"The Truth", as the iconic work of Hirokazu Koreeda going international, has been highly anticipated since "The Thief Family" won the Palme d'Or the year before. It will affect the direction and choice of Hirokazu Koreeda's future directorial career.
The story of the film is very simple. It tells the process of reconciliation between a mother Fabien, who thinks she is a bit paranoid and even escaping the truth, and her daughter Lumir. The movie uses the setting of the play within the play, which is similar to Almodovar's "Pain and Glory" last year, but "The Truth" is a process of gradually recognizing oneself from the poor family relationship and gradually accepting the truth.
The trivia and daily conversations of the French family shown in the film are no different from what other French films tell in my opinion, and it is not easy for anyone to perceive the director's shadow from Japan in the process of watching this film.
The relatively dilute setting of the daughter Lumire and her son-in-law living in the United States shows the meaning of a French family, and a considerable part of the English dialogue seems to have a deeper metaphor in this film.
Sarah, who has never appeared in the movie, can be inferred from the words of the mother and daughter. Sarah used to be very good with Fabian, and her acting talent was not inferior, but because Fabian was in a casting process. Using small means to successfully squeeze out Sarah, but at the same time indirectly led to Sarah's death.
Rather than saying that Bian can't see the truth, we feel more from the actor's meticulous performance is her escapism from the truth and reality, in the process of escaping, she constantly hurts the people around her, and then she falls into sadness and escape again. an infinite loop.
Fabian never saw the truth, but she never faced it.
For the absence of her daughter's childhood, she created herself an image of a good mother in her own memories, rather than making up for it;
Also because the old housekeeper Luke was not mentioned in his memoirs, Luke, who was heartbroken, chose to leave. Even if Fabien could never taste the right temperature tea again, the apology for Luke was not enough. ghostwritten by daughter;
The alienation of her husband made her turn a blind eye to her husband again. It was not until she accidentally deleted the only recording of her husband that she realized her spiritual dependence on it.
At this time, Fabian was like the dance of everyone to her family. Although she participated in the dance, her dress also told the audience that she was out of tune with her family, and could only end up feeling with a dog that belonged to others. A happy situation.
In the end, Fabian chose to reconcile with life and focused more on her long-estranged family. She confessed what she had done for her daughter at the beginning, and also frankly recognized her own shortcomings and others' needs. Excellent, Fabien's acting level has reached an unprecedented level while making the relationship soothing.
This is not only Fabian's own change, but his daughter Lumir, who has always relied on truth and memory, completed her own transformation through Charlotte's words to Fabian.
"Truth" is not only the discovery and naked disclosure of the truth, but also the true acceptance and reconciliation of the mother and daughter for each other.
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