadow of others, such as the indecent behavior like biting the mouth of the straw. Similar plots are more like from ancient Greek mythology, and the question of father and son has always been a theme used by ancient literary creations.
So a question gradually surfaced, how should we define "family affection"? Family affection in the traditional sense, biological and sociological, must be based on blood, but can such a definition be reversed, and if there is no blood, there will be no family?
The male protagonist Nonomiya is struggling at this joint. He tries a more radical and more beneficial behavior-trying to take both children as his own, but there is no doubt that such abrupt The adventure was met with strong dissatisfaction from the other's family; after thinking about it again and again, the narrow blood kinship temporarily prevailed over the six years of getting along day and night. It took almost half a year for the two families to start their friendship, exchange children for weekends, and then live there for a long time. What is dramatic is that Nonomiya Ryota, who feels good about himself, cannot regain his own son's feelings. On the contrary, Saiki Yuda, who has always been looked down upon by him, behaves more like a father, running his own electrical appliance business, using A lot of time accompanied the four children to spend the happiest childhood.
Fortunately, Nonomiya is not an ultra-conservative father. His biological children ran away from home and returned to the Saikio family. This action gave him enough blows, especially when Saikio and his wife retaliate by their own way. The phrase "or both children belong to us" when he was in his life completely shattered Nonomiya Ryoda's self-esteem and confidence as an elite. He began to reflect and decided to get along with his biological children as a father.
In the end, Nonomiya Ryota inadvertently flipped through the negatives left in the camera when he was taking pictures of his biological child, and found that the non-biological child had taken a lot of photos of himself to keep in his memory without his knowledge at all. , the most vulnerable part of his heart was touched, time overcame the narrow blood relationship at this moment, and he decided to face the child who had lived with him for six years again.
In addition to exploring the relationship between family and blood, the film also has another clue interspersed in the theme, that is, the father's request for his son, or a kind of expectation and hope. But it is this seemingly rightful expectation and hope that almost destroys a child's admiration for his father and a wife's love for her husband.
Nonomiya is a representative of many successful people, so he hopes that his child can make a difference like himself, but facing his son who has been practicing the piano but has made little progress, he has shown impatience and strong oppression. This kind of psychology and behavior comes from his own success on the one hand, and the teachings of his father on the other hand, and he has well continued his father's strictness towards him. Because of this, when he learned that the child was not his own, he said the chilling "Isn't it, no wonder..." This is a father's absolute denial of his wife and son.
The other father, Yuda Saiki, does not have the successful temperament of Nonomiya Ryota, but he knows how to accompany his children as a father. The requirement for children is to be happy, so he can teach successful people wildly from the bottom of his heart. Ryota Nomiya: For children, time is everything. This expression also just rightly points out the purpose of the film: children don’t think a lot like adults. In their world, the father who has been with them for six years (six years is a lifetime for a six-year-old child) doesn’t care about his own life Whether or not it is the person you love the most. Therefore, as a father, you should also stand in the child's world, and look at it from a child's perspective.
Nonomiya Rakuten responded in a timely manner. He told his own children that he also tried to run away from home, but was caught by his father before he could go far; and to the child who had lived with him for six years, he said that he had I have also practiced the piano, but I have not been able to continue.
Such a confession instantly brings the father and the child closer, and also lowers the father's original arrogant attitude, keeping with the child in a peaceful and gentle attitude.
So, who should the two children belong to? The end of the film does not give a clear explanation, I believe that every audience has their own understanding, just as the film's slogan says: I have a father and mother, and a father and mother.
PS:
This is the first Japanese movie I watched in theaters at 9:45 pm on November 22, 2013 at Nathan Road, Hong Kong.
I couldn't help but cry when I saw the end. I know very well that this is a feeling that cannot be imitated by Chinese films. We can factory produce fake Hollywood blockbusters, but we can't replicate the feelings that no longer exist in our hearts.
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