This shot is at the beginning of the film. Tony Takitani has shown a strong talent for painting since he was a child. In an art class, there is a pot of flowers in front of students, but Tony focuses on one leaf. He carefully depicts the veins of the leaf, which makes his teacher a little surprised. Then he shows an interest in drawing machinery when he grows up and becomes an illustrator, naturally. Cars, radios, engines and other machines are a kind of precision instrument. There is a segment in the film about his obsession with mechanical painting. In my opinion, his great attention to detail seems to be a fetish. Moreover, his wife's addiction to beautiful clothes may also boil down to a sort of fetishism. Fashionable dress can satisfy her desire and she feels empty as long as she stops buying clothes.This desire for material things may also be a reflection of loneliness.
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