The last film I watched by Ozu was "Twilight in Tokyo". It was cold and bleak, and the gray and black tone was full of despair, which made people feel sad and uncomfortable. When I saw "Good Morning" this time, my heart blossomed with joy.
"Good Morning" is really a cheerful movie, with bright colorful pictures, a lively soundtrack, and lively children, all of which are explained. This is a story of vigor and vitality. Joy doesn't mean that all good things are told in the story. Joy means that its breath is joyful, its core is joy, and what it wants to convey to the outside world is joy, so even if it is a bad thing, They were also rendered cheerfully.
As always, the story of "Morning" is still the parent's shortcoming that Ozu has always adhered to, living a normal life, cooking thick soup with trivialities, and seeing the true taste in plainness. This time, instead of marrying his daughter, he focused on the relationship between neighbors, the relationship between adults and children, and the traditional romantic relationship. So, within an hour and a half in length, it will never be boring.
The so-called good morning, good afternoon, good night and good weather are the lubricants between people, and people use this to deal with the moments of interpersonal encounter. In the eyes of adults, this is a law. But in the eyes of children, this is not the case. Day after day, "Good morning", "Good morning", "Good morning" are repeated every day, mechanically rigid, boring, and pure nonsense.
This is the question and the incision. The worlds of adults and children are thus divided, traditional and complex on the one hand, and lively and simple on the other. The two main contradictions in the film lie in this. The "deficit" of the women's association's dues has led to mutual suspicion and gossip among adults, and the reluctance to buy a home TV has led to a cold war between parents and children. The two are intertwined and have been to the end of the movie.
These are still not big things. As the story progresses, the trivialities become more and more trivial, but the problems reflected are more and more deviated from the trivial level, spread out, and become common. The women in the neighborhood are the most ordinary housewives, but they are the birthplace of gossip, mother-in-law, mother-in-law, short-lived parents, you can't see me, I can't see you, under the chatter, you can bring up the family level, even the family level. Waves at the block level.
Because of this, the world of the children in the story becomes more and more lovely. Let's see what these children are doing. They poke each other's foreheads and fart there on the way to school. They eat sand and gravel powder after listening to adults. If they don't buy a TV at home, they shut up and fight coldly. , but it is really simple, happy and unhappy are very simple.
Perhaps, if this level of contrast is changed to other places, there will be strong irony. But Ozu doesn't have it here. He looks at the good and the bad with an all-inclusive attitude, embellished with a sense of humor that makes people smile, and the irony is softened accordingly. It is not so much the indifference of the dust, but the philosophical and tolerant understanding that I have come to understand after going deep into life.
The taste of life is vegetables, rice, oil and salt, and the five flavors are mixed.
Of course, there is also the traditional romantic relationship mentioned at the beginning, which is at the end, and the audience is full of laughter.
"Good morning."
"Good morning."
"It's nice, isn't it?"
"Yeah, it's nice."
"Good weather is short-lived, isn't it?"
"Yeah, good weather is hard to come by.
"That cloud looks really interesting." "
Yeah, it's very interesting."
" It looks like something." "Yeah, it looks
like something."
"What a nice weather."
"Yeah, it's a really good weather."
... The two are happy
but not in vain, and they try to talk about the good weather. The viewers are more anxious than them, and they can't help laughing. At this time, the mantra of the youngest son in the film is really suitable for them, that is -
I love you!
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