The film has a total of 117 minutes and is divided into two parts with the 65th minute as the node. The first half is the foreshadowing and the second half is the climax. The story tells these things about these people: (1) Her husband, who had lived with her
mother Shuko for more than 50 years, just passed away.
Her husband has never worked steadily in his life, and he often goes out of debt, selling fake calligraphy and painting "Snow Boat" and his son's many first edition novel "No Man's Dining Table". After his death, he will no longer bring a burden to the family, and Shuzi instantly feels at ease and comfortable. However, in fact, many details are describing Shuzi's reluctance to her husband: seeing the flying blue butterfly, she thinks it is her husband's incarnation; she said that after her husband left, she threw away all his belongings the next day But in fact, he still treasures the inkstone he used to write and the shirt he wore; I told my son that I would occasionally dream of my husband, and he was always fine in the dream... When I lived in Nerima, Shuko I am often afraid that the eaves may be blown away by the typhoon. After moving to the community in Kiyose City, I no longer have to worry about the typhoon, but after 40 years of living, I have not been able to have a late blooming son like my friend Mr. Shiba. A single-door, single-family, three-bedroom house, and she even thought that she might die in this small house in the future.
Despite this, she still plays the role wholeheartedly, warmly and selflessly: stewing konjac, making frozen lactic acid bacteria, making three-color dumplings, cooking curry noodles... all kinds of home food at your fingertips; knowing that her husband likes curry soup, he has prepared a lot of them. In the refrigerator; I keep my son's workbooks carefully, and I am very proud that my son is a literary novelist; I water the orange tree my son planted in high school every day, even though it never bears fruit; I use my pension to pay for my granddaughter Learn figure skating; saddle up for grandson Zhenwu, prepare bath water, get pajamas, make beds... However, how lonely this mother is! She kept the keys in the mailbox at the door, fearing that her children would not be able to enter when they came back to visit; she had too much time alone, so she participated in the classical music appreciation session organized in the community; she was very happy because her son was going home with his grandson; Because of the typhoon night, my son's family of three was willing to stay overnight, and he was instantly refreshed; he said to his son, "You have to be by my side and watch me grow old day by day"... I think, whether it is the old woman on the bus forgetting her umbrella, or the elderly neighbor Orphaned and widowed but undiscovered for three weeks, or the supermarket delivering to the door of the elderly residents above the third floor with limited mobility, or the mother throwing a piece of garbage up and down the fourth floor and then panting out of breath, all of these indicate that the mother is getting old. Go, very lonely. She said, "I am so old, but I have never loved someone deeper than the sea", but I felt that she loved everyone around her more than the sea, otherwise she would not be right because her grandson said After the lottery ticket, I bought a big house and lived with my family of three. I also burst into tears when my grandma took it over. I will not be heartbroken when I see that it is difficult for my son and daughter-in-law to get back together again. After the typhoon, the weather was calm, and the mother stood on the balcony on the fourth floor and waved her son's family of three to leave, and continued to live alone in the community. It's heartbreaking.
(2) Many sons
A self-proclaimed novelist, 15 years ago, his work "No Man's Dining Table" won the Shimao Toshio Award. Due to the poor literary market, he turned to become a private detective, a profession that his ex-wife despised. He never gave up his dream of writing. He once quarreled with his father because he wanted to be a novelist, and he didn't want to make an original comic book. In addition to not inheriting the good handwriting written by his father, other characteristics are simply copy-paste: they all borrow money from family and friends; I thought my father's calligraphy and paintings were genuine products worth about 3 million, and I wanted to find them for auction; my father took away the bankbooks and seals that my mother hid under the rice cabinet, and many went home to find the bankbooks my mother hid in the closet. He seal was seen by his sister in advance and was turned against the army; he took his son to hide in the octopus slide in the park in the middle of the night in the typhoon day to eat snacks... This man has no family concept, and he has not changed after having children, so his wife Hiroko Divorced him and left with his son Zhenwu. When he used his identity as a detective to spy on the new life of his wife and children, and found that his wife had a new boyfriend and his son had a baseball glove, he was jealous, annoyed, helpless, and muttered to himself. It was really "a man finds love only when he loses it." . He himself was short of money, but he still gave his mother pocket money to buy classical music CDs. He knew his son well and knew that his baseball goal was four balls. He was emotionally devastated when he learned that his ex-wife was in a relationship with his new boyfriend. However, he has not changed. He still wants to turn around by gambling on racing cars and buying lottery tickets, in order to pay alimony to his ex-wife, buy spiked shoes for his son, and pay for rent, electricity and gas. Life is still very difficult: I make another tea bag in the rented house; I hide from the landlord who collects debts; I have to meet my son once a month to spend money I won by playing games with my colleague Machida; Soiled spiked shoes in order to get a discount from the store; I only bought a Moss burger for my son and starved myself; I told my ex-wife that buying a lottery ticket is not a gamble, but a dream... I think many of the happiest moments should be: The mother was cooking vermicelli, the ex-wife was slicing potatoes, the son was laying hands, and he lay on his side on the sofa and asked his mother to add some green beans to the soup. And this scene is likely to be impossible to reproduce. The ex-wife said in the slide, "I've already made up my mind anyway, and you have to work hard to move forward." Many eyes were filled with sadness and reluctance, and they should have also felt relieved.
