Cherish the people in front of you

Dovie 2022-04-22 07:01:32

After watching Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", I was very emotional and even communicated with my grandma for a while. This real-world issue that the film is primarily built around is deeply poignant and guilty, but it is also a fundamentally unsolvable issue. How to maintain the relationship between parents and children, even after more than 60 years, it is impossible to say why. It can only be said that it varies from person to person, and the family situation of each household is different. Personally, I still advocate a loving family atmosphere and have their own private space, which is suitable. The third daughter-in-law, Noriko, said that her children will definitely have a certain distance from their parents when they grow up, but at the same time, Noriko has been loyal and filial. Although she is not the daughter of the old couple, not even a relative, but she is the only one who sincerely takes care of them from beginning to end.

I like Noriko's sincerity and her kindness.

And the notion that "no one wants to take care of parents until they're in the coffin" is shameful. Please cherish the person in front of you, and don't know how to cherish it until you lose it. Maybe people who have such thoughts are not bad at heart, because some people may be sad and remorse for a while and then reveal their true colors. It's sad, sad.

Finally, I sigh about Yasujiro Ozu's fine-tuning of the scene scheduling, the fixed camera position of the whole film, so that there is stillness in the movement, and there is movement in the stillness. Even the black and white film can make people watch full of energy without sleepiness, the master is the master~

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Tokyo Story quotes

  • Sanpei Numata: I often wish at least one of my sons were alive.

    Osamu Hattori: Must have been hard to lose both of them.

    [to Shukichi]

    Osamu Hattori: Didn't you lose one?

    Shukichi Hirayama: Yes, my second son.

    Osamu Hattori: I've had enough of war.

    Shukichi Hirayama: Yes, indeed. To lose your children is hard, but living with them isn't always easy either. A real dilemma.

  • Sanpei Numata: I'm afraid we expect too much of our children. They lack spirit. They lack ambition. I've told that to my son. He said that there are too many people in Tokyo. That it's hard to get ahead. What do you think? Young people today have no backbone. Where is there spirit? That's not how I raised him!