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Chauncey 2022-04-22 07:01:47

After the final score of the Cannes magazine last year, what I most looking forward to is not the top three Adele, Drunken or Nebraska, but this Japanese film that has only 2.5 points but won the Grand Jury Prize. I have to say that in terms of shooting family themes, the Japanese ones are no worse than the European and American ones.


The length of the film is still a bit short, and I personally feel that many of the contents are still not well developed. The two families suddenly agreed to exchange children, hoping to have more contradictions and hesitations, and why the two children behaved like adults, they didn't cry, and they were very mature. Well, I guess times have changed. .

This film involves ethical issues, but it is more like an educational film about child development, or the advantages and disadvantages of only children. In the end, as expected, they still did not exchange it back, which is also common sense. The metaphor of that scene of cicadas suggests that even the growth of insects takes 15 years, which is so long. So the father stopped being serious and began to let the child go, so both families accepted the reality calmly and no longer struggled with the issue of blood relationship. So, in the final picture, Lexus stopped in front of the electrical store.

When I looked at the child, I always felt like a curse, and realized that I wasn't the only one who thought so. Movies with children can't help but make people play in some climax scenes. Then there are the housewives in these Japanese films, should they be so virtuous, even if they are angry, they are just playing.

But at the end of the day, if someone like me hasn't given a 5-star movie for a long time, it's always itchy. Although I lost to Bianzhou Ji in my own country, and even though Si Dao's group finally gave it a 2.5, I still gave it a 5 star.

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Extended Reading
  • Garfield 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    Yoshie’s superb skill lies in presenting a natural irresistible cliché sensational theme in an unexpected but reasonable way (the main line is not the dramatic conflict caused by the exchange, but the emotional conversion of Fukuyama Masaharu, which is really very East). The killer is the little boy who played the role of Keita. The innocent and kind emotional power released by the angel doe-like eyes is nuclear bomb level to me.

  • Cristina 2022-03-27 09:01:17

    Holding the wrong child is an old-fashioned terrier. The details of the whole film are very delicate and solid, the emotions are very restrained, and the characters' behavior and reactions are all within the daily logic. The family affection in this context is more convincing. The rivalry between Xiao Qingduo and his adoptive father is especially good. But maybe it's been too long and I'm still a little disappointed.