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sherley739 Passionate Fantagian
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| Subject: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:08 pm | |
| Ok so ive made some posts about songs,videos and things of that sort I really like.. But to my opinion this is one of the most saddests and most beutiful movie I have ever seen... I really hope some of you see it after this post. it honestly can make you think more..this is a japenese documentry of and boy and his three sibiling whos mother abonded them..thie movie follows through their daily struggles to get food and survive. please im begging all of you to watch this some point or another....trust me it wont be regreted. Below I have the super long summary of it please either read this or whach it.... its called " Nobody Knows" japenese with english subtitles. - Spoiler:
The horror of "Nobody Knows" descended upon me later, when the film was over and I was considering its effects. It is the very definition of "haunting," in that it has a strong impact in the viewing, but an even stronger one in the contemplating. Loosely based on a true story, it begins with Keiko Fukushima (one-named actress You) moving into a small apartment with her 12-year-old son Akira (Yuya Yagira). She checks in with the husband-and-wife landlord team, exchanges pleasantries, and assures them Akira is her only child, so they needn't worry about noise or clutter. The landlords are happy. Then the Fukushimas unpack their suitcases and reveal two stowaways: Keiko's other children, 5-year-old Yuki (Momoko Shimizu) and Shigeru (Hiei Kimura), about the same age. A fourth child, a girl named Kyoko (Ayu Kitaura) around 10, arrives by train later that night and is secreted into the apartment where the family of five will now live, three of them hiding, Anne Frank-style, from the world. Mom is a sad case. She maintains a playful, easy relationship with the children, reminding Yuki and especially the energetic Shigeru of the importance of staying quiet and never leaving the apartment. They do not seem unhappy by the restrictions; probably this is life as they've always known it, bouncing from one apartment to another as Mom bounces from one low-level job to another. We gather that each of the children has a different father -- Akira is on a first-name basis with a few of them, who work in various menial jobs around town -- and that Keiko has never been married. She is flighty and silly, coming home very late one night, drunk, and waking up the kids so they can eat sushi with her. She thinks it sounds fun; the kids just want to sleep. Keiko begins to be away for long periods of time, always leaving enough cash behind for Akira to run the household and buy groceries. Her absences grow longer and longer, her stays at home shorter and shorter, and finally she stops coming home altogether. She has abandoned her children. Akira and Kyoko become the family's "parents," washing the dinner dishes while they discuss Shigeru's reluctance to eat his vegetables, Akira doing the shopping and errands while Kyoko tends to the younger children at home. None of them go to school, and they can't tell the police of their plight for fear of being split up into different foster homes. Besides, the situation doesn't strike them as dire. Mom left some money and continues to send cash now and then from her new home, wherever that is. Akira has grown accustomed to being the adult in the family; all that Mom's disappearance has done is make it official. But you can only do something unnatural for so long before nature rebels. Akira is a young boy on the bring of adolescence. He goes through a phase where he befriends some trouble-making local boys simply because he wants the normalcy of childhood. He invites them over to play video games, pushing his siblings out of the way, shirking his family duties simply by being what he's supposed to be: a kid. In one heartbreaking scene, he takes Yuki into the city because it's her birthday, the little girl realizing Mom probably isn't coming back but so used to being neglected that now it just rolls off her. In another scene, Akira finds a baseball in the park and hits it with a stick, that simple childlike pastime bringing him unimaginable joy. And then it is back home to the kids. The money runs out eventually. The electricity and water are shut off. The children make friends with a local girl named Saki (Hane Kan), a sad waif who sympathizes with their loneliness, though they withhold the complete details of their situation from her, and it looks like she will be of some help to them. But they don't need another minor looking out for them. They need parents. Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda ("After Life") shot "Nobody Knows" in chronological order and took a year to do it, which means the children age, almost imperceptibly, over the course of the film. More noticeable is the gradual descent of the little family from neatness to squalor as they slowly lose sight of the real world, though even there, Koreeda avoids melodrama. I didn't even notice until afterward that at some point, the children stop keeping the secret their mother gave them (that there are four of them in the apartment, rather than one) and start going outside boldly, probably because they have realized that the world doesn't care about them anyway. The film ends with a sense of hope, but also with a sense that the hope is false. The young actors give such disciplined, believable performances as to be heart-wrenching -- not because they overdo the emotional aspects or play to our sympathies, but precisely because they DON'T do that. The children remain so stoic, their determination barely masking their youthful innocence, that we can't bear to think of their story having an unhappy ending.
