It was the third film of Hirokazu Kore-eda, or the second film to be precise. I couldn't watch it halfway through, probably because I felt that the pace was too slow and I couldn't grasp the theme. The slow-moving storyline made me feel a little depressed, so I put it on hold. aside. After reading it today, it is my favorite of the three films "Haijie Diary" and "Like Father Like Son".
The protagonist is a son and husband who is not very competent, and has a fight with his father because he went to become a novelist and did not work according to his father's wishes. Divorced from his wife, unable to pay the monthly alimony for his son, he likes to buy lottery tickets and looks forward to the change of life after winning the lottery.
It is the loser, and perhaps it is precisely because of this that there will be more resonance. Everyone is an exquisite egoist, but they are entangled by thousands of invisible threads. The mother is reluctant to throw away the white shirt of her deceased husband. The son has the same hobbies as his father. Saving lottery tickets is like saving hope. One day Mom and Dad can come back together again, they can buy a big house with money, and they can take grandma to live with.
The magic of Hirokazu Kore-eda's movie is that it doesn't seem to say anything, but after watching it, it makes people think a lot. It seems very depressing, but after reading it, it is not so heavy. Maybe this is the epitome of everyone, every real "little person".
But what is the standard of judgment? Is it because I don't live according to the mainstream standard? Is it because I failed to be a good son and a good husband in the eyes of my father? But does anyone care what I want? Blood is thicker than water, must I kidnap my mind To be a tool for my parents to fulfill their unfulfilled dreams?
But I have never loved a person deeper than the sea, and I have always lived with such a belief.
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