As amateur film lover, there are always new discoveries ahead. Before I never heard of Yasujiro Ozu. Today I saw this movie, a true gem among the heritage
of world cinema. In 1932 they made strill silent movies in Japan.
This is about coming of age and about the traditional father role. Two boys move to a suburb and have to find their place in the peck order of the local youth gang. They imitate the behavior of their father. When those boys find out that their father plays the role of a buffoon, they no longer see him as a role model. However, they realize that their father is humiliating himself, so that they might have a better life.
It just comes across my mind, that I have seen quite a few films about the father role recently. There is the absent father in Tarkovsky's The Mirror, the returning father in Zvyagintsev's The Return and the complete deconstruction and partial reconstruction of the father figure as role model in Force Majeure.
In I was Born, But we see a society that is relying on obedience and respect of those in command.
10/10
This is about coming of age and about the traditional father role. Two boys move to a suburb and have to find their place in the peck order of the local youth gang. They imitate the behavior of their father. When those boys find out that their father plays the role of a buffoon, they no longer see him as a role model. However, they realize that their father is humiliating himself, so that they might have a better life.
It just comes across my mind, that I have seen quite a few films about the father role recently. There is the absent father in Tarkovsky's The Mirror, the returning father in Zvyagintsev's The Return and the complete deconstruction and partial reconstruction of the father figure as role model in Force Majeure.
In I was Born, But we see a society that is relying on obedience and respect of those in command.
10/10
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| Father makes a foll of himself - for the sake of the children |
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