Phantom Light

Avis 2022-05-11 17:32:28

Phantom Light is Hiro-eda's


calm and long film. Emotions are very measured. No matter how deep the pain is, it is like a deep pool of water. Since when, I have become accustomed to turning inward.

The long shot is very beautiful. On the occasion of the sky and the sea, on this side and the other side, the sea water is like a waste stream of time. The long shot is not messy, and the metaphor fills the picture.

Why do those who leave leave? She refused to let go of this problem and almost collapsed. Unexpectedly, the man in front of him could easily answer. In a word, the burden of her life was lifted, and everything suddenly became clear.

No matter what kind of inner pain you experience, you must give yourself a chance to ask for help in the end. There will be a person who will gently shake off the mist that suffocates you and confuses you, and makes your soul dry and warm again. And what makes me feel especially beautiful is that this kind of story happens so naturally.

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Extended Reading
  • Valentina 2022-05-11 22:28:20

    The lack of just the right narrative and the tenacity and tension hidden inside after de-dramatization, the roar of the sea can't cover up the questioning of life and death; it is Hirokazu-eda who uses the picture to give the ambiguous but possibly the closest answer to the truth.

  • Rebeka 2022-05-11 19:15:25

    Believing that her husband is a liar, she has not lost her deep love for her ex-wife. He is clearly pretending, and he has not let go of his attachment to his ex-husband. Life is like falling down when learning to ride a bike, spreading salt when eating watermelon, but death to some people is like the call of light from the sea to those who go to sea. The child wants to hide the abandoned boat in the cabinet, the grandma wants to catch crabs in the violent sea breeze, and she needs to participate in a death farewell, like the old man living alone next door, turn up the radio volume to prove that she is alive.

Maborosi quotes

  • Yumiko: It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it.

  • Yumiko: [Recalling her first husband's unexplained suicide] I just... I just don't understand! Why did he kill himself? Why was he walking along the tracks? It just goes around and around in my head. Why do you think he did it?

    Tamio: [after giving it some thought] The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said... It happens to all of us.