tragicomedy

Alan 2022-03-25 09:01:22

After reading it, discuss tragedy and comedy with your friends. I suddenly asked her if this drama was a tragedy or a joy, she said it was a tragedy, I thought it was a tragicomedy. There is no absolute sadness and no absolute joy. When you are happy, you will feel regret in your heart, and when you are sad, there will be a trace of relief. When they are happy, just like Hara Setsuko and Hattori actually love each other. When the two are riding bicycles, Hara Setsuko's overflowing smile reveals her love, and so does Hattori's gentle smile. But for the sake of his father and for the moral hurdle, Setsuko Hara gave up, and the seat next to Hattori, who hoped to share the music, would be empty forever. Therefore, the happiness of Noriko and her father together can not help but say that there is a trace of regret that the love has failed. When sad, the father sends his daughter away, like peeling off the skin of an apple, it is the separation of flesh and blood. But it is selfish to keep her daughter by her side. After a few years, her daughter is alone. When the daughter left, in fact, the selfish desires in the father's heart were cleaned up, which must be said to be a correct choice. I was surprised that everyone laughed when they saw it. I thought few people would find it interesting to live. I think Ozu doesn't want to write tragedies, and there's no such thing as joy or sorrow. He just lightly uses the subtle entanglement in the character's heart to express a kind of emotional disappointment, and the impermanence of life, and then there are joys and sorrows.

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Extended Reading
  • Brenna 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    In each of them there is a unique expression of love in which care or care varies. The most impressive scene was when the father who returned from the tavern after marrying Noriko cut off most of the apples and couldn't continue. Another insight is about the essence of happiness. Setsuko Hara gives the character a cheerful and restrained temperament, which is really appropriate.

  • Bernadette 2022-04-22 07:01:54

    I can't eat the pickled radishes that are connected, the vacant seats in the cinema can't wait for that person, the apple peel that is cut off is like the married daughter, loneliness floods my heart like a tide

Late Spring quotes

  • Prompter: [singing] The iris hedge planted next to our old home:

    Nô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorus: Only the color remains as it was back then. Only the color remains as it was back then. The color carries with it...

    Prompter: The name of that man from long ago. The scent of wild orange flowers mingles together with the sprig of blue flag in his hair.

    Nô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorus: Iris and blue flag, so much alike: Whose color is deeper? Crying in the trees...

    Prompter: The cicada sheds its brocade gown...

    Nô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorusNô chorus: Revealing sleeves as white as deutzia blossoms, as white as the snow. Day breaks. Pale purple clouds to the east herald Amida Buddha's coming. The pale purple iris opens its petals to enlightenment along with the folds of the heart. All the earth will be enlightened, even the flowers and trees. All the earth will be enlightened, even the flowers and trees...

  • Aya Kitagawa: What's there to think about? Go on, marry him. Good men are rare these days. Grab him.

    Noriko Somiya: But I don't like it.

    Aya Kitagawa: What?

    Noriko Somiya: Arranged marriage.

    Aya Kitagawa: Don't be picky. You'd never marry unless someone arranged it.

    Noriko Somiya: But...

    Aya Kitagawa: It's true, isn't it? If you found someone you liked, would you walk up and propose? You're not that bold. You'd just blush and squirm in your seat.

    Noriko Somiya: That's true.

    Aya Kitagawa: An arranged marriage suits someone like you.