slim happiness

Gabe 2022-09-14 09:53:05

Aside from the pomp and hypocrisy that Japanese people like to add to the movie, it is completely a picture of people's livelihood. The emotions of the characters are always light, with no obvious ups and downs. There is an undercurrent of sadness throughout the film.
The woman was wearing black all the time, and even the child was covered in black. They stood alone at the station, waiting for a new life. Behind Rumiko's tranquility and peace, there was a huge wave of emotions surging. She almost lost the courage to enter a new life. While waiting at the station, because of her new husband's late arrival, she almost dragged the child onto the return train. However, the husband came on time. A simple, always smiling fishing village man. So she hugged her child tightly and sat in the back seat of the car, looking at the noisy sea outside, answering her husband's questions perfunctorily, but her eyes were dim. Her husband graciously tolerated her pain. So she started chatting with people in the village and happily sitting on the sunny promenade with her family, eating watermelon. But she couldn't forget the man, always smiling, her eyes seemed to be thinking about other things. his bike. On his key was the bell she gave him. The back of him happily tossing his umbrella as he finally leaves. She doesn't understand him. Although they had a child, she still didn't understand him. She didn't know why he suddenly thought of interrupting his own life. In fact, she didn't know more than that. But he used his sudden death to silently deliver her heartbreaking message. In the face of death, she never cried. She just stared silently at the leather shoes left on the table, and then clenched the key in her palm. At the end of the film, she continues her life in a fishing village. Although not too happy, but at least not sad to sink.
Life is like that. Suddenly I remembered a not very famous haiku, I forgot the specifics, but the general content is, "It's really sad, why is the person I love dying, still have to wear clothes, eat, and live?"
This is really Very sad, very sad thing!

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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.