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The inexplicable thing that sprouted in their own hearts that could not be described, for those children, they would name it monsters.
Or to be said so because of the oppression around them. ”
The director is Hirokazu Kore-eda, screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto, soundtrack Ryuichi Sakamoto, starring Sakura Ando.
It's no wonder that after Zhou Tian finally released the resources with subtitles, the information of this movie can be swiped on various platforms.
"Monster".
Last year's Hirokazu Kore-eda, with a full set of Korean team in the movie "The Broker", is already considered a "dissonance" in his works.
There are many people who don't adapt, don't like it, and feel that it's routine.
To sum up, it's a bad taste.
Is it Hirokazu Kore-eda + Song Kang-ho's "The Broker": blandness and repetition, or stick to the style?
Therefore, everyone's expectations for this work are higher, after all, they are all familiar formulas, and the lineup has been upgraded.
Last night, I watched the movie seriously.
I would personally give 5 stars, almost 9 points.
01 The overlap of time and space from three perspectives
It's Hirokazu Kore-eda's narrative, which has always been gentle and calm.
His lens language is not preconceived, it is narrating.
Unlike other works, you have to insert a subtitle to tell you the time point or character, so that the audience is ready, transition, flashback, or jump to the future, and change the protagonist.
The film is completely divided into three parts, a narrative in three acts, and the perspectives of the three main characters, each of which restores all the stories.
Bearing and closing, especially the reversal and progression, layer by layer, it seems to pierce the heart, and it hurts faintly.
Personally, I think that there is no very difficult threshold for understanding, and the timeline is very clear.
There are no wasted superfluous details foreshadowing, and some clever echoes are used to remind the audience which part of the previous scene this is.
There are not even duplicate details.
I saw that there was a short comment with high praise, which summed it up very well:
"The biggest turning point is the one who expects the end of evil instead of love."
The script of Monster is really good.
The idea is smooth and follows the overall atmosphere, and it is really enjoyable to have a reversal that is unexpected for most audiences.
Compared to the timeline in the divine book "The Ship of Theseus", which is said to take at least 7 times to complete, this movie is really clear.
PS: I still stopped at the first time I opened the book in 2017, and after reading 80 pages in 5 hours, I sealed it with awe.
People who experience the same event really have different perspectives for everyone.
In the first act, Sakura Ando, as a single mother, is speechless in anger.
When a child is bullied, it still comes from the teacher, she needs to escalate her dissatisfaction again and again, constantly emphasize, constantly complain, throw away the face and basic self-cultivation, and can only use instinctive emotions to fiercely resist and fight, and the school does not act.
In the second act, Yingtai, as this so-called violent teacher, is helplessly aggrieved.
He is just an ordinary teacher, serious and responsible, hoping to protect isolated children.
He stopped the violence at the first time, but he didn't expect that by mistake, he was accused of abusing students, and the abuse methods continued to escalate, becoming more and more unclear.
The workplace where he is located will only ask him to calm down, not to speak out, not to attract attention, not to explain, bow his head and admit his mistakes, admit everything, and let the situation and ** continue to ferment, he has become a demon teacher who is targeted by everyone.
He also tried to explain, because this bullied child was actually bullying another child.
When these words are said to an angry Ando Sakura, will she believe it?
Who the hell is lying?
Still that question:
The child is isolated, or he becomes the initiator of isolating others, which one makes parents (normal parents who can be individuals) more at a loss?
When no one in this world wants to believe your innocence, no one can stand on your side, how much courage do you have to face this cruel world and continue to live?
In the third act, from the perspective of Sakura Ando's children, the story of the two children is told with indescribable sincerity.
It was Hirokazu Kore-eda's usual cruelty, despair, and glimmer of hope that pierced his heart appeared.
The two children turned out to be such a clear and complex affectionate friendship.
Those hazy care and protection, guilt and like.
Liking someone is something that comes naturally and can't be stopped.
There is no causal relationship with the outside world and the rules of this world.
But they have to be constrained and questioned by the world.
