Anyone who likes Hirokazu Koreeda knows the style of his films. He never shows intense dramatic elements, and he never tends to follow the trend to cater to the market. His works are always permeated with deep humanistic care and full of emotional depictions; people's thoughts and confusions about home, family, and life can always be explained by Hirokazu Koreeda in his own way, so that people who like it People love it. This time, "Deeper than the Sea" is still the same.
The story still revolves around the family. The protagonist Shinoda has a lot. The book he wrote when he was young won a certain Japanese literature award, but this is completely out of line with his current life. Now, his life can be described as embarrassment: divorced from his wife, working as a private detective in a detective agency, his poor income is often used for gambling, and he can't even pay for his son's alimony, and sometimes even Go home and secretly "snatch" my mother's money to get by. It was such a down-and-out middle-aged man. When he met his son once a month, various things happened with his son, his ex-wife, and his mother, and various sparks were rubbed against him.
Every character in the film is like a node, they have different personalities and are connected to each other, and finally form a network, presenting the theme the film wants to express. The male protagonist played by Hiro Abe should be a loser in many people's definitions. He is reluctant to work hard to create a life, but he still hopes to get back with his ex-wife. His wife is mild-mannered, but she is always rational in the face of life. The most moving character - the protagonist's mother, can always let the audience see the shadow of her mother or grandma, when she takes out autonomous ice cream from the "old" refrigerator for her son to eat, when she cooks it with her own ice cream. Curry cooks dinner for her grandson, and when she tries to get her son to sleep with her ex-daughter-in-law, she is caught off guard and moved the audience, bringing tears to their eyes.
"Deeper than the Sea" integrates all the characteristics of Hirokazu Kore-eda, and brings them into full play. The calm emotion of the whole movie is like a pot of Japanese shochu with green plums, refreshing and sweet, and full of stamina; it is neither as strong as white dry, nor as spicy and exciting as foreign wine. With its unique oriental temperament, it presents to the audience the elegance and gentleness of Asians when dealing with family and emotional issues in a very down-to-earth way, and infects the emotion that blood is thicker than water that is stronger than a typhoon the audience.
At the end of the movie, the courtyard after the storm returned to its former calm. The grandmother waved her arms vigorously to bid farewell to the children and grandchildren; the son, grandson and ex-daughter-in-law had to embark on their own lives again. , is the deepest part of everyone's heart, the love for family, the nostalgia for family, and some doubts and constant persistence in life.
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