Being born in a normal family is a kind of happiness

Sigmund 2022-04-24 07:01:16

I have always had a very complicated feeling for Hirokazu-eda. His films are very unique, and the way of narration is different. But his films are hard to watch. The subject matter has always been a seemingly ordinary story. At the end of it, it is often chest tightness.

Hirokazu Kore-eda is like a documentary director, but he is more objective. He puts all the edges and corners of human nature naked in front of you. He doesn't judge whether it is good or bad. Feeling uncomfortable, like looking at myself in the mirror, without any halo. Psychology says that a life without self-deception is impossible to live, and it is Hirokazu Koreeda who is making people experience this nearly suffocating effect.

In this film, except for the grandmother and father Azhi, everyone's life is related to the family of origin. The film cuts in from the smallest, and the whole process from the beginning makes people deeply sigh the importance of the family of origin, but it is helpless to be uncontrollable. No one can choose their own birth. Reincarnation is a kind of knowledge, but it is not learned. I really sigh that although my parents are not excellent or rich, they are at least normal. If you really live in a Yuri family, you can’t choose whether to steal or rob, and you are so small and powerless, just like Yuri’s last expression, dazed, you may wonder why she was born, and I don’t know how With what kind of heart shadow to finish this life.

The older I get, the more I feel that my happiness is really the result of various coincidences. Of course, I have my own efforts, but sometimes efforts really can't change everything.

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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?