Ordinary family What the movie was about was clear from the synopsis. The film is about a simple family - with its omissions, misunderstandings. But here is the case when it is not about what the story is important - more importantly, how it is shown, presented to the viewer.
It should be noted the work of the operator - the film was shot as if by an amateur camera, the effect that someone else shoots, another hero of the film. The camera jumps, sometimes it almost falls. At first, it's quite annoying because it doesn't seem like a professional picture, it's amateur. But as the plot unfolds, you realize that it is a forced necessity - it is so more realistic to show the life of the family, life inside the house.
A woman, a mother, will come to terms with the fact that her husband always disappears from work, that her son does not work or does not tell her anything, that everyone avoids her. She has no hobbies, she has to wash dishes, house, go shopping, cook - lead the lifestyle of an ordinary housewife. But there comes a turning point when anyone can’t stand it. The main character couldn't stand it either.
From the very beginning of the film, everything emphasizes pedantry, regularity, scrupulousness of the heroes’ lives. Michiko (so called the main character). Carefully washes dishes, puts stands under plates perpendicular to the table, throws out garbage, carefully sorting it. The director very clearly manages these details - you can often recognize yourself in them - shirts ironed and hung on the balcony, with buttons buttoned, beds lined...
When she decides to break with the past, with such an attitude towards herself, the camera shows us withered flowers, water that bloomed in the dispensary, dirty dishes, garbage thrown out randomly, the nervousness of the heroine.
There are only three characters in the film: He, She and Their Son. It symbolizes the head of the family, a person who lives his life in his own way: morning-work-road home-dinner-sleep. He's not interested in his son, his wife, their problems. He cares about himself. The son, like the father, is not interested in anything, does not like interference in his life, he is looking for a job, but does not like to linger on it, changing it over and over again.
They all live under the same roof, but as if apart. And only the act of the main character, the mother, should unite them. The director does not give a clear ending to the story, letting the viewer decide for himself how the life of this family will develop. The X family, one of a million other families.
P.S. Personally, I liked the movie. I would recommend it to those who have not seen it.