silent

Jamey 2022-11-10 18:03:54

The movie has a profound expression on the theme of death. There is suicide in the prime of life, and there is natural decline. Suicide is an unnatural interruption, full of unresolved inner doubts. Funerals, as rituals, are a connection to lost settlements and memories. There is also a funeral in the movie "Killing" starring Huang Bo, which is full of weird atmosphere. The more folklore and country, the more sacred the funeral. The rituals of urban culture are broken. Funerals can be silent or in mourning, as in Akira Kurosawa's "Dream". Of course, singing can also be added to form a lament.

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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.