Review of Like Father, Like Son (2013) by Matt M — 25 Oct 2013
The lives of two very different Japanese families are shaken when they discover six years later that a mix up in a hospital inadvertently swapped their two male babies. This bombshell inevitably leads to much psychological and emotional distress on both sides of the story, and especially in the father of one of the families who is led down a road of deep and meaningful re-evaluations of fatherhood as well as reflection own struggles with exposing his own emotions.
After dealing with the separation of a pair of young siblings in his previous work I Wish, Kore-eda returns to the domestic drama territory in a profoundly moving film. However, apart from the story and thought provoking discourse, which also carefully contrasts family traditionalism with modernism, the filmmaker also employs a tasteful kind of style in bringing the story to the screen which is tastefully defined and doesn't shift the attention away from the intimacy of the meditative nature of Like Father, Like Son and its difficult themes.
This review of Like Father, Like Son (2013) was written by Matt M on 25 Oct 2013.
Like Father, Like Son has generally received very positive reviews.
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