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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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.