It is still a three-stage structure, roughly divided into three stages of people. Young and impulsive men, middle-aged men and women who fall into extramarital affairs, and old people who miss their daughters deeply. The three have some occasional intersections in each other's lives, such as the unexpected car accident, and the dog they both own. When he was young, his blood was strong. A woman who is at odds with her equally young but violent older brother and likes her brother. In order to fly away with your sweetheart, win enough money through dog fighting. Here the dog has become a tool of violent confrontation. Desires, impulses and passions can only bring harm to oneself in the end. It's very strange that he and her insisted, and finally attended the funeral of his brother, but shaved his head, and there was a shadow of his brother in an instant.
For middle-aged men and women, silent phones often ring at home. Subconsciously, they felt that there was a mistress in their marriage. Although the peaceful wife and lively daughter look so good. However, the film does not talk about the struggle of the triangle, the focus is on the man after he left his stable life and stayed with the mistress. Actually this female model is very cute and has a pug named Mickey. The life of the two people tended to be better, so there was a car accident. Dogs are here, the sustenance of women's spirit. Legs that were once slender and beautiful are now held in place by ugly iron shelves. Jobs are replaced, fear inside. But the man still persevered. The story culminates in the moment when the dog that has been missing is finally found under the floor. At this time, the dog, in the arms of the man, is like the woman with many scars. Finally, the necrotic leg was removed, and the woman was sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the place where her advertising poster was once written for rent, she couldn't help crying silently. Life is so uncertain, and it is expressed calmly by the director.
An old man, like a scavenger. But after appearing for a moment, he shot and killed someone. So define him as a killer. Then, after seeing that obituary, tears came to my eyes. Guess it's a lover. As a result, when he looked at the young girl so reluctantly, he realized that his last identity was a father. Through the mouths of others, I have a general understanding of his life. Know that this is a man more terrifying than a terrorist. However, even so, when he entered old age, he would still raise a lot of stray dogs. Name them and love them like you would a child. It was also because of this that he picked up the young man's dying fighting dog and brought it home. It is a pity that the wolf was brought into the house, and the dog fighting nature caused all the other dogs to die. But it was like the silhouette of the old man's life, so in the end, he put down the hand with the gun. To be honest, I haven't felt much of it until now. Until the man sneaked into his daughter's house, posted his own picture on the family photo, left a large bundle of money under the pillow, left thoughts of his daughter on the answering machine, and the uncontrollable excitement. It made me feel his pride and shame as a father. In the end, a dog and a man are still on the way. Maybe one day, they can officially meet.
The film may discuss the love and affection in a person's life. The desire and pursuit of love in youth, the confusion and tolerance of marriage in middle age, the yearning and loneliness for family in old age. People in each period always focus on different things, but the essence is the same. As Yasujiro Ozu's films always show the life of the elderly.
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