In my opinion, the best Japanese family film is "Shoplifters". In the name of family, it focuses on the bottom of society. In the movie "Shoplifters", Kore-eda Hirokazu used his unchanging delicacy and ordinary life to create a family that is not related to each other by blood.

In a combined family that makes a living by stealing, it not only uses every detail of the family to create warmth and happiness, but also finally uses the cruel social reality to expose the family's seemingly beautiful illusion. This analysis of Japanese social problems is cruel but cruel.

Also full of warmth.

The story of "Shoplifters" is simple. In short, it is about a group of marginalized people hugging each other for warmth. However, this movie is not simple. In this family composed of social outcasts, Kore-eda Hirokazu uses his own understanding of emotions.

With skillful and delicate control, he not only established a "family" of mutually beneficial students, but also established a fascinating and thought-provoking character background for everyone in the family in just a few words. In the seemingly plain unfolding of the movie

, every shot of it also hides intriguing power. I think this is Kore-eda Hirokazu's most dramatic masterpiece to date.

The simplicity of the story did not hinder the establishment of the film's abstract concept. At the beginning, "Shoplifters" made people see "profit". In this unrelated family, everyone is taking advantage of others, and is also being used by others.

Utilization, which became the foundation for the film relationship to be established.

What people see in the movie is "love". The real thefts of the thief family are not the items to solve the problem of survival, but the things that have been forgotten and abandoned by society. They all long to steal the support of love in this family.

, the movie also allows people to enter this family through daily life such as "hearing invisible fireworks".

After experiencing the foreshadowing of "love", "Shoplifters" does not intend to use a utopian happy ending to heal people's hearts. Although the home built through "profit" can provide people with the warmth of love temporarily

, but from any point of view, a family built on such a false relationship cannot have a real future, so the "breakup" of the thief family's disintegration has become inevitable, and the movie has now shown its real trump card -

-society.

Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters" is not essentially a work that explores family relationships. Its purpose is to focus on the issues that exist in current Japanese society through such a step-by-step development from individual to family to society.

All kinds of ills, it is the imperfection of the social system that gave rise to the absurd existence of the family of thieves, and it was also the cruelty of society that led to the eventual disintegration of the family of thieves. Personal good and social evil have become the most distinctive themes of this film.

Contrast.

Although the existence of a family of thieves is absurd, and its destruction is its irreversible fate, "Shoplifters" uses it to address the shortcomings of society without denying the significance of its existence. The scene that impressed me most in the movie is

The family sat together and watched the invisible fireworks. At this moment, love became far more beautiful than the fireworks. Facing the dilemma of life, they couldn't help but feel glad that they still had love that could be stolen.