phantom light

Kaya 2022-10-30 23:31:10

I didn't like long empty shots before, but now I love this very long shot in Hirokazu Koreeda's film. At this time, silence is better than sound, the scenery and tones are beautiful, and there is an undercurrent of emotion under the calm surface. I thought I was in a real world. You Qi Ai's last scene where the heroine Yumiko ran away and her husband drove to find him was very artistic. This is also a climax of the whole film. All of them use large perspectives and panoramas, and there is no close-up shot, but the characters' psychology and relationship are so perfectly outlined by audition, and the seaside in lavender tones is full of smoke and fire. The timeline of the whole film is built between the first half of a heroine’s life, telling a story about a girl who suffered from her grandma leaving the family when she was a child, and experienced a girl who was at a loss in the face of a sudden loss (Introduction, the little girl rides a bicycle and runs after her grandma It was a hint and a foreshadowing that she lost her husband when she grew up and has been pursuing hard in her heart). After finding a new husband and returning to normal life, how can I not suppress the story of leaving the family in my heart. The whole film does not have a big ups and downs of conflicts and outbreaks, there are only emotional undercurrents in a calm state (the state of life itself), as if shrouded in a layer of invisible and faint sadness. The final destination will still be attributed to a peaceful and beautiful life itself.

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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.