01.
I'm not abducting
Instead, it took in those who were abandoned
About 10 years before the story of "Thief Family", Shibata Hatsue was abandoned by her husband when he was young, and he worked hard to raise his only son, Shibata Osamu.
After his son Aji got married, he lived with his wife and her in this small house in Tokyo, but the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was very bad, and the daughter-in-law had repeatedly driven Hatsue out of the house.
Later, Aji was unable to persuade his mother to leave due to the company's dispatch, and took his wife and two people with him. I want to say that after my mother's death, this house is still my own.
Tanabe, who used to work at a lounge in Yokohama, was violently abusive to her after her husband lost his job, and Katsuta, as a regular hotel guest, asked her where the bruises on her body came from, and after understanding it, advised her to divorce her.
Because the husband did not agree to the divorce, the two developed into a secret relationship, after being discovered by the husband, he raised a knife to try to kill the two, but was killed by Yu Shengtai's accidental hand, and after calling the police, Yu Shengtai was sentenced to 2 years in prison and suspended for 2 years.
Later, abandoned by his son and husband, Hatsue Shibata foresaw the rest of his lonely defeat, took the two men in, and used the real names of his son and daughter-in-law to name them: Shibata Osamu and Shibata Shinyo.
Agi is the eldest daughter of Agen, the son born to his new wife after Shibata Hatsue's ex-husband abandoned his wife. Agen also has a younger daughter, Sayaga, who is more adorable and better educated than Yaji, and Yaji, who has entered adolescence, runs away from home and lives on the streets because of his parents' preference.
He was picked up by Hatsue Shibata and brought home, where he introduced Shibata and Shibata Nobuyo to her. Because her ex-husband still helped him pay his pension after the divorce and let Yagi wander, Shibata Hatsue felt sorry for her ex-husband.
Hatsue Shibata steals Aki, Aji, and Shinyo; Aji and Shinshiro steal Katsuta from the parking lot; Katsuta and Aji steal Rei on a balcony on a winter night.
The whole family was "stolen". This should be the essence of "Thief Family".
Hatsue, who was abandoned by her husband and son, Yaki, who was abandoned by her original family, Yufuko Tanabe and Katsuta, who were abandoned by society, and Katsuta, who was abandoned in the car outside the steel ball shop in the summer, and Lingling, who was regarded as a burden by her parents.
These 5 people, who no one was looking for, gathered together, rekindled the fireworks in their respective lives, ate stolen food together, lived together in a small house, and lived a life with family, love, hope, and the strength to live, which was much better than before.
02.
Thank you
Thank you very much
Until Shibata Hatsue on the beach felt that he was running out of time, he silently said the phrase "Thank you" in an honorific that is not commonly used among his family members(ありがとうございました). ”
At this time, Shibata Hatsue was actually looking at these family members in front of him as "outsiders" in the end.
Abandoned by her husband and then abandoned by her son, she knows that this "stolen" family is nothing more than an "illusion" created by a group of abandoned people, and this illusion will one day be shattered in the face of the pressure of reality.
This is the first plot twist and the last one of the film.
Katsuta jumped off the viaduct to protect Lingling, who stole the things, and her foot was sprained and sent to the police station, causing the police to directly arrest the family.
Because the police believe that Hatsue took in Yagi for money (Hatsue only went to mourn her ex-husband's wife to accept Agen's apology fee)", the chaotic Yaji became the first breakthrough for the family's disintegration, and the whole film began to end.
03.
Love does not understand geography
So there are no boundaries
If "Diary of the Sea" is a lost paradise, then "Thief Family" is a wild but warm jungle, the kind of person who is beaten back to its original form, day and night are very tight, but there are still clouds breaking the sky, and the clouds steaming Xiawei's love and cheerfulness.
Yu Shengtai, who can only steal things, teaches the children their only skills, until he says the sentence "Yes, I, the father, can only teach them to steal things..." In front of the police, only a little self-confidence as a father is completely cleared, and after coming out, he still takes Katsuta to fish, but he has no strength.
When she was a child, Tanabe Yubu, whose parents said that "she should not be born", sent Lingling home, and heard Lingling's father say at the door, "She should not have been born in the first place!" At the time of this sentence, he took the risk of breaking the law and took her home again.
Yufuko Tanabe hugged her tightly, bought her beautiful clothes, told her that the scar would not hurt, told her that if a person said he loved you and beat you again, he was lying, and if he really loved you, he would hug you tightly like I did.
It is Kore-eda's films, which have never been film logic, but the logic of life: Ganhuan is warm, and in the gossamer of the air, the dark flowers are lit up, which does not damage the authenticity of society at all.
This is not a social problem, this is society itself, society is what it is, it is offensive, it is provocative, it is anger and grievance, it is a strong pillar of light, it is a huge wave that cannot be mannered without mannerism.
04.
Don't love the meaning of life
To love life itself
At the end, Ling Ling returned home still suffering from abuse, lying on the balcony waiting for someone to come, some people perceive the huge pain and sadness that pervades the movie, almost dying, suffocation, and some people also believe that there is still a weak and stubborn sense of breathing, a breath of breath, a breath of breath.
Take it easy, she will grow up. If it doesn't grow up, that's fine too.
These people who are dumb and dumb in the flesh of life, they do not hate or explain and retain the original goodness, love each other, rely on each other, do not say a word about pain, do their best to love life, to protect those who are weaker than themselves, to hand over their pain, to hand over their weaknesses, to be solid and transparent, and to move forward warmly.
Compared with the life of not committing a legal person in a lifetime until middle age, killing his wife and crushing his flesh and bones and throwing it into the sewers, compared to the life of being used as a tool at the wine table, compared to the life of earning money and only daring to spend it abroad, compared to the life of using political achievements as a chip to play life, everyone in "Thief Family" is really clean and warm.
The sadness and fear you see is life itself. True grief and fear, rest assured, you may not know for the rest of your life.
Don't love the meaning of life, love life itself.