Sensen Dajun Film Critic Lecturer Screenwriter
no one knows
Answer the following questions from fans
1 Why is this film called Nobody Knows, and why did the female clerk disappear? Why stop-motion at the end of the credits instead of fading out?
2 What is the theme of the film? Regarding the mother, the child's opinion of the mother... How does the director interpret the art?
3 Why is this film 140 minutes long and more than two hours? The scenery is monotonous, and there is a life plot where the male protagonist buys a lot of things in the supermarket...
4 What does the director compare life to? Why do you say that cabin is a cabin?
Cannes Film Festival ( 2004; 57th ) Awards: 1
Awards · Main Competition Unit-Best Actor Award
Female: This movie is really a boring movie. After more than two hours, I almost urinated...
Do you remember when Xiaoxue wanted to pee? How did my brother reply: Why don't you pee when you're in the park...? In fact, this is to tell you that this film is so long, the director's subtext: I understand your audience. But I hope you can keep reading ...
Woman: Wow, you are too amazing to reply, right?
The reason why everyone feels that this film is boring is because the plot is single , there are too many repetitive content and scenes, and a lot of pictures are of the male protagonist going to the supermarket, the steps on the road, at home, settlement, children studying, playing...
Yes! That’s right, making a movie like this can save money. It is said that the director spent fifteen years planning such a movie, and it is a story based on a real case. The key is why such a boring movie won an award, so I wonder... ?
Let me ask you a question, after the mother left, did the male protagonist, Ming, almost assume the role of a father at home?
Female: Yes! This mother is so irresponsible, she left the child and ran away. At first, she thought that the mother was very good, but in the end, she found that she was really good. Every child has a different father. It 's too messy. What kind of children do people want ...
Now understand why this film takes more than two hours? The director just wanted to make every audience feel what life is boring, boring, and boring... But there may be some audiences who think these children are very cute, and I am willing to be with them, even in a small space, to accompany them. They cry together, laugh together, grow up together, buy food, cook food, go to the supermarket, the same path, the same environment... I would like to live like this! Is it this way?
This film is to torture every audience, if you really love children, give birth to them and raise them as adults, you will face these tedious and boring things.
But if you can't sit still for more than two hours, then please don't let them out! ! ! Because you're not ready to be a parent...
Wow, your interpretation is amazing. I now understand why the film is so long and boring. So do you think the length of the film is related to the theme?
Not all movies need to explain the content of the duration, but there are indeed some of them through the duration , color ... etc. It seems that factors outside the story convey certain ideas of the director, and we must use the third eye to interpret them.
Woman: Oh, remember "I'm not Pan Jinlian", Director Feng also wanted to use squares and circles to present the picture...
Yes, these are actually all the elements of the movie, including the appearance of subtitles. You will gradually notice that the subtitles at the beginning and end of the film, their fonts, character lists , etc. Many are worth pondering, and they all contain the creativity of the director!
Woman: Oh, I see, let's learn another trick!
I will interpret the film below. In fact, the director of this film uses a great metaphor and symbol for life, especially for these children who have been abandoned by their parents, to tell them what life is and how to view your life path...
What metaphors and symbols?
We see several important means of transportation in the film, and the beginning of the film...
Trains, subways, planes, taxis, suitcases...
Life is like a journey, each of us is a passenger, get off the bus at the station, open the door and get on the bus, there will always be someone to accompany you through this journey...
Female: This interpretation is very strange, please explain it to me in detail...
We see that the character of mother, she has her own difficulties, and when she is with her children, she is really a good mother. The children like her very much... The rules set by the mother, the younger brother Xiaomao also works hard to abide by it, and the older brother Xiaoming is more sensible and undertakes almost all the important housework.
Female: I am deeply impressed by a saying from my mother, "Mum also has the right to pursue happiness." This seems to be the reason for her to excuse herself. Including the child did not go to school, but the mother remembered two famous people, Prime Minister Tanaka, and sumo wrestling, and did not read...
That's right! And we found that moms don't complain too much about men either. When Xiaoming asked Xiaoxue's father for money to no avail, she actually understood these irresponsible fathers, and understood that it was not easy for them to make money...
Female: Yes, and my mother finally abandoned a few children just like them...! But what's the point of writing these stories?
This is the director's passing of ideas, life is difficult! Everyone has the right to pursue happiness. Explain the idea of parents abandoning their children. The director is very delicate and can understand these parents...
We mainly look at the attitude of the child towards the mother, this is what moved me the most!
When his mother left several times, he said goodbye to Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming's attitude was that with a slight smile, he could understand his mother and shoulder the burden of the family...
Xiaoxue completed a picture before she died, a girl with long braids, red clothes, high heels... It turned out that it was her mother!
Female: Yes, it means that Xiaoxue never resented her mother...
The painting proves:
Xiaoxue left this world with love! In her short life, she never had any resentment, let alone her mother...
Why did Ryoko hide in the closet and why didn't her brother sell her mother's clothes?
Female: Because she misses her mother...
