The golden palm leaves have already represented the weight of "The Thief Family".
This is the 14th feature film of the famous Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, and half of them have won the favor of the Cannes Film Festival. They are veritable direct line directors.
The film passed the tests of the Cannes jury led by Kate the Great this year, and won the Palme d'Or by surprise.
You must know that this year's Cannes main competition unit is hell-level difficulty.
There are strong opponents such as "Burning" by Li Cangdong, a French national treasure Godard's "Book of Images", Jia Zhangke's "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", Spike Lee's "Black Klansman" and other strong opponents. Just picking one out is enough for film critics worship.
But "The Thief's Family" still broke through, and received a nine-minute standing ovation from the audience at the premiere .
The little girl put herself in her shoes and thought about it. It is a normal tribute to stand and applaud for 1 minute, and it is quite embarrassing to last for 9 minutes, because the creators don't know where to put their hands...
But after watching "The Thief Family", I am willing to applaud for 19 minutes, 29 minutes... It's really excellent!
In fact, it is particularly difficult to select the Palme d’Or, the film must be excellent in all aspects, such as excellent acting skills, precise director scheduling, and unique photography skills...
All elements must complement each other and work together perfectly to impress the audience.
When the big devil revealed the selection process, he said that the film was extraordinary and completely hit the hearts of the judges——
"We all surrender to the perfect combination of the cast and the vision of the director of The Thief."
At the same time, the film also received a high score of 3.2 in the screen magazine , which can be said to have conquered the judges and film critics at the same time.
Since then, this masterpiece has started a process of crazy fanning.
First, some film critics came out to whet their appetites, saying that the last 30 minutes of the film were super exciting, breath-taking and unforgettable.
Then it was released in Japan, the box office exceeded 3 billion yen , the cumulative number of viewers reached 2.52 million , and it won the three consecutive weekend box office championships.
Can you imagine that literary and artistic films won the box office champion here?
Then the Shanghai Film Festival introduced the film with zero time difference. As a result, thousands of tickets were sold out within 30 seconds. The scalper tickets were fired to four figures, and the meme of changing one ticket for a subway room followed.
It is said that even the spring and summer actresses of the Academy Awards were forced to ask fans for tickets (congratulations to this friend for mentioning the spring and summer), which shows how popular it is.
This is the third Palme d'Or to be released in mainland China after Farewell My Concubine, which was released on a small scale in 1994, and The Pianist, which was quietly released in China in 2004. It can be said to be a rare species that waits for ten years. .
Therefore, this time it is scheduled to be set for August 3, and fans can basically say that they are celebrating by setting off fireworks.
It is a pity that the length of the imported version is 4 minutes , mainly the service plot of the custom shop, as well as the scene where the hero and heroine have sex at home completely naked...
These two paragraphs are very important in shaping the characters. If you don't read them, you will indeed lack some empathy for the characters' encounters, which is a pity.
Speaking of which, I must introduce the excellent actors of this film. It is they who created the most exciting group play of the year.
There is no absolute protagonist concept, because this family is a whole, and this "thief family" is the protagonist.
First of all, we must first take care of the goddess Ando Sakura . This girl who has entered our field of vision from "A Hundred Yuan of Love" is by no means the kind of beauty at first sight, but she has divine acting skills that pierce people's hearts.
In particular, you can pay attention to her crying scene in the interrogation room in the film. When confronted by the police questioning "what do your family think of you", Ando Sakura kept wiping away the tears that fell, with a wry smile on her face, and her body Trembling slightly, only through these small movements, the grief in my heart spewed out.
In the end, she only squeezed out five words: "I don't know either." It was like listening to thunder in a silent place.
If the film hadn't won the Palme d'Or, Ando Sakura would have been very likely to win the Queen of Cannes
Lily Franky (Nakagawa Masaya), who plays her father , was originally an excellent Japanese novelist, and then entered the film industry at the age of 45, and starred in four works by Hirokazu Koreeda in a row.
In order to prepare for this role, he also specially went to bask in the sun lamp, just to express the dark and clumsy father image more three-dimensionally.
The moment when his acting broke out was the scene of chasing the bus, and that moment was his last kinship with this "son".
The performance of the two children can be described as "pure natural and pollution-free", especially the little boy Xiangtai (played by the city cypress officer), who has a shadow of the Cannes actor Yumi Liu in every gesture and has a bright future.
The grandmother Shu Xilin complimented: "I have lived to this age, and it is the first time I have seen such a genius as a city cypress ."
It was Hirokazu-eda who picked the cypress officials out of 200 people at the time.
Shu Xilin is an old face in Zhi Universe. At the age of 75, she grew long hair and took off her dentures, which greatly enhanced the role of an old mother.
After the baptism of "Deeper Than the Sea", "Haijie Diary", "Walking Nonstop" and "Like Father Like Son", I believe that no one can replace the image of the old mother in Hirokazu Kore-eda's film.
Her words in the film also unexpectedly changed the life of Shibata Aki (played by Matsuoka Mayu).
The film tells the story of a bungalow to be demolished in Tokyo, where there are many high-rise buildings. Here, the Shibata family of six lives.
They live on the pension of their grandmother, Chue. When the money is not enough, adults and children are dispatched to go to the department store to raise sheep to support the family.
The family lives in poverty, but they are happy.
"Stealing" is the theme that sustains their lives.
However, by a coincidence, his father Shibata Haru took in a little girl who was abused by her parents, unexpectedly breaking her peaceful life.
It is precisely because of the little girl's intervention that the family secrets hidden under this house gradually surfaced...
It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who said that he had written all the things he had thought about over the past ten years into this film.
"The Thief Family" is inspired by a real social event in Japan: pension fraud .
A news report at the time said that after an elderly man passed away at home in Japan, family members deliberately concealed the death of the elderly man until the body was found in order to get the elderly man’s pension.
"Are there hidden family bonds behind them that we can't understand?" Hirokazu Koeda said.
This is very similar to "Nobody Knows" in 2004, when Branch turned the camera on four abandoned half-children. Children with no identity and lives that no one knows about are also based on real events and are full of Shizhi's care for the society.
Not only "Nobody Knows", but the themes, lines, photography, and characters in "The Thief's Family" seem to have similar shadows from his previous works, such as the blood relationship discussion in "Like Father Like Son", "Sea Street" Diary image style.
The entire 120 minutes seems to be a large-scale condensing, sublimation, and summary of Hirokazu Kore-eda's family, and all the essences are integrated into this universe waiting for you to savor.
Hirokazu Kore-eda is good at scheduling the details and the shortness of the parents. Through the hidden secrets, he makes us start to think about what is a family, what is blood, why this broken Japanese society makes some people not become "ideal adults" , why are they considered "ideal adults"? Abandoned by the family and become a "thief".
Behind it, the irony is the collapse and destruction of Japanese society under the current ruling system.
This country is the biggest thief.
It was recorded in the "Historical Records" that the deep-seated cause of the collapse of any country and political subject is the individual's infidelity and disorder .
Disordered positions and identities make these homeless wandering souls the children of thieves.
Ironically, this stolen family burst out with the greatest kindness and warmth. They cuddled with each other, being selfish and altruistic, inadvertently filling in the lack of relatives and family.
A group of people pick up each other, steal from each other, choose a room and live together, choose a person to love.
They try to maintain the status quo, and in the face of external harm, they can sacrifice their own interests and instinctively protect the integrity of the family.
In this respect, a thief family is no different from an ordinary family.
Poor? Confused? Painful?
Maybe.
But they have nothing but love.
Text / Ba Xiaomei
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