Critical Movie Analysis: Nobody Knows

Critical Movie Analysis: Nobody Knows
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Critical Movie Analysis: Nobody Knows
Nobody Knows is a Japanese movie by Hirokazi Koreeda released in 2004. The film is set in Tokyo detailing the lives of four children; Akira, Kyoko, Shigeru and Yuki. The movie covers the incidences in their lives when their callous single mom abandons them.Akira is the eldest child and assumes responsibility after their drunk mother, who is usually absent, gets married again and leaves them for good. The movie highlights the challenges the children face and the relationships they build between them and their environment. It shows how Akira manages to fend for himself and the siblings. It describes the relationships he builds as he strives to find food for his brother and sisters. His pursuit to fit the responsibility of their absentee mother leads him to relationships with people like Saki and some possible fathers of his siblings as well as boys of his age. Akira's struggles and connections to the micro, mezzo and macro systems and the resulting implications are better explained from a social angle.
* Akira’s connectivity to his Micro, Mezzo and Macro Systems
Human lives are defined by the type of links they have with the outside world to handle daily matters showing how interdependence and healthy relationships can be pivotal in not only supporting but also controlling one's behavior (Hutchinson, 2015). The systems in Akira's life are not well defined and to some extent some are non-existent. Looking at the immediate system in Akira's life, the micro system, the boy has three siblings and a single mother who is reluctant to take care of them. The reluctance of Akira's mother and the absence of their fathers shift his responsibility to the caretaker of the other siblings when the mother is not around. He knows that their mother is the head as he listens to her when she dictates the rules as they settle in their new residence. Akira’s relationship with his mother is more mature and she burdens him with emotional and physical baggage. Left with a drunk single mother, Akira and his siblings have to redefine their relationship. This makes Akira to transition his relationship to that of a parent too. The dysfunctional relations to his parents revert to a closer and stronger connection to his siblings. The stronger connection between Akira and his sibling is captured best when a man in a parlor describes the kids as having each other despite having no parents.
The distorted micro system helps Akira define who he is and what he has become. It makes him feel like he is solely responsible for his siblings and that he has to take care of them. His assumed responsibility as a parent is seen when he even brings them gifts and presents that he pretends are from their mother. The constraints within themicro system have made him necessarily mature for his age where we see him even keeping secrets from his siblings and noting the possibility of their mother not coming back again. In a scene where he looks over a schoolyard, it is easy to figure out what is going on in his mind at that moment seeing kids his age at school. This, in my opinion, can make a kid have the notion of an unfair world where...