our current way of life

Dominic 2022-03-23 09:03:06

The title is borrowed from the title of a novel.
What can movies really teach us? It is babbling and silent, or thrilling, or brilliant, telling us a story.
People love to hear stories, don't they?
It's a bland story, full of details, and a take on Japan's unsophisticated family life. The death of the eldest son many years ago is the reason for the family reunion every year. The wounds healed with almost no traces, but in just one day of life, you can see the dull life status from the subtle points.
Sometimes I can laugh out loud, it is knowing and life-like.
In summer, children blindfolded and beat watermelons in the garden.
Many years ago, my grandmother discovered an affair with her grandfather. At that time, she accidentally heard a song, which became her favorite.
The second son was on ice watermelon, and he grabbed the handrail in the bathroom to see if the old father might fall.
They wrap corn kernels together and fry into delicious-looking tortillas.

The second son and his wife still felt that it was too much trouble to spend the night at their parents' house, so they could leave after dinner next year.

After the parents and the second son separated, both of them remembered the answer to that question, and both lamented that it was too late. Life was going on and on, but the mother still didn't realize her wish to go shopping in her son's car, and the father didn't play another game with his son. In this bland narrative, Xia Zhizhi shouted.
A few years later, the second son brought his wife and children to visit his parents' tomb. He took a water scoop and poured it on the tomb. Summer is too hot.

The way we live now is to do it knowingly that it will be regrettable. Just because it doesn't seem to regret it. It goes by like this, and I will recall it later.

Never said love.

We watch these movies, so many movies, let them flow past our eyes, but still maintain the way we live now. This is what I regret tonight.

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Extended Reading
  • Jasen 2022-03-22 09:02:41

    Shizhi's works are quite different from Ozu in form, but are very similar in content and atmosphere. The film is rich in details, the lines are close to life, and the scheduling and composition are remarkable. Except for the medicine bottle, tombstone, chasing butterflies in the room and the rising mirror at the end, they are all fixed positions. The repeated images of ups and downs and stairs in the exterior fit the theme of "the road of life keeps walking". The deepest personal impression is the old couple's unbearable hatred for the rescued. (9.0/10)

  • Albert 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    In the summer solstice, at Hengshan's house, under the eaves of Ozu, there are two or three things around, grandma frying corn, climbing and folding crape myrtle flowers, chasing yellow butterflies. Calmly healed the heartache, and the limbs gradually healed. With the road of companionship, I stop walking for a while; I hold the hand, and the years will not look back.

Still Walking quotes

  • Yukari Yokoyama: Even when they die, people don't really go away. Your father's here, right inside you.

  • Kyohei Yokoyama: That useless piece of trash. Why'd my son have to save him? There were plenty of others.

    Ryota Yokoyama: Please don't call him useless and trash in front of the kids.