It is addictive to watch Ozu's movies, the kind of gentle and soft, sad but not sad feeling . The tones are often tame and clean, the contrast of black and white films is soft and natural, and the color films prefer to use warm colors that are not dazzling, just like the colors that traditional Japanese kimonos like: light onion, tawny, rattan, golden brown, dark brown, adzuki bean color or It's crimson. In "The Flower of the Other Shore", a red teapot placed on the floor is very beautiful.
Scenes
In Ozu's films, "home" is a traditional Japanese-style building. The living room often has a door facing the courtyard. When entertaining guests, place cushions and pour tea. The door facing the courtyard is open. You can see the heaven and earth in the courtyard. In "Early Spring", the wife swings the fan every day, sits in the living room facing the yard and waits for her husband to come home, which is another kind of helpless feeling.
In the life of office workers, they often first give a panoramic view of an office building, a gray reinforced concrete building, and then cut to the interior. Ordinary employees sit on long desks, talk and smoke in the cubicle on one side, and the role of Zuofen Lixin always has a separate office. Manager, the layout of the office has not changed in each movie: there are two sofas in the left hand of the entrance, and a coat rack in the right. The guests he receives on the sofa at the entrance are no more than Kasa Chizu and so on. It can be called an Ozu movie. Inside the iron triangle. "Early Spring" is an elegy for white-collar workers, depicting the oppressive, cramped, and monotonous office life to the extreme.
Another scene is my favorite Japanese tavern and snack restaurant. When shooting these places, the camera often shoots out from the depths of the alley, passing through the curtains and store signs of the tavern and restaurant, and seeing the cars parked at the entrance of the alley. Ozu is good at taking pictures of ordinary life such as drinking and eating. The men take a sip of the rich Asahi beer and make some salty jokes to make fun of the hotel proprietor, who is often sent to fetch the wine at a loss. If you are in a ramen shop, three or two people will sit around the bar, waiting for the chef in front of you to deliver fresh clams, octopus, and herring one by one. Raw water.
Movies about Ozu
seem to tell the same story forever. Just as everyone's life, which may seem very different, is essentially the same.
Ozu's movies have been watched a lot, the actors are always familiar faces, and the plots are interspersed with each other, so it is inevitable that there will be confusion. His favorite subject of marrying a daughter has been filmed over and over again in many versions. "Mai Qiu" and "The Flower of the Other Side" are about his daughter's marriage despite the opposition of the family. "Late Spring", "Autumn Harmony", and "The Smell of Saury" It is the story of a widowed father or a widowed mother and a daughter to be married.
Although marriage is a happy event, it is also a big parting: farewell to parents and brothers, farewell to the original state of life, and even farewell to the hometown, so Ozu's story of marrying a daughter is always shrouded in a faint sadness. At the end of "Mai Qiu", after marrying his daughter and moving to the country, my father said that our family has been separated since then. Then cut to the wheat field in early summer, and Ozu's camera moved slowly with the wheat waves for the first time.
In Ozu's stories, there are no earth-shattering exaggerated and bizarre plots, but they are all about the knots that cannot be avoided in the real world: the conflict of ideas between two generations, the stagnant marriage life, the loneliness of the elderly, all kinds of misses, partings... In his unusually calm and calm narrative, there is a kind of tolerant and elegant intelligence, just like Maupassant's "Life" said that life is never as good as you think, but it is not too bad. Real lice that can't be shaken off, crawling on the gorgeous robe of life.
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