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Nobody Knows
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Nobody Knows
(2004)
Nobody Knows
(Life as They Know It)
is a Japanese film much beloved by critics. Four kids—the oldest, a boy, is 12—are abandoned and decide to keep on living in the apartment so that social welfare does not find out and split them up. I don’t think it is giving away too much of the plot to say that things slowly but surely get worse. The serious weakness in the film for me as a Western viewer is that the kids are not very expressive. They look blankly at the camera, and the viewer is supposed to a) like them, and b) understand what they are feeling. Although this did not work for me, I came away with more empathy for street kids: When you see a scruffy little guy checking phone booths for change, you never know his background.
Jim Bell
posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:13 AM by
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