But my favorite Palme D’Or-winning movie has got to be #Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda of Japan. It found a place in my heart and it still aches when I remember the movie. If you haven’t watched it yet, I highly recommend it.
For me, it was a good kind of hurt. Sakura Ando’s performance rubbed me raw. I wanted to reach into the screen and just hug her. The ending was a shitty situation and it was supposed to be just to drive the point of the movie that right/legal isn’t always good and that sometimes the family you create for yourself is better than the family you are born into. In the end, they were a family and I think both of the kids know and will remember that. 💕
it was just so unfair! I get that the social workers would decide to take the kids away and that law and what works in practice don’t necessarily align. But the way the social workers systematically tore their relationships apart, making them believe everything was fake and not worth anything… that was just plain cruel. More than anything, I was mad about how the female half of the family ended up so much worse than the male half… with the mother figure going to jail to protect the ‘dad’ and the little girl being returned to her horrid abusive family.
It was the film that made me feel the most emotion in a very long time… had hours long conversations about it with my friends afterward, but even months later I see red thinking about that ending
That’s life in Japan for you. It’s still very patriarchal and I think the social workers just assumed the worst when it’s far from the truth just because the circumstances lead them to believe so. The movie was controversial because Japan didn’t want to broadcast its poverty. This movie has done its job when people become uncomfortable and start talking about the issues they find in the film. Us, being so struck about it even months after means the movie was successful in its purpose. 🙂
Ando Sakura’s performance left a big impression on me. I was watching a drama where she was the lead (Manpuku) and she had a different style of acting that I was surprised to see her being this good in Shoplifting. Such an excellent actress!
(The movie and the whole cast were wonderful too.)
zette
August 17, 2019 at 8:20 AM
But my favorite Palme D’Or-winning movie has got to be #Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda of Japan. It found a place in my heart and it still aches when I remember the movie. If you haven’t watched it yet, I highly recommend it.
CHARLIE
August 17, 2019 at 8:24 AM
adored the characters and the setup in the first half but the ending made me so mad that it erased all my good feelings for it.
zette
August 17, 2019 at 8:35 AM
For me, it was a good kind of hurt. Sakura Ando’s performance rubbed me raw. I wanted to reach into the screen and just hug her. The ending was a shitty situation and it was supposed to be just to drive the point of the movie that right/legal isn’t always good and that sometimes the family you create for yourself is better than the family you are born into. In the end, they were a family and I think both of the kids know and will remember that. 💕
CHARLIE
August 17, 2019 at 8:45 AM
it was just so unfair! I get that the social workers would decide to take the kids away and that law and what works in practice don’t necessarily align. But the way the social workers systematically tore their relationships apart, making them believe everything was fake and not worth anything… that was just plain cruel. More than anything, I was mad about how the female half of the family ended up so much worse than the male half… with the mother figure going to jail to protect the ‘dad’ and the little girl being returned to her horrid abusive family.
It was the film that made me feel the most emotion in a very long time… had hours long conversations about it with my friends afterward, but even months later I see red thinking about that ending
zette
August 17, 2019 at 8:55 AM
That’s life in Japan for you. It’s still very patriarchal and I think the social workers just assumed the worst when it’s far from the truth just because the circumstances lead them to believe so. The movie was controversial because Japan didn’t want to broadcast its poverty. This movie has done its job when people become uncomfortable and start talking about the issues they find in the film. Us, being so struck about it even months after means the movie was successful in its purpose. 🙂
mango
August 17, 2019 at 8:52 AM
Ando Sakura’s performance left a big impression on me. I was watching a drama where she was the lead (Manpuku) and she had a different style of acting that I was surprised to see her being this good in Shoplifting. Such an excellent actress!
(The movie and the whole cast were wonderful too.)
Sa
August 18, 2019 at 9:53 AM
this movie was so so so good!