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Okay, just finished watching Shoplifters. Someone please tell me why they like it because the dominant emotion I'm feeling right now is anger.

The last ending just seems fucking stupid and irrational. I understand that the people in the "fake" family were deeply flawed, but they were still good people at heart that were fucked by circumstances. Especially the situation with Lin is awful, surely they can't ignore the fact that her original parents were irresponsible and that Lin didn't want to be with them? That she left and stayed with the new family out of her own will? I feel like in real life there definitely would have been an investigation into the real family to see what's up with that. Didn't they not even report her missing for 2 months, if I remember correctly? God. The final scenes with her, again alone on the balcony, mirroring the beginning of the movie but from her perspective, are depressing. And what the fuck is the deal with Shota? If he didn't like it there, why didn't he just leave / go to the police directly? Why get caught on purpose and drag everyone else in? I genuinely feel terrible. I don't see why anyone would like this if they didn't have a misery fetish. I wasn't this angry since the ending of Mother which was equally stupid. I really don't subscribe to this "separate child and parent figure forever and never have them meet again just because they aren't related by blood" that these drama seem to be pushing en masse.

This was my first Koreeda, are his other movies like this too? If so I'll probably pass. I just want to watch something happy feel good now...