"Someday You Will Understand" Director Uberto Pasolini Love is listening [Director's Interview Vol.282]

A single The Father with only a short time left to live searches for a new family to adopt his 4-year-old son. Uberto Pasolini, who directed and wrote the screenplay for ``Someday You Will Understand'', used a very delicate and ``understated'' approach to the story, similar to the works of Yasujiro Ozu and the Dardenne brothers. It is said that he adopted this approach and distanced himself from melodrama and emotionalism as much as possible. As his comment suggests, there are almost no sentimental scenes in this work, and the story depicts the modest life of a parent and child. However, the accumulation of these casual everyday activities gradually accumulates in the viewer, and before they know it, they are crying uncontrollably.

Why did Director Pasolini choose this method? We spoke to the man himself.

“Someday You Will Understand” Synopsis

John (James Norton), a 33-year-old window cleaner, is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age and has only a few days left to live. As a single The Father, he has raised 4-year-old Michael (Daniel Lamont) by himself, and begins the process of adoption and the search for his son's "new parents." In search of his ideal family, he meets with numerous potential family members, but loses track of the path he should take before making the biggest decision of his life. He also meets a dedicated social worker, and while feeling overwhelmed by his own inadequacy, he tries to choose the best future for his son...

Index

• What would I do as a father?
• make room for the audience
• The miracle of Daniel Lamont as Michael
• love means listening

What would I do as a father?

Q: It seems that this story was inspired by an actual article, but what made you want to make it into a film?

Pasolini: The man in the article was an abandoned child himself, so his only option was adoption, with no relatives to turn to. What would you do if you were in the same situation? If a child were to be adopted, what kind of family would they be able to entrust their child to, and would they be able to make the right decision? I also have three daughters, and all of them were able to grow into adults safely. Reading the article made me realize once again that I was able to raise my children in a privileged environment.

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Also, what was written in the article was about a world that I knew nothing about. How does adoption work and how do we help children? In today's society, the role of fathers in the family is changing, but what kind of impact is this having? That's what got me interested.

Making it into a film was an opportunity for me to explore a world I didn't know about, and it was also a journey to find out what I would do as a father.

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