"Shoplifters"#2018 Cannes Palme d'Or, Best Film of the Year#

2018 is probably a small year in terms of the overall quality of movies; but director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s movie "Shoplifters" can be considered a masterpiece of the year. Of course, winning the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival is undoubtedly a big plus, but the quality of this film, looking at 2018, is truly outstanding.

Speaking of the giants of Japanese family movies, we can probably distinguish two lines: Yasujiro Ozu and Shohei Imamura. Director Yasujiro Ozu has a signature photography style: fixed lens + low angle shot. The Japanese window in Director Ozu's film is bright and clear, with neat composition and slow rhythm: the audience is calm and watch the scenes of parents having fun, gossiping, and toasting to old friends (see "The Taste of Saury"). The characters in Imamura Shohei's lens use animal-like instincts to express the basic desires of food, sex, and almost numbness to life, old age, illness, and death as human beings. Test" ). If we talk about seniority, Imamura Shohei is still a student of Ozu Yasujiro.

Let me tell you a true story: After World War II, Shohei Imamura worked in Ozu Yasujiro’s studio as his student. In 1954, Imamura wrote a script called "Pork and Warships". After Ozu saw it, he was extremely disgusted and asked: "Why do you always want to photograph these maggot-like people?" Imamura replied: "I will write about maggots until I die." In the same year, Imamura left Ozu's studio and pursued a solo career. Created.

I have gone in a big circle here to tell the story of Ozu Yasujirō and Imamura Shohei. What I actually want to say is: In fact, the shadows of Ozu and Imamura can be seen in Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters". Beneath the surface of a quiet and peaceful family, there are actually small characters struggling on the margins of society hugging each other for warmth; the sincere and touching emotional care is, at best, just a chance encounter; all the sincerity and frankness seem to be just that in the end. Can speak to myself silently. After the building collapsed, each of them continued to struggle on the edge of society and lived a decadent life.