When adults who still have a conscience, for a moment, want to understand the 100,000 reasons for "reincarnation" that children have throughout the movie, want to apologize, and want to redeem, is it too late?
The movie is in the climax, abruptly stopped, and it is full of stamina.
Kore-eda's films often focus on the stories of people on the margins of society, the so-called award-winning physique.
But I don't think it's for any purpose, at least the sincerity expressed here.
There must always be an expressor, focusing on the survival stories of vulnerable people who have to huddle in corners, forgotten, ignored.
Those stories that are not worth mentioning are also their lives.
"Seeing" itself is a kind of humanistic care.
02 What the hell is a monster?
The movie depicts all of the real happenings, even including the problems of the teacher's situation, which I have heard in the news in Japan and South Korea, and around me.
It's Hirokazu Kore-eda who talks not just about the problem, but about why things that are known to be wrong can't be stopped over and over again.
Who can say from which key point the entire movie story, or these real-life cases, can't end?
To start remediation with **
How can I prevent it?
Who did it wrong?
There are no great evildoers, but it is everyone's unintentional actions and choices that push the whole incident to a fork in the road of life and death.
Everyone has their own helplessness and naturalness, one ring after another, resulting in the dilemma of intertwined social problems.
This is also the reason why everyone understands that the problem is happening, and they are angry and want to change, but it is difficult to completely correct and change.
It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who explained the meaning of "monster" in this way:
The inexplicable thing that sprouted in their own hearts that could not be described, for those children, they would name it monsters. Or to be said so because of the oppression around them. ”
For everyone, everyone has their own "monsters" that they dare not touch.
You may become a "monster" in the hearts of others.
Parents are to teachers, peers are to isolated children, parents are in absolute advantage, and children who are different from each other who cannot grow up according to their parents' expectationsInvisible stereotypes and prejudices for these individuals who live cautiously.
03 Is the end of HE or BE?
In Hirokazu Kore-eda's story, whether it is HE or BE is not so important, it is often a mixed bag, and it is often open-ended, as if life is interpreted as you like.
The ending must be a fantasy, with two children running freely in the sun-drenched forest with no one else.
But what about their actual ending?
Look at the audience's own mentality to interpret it.
Pessimistic audiences are not necessarily lovers of BE aesthetics, but feel from the bottom of their hearts that in the more conservative and repressive atmosphere of East Asia, if two children are born of the same sex and live, they may not have freedom, and they are likely to be a long indefinite shackle.
From all directions, never stopped, asking them to be normal people.
It's better to take the initiative to flee when you just see the cruel reality.
I think that the reality is very skinny and cruel, and there is a high probability that it cannot be changed, there are only two ways to accept or give up.
If you don't suffer from others, don't persuade others to be easy.
Everyone perceives suffering differently, and if possible, you can still try and live.
For this life choice that is different, but does not hurt others, respect, blessings.
They have really faced a lot of unspeakable stress and pain.
When even the ability to discern is immature, it is necessary to begin to worry about worldly prejudice and fierce repression.
How can CT detect the strange thing in the brain?But that's what the kids thought.
Sensitive, naïve and distressing.
Accepting the self-righteousness of adults, and before they really realize their self and their view of right and wrong, they are labeled and blamed on him, and they are branded with the scars of "I am a monster".
The wanton torture from the outside world, both physically and mentally, plus the subtle self-denial.
Young love, is it impossible to distinguish this dependent emotion, whether it is moved or heartbeat, and it may not be really very clear that the young self is oriented.
It may just be someone you like and it happens to be of the same sex.
Or is it so clear that the true self can be so clearly understood at such a young age?
The boy knows the name of each flower, and it is not disgusting.
I also went through many years of friction in life and all kinds of entanglements and internal friction before I figured out a little bit of middle-aged people.
We can't stand on the moral high ground and ask our children to understand these things.
Many adults may not understand their own lives. But we're still trying, aren't we?
I prefer HE because I want to have a small hope, try as hard as I can, and try it in the unknown.
This is also a glimmer of light that will not be easily erased in Hirokazu Kore-eda's works.
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