(My Ratings posts are a quick way for me to share my reaction to a film. This post will be updated if/when I ever write a review. Feel free to discuss the movie in depth in the comments section.)
Like Father, Like Son movie rating: green light
MaryAnn’s quick take: Powerful Japanese film about children switched at birth who challenge the love and hope of their rediscovered parents six years later. Beautiful and heartbreaking, from the masterful Hirokazu Kore-eda.
I’m “biast” (pro): adore Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
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I watched this again. The ending is ambiguous, but I discussed the ending with my family, and my mother believed they will stay with the arrangement they made, b/c at the end of the day, you would want to be with your birth parents f it was possible.
I agree. I think they stay with the arrangement, but expand it so that both families spend lots of time together.