Last night I went to my professor's to watch a movie for class. Somewhere around thirteen or fourteen of the people in my class were able to make it. We were watching Tokyo Story. It was actually really fun. The house was beautiful. It had everything that you could hope to be in a professor's house. One of the guys said, "You know what, actually this is better than I hoped for. It's so... pretty!" It really was. The TV room had big plush couches all on one end and on the other end, there was a great dark red wood TV cabinent and then a whole wall of books, again in a dark wood bookshelf. The door swung open directly into the front hall, which was lit a little below full, allowing it leaving only the faintest of gray shadows in the corners. The door itself was glass. The dark wood theme continued on the door and on the racks as well, but I digress.

We all piled into the room, more or less sitting in the same horseshoe pattern that we inhabited in class, except this time, we were ranging ourselves across the couches. They had pizza and a wonderful salad with peeled oranges and sugared almonds. The sugars almonds were amazing 0.o

As far as the movie itself, it was kind of funny how that came about. One of my friends was commenting that it was going to be a looong movie. We, however, had already signed up for the three hour long film, so I don't think we came in surprised. Actually, with all of us there, it really didn't seem so long at all. True, at the end, I was checking my watch a lot, but it was mostly because I was afraid that the grandfather was going to die and I was trying to divine if they had enough time in the movie to develop it in the story (I do the same thing with books... I know, I'm terrible.)

It is a movie about this Japanese family, five children in all, where the children have all grown up and more or less moved away. This elderly couple goes to visit them and as the movie progresses you realize that the elderly couple is not getting the visit that they hoped for. While they understand their children are busy because they all are sucessful, they also really only came down to Tokyo to see them, a fact that only their daughter-in-law, who's husband died, is sensitive, to. Anyway, don't want to ruin the whole movie. I think that information right there just gives you an understand of the over-arching theme: there's a lot more to the movie than that. It was very sad and very beautiful.

It was sort of funny, because it reminded me so much of one of OUR movies from the same period (1950s). The main difference is probably speed, and mannerisms, but I didn't really expect that to be similar. Americans are just fast fluid people. They like what they have to say to roll quickly off their tounges, they like devolving into moments of desperate romance, happy ending that are really new beginnings! I think its part of who we are, as a sucessful new country. We are still only a little over 200 years old, after all. If Japan is an island nation, we are a new nation; our newness defines us.

So I liked the movie, even though I almost cried at the end. If you don't mind subtitles and you are interested in the plot, then you will probably like it. Bring some good friends along, though. Good friends and good classmates, I think, make everything a little more fun.

i have not heard of that movie before but nowadays there r many local literature about the social changes in our generation making the generation gap wider.
» renaye on 2007-11-08 10:10:21

That movie sounds cool, I'll have to try to check it out. Also interesting was your post about nanowrimo. I been thinking lately that while you would think that I keep a blog because I have many thoughts to write in it, the truth is that most of the thoughts exist because the blog exists to be filled, and not the other way around.
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