The True Meaning of Everyday Life: It's "Never Stop Walking" by Hirokazu Koreeda

Lois 2022-03-23 09:03:06

Japanese directors film daily life, and their awareness and skills are often superior to others, surprising people in silent places. Yasujiro Ozu is undoubtedly a master of shooting daily life, a real master of it. There are two contemporary Japanese directors who have continued Ozu's film blood. I know of two, Yamada Hirokazu and Koeda Hirokazu. After watching Yoji Yamada's "Mother", I knew that I would never let go of this director's films in the future. Similarly, after reading Hirokazu Koreeda's "Walking", I immediately looked for his other works on eMule.
To tell the story, "Non-Stop" actually needs no introduction, because it just shot some fragments of daily life, and the scattered splicing of these fragments has made a film that sees the true meaning of life.
I don’t need to say the rhythm of the film, because it resonates with the pulse of every audience. Among the three generations of that family, what we see is the experienced or predictable life.
Father Kyouhei (Yoshio Harada) is about 20 years older than my father, but I can see the shadow of my father in him. His temperament is very similar to my father. Gongping is a stubborn and paranoid old man, he is a little cold on the surface, but full of love in his bones. Just as many (Hiroshi Abe) do not like his father to say something mean or even a little bit vicious, I also criticize my father from time to time. In the face of my criticism, my father was always silent. On the surface, he did not agree with it, but in fact it changed. The same is true of the father in the film.
I liked a lot of family, he and his widowed wife and the son she brought. When this family appeared, many were in poverty, his beautiful wife had no regrets, and his son defended his dignity in front of his sister's children. This is a family that seems to have difficulty in harmony but supports each other. Therefore, at the end of the film, the family drives a car to worship the family.
I especially like a lot of wives Yukari (played by Xia Chuan Yui), such a widow, I think every man who knows how to cherish is willing to marry (a lot of father Gongping in the film said that it is difficult for widows with children to marry ).
"Walking On" is nothing but ordinary daily life, but it can reverberate in the depths of my heart. A truly great movie does not have to have dazzling technology, nor does it have to have amazing creativity. A little sincerity is enough.
The Yamato nation is really a very strange nation. It has both the world's most cult directors and the world's best directors who express daily life.
The year before last, we had masterpieces such as "Days and Nights in Tianshui Wai" that express daily life. However, such works are really too few in Chinese-language films. Directors who are willing to make such works or have the ability to make such works well less.

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Still Walking quotes

  • Yukari Yokoyama: Even when they die, people don't really go away. Your father's here, right inside you.

  • Kyohei Yokoyama: That useless piece of trash. Why'd my son have to save him? There were plenty of others.

    Ryota Yokoyama: Please don't call him useless and trash in front of the kids.