life goes on

Dominic 2022-11-08 21:22:34

1995 #Myself 201804 at home in Xi'an#

The film is considered to be the best and most detailed film of the 1990s. This is a film about love, unexplainable loss, and hope and rebirth

#excerpt discussion area# I watched this movie yesterday and attended the director's post-screening meeting, and happened to ask about this. The director said that the strange light does not refer to the temptation of death, but that everyone will be subject to an inexplicable pull at some point in their life. Just like the grandma always insisted on leaving home and returning to the country at the beginning of the film, and Minxiong went to Osaka but returned to his hometown to marry a wife and have children. Then life goes on just because of these unexpected choices.

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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.