"Deeper than the Sea" after the view

I have watched several Japanese movies recently, and I like three of them the most: Deeper Than the Sea, Kikujiro's Summer, and To Those Who Can't Express Love.

The director of "Deeper Than the Sea" is Hirokazu Kore-eda, and "Thief Family" is also his work, which won the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival.

He once said: I don't like the plot of the protagonist overcoming weaknesses, guarding his family and saving the world, but I want to describe the moment when the world with no heroes and only ordinary people living and a little dirty suddenly becomes beautiful.

The storyline of the movie "Deeper Than the Sea" perfectly illustrates his cinematic aesthetic. The middle-aged and depressed hero worries about money every day, and the writer's dream is only a flash in the pan at the beginning, and Jiang Lang is exhausted. In order to realize his dream of becoming a great writer and also contracted the vice of gambling, his wife could not bear to divorce him and live alone with her son. He couldn't even pay 50,000 yen a month for child support, rent, utilities, and electricity.

Many mothers are played by the famous actor Kiki Shirin, who portrays an image of a lifelong unsatisfactory and calm treatment. The husband was idle and unprofessional, a regular visitor to the pawnshop, and owed a lot of foreign debt, and died not long ago. The day after the funeral, she threw away her husband's belongings as garbage. She had lived in a cramped dormitory building for forty years, longing for the day when she could live in a spacious and bright house where her husband could not fulfill her wishes, nor could her son. Even so, she lived an optimistic life, planting flowers and plants on the balcony, enjoying music and listening to explanations with a group of peers in the homes of wealthy people in noble houses in the neighborhood. Relying on the meagre pension to save money, squeezing out money to pay the tuition fee for figure skating for the granddaughter, entertaining the son and daughter's family who come home to eat, busy before and after, tirelessly and happily.

The beautiful moments in the movie are when many people buy their son baseball shoes, take him to hamburgers, and visit their grandmother on family visits. Because of the typhoon, the ex-wife who came to pick up her son and return home was forced to stay at her mother-in-law's house for the night. Many took his son to hide in the children's park in the community park on a rainy night, reliving the programs his father had done in his childhood. The ex-wife came to find her son, and the former family of three huddled in a small space, eating snacks, drinking, chatting, and helping their son find the lost lottery ticket.

After the typhoon, everything returned to the past, the wife took her son away, before leaving, agreed to see you again in a month, to make up for the three months of 150,000 yuan in child support.

This concludes the film.

There are many seemingly ordinary and meaningful lines in the film:

The mother said to her son in the middle of the night: Why don't men know how to cherish the present? Always in pursuit of what is lost. Thinking about unattainable dreams, trapped by these things, how can you be happy every day?

What is more than just a man who does not know how to cherish the present?

She also said: Life is a very simple thing, living to such an old age, I have never loved someone deeper than the sea, and asking for too much luxury is doomed to no help.

However, I clearly saw something deeper than the sea in the movie, maybe it was not love, but the concern, bondage, reluctance, and nostalgia between blood relatives...