(3) Sun Tzu is really enlightened
Zhenwu also resembles his father in many ways: he doesn't want to be like his father, but he loves him very much; he likes baseball, but when he grows up, he wants to be a civil servant; he regards the lottery as the sustenance of his dreams. Zhenwu is a warm and caring child: he was afraid that his father would not have enough money, so he chose a pair of cheap spiked shoes; he was afraid of buying lottery tickets with his father because he was afraid that his mother would be unhappy; the person whom he respected in the composition wrote about his grandmother, thinking about what his grandmother gave him. Handmade kimono, I hope my grandma has more rest and a long life; I always feel sad that my father doesn't like me; I dream that one day I can buy a big house if I win the lottery, so that the family can live together again, and take my grandma over together... ...the typhoon night found that the lottery ticket was missing, he rushed out of the slide, looking for the lottery ticket in the storm, and even saw the waste paper on the grass the next day and thought it was a lottery ticket, I think, except for what Dad told him, these The lottery tickets are regarded as the bond and bond between the two of them. More importantly, these lottery tickets carry Zhen Wu's unreachable dream: after winning the lottery, he has the money to buy a house, and the family can live together again.
(4) There are many of these people in the story: Sister Chinajin, who always corrects the pronunciation of "figure skating" for her mother, brother and daughter in a serious manner, sees the future clearly and is determined to leave her husband, and is dedicated to raising her son to be diligent A hardworking ex-wife Hiroko, divorced from a family but gentle and kind-hearted, believes that nothing can stop him from going to his father's colleague Machida, a music teacher who likes classical music, regularly organizes the elderly in the community to enjoy music, and delivers laundry to his unemployed daughter Mr. Ren Iida, the new boyfriend of his ex-wife who is engaged in the real estate industry (actor Ozawa is taxed, professionally making soy sauce, and playing more soy sauce in "Glass Reed", haha)...
It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who was still showing us the ordinary daily life, but the whole movie was filled with the atmosphere of parting, especially in Typhoon Yeh, a family of three stayed at the mother's house, and the opposite scenes seemed to be saying goodbye: Shuzi and Zhenwu, the grandparents and grandchildren, about winning the lottery and buying a house to live together, the future of the couple who can no longer interweave together, Shuzi and Liandao, the mother and son about aging and death and cherishing the current topic, Shuzi and Xiangzi. The handover of the umbilical cord between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, the conversation between the father and son of the father and son, and the scene where the mother Shuzi watched the children leave on the balcony... All are saying goodbye. When will the lottery win? Can the family live together after winning the lottery? When will I go back to see my mother? When will the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law eat sushi together? When I see my son next month, will I get alimony? Can many still see their son? These unknowns spread with Teresa Teng's "Premonition of Parting", and a deep sadness rose in my heart. This is parting, and it is something we must or may experience when we move forward. From Hirokazu-eda's perspective, we can't see many or Chinajin always beside his mother, not many people who reunite with their wives and children, and many people who change their faces and wash their hands and move forward bravely. We only see the shortcomings of life, and then slowly move forward and grow old in the shortcomings.
In addition, there are two scenes in "Deeper Than the Sea" that clearly echo the "Walking": the mother at the beginning of the former thinks of the name of a figure skater, the mother at the end of the latter thinks of the name of a sumo wrestler; the mother of the former film says blue The butterfly is the embodiment of the dead husband, and the latter mentions that the mother once said that the yellow butterfly was originally white, and it survived the winter and turned yellow the next year. Really impressive!
Finally, I would like to share some golden sentences from the video.
A golden sentence from mother Shuzi:
1. Having more friends will only increase the number of funerals.
2. Let the konjac cool down slowly, and it will be more delicious if you leave it overnight. The same is true for people.
3. When people are gone, it is useless to think about them. You still have to treat them well while they are there.
4. Always chasing those things that have been lost, and dreaming those illusory and unrealizable dreams, how is it possible to be happy every day?
5. The so-called happiness is something that can only be obtained by not giving up.
6. I am old, but I have never loved someone deeper than the sea. Ordinary people will not have it, but everyone still lives happily every day, no no, it is because there is no ability to live.
From many golden sentences:
1. If you think that it is easy to grow into the adult you want, you are very wrong.
2. (Zhenwu asked Dad what he wanted to be before, did he succeed?) I...haven't succeeded yet. However, this is not a question of whether it should be done or not. What matters is whether you are living with such a belief.
Last but not least, I also want to eat tempura egg soba and three-color dumplings! Salute to Hirokazu-eda! Tribute to Shu Xilin and Bridge Claw!
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