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Today, let's talk about a calm film that contains infinite warmth and touching, "You are a good boy",
Together with Hirokazu Kore-eda's Diary of a Sea Street, it won the Best Film Award at the Tama Film Festival, one of the top ten films of the year in Japan, and the St. George's Prize in the main competition of the 37th Moscow International Film Festival.
"Sea Street Diary" starts from the perspective of the family, through the bondage between the four sisters to tell the story of human feelings, the overall tone is gentle and warm, there is no big wave, plain but warm.
"You Are a Good Boy" starts from the perspective of children and confronts sharp social problems such as violence against young children, but the narration of the film is extremely calm.
Like "Sea Street", there is no dramatic twist, no vulgar tear gas element, the director does not add too much to his subjective feelings, and seems to be in a state of being a bystander, just recording what he sees, and all the problems are pointed out.
I like the director's "cold-eyed bystander".
Wu Meibao is a new Japanese female director in recent years, writing and directing "Married Mother" in 2010, and in 2014, at the 38th Montreal Film Festival, "Only Shine There" won the Best Director Award, which was recognized by the industry.
Stills from "Only Glow There"
The plot of "You Are a Good Boy" is cross-edited by three different branches.
One is the story between a new elementary school teacher played by Kengo Takara and a mischievous student.
As a newly appointed primary school teacher, Yi also always seems helpless in the face of mischief, disobedience, bullying and ridicule of students.
Because the student randomly rang the doorbell of other people's homes, he would personally apologize and ask the homeowner's forgiveness.
The student with enuresis was ridiculed, and he was accused by the parents of the students!
When it was said that you could go to the toilet during class, some students would always go out to play on the pretext of using the toilet.
He is also often confronted by students
Although I will complain about the hard work of being a primary school teacher, I am also trying to be a good teacher.
When he found out that there was a kid who always stayed in the playground after school and didn't come home, he would go over and chat with him as a friend.
Talk about topics that your child likes and let him open up to himself.
The child's name was Yuta.
Mom was a nurse, too busy to take care of him; she had a stepfather who could only sleep, drink, and gamble. No matter what the weather, he was not allowed to go home before 5 o'clock.
Because no one cooked for themselves, dinner was basically bread. He is often considered a bad child by his parents, and he gradually feels that he is a bad child.
Without anger or grievance, Yuta said everything in a very gentle tone.
There is no excessive consolation, no great truth, and only one sentence: I will say that you are a good child.
When Yuta sent yuta home, only because yuya said that he should not let the child stay outside in the rain, Yuta's stepfather rudely pushed back and rudely pulled Yuta into the room, after which he heard a roar and noise.
Whether Yuta was abused or not, the teacher could not check the student's body privately, and others could not get a clear answer, although the answer was obvious.
Domestic violence is terrible, the more others intervene, the more the situation will be suffered, and in the end, can only stand by and watch.
Although it also involves child abuse, Kengo Takara's line is still dominated by school education and problem students, while the line of Makiko Oino is completely focused on the social problem of domestic violence.
In the film, Makiko Ono plays a mother who abuses her daughter, and as long as her daughter Caiyin does something wrong, she will hurt her daughter.
Pulling, punching, nodding, no mercy.
On the other hand, the neighbor who is also a mother loves her child in every way and also takes good care of the color tone.
The two are in stark contrast.
It is said that the hateful will also have pity.
The mother played by Makiko Oino has abused children only because she was also abused when she was young.
His wrists were scarred by cigarette butts, and he could only wear a watch when he went out, and hid his wrists in his sleeves.
Every time I beat my daughter, I would hide in the bathroom and cry silently.
She also loves her daughter and will gently tie her hair
The daughter said she would wear the same shoes as her mother, so she changed her shoes.
It's just that seeing her daughter who made a mistake, she didn't know how to educate her except for corporal punishment. Because, too, she was raised.
Another side line is the story between a grandmother who lives alone and a mentally handicapped child.
The childless grandmother also cares for Hiro, who often greets her.
In the eyes of others, the grandmother suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is always talking nonsense, and Hong is also a mentally retarded child, and even his own mother sometimes thinks that he is a burden.
However, it is these two "problematic" minds that collide together, producing an incomparably beautiful spark.
Three branches, three different stories, but with a common theme.
"Both adults and children want to be hugged tightly"
Exhausted by the torment of students, snubbed by his girlfriend, he will always go to the divorced sister's home to empty himself.
And the process of watching the movie has always been very calm, but because of a hug, I instantly cried into tears ~ ~ ~
As mentioned earlier, although the subject matter of the film is sensitive and sharp, the director never wants to impose anger, sympathy and other feelings on the audience, and everything is pointed out.
Everyone's heart is strong, no matter how cruel the blow it can withstand, but it is fragile and can never resist the gentle attack.
When I saw the little guy slowly climb onto his body, tightly wrapped around his neck, milky, and said "come on" over and over again, I was completely lost.
The best comfort, though, was a tight hug and a soft cheer.
How long have you not been hugged or hugged by your family?
Reckless also assigned a very difficult homework assignment to his students:
They are elementary school students, and they have begun to reject this kind of intimate contact, feeling that this behavior is too humiliating and too numb.
But they did.
Personally, I like the documentary-style approach of talking to students about their embrace feelings, which is real.
"Incredible, reassuring, not ashamed, feeling back in childhood, nothing special, feeling a little goosebumps, warm, gentle, comfortable, happy, can't say what it feels like, misses........"
These are the students' answers.
Varies.
"Hugs often"
"I wanted to be a baby brother, but as a result, everyone gathered"
"Always laughing, having embarrassment, more of a happiness"
"Parents keep saying don't don't, it's a bit sad"
But when asked about their parents' reactions, the children's responses were similar:
Because it's homework, it can only be hugged.
Nowadays, families hug each other, and they have to find a reason.
"Why this perverted homework?" The student asked with a smile
"I don't know", this feeling is above the language, can not be expressed, can only feel their own feelings.
"Both adults and children want to be hugged tightly", this is the core of the film.
The role of mom played by Makiko Oino was abused as a child, and the neighbor's mother was also abused.
It's just that she's luckier.
After being abused, there was an old grandmother who had been by her side, hugging her tightly and giving her warmth.
All Ono needs is someone who understands her and gives her a warm hug.
The whole film has always been a cool tone, until this embrace, the tone changes from cold to warm.
The colors also changed from gray to bright.
The change in tone should be the biggest subjective factor injected by the director in the film!
In addition, the Cast has also pulled a lot of good feelings.
The performances of Makiko Owano, Chizuru Ikewaki, and Kengo Takara all add a lot to the film, and the children, whether it is Hiroya, Masato or Yuta, are so sad.
At last
If you love your children, the world becomes peaceful.