hirokazu kore-eda is like the anti kiyoshi kurosawa. a film brimming with sentimentality but the movie earns that by smartly placing connective tissue between all main characters.
i do wished the two investigators were more actual characters but most of the cast has a reason and a goal that go over eachother or compliment eachother. while it is another film bringing to light the reality of lower class people, it does so in a very earnest way and is mostly void of nihilism for most of its runtime which feels fresh. sure, i don't think its as smart as other films that empty to critique a certain element of modern capitalist society but again, it does so with wearing its sentimentality on its sleeve.
(watch my films
the grievance of the day: https://boxd.it/eD8Suj
summer walk: https://boxd.it/ewenRP )
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