パンフレットから
監督としては初めてのオリジナル長編とのこと。
難病を抱えるシングルマザーと
ヤングケアラーになった
その一人っ子としての息子の
日常が描かれる。
昔と違うなと思ったのは、
高校生の人間関係。
予想以上にお互いに踏み込まないし
事情を話さないこと。
それゆえ、
あるはずだった日常から
主人公はとても静かに離れていく。
山時聡真さんと菅野美穂さんの
親子としてのやりとりは、
ある意味とてもリアルで
病気のせいでだんだん話せなくなる様子は
胸に来るものがあった。
今の家族間の介護のあり様としては
かなりリアルなのかなという印象だった。
二人に関わっていく
ケアマネジャー役としての
西野七瀬さんも良かったんだよな。
最近のドラマでも
要石の様なポジションでの脇役が
かなり光る。
全体を通して、
描くのが難しい、
介護の現場、
ヤングケアラーの実態を
物語として見せてくれた
この作品は、
この令和の今だからこそ
たくさんの人に届いてほしいと思った。
追記：
作品は素晴らしかったが
それを讃える自分と
全く響かない自分が共存していて、
母子というドラマは
自分には刺さらないことも確認できた。
これはもう、原因は自分にある。
According to the pamphlet,
this was the director’s first original feature-length film.
It depicts the everyday life
of a single mother suffering from a serious illness
and her only son,
who has become a young carer.
What struck me as different from the past
was the way high school students relate to one another.
They do not step into each other’s lives
as much as I expected,
and they do not talk about their circumstances.
Because of that,
the protagonist quietly drifts away
from the ordinary life
that should have been there for him.
The exchanges between Soma Santoki and Miho Kanno
as mother and son
felt, in a sense, very real,
and the way illness gradually makes it harder for her to speak
really hit me hard.
My impression was that
it felt quite realistic
as a portrayal of the way caregiving within families exists today.
Nishino Nanase,
in her role as the care manager
who becomes involved with the two of them,
was also very good.
Even in recent dramas,
her supporting roles in positions like a keystone
have really stood out.
Taken as a whole,
this film,
which showed the realities of caregiving
and the actual situation of young carers
as a story,
despite how difficult these things are to portray,
made me feel that,
precisely because it is now the Reiwa era,
it should reach a great many people.
Postscript:
The work was wonderful,
but within me coexisted
the self that praised it
and the self that was not moved by it at all,
and I was also able to confirm
that a drama centered on mother and son
does not resonate with me.
At this point,
the cause is entirely on my side.
WACOCA: People, Life, Style.