Author: Sigh life
The recurrence of the epidemic has to make the city and the countryside stop, and the moment the pause button is pressed also indicates that the place will enter static mode for a period of time, and people in the dove cage of reinforced concrete pouring always have to do something every day in addition to eating and drinking Lasa, and those who are fully prepared can work from home; those who cannot work may wish to study food or relive the long-standing drama. During this period, I inadvertently saw the "Younger Brother" film directed by Yoji Yamada in Japan on network television, also known as "Sister-Brother Affection", the film has a delicate and warm expression, low-key display of family love scenes, without the magnificent gimmicks, but also the sister-brother family affection interpretation makes people cry, and even the film was selected as the closing film of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, which is the first time that a Japanese film has been selected as the finale of the film festival.
The film unfolds on the topic of the family relationship between a pair of sisters and brothers, and tells the story of the family relationship between the single mother Yinzi and her own brother Tie Lang through a seemingly calm narrative performance. Originally, twelve years ago, at the anniversary of Heron's husband, Tie Lang had a big fight because he was drunk, and since then he has lost contact with Yinzi, and as his niece, Koharu is going to have a wedding, everyone thinks that the invitation sent was not received by Tie Lang and was returned, everyone is relieved about this matter, in fact, they do not want him to stir up trouble. Who expected that on the wedding day, Tie Lang was still very embarrassed to run into the wedding venue. A few glasses of wine stirred up the wedding scene into a mess, and also made Xiao Chun's family lose face in front of her husband's family, and at the same time cast an ominous shadow on Xiao Chun's marriage. Even so kind, The Ginko forgave him like Tie Lang had done something wrong when he was a child.
Shortly thereafter, Koharu's marriage did not go far before she divorced, and she returned to her mother's house. After Tie Lang disappeared for a while after the wedding of Huang Xiaochun, a woman dressed like a storm came to the house of Yinzi, saying that she was Tie Lang's creditor, claiming that Tie Lang had borrowed a considerable amount of money from her and had not repaid it for a long time. In the end, Yinzi filled Tie Lang's deficit with the money she had saved to decorate the drugstore. Later, not long after, Tie Lang came to visit from Osaka again, but there was no intention of apologizing, even Koharu could not look at it, and issued an eviction order to his uncle, so Yinzi was already annoyed and angry, and since then the sister and brother have said goodbye.
When they met again, it was already the time when Tetsuro was terminally ill, and in the end, Ginko rushed to osaka to take in Tetsuro's hospice institution to accompany her brother on his last journey, and a large number of cameras recorded Tie Lang's confession of mistakes and reluctance with his sister at the time of his death. The film seems to be a simple and flat narrative, but it interprets the blood-thicker than water family affection between family members to make people cry. Tie Lang's image shaping is very successful, although this person often causes trouble, but it will not make people feel bored, not to mention that as the wife of the sister, the film also places all kinds of ordinary characters in the city in the warm and real life scene, with vivid and vivid touchpoints to portray the character, so that it can feel more emotional contradictions and unspeakable entanglements in life!
Although the word of family affection is easy to sensationalize, the forms of expression are diverse, can be expressed in words, can also be recorded with images, or talk about with songs, but the protagonist around the family affection should have this emotion to feel empathy, which is the basis and the minimum requirement of a person, when it is in the form or indifferent perfunctory, it is impossible to experience this kind of family affection, and it is a certain hypocrisy and exaggeration. The director and actor of this film I actually do not know, and even sometimes mention Japan to think of the country's invasion of China, but as far as this movie is concerned, the story has tapped into the charm of family affection in human nature, poking at the pain points that are easy to make the audience excited, coupled with the harmonic voice of the characters, the image of the weak and kind characters, but also based on expression, family affection has no national and ethnic boundaries, it is something that everyone should cherish, presumably this is the reason to impress the audience!