First off, it's great. From the perspective of children, it tells the story of a group of children pursuing miracles. Children are always naive. For a miracle, they pay money, time, enthusiasm, and rack their brains. This is Hirokazu Kore-eda's most exciting movie. Even children are striving to chase miracles, and the difficulties of life are not enough to stop them from moving forward. But children's dreams also reflect family relationships, an issue that most of Hirokazu Kore-eda's films are keen to reflect. One of the two brothers hopes that the whole family will be reunited, and the other is for the father's early independence, and even the miracle of hope is concerned about his father. Emi hopes to become an actress, but in the end, regardless of her mother's advice, she chooses to persevere. There are two episodes that moved me the most: The first is that the unfamiliar elderly couple remembered their long-lost daughter because of Emi's appearance, and took in these seven unfamiliar children. When the seven children were sent to see the "miracle" in the early morning of the next day, facing their wishes, they only said lightly: "It has been fulfilled." Is Emi their granddaughter? The wish has been fulfilled, the miracle is not important. Second, my brother said at the end, "I chose the world." My brother's transformation process hits the heart. Saying "I choose the world" from the mouth of a child who is not more important should also be the key point that Hirokazu Kore-eda wants to express in this film: if a miracle exists, then it is hope
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