It's Hirokazu Kore-eda's movie - "Walking Without Stopping".
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, Yukiko Ehara, Kazuya Takahashi
Genre: Drama Family.
Country of Production: Region: Japan.
Language: Japanese.
Release Date: 2008-06-28 (Japan).
Life is long, there is no wind and no waves, and calm and boring are the true colors of life. In the hot summer, the sound of cicadas continues, the pace does not stop, a small boat drifts slowly, rowing across the lake as quiet as a mirror, but a sudden pebble breaks the harmony at an inopportune time, someone falls into the water, someone shouts, someone is silent, someone heroically saves people, that is, at this moment many years ago, the only eldest son who is willing to inherit the mantle of his father's doctor passed away because of saving the child who fell into the water, and a happy family became broken. The elderly mother lost her eldest son, the kind doctor lost her inheritance, the spirited second son lost her brother, and the optimistic sister lost her eldest brother, and everything was disrupted by this accident.
Previously, Hirokazu Kore-eda has many excellent works on the topic of death, he said that "Walking Without Stopping" is not to tell the grief of the life of the white-haired man who sends the black-haired person away, but how the death accident changes the ordinary family. Fifteen years later, the death of the eldest son was like a pebble thrown into a lake, small but spreading, affecting every member of the family. Another year of death arrived, and the family members were reunited in a rare way. Most of the story takes place in a single day, with characters coming in and out of the kitchen, living room, bathroom. The summer breeze is no different from the past, and the daily trivialities of less than 24 hours are inadvertently revealed.
"Walking Forever" is not so much a family video as a realistic documentary. Hirokazu Kore-eda uses nuanced lens language to clearly and clearly record an ordinary and touching period of life: the mother in her twilight years and her slim daughter talk about the shortcomings of their parents, count the cooking skills that their mother has taught their daughter over the years, and lament that her daughter, who has completed many years of schooling, has never worked and married earlyThe faltering father was stubborn and alone, unable to let go of the glory of the doctor he was proud of all his life, and couldn't let go of his mantle, so he passed away with the flow of water before himself, lamenting that his willful and unruly second son was not doing his job;The grandson of infinite youth sweats like rain in the courtyard, frolicking, childlike words, running wantonly, exploring this vibrant world;Ryota, who was bent on getting rid of his father's control, placed the watermelons he bought, looked at the broken floor tiles, looked forward to the notice of the restoration of the ancient paintings, and tried his best to suppress the incomprehension of his son Jackie Chan's father;The virtuous Yurika tries her best to play a good wife, accompanying her mother, understanding her husband's past, and calmly coping with the "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" who is called a nightmare by the world.
Six years later, the lonely father left, and the nagging mother followed, and they all lay quietly in the cemetery, quietly turning into yellow butterflies and flying to new worlds, leaving only the younger generation and younger ones who still need to continue to move forward in this world. Life is like this, life is like this, the pace does not stop, the sound of cicadas continues, continue to move forward, never stop, never stop.