Watching family movies that are not tiring

Grayson 2022-03-24 09:02:11

Interesting points:
1. Through the front and back shots without an axis and special subjective lens processing (character perspective - character front - what the character sees), the film does not create a sense of substitution, but guarantees the correctness of the film with objectivity. The moral judgment angle of family ethics plot.
2. The life and death and ethics are displayed in line with the Japanese cultural heritage, and the traditional morality that has been eliminated by the war is expressed regret (the alienation of people by science and technology, the city that makes people lose themselves).
3. Maybe because of some attention in advance, there is nothing amazing about the low angle of all spatial structures. On the contrary, the depth of field lens covering the left and right frames is a bit like Natsume Soseki. It is still creative to shape the interior space of the family in this way, giving openness to narrowness and neatness to clutter.
4. The sound is very simple, but there is always a background sound, not monotonous.
5. Why the daughter-in-law is so nice to her in-laws and says she is selfish may have to be understood in combination with Japanese culture.

In fact, the best thing that can prove the excellence of this film is that such a story does not look boring, and the sense of leisure created by unique techniques mixed in the film may be the artistic charm of this film.

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Tokyo Story quotes

  • Sanpei Numata: I often wish at least one of my sons were alive.

    Osamu Hattori: Must have been hard to lose both of them.

    [to Shukichi]

    Osamu Hattori: Didn't you lose one?

    Shukichi Hirayama: Yes, my second son.

    Osamu Hattori: I've had enough of war.

    Shukichi Hirayama: Yes, indeed. To lose your children is hard, but living with them isn't always easy either. A real dilemma.

  • Sanpei Numata: I'm afraid we expect too much of our children. They lack spirit. They lack ambition. I've told that to my son. He said that there are too many people in Tokyo. That it's hard to get ahead. What do you think? Young people today have no backbone. Where is there spirit? That's not how I raised him!