I have been separated from my parents for more than a year. Every time I call, my mother always talks for so long, and I make such calls several times a week. Although she always told to hurry up, every time I wanted to say it, I couldn't say it. I only have a dozen hours of waking hours every day, and I have to spend more than an hour to make calls. How much time is there? . My mother was very sad when she called, saying that she had experienced too much, and the motivation to live was to watch me grow. Last night, before my mother called, I started Tokyo Story...
I remember that when I was a child, I was very good and very popular with adults, until the era of rebelliousness began, and this rebelliousness has been rebellious for many years. As the mother in the film said about the eldest son, Koichi, "He was a very good child when he was young." But when his parents went to see him, although he maintained his superficial peace and seemed to arrange everything, he and his eldest daughter Sachiko discussed sending his parents to a cheap hotel in Atami to lighten his burden. At the end, the youngest daughter said that Koichi and Sachiko were selfish. Koichi's selfishness is certain. Before the old man came, Koichi's two sons began to be temperamental. If Koichi and her wife had a little bit of filial piety and love for their parents, they would definitely make the children love their grandparents as well. The emotions of the two children represented the emotions of Koichi and his wife.
The eldest daughter is the most intolerable of all the children. After her parents came home, they were sent to the hotel first. The parents came back without sleep, but she said why she came back so quickly. homeless. As a daughter, her indifference towards her parents in front of her husband makes her son-in-law feel unapologetic towards her parents, and has various reasons to shirk responsibility.
In fact, the eldest daughter has always been a character with a knife-like mouth and a tofu heart. When she saw her father and friends drinking and being sent back to her home by the police in the middle of the night, she was very dissatisfied with her father and friends, and kept pushing and shoving her father's hat. But in the end she still gave up her and her husband's bed for her father to sleep in. Although she is powerful, stingy, and worships money, she still decided to take the express train when she learned that her mother was critically ill. In the early morning when her mother left, the third son Jingsan came back, and when she saw Jingsan, she cried again. As the eldest daughter, watching her mother work hard to raise her younger siblings, her father was drinking heavily when she was young. For her, her father is the person she once had dissatisfaction with, but her mother has always been her support.
Compared with the eldest son and the eldest daughter, the second daughter-in-law Noriko, as an outsider, has done the most for the journey of the two elderly people to Tokyo. He took the old man to see the panoramic view of Tokyo, and went to his cramped home. He asked the neighbors to borrow wine and wine glasses, and ordered takeaways to entertain the second old man. Noriko has always been a foil for other characters in the film, with a gentle personality. After her husband died, she did not remarry for eight years. After her mother-in-law died, she stayed by her father-in-law's side when her sons and daughters left. He also enlightened the youngest daughter and said that the elder brothers and sisters will only change when they have their own lives. But when her father-in-law also enlightened her to remarry like her mother-in-law, she kept repenting herself, thinking that she was not as good as they thought. For her deceased husband, although she loved each other, she was also afraid of drinking and causing trouble, and losing her husband when she was young left her with lingering fears. Her seemingly faithfulness may be nothing more than a fear of new things and new life.
Regarding the three sons, Keizo, the old couple said before their trip that they could meet in Osaka on the way, but they never saw their son. After the old man completed the trip to Tokyo, the mother stopped in Osaka because of the travel discomfort. Perhaps, this is just the mother's excuse to see the third child again after seeing other children after she felt bad. But Jingsan never showed up. After his mother left, Jingsan was the last to arrive at the house, and when he saw his mother's body, he knelt down in front of her weakly. Keizo's work seems to be busy, but as a human being, this will be his lifelong regret.
The mother in the film is a very bland, but very powerful character. Her seemingly quiet movements, smiles, and words like lake water all reflect her tolerance and understanding of what her children have grown up to be. Mothers deeply realize that growing up means changing and leaving. Correspondingly, the role of father is controversial. Father, someone with a disgraceful past, he was a drunkard, and he didn't care about the housework until the birth of his little daughter, and he didn't make a change. The father is not happy with the growth of the children, and it is even more difficult to understand the changes of the children. It was not until the conversation with the old friend during the drinking process and the experience of the old friend that the father began to slowly let go and comfort the old friend. . My father has always been a soft-spoken person with a calm mood. Only when he watched his wife's breathing before the sickbed, did his expression change subtly. But even after learning that his wife was about to pass away and his wife passed away, he never cried. Until the end, my father said lightly to the neighbors that if he had known this, he would have been better to his wife. I believe that in the family dinner after my mother left, my father left in the middle of the meal because he was saddened by the lack of a wife in the family dinner. Even if he shed tears, he did not let the children see it, which also deeply reflects the Japanese patriarchal society. , the authority of men.
After watching the documentary of Yasujiro Ozu made by German director Wenders, I have a deeper understanding of Yasujiro Ozu's contribution to the film and the greatness of his interpretation of the family concept in this film. Throughout the film, the camera only switches between two characters at most, and more is just quietly watching the slow movements and speeches of the characters in the camera. Yasujiro Ozu is also the screenwriter of the film. Such bland dialogue and concise pictures complement each other, which reflects Yasujiro Ozu's attitude towards life and movies, which is simple yet rich.
From the moment of birth, a child is destined to embark on a path of separation from his parents. For example, the younger daughter said that life is disappointing, and we may all embark on a path like the eldest son and the eldest daughter. Perhaps, if the second daughter-in-law Noriko and the younger daughter also had their own home and life, they would not have stayed by their parents' side and took good care of them. Although this film reflects the reality, it also educates us. Although we grow up and leave our parents, we can choose a path that is not like the eldest daughter, who only burst into tears when her mother leaves.
Last night, the film was interrupted by a phone call. It was not until I watched the film today that I felt that I should listen to my mother's phone call for a while.
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