late spring

Elinor 2022-03-24 09:03:46

In fact, I just want to see an Ozu movie.

Before that, I had only watched "Tokyo Story", and I was moved by the quiet black and white pictures.
So I watched "Late Spring".
This process was a little tormented, looking at Setsuko Hara with a smile, while silently comparing himself and her.

I am 21 now and he is 49. In six years, he will be 55 and I will be 27.
Where was I at that time, and where was he at that time.
Daughter and father grew up with each other. In the memory that has been formed, I only depend on and need him. I also think that in the long time to come, I will be the only one he depends on and needs.
From a very young age, I believed that the value of my existence lies not in myself, but in him. Countless fantasies and fantasies, one day he is gone, then my life can end.
At that time, I had not met more and better people. At that time, the world was too small and too small. It was also from that time that I was forced to learn to be strong.

Aunt said you don't get married, Noriko smiled brightly and said, I don't care.
Being a daughter is naturally meticulous, and has lived in a world with only each other for more than ten or twenty years. There is no one in the world who I know better about that man, and no one in the world who I can take care of him better. Because I love that man more than anyone else in the world. Anyone who appears is an outsider, an intruder. He touched his nose and I could tell what he was going to say next, and so did he. Because I believe that there is no one who loves me more than him, no one who understands me better than him. Because even if they are silent, they know what they are thinking in each other's hearts. Even if it is wrong, I can know what the other party's original intention is. I hope that this tacit understanding of family will last forever.
But day by day, year by year, he is getting old and I am growing up. One day I suddenly realized that I was always walking on a road away from him. At that moment, my heart was not panic, but sadness.
I'm not afraid someone will take my place, I know I won't, and I hope he has someone to accompany and take care of. It's just, because of that damn tacit understanding, when will my father's lies deceive me? Only pretend to smile, he is an adult, he knows how to deal with everything better. Sometimes you have to force yourself to believe in his abilities.

Zhou Ji nodded and said um, um, um.
There was some resentment at the beginning, just like Noriko. Why are you only coping, why can't you understand my mood. But if it's up to you, then all is well.
A daughter cannot be selfish.
Until he sent Noriko away and returned home alone, the tears could not be held back at that moment.
Long Yingtai said, I slowly and slowly learned that the so-called father-daughter mother-son only means that your fate with him is that you are constantly watching his back drift away in this life and this life. You stand at this end of the path, watching him gradually disappear at the turn of the path, and he silently tells you with his back: Don't chase.
I want to tell you that the person who "doesn't have to chase" is not the back, but the father's heart.
You know early on that your children will leave when they grow up, but you have to prepare for the day of farewell every day you spend with them. You know what the right way to life is, you know that everyone has their own life, even blood relatives are independent individuals. But no one can stop their children from growing up and leaving, not to mention that you have to do it yourself. So when I watched this matter, it would only be blurred and hazy behind me.

So thinking about that possible future.
then.

It's just that I haven't learned to peel apples yet.

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Extended Reading
  • Brain 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    The father-daughter affair is an excuse, but it is actually a propaganda film about Japanese patriarchy after the war. The tears of the people's obsession with patriarchy have repeatedly expressed that we want to stay with you who will never change. The royal father smiled and replied that my pot has been smashed by the times. For the happiness of you, I have to put all of you on someone else's bed. It is enough to have me in my heart. See if I am very sacrificial? The narcissistic self-pity pose is really hard to hold

  • Clinton 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    I shed tears again in the paragraph about sending the daughter to marry. This plot is so similar to "The Taste of Saury", can it be said that Ozu has been filming the same story for 20 years? The same is the setting where the son-in-law/husband does not appear, I like it very much. Setsuko Hara is a big mouth girl! So pretty in a wedding dress! Sure enough, the clip that appeared in Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Good Boys and Good Girls" is this one, the paragraph of Noriko riding a bicycle. Hou's favorite? I don't want to talk about empty shots, composition, and low camera positions, but I can't help it!

Late Spring quotes

  • Shôichi Hattori: Young people have changed so much since our day. Take that bride last night. She comes from a good family, yet she plowed into the food and even drank sake. Gobbling up sashimi with that big painted mouth. I was shocked.

    Shukichi Somiya: Of course she ate. Food was scarce for so long.

    Shôichi Hattori: At my wedding, I was too filled with gratitude to eat a single rice ball.

  • Masa Taguchi: How can you know how she feels deep inside?

    Shukichi Somiya: Maybe you're right.

    Masa Taguchi: I am. That's how the younger generation is.