tokyo story

Reviews of Tokyo Story
The Story was told that an elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children. They was living elderly son’s home where far from downtown. It’s not seem like their imagination at all. They the elderly daughter is too busy to take care of them so that sent them to hot spring. Only their daughter-in-law accompany them to visit the city. When the couple came back hometown, their mother was dead.
No significant plot and the clue in this story, it consists of living things: talking, telephoning, packing bags.etc. Through a slowly rhythm of the story, it shows a sense of the true face of life. In such almost totally real life scenarios, Warmth but not happiness. The love from other none their children but loveless children are in contrast. The parents “bother” their children’s life, also the children let their parents down. After the mom’s death, according to the cold and loveless behavior of the elderly sons and daughter. the little daughter finally directly pointed out the selfish of her brother and sister, and implicit criticize them thought the performance of their daughter-in-law. But everyone has their own reason. It is hard to blame anyone of them. It is disappointing and real. From the movie, you can see a inner world with lonely, kind, and open-minded and full of dignity.
About the mise en scene of this movie, we always can see the scene from this room to another room or through the whole corridor watching the characters’ movement. These form lots of “frames” that can perform a dynamic but quiet life scenes. And it is also the style of the director. His seemingly casual movie picture, But each lens, each props are carefully designed, even he often make props in person.
Every relationship between the characters needs to be found by viewer themselves. Every conflict in the movie is hiding under the harmonious polite formula and quiet smile. There is an cultural distinction refer to eastern and western. Fortunately, as Chinese, we can see something true great behind the film technique. This is, after all, the central feature of geat art “Even those of us who do not fully understand still realize, in some unspeakable way, that we are in the presence of something great.”