Mom's red is the most beautiful color in the eyes of the children, that red will always be in their lives , on the floor, on the nails, on the hands, in the memories of the children ...
Children are not easily jealous. This is innocence . Sometimes they are really like small animals, like puppies. Are you really willing to abandon them?
Woman: Well, I think of the puppy's bell, and Xiaoxue's audible shoes ... I think it's an analogy.
That's right! The director is using the language of the camera to stimulate every parent and torturing their conscience, are you willing to abandon your children, why do you have to do this...?
Female: But why does the director have to be considerate and forgive these parents ?
There's no need to complain in life, because that doesn't help, it doesn't make sense!
Woman: I found a lot of close-ups in the film, such as the water under the feet, and the soil. Why do they plant flowers and plants, and what do these plots want to explain?
You asked very well!
Water, sunshine, land... This film has a lot of references in the picture and dialogue. You see, the children caught the dandelion and peeled off the seeds of the plant... We think like this: In fact, these children are the same as the plant. The seeds take root and life is born ... Life is just like this, some parents can give you, but also Only by giving life, this is a very romantic and helpless way of interpretation, but it is also a fact!
We watched the father of the two Xiaoxue, a taxi driver, who wanted to know what Xiaoxue looked like, but he couldn't take responsibility, he didn't dare to see the child, and he didn't have the face to see her. The other one works in the game hall, giggling on the surface, but in fact, he is also a low-level person who is overwhelmed by life...
Female: He said that he and Xiaoxue had a condom on a date!
Ha, this kind of thing, who knows! Anyway, he knew it himself. The two fathers presented in this film are actually very representative. They should be similar to the fathers of these children. The mother is merciful, and the father sows seeds everywhere ... If they do this, can society not be tragic?
Haha, that's true!
But the director wants to say to the children; you are also like those plants, in the face of difficulties, you have to be tenacious, you must have light in your heart, have love, and live your life well...
We thought: Do people have to go to college? If you can go to school, you can go to school, but you can’t pull it down . Not to mention college, what if you don’t go to primary school, will you have no life? The key is your attitude towards life!
The road under our feet is taken by each of us. Sometimes we need to run, sometimes we need to take a car or a plane. Life is a journey that can be long or short...!
Female: This film mentions the smell, why does my mother say the smell of tatami, the smell of sunshine, and Xiao Ming's new friend, but she doesn't like the smell of his house...
People who are accustomed to the same taste will live together because they are a family and fellow travelers. Just like Xiao Ming and Shazhi, they are covered in mud, they can feel each other's mood, they have the same taste ...
Woman: Why do you say that life is a journey?
Let me first ask, why do people live?
Woman: Make your dream come true!
Yes, in the film, the mother mentioned karaoke to the child, and the mother also has a singer dream, and in the end, it may only be successful in the karaoke hall!
Mom still wants a better life, but how can she find her with so many children, who can accept her...? There is really no way to secretly cry in my sleep...
You see, my mother said goodbye to Xiao Ming at the end, she looks a little old...
Woman: Well, I am really anxious about my age. If I want to change the status quo, I must get married as soon as possible. Later, my mother really resigned and became someone else's housewife...
Yes, this is the life that my mother wants, she has found her own home... There are many things that have to be done and have to give up. For a woman like her, it is also a last resort!
Let's see, the director is at the end of the credits, long shots, a rail train on a viaduct...including planes...children often sit here, these transport metaphors...
And that hut is like a carriage!
Passengers who are stuck in the carriage, do you want to go out at night to breathe?
Woman: Huh? When you ask this question, I remembered that the most annoying thing about me was sitting in the train for a few hours. Now I understand the original intention of the director's ideas and creation. Perhaps his creativity was born in the train!
Yes! And slowly my brother found out that one day your friends will leave you, because you and they are not the same traveller, not the same taste, people who can't play together will get off halfway...
So we should think like this: life is like a traveler, with the same taste and the same traveler, you can sit together. Sometimes when you arrive at the station, if someone is attracted by the beauty outside, he will stop for a moment, while some people will get off and go to pursue their dreams and life, and some people will transfer to a plane, maybe fly to another place. A world that no one knows about... But it doesn't matter, there will be other passengers, people with similar smells, and you will travel together ...
Female; Oh, I see , you said that the person who got on the bus later was Shazhi, right ?
right! Xiaoxue also left by plane...
Woman: I see, this metaphor is very artistic! I remember that Xiao Ming was once really confused by the scenery outside the car, the game hall, new friends ...
Xiao Ming still has the determination, and the mother is really inferior to a child in some aspects, so she can't help the temptation, there is no principle !
Female: Well, I understand, the journey of life is best when accompanied by parents! Not every parent can give you the best family, the best learning environment... When they get tired, they get off the bus first, and they also have to realize their dreams.
This is life, so when something like this happens, don't resent your parents. Since it doesn't help, don't live with resentment...
People, there must be love, and the heart must be full of sunshine!
Just like Jingzi, where her sister has stepped on, she has to wipe it off with her hands, what a loving and lovely child !
