live like floating grass

Zack 2022-08-21 14:04:11

Compared with his earlier works, Yasujiro Ozu's "Floating Grass" can be described as a series of surprises.

1. The dramatic conflict is more intense and externalized than before;

2. There are several kissing scenes; (this is really not easy)

3. The use of color is a master level; The movie is so familiar and easy to grasp.)

Although there are many "changes", "Floating Grass" still has Ozu's consistent "unchanged", that is, the attention to the joys, sorrows and sorrows of little people.

At the beginning of the film, delicate emotions flow slowly like the water of a small stream, and as the plot develops, it converges into a river, surging undercurrents until it finally erupts.

In the middle of a big river, people are like insignificant floating grass, destined to wander for a lifetime.

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Floating Weeds quotes

  • Komajuro Arashi: Misfortunes never come alone.

    Sumiko: Swift is Heaven's vengeance!

  • Sumiko: Where would you be without me? Each time I had to appeal to the impresario on all fours! Remember all that!

    Komajuro Arashi: What!

    Sumiko: You impudent, ungrateful brute!

    Komajuro Arashi: What? Shut up! Who are you? Remember who you were! You were a common whore! You fell for me and came to me a-begging! Who trained you into an actress, remember? You ungrateful wretch, lower than an animal! You big fool, you! I can get along all by myself without any help from you! Don't make me laugh, fool!

    Sumiko: Fool, you say? You took the word out of my mouth!