MOVIES IN 10 DAYS

Movies I watched in a TEN DAYS (not in the order of viewing..hehe)





Of the movies, the most memorable is probably the Japanes movie, Nobody Knows, a story based of a tragic story of four siblings abandoned by their mom in a city where their existence is oblivious to anyone else. The real story happened in 1988 and became popularly known as the 'Affair of the Four Abandoned Children of Sugamo' . Though the real story that shocked Japan is far more grisly than the adaptation, the raw emotions of inexperienced child-actors playing their parts were amazing. In fact, the director, Hirokazu Koreeda, did not use any script to guide the child actors with their lines. Instead, they were only told what the scene was about and acted on their own and spoke their own lines. The result was an astonishing portrayal of how children are gradually grabbed with their innocence as they start to grapple and survive on their own while slowly coming into realization that in a metropolis where nobody knows them, there is no one they can rely on but their tiny bodies and their pieces of ideas they have of a world bordered only by a nearby park, a grocery store, the subway and the strip of sky airplanes conquer as viewed from the space they are forced to call home.

The story becomes even more heartbreaking if you learn the story the movie was based upon.

Yuya Yagira, who portrayed the role of the eldest child in the movie earned the Best Actor trophy at the Cannes Festival in 2004.



The movie is like witnessing fragile flowers in a desert slowly drying up while no one notices, simply because nobody knows of their existence but themselves - small kids slowly robbed of innocence and of hope with no witnesses but each other.
You don’t wanna put Big Brother’s teens in such self-reliance tests. The movie in fact is like watching Big brother’s house. Without the pastel paint that covers the house making it glossy and shiny. And it's definitely without the usual lachrymal and whiny drama.