"Tokyo Sonata"

Myron 2022-11-07 22:12:59

The soothing but dramatic rhythm and the equally ambiguous saturated tones inside and outside bring out a family problem that has a wide range of social characteristics of the era.

The four family members are all hiding their secrets, and the pain and powerlessness after the outbreak are equally touching! Everyone is a kind of label character: power controller, submissive, idealist, rebellious rebel.

In addition, each is involved in the same unhappy lives of others, a tragedy of suicide, a robbery at a knife, a run away from home, and a controversial war. To be able to integrate into this simple family naturally shows the superb control ability of the director.

The realization of values, social dignity, the estrangement between the two generations, the loss and alienation of the relationship between people, there are too many things that need to be reconstructed in the modern high-material and high-cultural society, which cannot be solved by starting over.

2009-05-13

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Tokyo Sonata quotes

  • Megumi Sasaki: Screw your authority.

  • Megumi Sasaki: How wonderful it would be if my whole life so far turns out to have been a dream, and suddenly I wake up and I'm someone else entirely.