Life has many facets, but most are dull

Luisa 2022-12-26 18:41:25

A controversial film. After seeing the maturity, it is Hirokazu Koreeda, and then look at this debut work that even he himself denied. I don't think it's much different from now. I think the kernel has not changed. Because the early days inevitably have a childish and indulgent side, which is excusable. The biggest feature of the film is the change in photography composition. Almost every frame of a single-shot film can be at the level of wallpaper, but now the mature branch does not seem to deliberately pursue composition. This is good or bad, which is also one of the reasons why people are often praised in the early days. It is often called an old European-style art film, the successor of Xiaozu Hou Hsiao-hsien... Because his stylistic characteristics already existed in the early days, the contrast between movement and stillness, Repeated composition, patient characterization of time, and careful observation of trivial matters in life, all of which are presented in the video, making people believe that this is normal life, because most of our lives are so peaceful, but there are also You may be sad for a while because of something, and after a while, you may recover, but you may fall into a breakdown because of a small thing. This is how life is. It teaches people how to not only adapt to life and death, but also how to face difficulties time and time again.

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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.