Listening to Stanley Kwan talk about how Ozu's films have affected him and caused him to "grow up", makes me realize that in many of Ozu's films the characters are presented to us as already having experienced some loss, although it is not generally mentioned directly. That is the starting point in Ozu's world as it is in the real world. We all start off observing people in our lives who have experienced some loss. Our widowed Grandparents or relatives who have lost financially and of course even our own parents have lost their childhoods and their youth by the time we arrive. So that is Ozu's starting point and his stories are about, what the characters will do about it from there. How will they relate to each other with impending change, and perhaps continued loss on the horizon. Ozu also gives us a rich and varied group of characters to observe and to empathize with. His characters are beautiful, because they are real. His camera technique adds to the importance of his stories. By putting his characters and all of the action in static frames and secondary frames, he is saying to us; Look at this, this is our lives and what happens here is important, the relationships are important and our losses and our hopes are important.
Listening to Stanley Kwan talk about how Ozu's films have affected him and caused him to "grow up", makes me realize that in many of Ozu's films the characters are presented to us as already having experienced some loss, although it is not generally mentioned directly.
That is the starting point in Ozu's world as it is in the real world. We all start off observing people in our lives who have experienced some loss. Our widowed Grandparents or relatives who have lost financially and of course even our own parents have lost their childhoods and their youth by the time we arrive.
So that is Ozu's starting point and his stories are about, what the characters will do about it from there. How will they relate to each other with impending change, and perhaps continued loss on the horizon.
Ozu also gives us a rich and varied group of characters to observe and to empathize with. His characters are beautiful, because they are real. His camera technique adds to the importance of his stories. By putting his characters and all of the action in static frames and secondary frames, he is saying to us; Look at this, this is our lives and what happens here is important, the relationships are important and our losses and our hopes are important.
I love the way he talks about Ozu
😢😢😢
This and the Kaurismaki video are part from what documentary about Ozu? Can't find anything about it