On the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are trading children like they’re freaking Yu-Gi-Oh cards up in this place in the 2013 film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Like Father, Like Son.
We watched and talked about this film at length and I’m still baffled by some of the decisions that these supposed adults took with their children’s lives. How do you look at the baby you’ve raised into a real walking and talking person and say, “Nah, there’s someone else out there that I’m going to choose. You don’t understand, kid, he’s got my blood.”
But here we are, and that’s the exact movie we talked about in this episode. Granted, the other parents weren’t so keen on the idea of upending their the lives of their kids, so I think they get a pass.
It’s a real nature vs. nurture situation here. Are you the product of your genetics or are you what your parents and community made you? Surely, it’s a combination of the two. It can’t be completely one or the other.
This film asks a tough question: Would you give up the child you raised if you found out that they weren’t your biological child? Would you take on the life of someone else’s kid out of some misplaced sense of vanity? Or would you be a better parent than Ryota and come to appreciate the life you helped develop a lot sooner than that doofus did?
Whatever the case may be, it sure as heck makes for a complex and stellar film.
(Recorded on February 3, 2022)
Links to Stuff We Mentioned:
Like Father, Like Son trailer - YouTube
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) - IMDb
Shoplifters | More Movies Please! - Libsyn
Sister, Sister (TV Series 1994–1999) - IMDb
Pinky and the Brain (TV Series 1995–1998) - IMDb
Tommy Boy | More Movies Please! - Libsyn
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