The film tells the story of a policewoman who was abandoned by her mother as a child. Makoto and her partner, Tong Zhouping, investigate a murder case, which leads to the story of a pair of sisters' life experiences. The ending of the film is very tearful.
The film was shot in Hokkaido, and the beauty of the ice and snow in Hokkaido set off the loneliness and desolation of the film. There is a kind of sadness that makes people feel gloomy, depressed and sad.
"Two people or a person, a person is more lonely. The truth is that two people are bored, and the truth is that one person is lonely. "
This poem has appeared many times in the film, and it has a bleak feeling. People are lonely in this world, and those who have felt lonely have a deep understanding.
Every protagonist in the film is lonely. The policewoman was abandoned by her mother when she was a child, and her father was about to die. This kind of life experience makes her introverted and sensitive, and she is not good at getting along with people. At the end of the film, her father died, leaving her alone.
Two sisters in the film, Chieko and Memoirs of a Geisha, lived with their stripper mother when they were young. Her mother sold them to traffickers to survive. From her mother's eyes, she saw her disappointment and helplessness. She said that it would not be a good result for her children to follow her. She would rather gamble on the fate of her children. If she meets a good family, she can change the fate of her life from now on.
However, the two children did not escape their fate after all. They haven't seen each other for decades after being separated from the trafficker. When they were young, they all lived by selling their bodies.
Sister Chieko has never been married and has always been alone. At the age of 60, she made a living by cleaning people. She silently applied for a job in her sister's company. I haven't seen her for decades. My sister doesn't know her. Only she knows that she is willing to silently guard her sister.
Memoirs of my sister's geisha achieved the position of president of aquatic products company by her own efforts, and raised her daughter independently, and her daughter was about to get married. At this time, a man she once knew appeared, and the film did not explain their entanglement. Memoirs of a geisha killed him. I think this is because the memoirs of geisha finally got rid of the past and tried to become a local celebrity. She didn't want her past to be known, so she made the wrong choice.
I don't want to lose my hard-won reputation and wealth, and the future of my children. Living in fear and anxiety all day, once you lose your mind, you will make excessive behavior.
Chieko happened to witness the murder of a geisha memoir. She was also scared and flustered, but she finally helped the geisha memoirs to dispose of the body together. Afterwards, the two sisters had a conversation and told their stories. They are both karma.
Chieko never told memoirs of a geisha that she was her sister. She went to the police station to take the fall for her sister and admitted that she had done everything. She is willing to bear everything. She's all alone, with no attachments. Memoirs of a geisha have their own careers and daughters, and her factory can't live without her. If the factory closes, many people will lose their jobs.
But the policewoman didn't believe Chieko. She has discovered the truth. In the car, she asked Chieko why she didn't tell the geisha about her identity. Chieko replied, "I want her to forget the past. I am also her past. "
At this time, Chieko and Makoto read the poem describing loneliness. They are also people in the same boat.
In order to let her sister forget the past and start a new life, Chieko would rather bear everything by herself. Looking at Chieko's old face and gray hair, I thought of her life's misfortunes and vicissitudes. At this moment, I couldn't help crying.
Finally, policewoman Makoto told the memoirs of a geisha that Chieko was her sister. Memoirs of a Geisha, sitting in a police car, looked back at Chieko who was chasing her and shouted, "Sister Thousand, Sister Thousand." At this time, the picture of their separation as children seems to reappear, but their faces have changed and time is gone.
The film shows the poverty and loneliness of the bottom people in Japan. There is a saying in the film: Once you are poor, that kind of memory will be engraved in your memory. Perhaps because we don't want to be poor any more, the social crime rate will rise, and evil usually comes from poverty.
In the film, we can see that the aging phenomenon in Japan is serious. In order to survive, old people in their sixties and seventies continue to work, drive taxis and be cleaners. It's hard for them to stop, but they still have to persist in order to survive. Many of these old people live alone and die alone. Thinking of this bleak old age, I can't help but feel a little cold inside.
Some of the plots of this film lack scrutiny, but it is still a good film in terms of emotional expression and reflection of social reality.