The scene at the dinner table is often the warmest eye of a family drama.
[The Thief Family] won this year's Cannes award, and fans of Hirokazu Koreeda can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
From [Nobody Knows] to be the best actor in Cannes, to [Like Father Like Son] winning the Grand Jury Prize, to [The Thief Family] winning the title .
This journey to Cannes has finally come to fruition.
The editor watched [The Thief's Family] in advance , and still loves dinner table scenes.
It was Hirokazu-eda, who also preferred to shoot dinner table scenes.
Ten years ago, the [walking non-stop] , the family gathered around the dining table, eloquently expressed their state of mind.
Your words, my words, you can complain that it has been raining for a month, chatting about a dish of dried fish sent by the neighbor across the street, you and I shirk the parent meeting and have no time to go...
Looked up at the watch, eh, time to sleep.
One day just passed by.
The scene at the dinner table is often the warmest eye of a family drama.
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At the dinner table, parents are short
The opening of the movie is a short story for the parents.
Mother: Radishes are delicious whether they are boiled or grilled, or even eaten directly.
Daughter: Can radishes be roasted?
Mother: Roast it to remove the astringency, then stir-fry it with carrots and sesame oil.
Later, the conflicts and ties among the family gradually became clear during this meal.
A few people gathered around a taco, recalling the embarrassing incident of stealing a neighbor's corn.
It was a burst of laughter, but because of the name "Junping", the male protagonist was unhappy.
It turned out that Junpei was the eldest son of the family and died early.
As the second son of the male protagonist, he lives in the shadows - he is always compared with his excellent brother.
At the dinner table, the old father's sentence "Remarrying with children is a dragging oil bottle" once again touched a sensitive point:
The son's reorganization of the family is a hidden concern of the family.
In the end, the son ended in anger by saying, "I am enough to feed a widow with a child."
The food in the movie is the tacit understanding of the family to transfer contradictions .
The mother complained that the son did not inherit the mantle, but left home.
The daughter pushed and said, eat watermelon.
When I saw the news of the shipwreck, I remembered the early death of my eldest son, and was immersed in it.
After a while, he cheered up again: It's rare to be lively, so I'll make some snacks.
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It's Hirokazu-eda, making dinner table scenes
It is Hirokazu Koreeda who loves to shoot Japanese family dramas.
From the established style [unknown] to the gradually mature [walking on foot] ; from the female group portrait [Haijie diary] to the special family [thief family] ...
There is no shortage of table games.
[No one knows] Celebrating the housewarming with a bowl of soba noodles, single mothers set the rules:
Can't be noisy, can't go out of the house
——Because the four children are illegitimate and not welcomed by the neighbors.
It's cruel, but it's already the most reunion and warm scene in the film.
[Haijie Diary] The four sisters are even more "gluttonous".
At the table, complaining that the food is not tasty enough;
Box lunches on the train;
cold noodles for entertaining guests;
The signature horse mackerel of the snack bar;
sake after a lovelorn;
A bag of sour pears after being rejected;
Daddy-flavored fish rice bowl;
Grandma's plum wine;
The two secretly open a small stove for curry...
Half-sisters, sharing hearts and growing up at the dinner table, savoring their own helplessness and happiness.
[Deeper than the sea] The middle-aged novelist usually eats convenience store fast food.
Just like his life - a writer who has won an award, God knows which step went wrong and will be reduced to this.
In the dinner table scene of the movie, the male protagonist and his divorced wife are sheltering from the rain at their mother's house.
In order to persuade the ex-daughter-in-law to stay, the mother arranged for dinner.
The mother took out the curry in the refrigerator to heat it up, the wife found a few pieces of potatoes, and the little grandson tried to slice the fish.
With the satisfaction of the appetite, the family seems to return to the old reunion time.
Outside, the wind was blowing, and the thunderstorm was pounding, but the house was warm and calm.
This is Hirokazu-eda's usual method.
Food always accompanies homeliness, reunion, brief moments of tranquility.
Plum wine, bibimbap, curry...all have temperature and popularity.
One vegetable and one meal on the table every day has become a solace in life .
Maybe it's the fetish complex in Japanese culture, because of this?
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Humanity at the dinner table
It is said that the time a person spends at the dinner table is 6 years.
In addition to the family dinner in [Never Stop Walking], the dining table is a portrayal of the daily life of a small family.
Xu Anhua, who pays attention to all kinds of situations in the market, is homely enough to take pictures of meals .
He went back to the kitchen to eat his share of greens.
Throat pears and half a cup of clear tea after meals were prepared a long time ago.
The young master naturally accepted this most familiar dining habit.
It was not until Sister Tao entered the nursing home that she realized that Sister Tao had already become a part of her life.
Just like that half-zhan tea, it is comfortable and natural to cool and tasteless.
That's the taste of Peach.
Xu Qinhao's "Spring Die" uses food to illustrate the strong and short-lived relationship of love .
His attitude towards love is also distrust and doubt.
Shang You, the male protagonist who is used to three meals a day, is hard to let go of the grace that disappears for no reason.
He even found favor in revenge, with a gloomy face.
He seemed to look back on the other side: the heartbeat at the beginning was true, and the fleetingness of love was also true.
At this moment, he had already swum ashore and became an adult.
Food is accompanied by emotions and becomes a kind of metaphor for life.
And tea, instant noodles, beer... are the most common three meals a day, but they have to face it every day.
It's like the ordinary life under the camera of Hirokazu Koreeda, and it's like the name of the movie "Keep walking" :
Life will flow forward as it always has, whether it's wishful thinking or not.
All one can do is not to stop.
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