You can't touch Ozu movies but Ozu movies can touch you.
Once again, an Ozu movie that bores deep inside of me due to everything that is left unsaid.
One of the motifs of this film is people asking Hirayama if he won't be lonely once his only daughter gets married and moves out and Hirayama saying "I'll be fine. I can manage." By the end of the film, it has become a chorus, a refrain, a meditation on loneliness, on loss, on pain, on love. Like a line that repeats in a song and tugs at your heart every time.
"So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten
Sons are like birds flying upwards over the mountain"
You can't touch Ozu movies but Ozu movies can touch you.
Once again, an Ozu movie that bores deep inside of me due to everything that is left unsaid.
One of the motifs of this film is people asking Hirayama if he won't be lonely once his only daughter gets married and moves out and Hirayama saying "I'll be fine. I can manage." By the end of the film, it has become a chorus, a refrain, a meditation on loneliness, on loss, on pain, on love. Like a line that repeats in a song and tugs at your heart every time.
"So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten
Sons are like birds flying upwards over the mountain"