Female: That's why the director interprets it so romantically, comparing a difficult life to a journey, with a feeling...
Female: Then why do you say this film is called nobody knows
Let's imagine the passengers in the car. Everyone sits there silently. In fact, everyone has their own stories in their hearts, and no one knows them. Brother Xiaoming used the money he saved, saying that it was sent to them by his mother, and sent gifts to everyone... Brother's inner story, no one knows
And Saori, is it really as simple as singing with the guests? no one knows ...
My elder brother wants to go to school, but my younger brother must also have his own concerns. At night, my younger brother eats paper... In the morning, my elder brother buys noodles for him, but he finds that his younger brother is on the street. He does not look for food, but happily plays with his friends...
Female: Yes, the audience can't guess, neither can my brother, maybe my brother wants to be an electric superman in the future... No one knows !
Why did Ryoko hide in the closet, she thought she would hate her mother...but then found out that it was not at all... no one knew .
The last girl Xiaoxue painted turned out to be her mother... What does Xiaoxue want to do when she grows up...? Nobody knows!
Why did the female clerk leave suddenly? Where did you go? no one knows
In addition, the supermarket is also a passenger, someone gets on the bus and someone gets off... There is no such thing as a banquet in the world...
Woman: Exactly! I'm still wondering why there are so few people suddenly, and there is no explanation for this film , and the script is generally not written like this.
Hehe, these are all primary homework for screenwriters . In master-level movies, don't talk about such things...
I will continue to say that no one knows the inner world, no one knows the inner world of the elder brother, and no one knows the thoughts of the younger siblings, but they all have their own dreams, and the key is that there is always a chance to realize it.
Let's see, my brother's baseball dream came true by chance. There are many people who dream of being a singer. Just go to karaoke! The elder brother thought that the common wish and dream of the younger sister had not been achieved, but the elder brother helped her realize it...
This is life, this is the significance of dreams! For mothers, it is not difficult to understand the realization of dreams ...
And life is full of surprises and small surprises. This is the joy of life. At the end of the film, Xiaomao found a coin in the phone booth. How happy...
Woman: Well, the road of life is like a journey, getting off at the station, realizing your ideal, full of surprises...
So the point of this movie is: how the director interprets life and his attitude towards life!
Woman: I've seen the real events in this film, it's pretty tragic!
In fact, I don't care much about these. I only pay attention to what the film presents, and I only consider the director's emotions and creative ideas. Including life and death, in fact, the director is also playing down his pessimism. You remember a scene where a classmate bullied Shazhi, made a prank, and erected a tombstone for him, but the director actually wanted to explain ; life and death, maybe just a joke between God and human beings...
Female: The Japanese are actually very open about life and death, especially artists and thinkers, who often interpret these things through literary works...
Yes, the director of this film is the same! When burying Xiaoxue, the plane skipped over and over again. Did Xiaoxue in the suitcase once again take the plane to a more beautiful place...
Woman: No one knows! But the girl Xiaoxue is really cute!
Let's say Xiaoxue's father, the driver, pulls so many passengers every day, why are you willing to leave your daughter behind? Such a father will never have the opportunity or qualification to meet and have such a lovely daughter...
Even if the director understands and sympathizes with these parents who have abandoned their children, it's hard not to tear them apart! But occasionally they vent their emotions, deliberately asking the audience to condemn irresponsible parents ...
Demographic issues, including young people's attitudes towards marriage, divorce, abandonment, children's education... These are world issues and real issues that every country will encounter. If the child is not raised after birth, what are you doing to give birth to him? What the film conveys is the director's attitude towards life, especially his view of the unfortunate real case , and the thoughts expressed through the film. It is precisely because this is a social problem that artists have the responsibility to analyze it from an artistic perspective and attract attention!
I hope to give those abandoned children, especially some parents who want children but are unable to bear the responsibility of family and parenting, and hope to give them some good inspiration!
Life is a journey, and life is full of hope. This is the creative purpose of the director!
At the end of the credits:
My brother looked up at the sky, the plane passed by, and the subtext: I have to raise my head and face my life and dreams... After that, another traveler Saori came, and another person came on the train, filling the vacancy of Xiaoxue , maybe it was only temporarily, but it doesn't matter, Make up for the sadness of losing Xiaoxue...
We say that a photo is an archive of time, and the record is still at that stage, that time.
Woman: One more question, why did the end of the film take a photo, instead of fading out with a long shot ...
It is conceivable that these children will not live in that hut forever, the train will always arrive at the station, maybe a few years, maybe decades... At that time, they will get off their own trains . After that, some people may still yearn to go to school, some will still yearn to play ball, be a pianist, and some may be able to return to their biological father...
But they all have to do the same things as their parents and work hard to realize their dreams ...
Woman: Well said! Life is a journey, you will be attracted by beautiful scenery, someone will get off the bus, someone will get on the bus, and fellow travelers will stick to it...
We need to be philosophical , positive, full of love... tenaciously live...
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