Watching Miscellaneous Talk: "The Light of Phantom" by Hirokazu Koeda

Rubye 2022-11-04 07:36:30

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda's debut novel. I didn't want it to be so heavy, heavy and lengthy. I didn't dare to look up, but I couldn't stop it. The previous article was so long, I was really afraid that I would fall asleep watching it.

Makiko Ekaku, dressed in a black robe and with a blurred and angular face, confessed to a long silent and painful scene, which broke out in the last few minutes, so I can't describe the feeling of watching this movie.

From when she was a child, her grandmother left her for no reason and went back to the countryside to seek death, to the inexplicable suicide of her husband three months after giving birth to the child, no one ever gave her a reason, she was unhappy in silence, even though the establishment of a new family brought her After a happy and peaceful time, she never got an answer. Finally, the remarried husband gave her an answer. I had forgotten what the answer was, but she finally took off her black clothes and put on a white dress. I think she was probably relieved.

I have to say that it is the selection of Hirokazu Kore-eda's film, which is really fascinating. With Chen Mingzhang's piano, it sublimates the whole film.

It was Hirokazu Koreeda's style that had already begun to appear in his first novel, but I still prefer his later works. The life of small people is always difficult to let go of.

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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.