Jiang Wen said: "The difficulty of making a movie is not telling a story, but not telling a story." Obviously, the story traces of "The Thief Family" can be said to be very weak. The elegant topic of "home", a group of the most marginalized people in society have jointly built a "shared family" through the chain of "profit". warmth.
The director interprets this "family" beyond blood relationship from multiple angles. The essence of family is sacrifice, selflessness, and inheritance. When these become demands and interests, the family is doomed to fall apart, so the film In the end, this community of interests disappeared, and everyone was still homeless... However, the essence of home is love and love, although this family is more like a spiritual fast food, when everyone pays sincere emotions, at a certain moment , they still got the kind of experience they wanted, and it was a kind of solace outside the cruel real life.
The whole film has no great joys and sorrows, no great ups and downs, everything is light, light tones, light plot, light sadness, the director outlines a vague line, leaving a lot of blank, infinite imagination, abandoned by her husband to die alone my grandmother, a surviving father who made a living by stealing, a mother who killed her ex-husband infertility, a younger sister who engaged in pornography in her youth, a little boy who was abandoned with a car as her home, a little girl who suffered domestic violence and disappeared without questioning, Everyone has their own story, lonely and sad, the director did not show their tragic past in depth, just like the real world, everyone has secrets, but they are buried deep in their hearts and keep silent, just through a look, a scar Tell you gently, you will understand when you understand, that's all.
It is such a group of people who have been hurt, but they can build a new home together, because they belong to the same class, because they are all individuals who have been abandoned by society, because they have mutual needs, although they rely on interests to connect, but they do not involve interests. The warmth of the time will seep out little by little, like the hug that my sister gave to the 4th guest, like the mother holding the little girl and burning the dress, like the fireworks that night, these quiet moments , is the blending of hearts and hearts, the deep flow of true feelings, the companionship and belief, although the fireworks that night were short and only the sound could be heard, the beauty that could be imagined was precisely what they survived. Motivation, as the poster said, apart from love, we have nothing, even if we have nothing, even if it is fleeting, even if it is illusory, at least we once had it, that's enough! So they will carefully maintain this group, even if it is stealing, even if it is not recognized by the society, but dreams are dreams after all. The way to go...
The arrival of the little girl has accelerated the breakup of the family. She is the fuse for the little boy Xiangtai to complete his inner growth. In the film, Xiangtai has maturity and melancholy that does not match his age, and suffers from loneliness and loneliness that should not be there at that age. repressed. Facing the police question, "Why do you teach children to steal?" The father said, "I can only do this." If the father's love for Xiangtai is to make him become another self, then Xiangtai's love for his sister It is to let her be herself. They are all children forgotten by their parents. The little girl even learns to perform pre-stealing rituals from Xiangtai when she steals. Houxiang Tai was extremely repelled against the little girl joining the stealing group. However, as a family connected by interests, there is no need to exist in the family if it cannot bring benefits to the family. Therefore, in order to allow the little girl to enter the home, He had to accept this reality. Interestingly, as a child who was picked up from the car, Shota's two decisions about home were related to the car. He decided to accept the little girl and formed a family of six in the car. He decided to leave his father. It was also in the car that he called his father for the first time.
After a failed theft, although the old man in the canteen saw through Xiangtai's behavior, he instead gave him two ice-creams and told him "don't let your sister do this again". This way of repaying grievance with virtue directly hit Xiangtai's young children. His heart made him doubt the authenticity of the existing family warmth, so he then refused to steal with his father. The death of the old man in the canteen was undoubtedly an accelerator for his next behavior, and he wanted to let his sister return. In his own home, he wants to prevent his sister from becoming another self. Everyone needs a noble person to guide the direction in his life. The old man's behavior of repaying his grievance indirectly changed the fate of the two children. Ironically, in contrast, Xiangtai deliberately failed to steal. In the incident, the owner of the fruit shop chased and blocked, but in exchange, Xiang Tai jumped from a height and was injured. Although the little girl finally returned to her home, Xiang Tai also knew the information related to her life experience, but they already had a home in their hearts, didn't they?
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