embarrassed tenderness

Margarette 2022-04-19 09:02:30

In fact, there are many people who object to this movie. What qualifications can a family that tolerates child stealing and assisted dating to talk about love and dignity? The fact is that there is a real world where there is no way to do it. They have the ability to choose not to steal or make friends, and they will not become a real maggot-like living state. Even in a healthy society like Japan, no one would choose to kill, steal, instigate children to steal, or engage in pornography for no reason. Because of the helplessness of fate and facts, they have become such a marginalized group.

It can be said that this is the history of self-salvation of a group of cicadas, ants and even maggots. The cruel powerlessness and the slightest light have turned into licking each other's wounds and scars, humbly buried the fireworks and inaudible gratitude floating in the wind. Capture the most beautiful food in the world with the most shameful method, pray the most despised wishes with self-deceiving gestures, they are the most helpless soul thieves in the world, but maybe they just want to steal a home, all the hurt and misunderstanding are for love and forgetting , even if it's as low as dust.

They, the most helpless and incompetent people, formed a virtual home, and with the remaining light of humanity, they bridged all the most tender definitions of home, so even if they were embarrassed enough to steal convenience stores, eat pensions, and be silent Died without interest, buried on the spot, ready to flee at any time of the soul, it is difficult to hide the little bit of dignity about love under the ruthlessness and hurt of the broken society, such a humble home, even fireworks are not qualified to see, silent and silent The love and gratitude make up a very full narrative, but everything is so restrained and calm.

It can be called a great work. The only flaw may be that the actors are professional, so the aura in their eyes is hard to hide, so the expression of the turbid soul is slightly lacking. If, like "Xiao Wu", they are completely non-professional actors, then would be more convincing.

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  • Melany 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    In the whole film, the scene that moved me the most was the scene where everyone was sitting outside watching fireworks. A family of young and old sat in front of the yard and heard the sound of fireworks. They looked up at the distant sky together. No one spoke, and there was no picture of fireworks. In the close-up, only the faces of every family member looking forward to the future. This seemingly beautiful picture is heartbreaking. Such beauty is as fleeting as fireworks.

  • Pamela 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    Ozu is grandfather and Imamura is grandfather. It was Hiro-eda and the grandson who ran from both ends. Otsu hung the cicada slough on his clothes, saying that there is no one in my family who looks like a dirty kennel maggot. Imamura took his grandson to steal and said that I had never seen the white and clean tatami at Ozu's house. After Ozu died, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who began to bring outsiders to the house. Sitting under the eaves of Ozu are the Mizoguchi family's grandmother, the Itami family's woman, the Mariko Wen family's daughter, and Cai Mingliang's wild child. The maggots buried Ozu in the backyard. Family is hell, Ozu's house is forcibly demolished, but all the demolishing parties, but also love to rebuild Ozu's family, Ozu will never get married, buried in the backyard with a smile

Shoplifters quotes

  • Hatsue Shibata: I was sure she'd want to go home.

    Nobuyo Shibata: Do you think she... chose us?

    Hatsue Shibata: Usually you can't choose your own parents.

    Nobuyo Shibata: But then, maybe it's stronger when you choose them yourself.

    Hatsue Shibata: What is?

    Nobuyo Shibata: What is...

    [pause]

    Nobuyo Shibata: The bond. The bond.

    [pause]

    Hatsue Shibata: I chose you, too.

  • Osamu Shibata: [to Yuri after seeing television reports of Yuri's disappearance] Do you think you can make it home by yourself?