A hunched, cowering, and even nervous man was drowned. In the first half of the search, how many middle-aged suicides were like in "The Taste of Cherry". Soldiers told him about routines and fear of death. Seminary students told him about religious beliefs. Professors told him about the vivid feelings in life and the taste of cherries. So he wandered.
Watanabe also looked for help everywhere, first of all his son. He waited in his son's room late at night, hoping to have a long conversation all night. I just forgot that my son already had a family, he was already a home run by himself. Helpless to be cooked by harsh words.
Then there is a vulgar novelist in a cloak, who provides middle-aged solutions. Indulging in wine and sex, the body is intoxicated in the trembling of the carnival. The man in the cloak, inspired by the adventure, had super sympathy, he climaxed, and led Watanabe's unconscious desire to erupt. Watanabe expanded his sufferings during his self-ranking and promotion. For example, the first time he sang the short life of life is much more miserable than the short life at the end. And this method of resolution was only temporary, so the man in the cloak disappeared at dawn, and Watanabe remained rickety.
Then the female employee, Akira Kurosawa almost doubled the age gap between the two. What she provides is youth solutions, she provides the fun of games, and the provocation of women. The appetite comparisons that have appeared many times have proved the dislocation of the two. So Watanabe's death is approaching, the girl can only express sympathy for obligation. The expected eruption of sexual desire has become a confession of envy of vitality, perhaps to achieve the completion of inner vagueness. Watanabe must first go back to youth to find his sexual desire, and the distance between the two is getting farther and farther. The girl mentioned here finds joy in daily trivial behavior, which Watanabe cannot, and paves the way for the sacrificial settlement of old age after Watanabe. Everyone looked at his back, everyone looked at her face. Birth and death, sad and sad.
Since then, Watanabe has found a new way. He hates life because of the boredom and powerlessness of work. He lost his girl due to work habits, and he repeatedly took her to a place of enjoyment, turning occasional encounters into obligations. So he understood that to get rid of the deception that work had on life, he had to go straight to work. This is an extremely hearty blow, such as the punch of Butch in "Pulp Fiction", and the shooting of the Fuzzy Demon in "Inland Empire", like a dripping creampie.
Kurosawa so boldly let Watanabe die in the middle of the film.
Then it turned to a big discussion about the bureaucracy. On one side is the Zorro-style justice knight, on the other side is the gatekeeper who adheres to the departmental system. None of them can deny the inefficiency of performing their duties, but Watanabe's behavior that is more like realizing self-worth has realized the value of the department. The bureaucrats were touched and cried, but unsurprisingly returned to mediocrity.
Dailyness is so worn out that we need to keep interrupting. Just as the film itself provides faults, such as the disappearance of the mantle and Watanabe jump directly to the funeral. The degree of omission forced Ozu to
choose to swing at the end Watanabe, which may provide us with a life model, never seem to move forward but hesitate in office life, either go forward, or just stay in place and caress yourself.
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