Let's Read 1: "Like a Father Like a Son"

If you suddenly found out that the son you had raised for more than six years was not your own, how would you feel?

The famous Japanese director master is Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Like Father Like Son" began under such a story setting. (The following contains serious spoilers, and if interested, it is still recommended to read the original book.) ）

The protagonist Nomiya Ryodo is now a popular "high-quality man", with a successful career and a complete family, the virtuous wife Midori is responsible for the diet and living of a family of three, and the son Keita, gentle and obedient. However, all this was disrupted by a phone call. The son is not biological, whether it is to return to blood or continue to accompany the feelings of day and night, a lot of wavering. Then, a series of chain problems, in the interaction with the family with the wrong child, many of the inner wobbles, the wife green is in pain. After experiencing professional Waterloo, his wife's silent rebellion and reconciliation with his native family, Ryodo finally realized the value of family affection, and it was his son Gyeongta who taught him how to be a father, not a simple blood provider, but more importantly, day and night. Blood and affection, sons and fathers, grow up like fathers and sons.

At the beginning of the story, many families are also worried about the "education volume" that seems to have become an international anxiety. In order to enable children to have a good score in the excellent primary school interview selection, mother Lu zheng is taking her son to the exam counseling class. However, unfortunately, Gyeongdo is still inferior to his excellent father.

The real interview came, and Gyeongdo's performance was decent, and the results were unclear.

In the face of such a result, mom green, some regrets are more painful, the son has worked very hard, it is important to go to a good school, but she does not want to see her son lost. Dad is more unwilling to do it, why excellent his own son, so mediocre.

Seeing this, I knew the reason why my son wanted to go to a prestigious school and learn piano, because my father graduated from this school and played the piano very well.

Following the author's brushstrokes, we slowly understand the protagonist's many daily lives, work, family, meticulousness, and have their own pride and persistence. But, it seems, something is missing. By the way, what is less is the love for the family and the gratitude for the wife, and the companionship of the son. It's like the mother-in-law from an ordinary family who complains: "I don't want to live in your house, your house is like a hotel." ”

This homeless home is exactly what many people like and appreciate, and he revels in such rules, neatness and immutableness.

If it weren't for that phone call, the family would have continued to live their lives step by step. Here, I really doubt that a home that is completely presided over by men, without gratitude and interaction, and the secret to maintaining a long time, must be a person's infinite accommodation.

"The son is holding the wrong one, not his own!" Green's reaction, which was normal, couldn't believe it was true.

Many reactions are very intriguing, may also be surprised, and more is the "no wonder" relief.

"No wonder I don't inherit my excellence, no wonder I'm not as brave and fearless as I am."

Where is my son and how is he doing? At this stage, the more he faced his son Qingduo's feelings, the more he looked at it, the more unpleasant it was, with a trace of reluctance.

When that "both are coming!" The terrible idea was mentioned by the superior, and many reactions were condescending relief.

Yes, compared to many conditions, the conditions of the Saiki family are really not good. For his own biological son Liu Qing, many of them also like it more and more, and they only need to change a few bad habits through their own "transformation".

After being mediated by the hospital, Kyota and Ryuharu, who were wrongly held, began to swap between the two families of Ryota and Saiki, adapting to life in advance. Through many delicate descriptions, the author shows the reader the influence of different families on children and the unchanging love for children.

The most painful thing is the two children, what are they doing wrong. The sensitive Keita will like the company of Saiki's father, but he will still secretly miss home; Ryuharu, who seems to be grinning, is not too impressed by the material life and still misses his warm little home.

From start to finish, both children just use the exchange as a game to become more courageous, and after the novelty, they are always looking forward to it, and their parents will take them home.

In the process, the reader also gradually understands many of the reasons for such "coolness". It's still the cliché— the misfortune of the original family. He was unwilling to accept the stepmother that his father had married after his mother's death, so much so that he and his family were in a situation of old age and death. Abandoning her excellent and beautiful girlfriend and choosing the mediocre green marriage is also because she looks more suitable for family life. I want my son to become as good as himself, or even surpass himself, just to make up for the glory that he once lacked.

The influence of the original family really needs to be cured for a lifetime.

Fortunately, at the end of the book, the ending is complete. Everyone returns to their own family, and the two children each have an extra family relationship that they can rely on.

If the father is like a son, the father is also the first time to be a father, and he also needs to learn and grow up with the child.