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:09 pm | |
| That red squiggly under the words is there for a reason d:
Ima check it out later ^^ | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:13 pm | |
| It's not really sad...at alll...... |
| | | sherley739 Passionate Fantagian
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:15 pm | |
| - Finn wrote:
- It's not really sad...at alll......
have you seen if you havnt then have you ever heard of dont judge a book by its cover.... and like i said the trailer does it no justice... | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:17 pm | |
| - sherley739 wrote:
- Finn wrote:
- It's not really sad...at alll......
have you seen if you havnt then have you ever heard of dont judge a book by its cover.... and like i said the trailer does it no justice... I saw the comment, children running away with an "Avdenture" isn't sad. They're enjoying it. And yes I have TROLLOLOLOL |
| | | sherley739 Passionate Fantagian
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:21 pm | |
| - Finn wrote:
- sherley739 wrote:
- Finn wrote:
- It's not really sad...at alll......
have you seen if you havnt then have you ever heard of dont judge a book by its cover.... and like i said the trailer does it no justice... I saw the comment, children running away with an "Avdenture" isn't sad. They're enjoying it. And yes I have TROLLOLOLOL ummm ok so when there sister dies and they are unable to take her to hospital and later dying in front of them is super fun !!!! and if you have seen it then you could make the sense out of it that the trailer is misleading | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:25 pm | |
| i didnt quite get it o_________________________o
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| | | Relora Hero Fantagian
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:31 pm | |
| @Finn an adventure can be perceived in many ways. Your ignorance is annoying. That word doesn't have to be good you know. If I said the adventure of my mom dieing from cancer was upon my family would you see that as fun? >.>
Sorry but when it comes to sad things like that, tragic if you will, I can't stand to see someone being so disrespectful. | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:32 pm | |
| - Finn wrote:
- It's not really sad...at alll......
What Mr Toast said. | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:35 pm | |
| Of course then again people will always react differently than others some will find it sad and others meh and then there are the weirdos who will probably laugh at it. | |
| | | sherley739 Passionate Fantagian
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:36 pm | |
| ok I put a summary of it instead it longer but its better than the horrible trailer best if you read that...even better if you watch it | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Wed Sep 07, 2011 4:41 am | |
| - sherley739 wrote:
- Finn wrote:
- sherley739 wrote:
- Finn wrote:
- It's not really sad...at alll......
have you seen if you havnt then have you ever heard of dont judge a book by its cover.... and like i said the trailer does it no justice... I saw the comment, children running away with an "Avdenture" isn't sad. They're enjoying it. And yes I have TROLLOLOLOL ummm ok so when there sister dies and they are unable to take her to hospital and later dying in front of them is super fun !!!! and if you have seen it then you could make the sense out of it that the trailer is misleading I like being annoying. I never said "Their sister dying in front of them is super fun!". I got it off the comments, if you didn't read them. Oh yeh, and you showed us the trailer. So don't go saying, "The trailer is misleading." and then saying, "you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover." |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:30 am | |
| @Finn you do understand that there sister dying was part of that happy little adventure, meaning you were talking about the dying part. Also getting it off comments doesn't help >.< | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:40 am | |
| I didnt even understand it.
Its a freaking movie. e.e chilax. all y'all |
| | | miscel[lani]ous New Fantagian
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Wed Sep 07, 2011 8:35 pm | |
| yup ive never heard of it... | |
| | | sherley739 Passionate Fantagian
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:23 pm | |
| That trailer was the only English one created and Finn don't startfake lttle fight and then having no knowledge aboutwhat your running your mouth about. Oh and PS its not just a movie its basedon a true story. And alsilo enjoying being annoying. Will just about get you nowere. | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:44 pm | |
| I didnt read everything but from the looks of it, its a sad movie. I cry during cartoons.... Anyone seen Spirit? That horse movie? I cried when the bird flew away from the horse. And many more times during the movie.... So i shouldnt watch it xD | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Thu Sep 08, 2011 12:28 am | |
| i shouldnt watch scary movies because then i get horrible nightmares( one of them was about a chowder monster lol) oh and what a LONG summary u got there! mines r so short | |
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| Subject: Re: Saddest movie I doubt many of you have seen... Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:23 pm | |
| - sherley739 wrote:
- That trailer was the only English one created and Finn don't startfake lttle fight and then having no knowledge aboutwhat your running your mouth about. Oh and PS its not just a movie its basedon a true story. And alsilo enjoying being annoying. Will just about get you nowere.
Not starting a fight, and I didn't really get what you said, you should edit that post there, dear. I know what my mouth is running, because I am the one speaking it. Again, not tryin to start fights. |
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