[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar]I am not going there. Good Japanese movie though, “Departures” really cool , The main guy becomes an undertaker after losing his job with an orchestra. He learns to make deceased people beautiful and dignified for their coffins against the wishes of his wife and friends who want him to get a real job. Very nice movie.[/quote]
wife gave it 5 stars. However she felt the rock in hand at end was too much. I didnt. I was weeping. I will send stone letters.
my favorite line:
“My husband is a professional”[/quote]
The stone was crucial to tying the situation between the father and the son through time up unto the present where the father lay there dead . It was very important to somehow know that although the father was absentee he had tried to hold on to a part of his time with his son, or a part of his son, during his entire life and cherished him on some level until the end.
Stone messages seem great to me but are more powerful used sparingly , not like hallmark cards.
I think The elements of “fate” in the young man’s life were done very well. His connection to the bath house people. Just that the job actually fit him so perfectly like a replacement for playing the cello. Awesome.
I think everyone would find some flaw in the movie. My wife didn’t like how dishonest the young man was to his wife , lying about buying the cello and about his job.
It made perfect sense to me. I didn’t like the fake trout , the trout bit could have been good , but I could tell that the actual fish weren’t real. I thought the washing the transgender persons “thing” went a little too far into absurd. Acknowledging the transgender fact and the families emotions around it were great but not the exaggerated genital emphasis. It was like we were too stupid to get it unless it was over visually portrayed.
I loved the part where the young undertaker played the cello from his childhood out in the open fields. That was glorious.
How about the cremation furnace? It sounded like a metal foundry when they turned it on.
