For me, this is a great movie, so great that I don’t know how to describe it, but I can’t help but tell something. It is not so much a movie as it is an answer, answering why people should watch movies, answering why people should live.
Here is a brief introduction to the plot:
An old couple living in Onomichi went to Tokyo full of expectation to visit their long-lost children. The eldest son has a successful career and has two sons, because the work of the clinic is too busy to make it impossible for the father and mother to visit Tokyo. Later, I moved to the house of the eldest daughter who runs the barber shop. For the same reason, she was unable to take her two elders to Tokyo. As a result, she got her widow daughter-in-law and asked for leave to accompany them on a tour bus tour of Tokyo.
The eldest son and the eldest daughter have their own careers, and after discussing, they sent the old couple to the hot spring hotel in Atami for vacation. Unexpectedly, the hotel was too noisy at night, and the old man returned to the second daughter's house early because he couldn't stand the tossing all night. As a result, as soon as they entered the house, the second daughter complained that she would attend the seminar in the next few days, and there was no way to relocate them. The widowed daughter-in-law was poor and small. In the end, the two decided that the grandmother would live with the granddaughter-in-law, and the grandfather would find friends to board.
The daughter-in-law entertained the grandmother warmly, but the grandfather had a drink with friends and was sent back to the second daughter's home by the police. The second daughter was full of complaints, but she had no choice but to place two drunk elderly people.
The next day the old couple took a ride to Osaka to visit their third son, and soon after returning home, the old woman died of serious illness. The story ended after the funeral.
It’s just such an ordinary plot, no conflict, no climax, no touching ending or annoying villain, it’s just plain, like it has happened in your life, and it will happen again in the future. Life documentary. But under such an ordinary trickle, there is a strong and profound force, which is deeply moving, because the actors and lines are extremely real and delicate and profound, and they are often moving in ordinary places.
For example, a few small fragments that impressed me more deeply. There is not much to say in the story, but the emotions, relationships and interactions between the characters are naturally revealed during this period. For example, at the elder son’s house, when the concubines were discussing what food to prepare, the daughter-in-law said they wanted to prepare sashimi, but the eldest son refused: "meat is enough." When the second son-in-law bought red bean paste and went home, The daughter’s face: "I bought this so expensive, just give them pancakes." The son-in-law said, "I ate pancakes yesterday." The daughter replied, "They like it anyway."
When they visit the daughter-in-law played by Hara Setsuko, first Settsuko Hara was borrowing wine from the neighbor’s kitchen. When he was wondering why he borrowed the wine, the neighbor asked us about it, and Settsuko Hara replied, "Because my parents are visiting." Then the scene shifted to the narrow room of Setsuko Hara, hands with both hands. Serving sake for the father-in-law, he said, "I don't have anything to eat, I'm so sorry." Soon, a takeaway dinner for two was delivered.
And until this time, we didn't know that Grandpa is an excellent wine.
The second example is when the second daughter said that he could not stay with them, the grandfather said while packing his luggage; "Finally there is no place to live." The grandmother replied, "Yes." What
a sad situation, both of them laughed. Indifferent.
The two people walking on the streets of Tokyo separated their former grandmother and said, "Tokyo is so big! If you get lost, you won't be able to find it back in your life." The
grandfather said, "Yes." The two separated.
The world is too big, they have lost their way in it, and there is nowhere to trust them. The flow of time separated from the children seems to disperse the cord of family love in his hands.
Then the scene of the grandmother at the grandson-in-law's house was particularly touching. Behind Setsuko Hara’s beating the grandmother, the grandmother looked at the photos of her eight-year-old son and said to her daughter-in-law,
“If you meet a good man, please don’t mind. You can get married anytime.” Then he choked, “Really. If we don't do this, we will be sad."
"Then, if there is a good man..." Harako, who answered this way, laughed hard, afraid that the old man would be sad. If a gentle and beautiful widow lives alone for eight years, will she never meet a man with good conditions? Infatuated.
"Yes, there must be, and you will definitely meet." The old man's Fat Dundun's face was full of sincere hope.
"Really?"
"So far, I have been working hard for you, and we always feel sorry."
"It doesn't matter, Mom, I am willing to do it myself."
"But it's too unfair to do so ." Yes. , It is very unfair, I want to see here, no one is aggrieved.
"No, it doesn't matter, I'm more relaxed."
