I experienced a slow death.
It's hard to imagine that the discussion about the lack of family affection has already happened 68 years ago, and when I think about it, I feel a deep sense of suffocation. At that time, even though the children had less time to go home, they could establish a complete connection with their parents as long as they were at home. Today’s children have more convenient transportation and more opportunities, but they spend more time at home. Spend time on electronic displays - TV and mobile phones draw the distance between people, but also push the distance away, how absurd
The film slowly and truly tore the audience's apology and longing, Ozu let the existence face the heart, we have to feel the same; imagine, related to our respective lives, miss our mother, and fear that the possibility of existence is related to itself .
There are no angular conflicts in the film, only mild and cruel truths - the quiet changes of children, the aging of people, every side may be the last side, parents are despised by children and other silent facts about time and death. ; no doubt they concern us, not just what we have, but ourselves—what we all face and should expect
I remember that Carina Lau once said, "I enjoy the process of getting old." Only getting old can prove that a person is alive, which is the paradox of life. Everyone does not want to grow old, but as long as they are alive, they rush to their birthday parties and funerals without stopping. Some people live forever in the sky at the age of 16, while others stay in their 40s or so, but the real beating After all, the heart has to dance to the beat of 80 years old
Reverence for life, reverence for loneliness.
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