selikurdirham

Masterpiece is when the screenplay and directing resonated beautifully into one harmonious picture. This collaboration of Yuji Sakamoto and Hirokazu Kore-Eda is unique because the director had always been doing all the work by himself —writing, directing, and editing —for his last 25 years in filmmaking. Yuji indeed deserved his praises for interweaving the complexity of Japanese contemporary issues, from institutional incapability of truth-seeking, to the challenging reality of a single parent (and single-parented children). I think he just want to convey that society sucks. Nobody feels safe because when we fail to protect our closests from the ‘outside monsters’, we might manifest ourselves into a monster in someone else’s life. This monstrosity perpetuates in a circle of misery like a karma, and leaves you with a question “In what form will I be when I am reborn?” At last, I have no complaints about the visionary quality of Hirokaze, it’s all eye-pleasing, and meaningful.