"You think so now, but as you get older, you will still be lonely." The
future situation is an unavoidable problem. I can't think of Harako's understatement at this time. Said:
"It's okay, I won't be old." She said plainly, but it was the most touching line in the movies I have ever watched. Speaking this sentence without regret, in order to relieve the old man in front of him, no matter how impossible it is, it seems to be taken for granted. Because the old mother is sad, all the rules of the world should be changed for this.
After saying goodnight and turning off the lights, Hara Setsuko's big eyes stared at the ceiling motionless, and the old grandma couldn't help sobbing behind her back.
As a woman, she knows it well. The daughter-in-law chose the most thorny road voluntarily, but only saw loneliness at the end of the road. But the choice in the wife's mouth is so calm and natural, and her tone is decidedly hard-hearted. Like I said, it's really unfair.
The kind-hearted people are the hardest and get no return. It was hatred that could not be accused, grievances that did not export, but the reason was because of his age and weakness. She doesn't think of suffering, so she suffers the most. She regards the suffering of others as suffering, so she has endless suffering.
The next morning, I woke up to see my daughter-in-law kneeling, holding something in her hand.
"What is this?"
"Mom, this is your pocket money."
We can also notice that this is the first time someone has given money to an old man. Like wine, it comes from the poorest daughter-in-law.
When bidding farewell to the platform, the mean daughter and silent son said:
"Dad stop drinking,"
"Is the headache better ?" " Drinking
less is better."
They are not bad, are they? My daughter once said that my father was addicted to alcohol when he was young, which caused everyone's distress. She herself hated her father when she was young, right? She has also gone through a journey.
The last passage of the old grandma before her death was on the train. After many days of visiting relatives in Tokyo, the grandmother said,
"Okay, very good, very good. We are very happy."
"Yes, it's pretty happy." After all, men are not quite candid.
"Yes, it's happy."
Finally, after the funeral, the little girl complained like this to the older brother who had just lost his life and the sister who was anxious for the kimono left by her mother:
"Too selfish." She said, " I don't want to be like the second sister."
"Everyone will become like that." Harako said. "She also has her life to live, and everyone cares more about their own life."
"Will my sister-in-law do the same?"
" Yes , everyone will. Even if you don't like it, you will gradually become like that."
"It's really annoying. He’s so worldly.”
“I felt the same way when I was young.”
Later the younger sister also went to work, and Hara Setsuko also returned to Tokyo, leaving only one grandpa at home. The neighbor’s grandmother said, "Yes, I am very lonely." There
are too many fragments worth extracting. No, it should be said that every scene and every dialogue is a beautiful composition with a profound charm.
So far, who caused the life situation? Perhaps it is true that the children who neglected to take care of the two elders can be accused of being unfilial, because they are selfish. But who is not selfish? Can you condemn selfish people? People with lofty ideals and benevolence, people are indulging in themselves, so they will be troubled and unhappy all their lives. Who is willing to choose such a path? Hara Setsuko's touching and rare facts set off the sadness of the world.
"It's really annoying." I think so too, but I don't have a choice.
Birth, old age, sickness and death, separation of joys and sorrows, that is not a choice, it is destiny.
So far, what did the husband say? I think Xin Jiaxuan in a word:
"Youth do not know real depression, love love the upper floor upper floor, to write poetry that worry.."
"Now know to make real depression, Unspoken Unspoken, yet. It's a cool autumn day." The
movie ended in the artistic conception of "It's a cool autumn day."
Life is nothing more than that. Everyone has his own life to live, so someone must be lonely and desolate, but no one can blame. The world in the eyes of Ozu Yasujiro is such a world.
There are a lot of helplessness in life. In fact, when you are old, you should be indifferent when you think about it. When you think about it, it is actually like the old grandma said: yes, it is happy. "When chatting with old friends, the two were not satisfied with their son's achievements, so what can we do? My son has worked very hard! Grandpa comforted his friends like this: "You have to give up, the higher the expectation, the greater the loss."
Unsatisfactory things are often the most common, but there is no answer to this kind of helplessness. If there is a bodhisattva, then I think that the eyes of the world should be like Ozu Yasujiro's lens, placed very low, neither humble nor arrogant, nor frantic nor irritable, quietly, solemnly, and humblely watching all beings. He looks attentively and is not aggressive. So Ozu's lens is always very low, very quiet, and very long.
Staring, because they couldn't bear to blink.
The heaven and the earth are sentimental, the gods and buddhas are spiritual, and Ozu is a testimony.
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