Phantom Light

Gussie 2022-12-21 13:13:11

It is the elements that Hirokazu Kore-eda has always used: trains, children (boys and girls) running and playing, people moving without moving, sea water, eating food together, divorced families, father-son comparison (the father also died of his wife), adults talking and children listening beside the children, couples lying down Talking comfortably on the bed and getting closer, the Japanese-style back view The cloudy road just after the rain is so beautiful. The hostess is bathing the baby in the basin. In a flash, the shot of the mother and child sitting on the glass at the train station reminded me of the uncontrollable scene of the yin and the yang of the old people in the mountains and rivers. The family is sitting there eating watermelon. There are many ways to show the family's relationship Cozy and harmonious, the child holds a big watermelon Otsu's low-angle child plays baseball and entertains himself, the dog grabs the ball, hahaha, the red sun sprinkles on the sea has more charm than yellow The large panoramic silhouette dialogue, the silhouette dialogue is more charming than the large panoramic dialogue Panoramic silhouette people walking distance in revealing their current relationship status and psychological dead people burial seaside large panoramic group of people in black

I really like the heroine's question to her husband in the film. The heroine cried and said it, like complaining about her husband, but also complaining about herself. In fact, after two people get married, it is very sweet and it is difficult to erase the traces of their former lover

People sometimes need a ceremony, a sense of ceremony, to make a formal farewell. If not, she will be very sad, and she will never forget it, but in fact, if the ceremony is actually done, she will still be sad to find a reason for herself. Going retrograde in thousands of miles, desperately grasping this reason, you can't think deeply about whether it's right--Impressive Light Film Review

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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.