The soundtrack of the movie is very emotional. There are not many guitar tunes, just like the rhythm of the movie. It seems plain, but it hits the heart with the plot.
Japanese movies are good at such family films, slow and delicate, natural lines, homely and ordinary scenes, in fact, even the placement of a towel has been carefully designed. I saw Ozu's shadow again. I have seen many Ozu movies, but I have never cried. This is the first time I watched a film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, and I was deeply moved.
This film focuses more on sublimating the whole family relationship by describing the feelings between father and son. Amid the mother's rambles and hectic two days of family reunion, three scenes of father and son being alone are elicited.
The first time was when I talked to my father about work after dinner.
The second time was a small chat with Jun Dao and his stepson in the shower.
The third time is to go to the beach with many, father and Chun together. And this third time was a reconciliation between the two father-son relationships.
Speaking of the yellow butterfly, it runs from the middle of the film to the end. It was a butterfly that was inadvertently returning from the tomb sweeping, and it was also played up by the director seemingly inadvertently, especially when the old mother was chasing the butterfly in the house and said that the deceased son Chunping came back. The fragment that falls on the butterfly is very touching.
What made my tear ducts collapse was because of the last lines. Many of them didn't fulfill their little wishes until my parents passed away three years later. Ending the whole film with such regrets also allows the audience to reflect on their own views on the family.
I have not been to Japan, but from the information disclosed in the film, Tokyo to Yokohama, which is 7 stops. Many people even go home once a year.
In fact, home is the warmest place in our small world.
We can love the lover around us to the point where we lose our souls, but we can easily fall out with our parents.
If the generation gap can explain everything, then the deep love in the hearts of parents that I don’t know how to express can overturn all these explanations.
Movies can leave regrets. In reality, as children, don't leave regrets for parents. Because we don't know if this life is over.
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