Okay, so this is the second time I've reposted something that I've posted on Facebook. I've been on a videoposting frenzy on Facebook. I love videos. YouTube is so great.
I watched Good Morning by Ozu this week. Ozu is a Japanese filmmaker who I guess was way more influenced by American films than Kirosawa, I guess. He makes movies about the middle class a lot and families a lot. Floating Weeds is a good one about a Kabuki troupe. This one is about a neighborhood in a Japanese village. Mostly it's families with kids and the only people with a TV are a young couple. The girl used to sing in a caberet, oh dear. So all the kids in the neighborhood, there doesn't seem to be any little girls, just boys, they all go to watch TV at this couples house. They're skipping English lessons and the parents don't like it at all. The parents try to stop the kids but fail. Finally, two brothers, the ones in the video, go on a hunger strike until their parents buy them a TV. Meanwhile, there's gossip and possibly some love action happening between some single people who need to get married just like everyone else, jobs or no jobs. The kids get their TV in the end. Three cheers for civil unrest meets child demands!
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do you think the Japanese don't like girls the way the Chinese don't like girls?
ReplyDeletei think i love tv as much as those kids. and, their family looks rich so why don't they get a tv? tradition? and, that father's a dick in a suit too big for him.
i've never heard of ozu. how did you hear about him?