Early Summer evaluation action
2022-07-06 16:20
The film expresses Yasujiro Ozu's post-war anxieties about modernity, tradition, and women's freedom. The film explores a woman's ambivalence about marriage. Through serious and humorous dialogue, the actors' body language and the tedious etiquette that make up the daily life of a family living in the suburbs of Tokyo, the director reveals the subtleties that exist between the heroine, her brother's family, their parents, and other friends. relation.
This film is a masterpiece by Yasujilang Ozu. The film uses still photography and a low-view point of view, and has a soothing and tranquil narrative style.
Extended Reading
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Noriko Mamiya: Wouldn't your husband live here with you?
Aya Tamura: Out of the question. No real man would live with his wife's family.
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Sotaro Satake: Is she interested in men?
Aya Tamura: What do you think?
Sotaro Satake: Sometimes she seems to be and sometimes she doesn't. Has she always been like that?
Aya Tamura: Yes.
Sotaro Satake: Has she ever been in love?
Aya Tamura: I don't think so. But she has an album of Audrey Hepburn photos this thick.
Sotaro Satake: Who's Audrey Hepburn?
Aya Tamura: An American actress.
Sotaro Satake: A woman? So she goes for women?
Aya Tamura: No!
Sotaro Satake: You can never know. She's very strange, In any case.