I felt Cousins really hate mainstream cinema. I get it but the movies he finds innovative and masterful I find very boring. Kinda made me feel ashamed to like mainstream films. Anyone else get this feeling?
p.s I still love mainstream films very much. Just wondering what other people think.
It's not about loving or hating. It's about talking about the importance e the artistic relevance.
Most mainstream movies derive from the same narrative strategy than the blockbuster movies from 70s and 80s. And those movies he talked about and gave them their merits. But talking about the blockbusters that came from then on would be wasting screentime retelling the same thing over and over.
It would be like talking about Menudos in music, than retalking about the same thing with Backstreet Boys, than the same thing again with Justin Bieber, etc. It's redunctant.
I find him self indulgent and opinuated when talking about history. One less bong hit while admiring himself in the mirror would have been more sufficient . That is my opinion.
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He says Ozu is masterful and has not watched "Tokyo Story." Why would he say the youngest daughter treats the aging parents the best? It's their daughter-in-law. That's the point, that the Japanese are so hospitable to strangers, but the blood relations feel nothing for their soon-to-die parents.
You have to be an effing idiot to discuss a film as a masterpiece in your documentary history of film when you haven't seen it.
He and Sarah Palin should make a documentary history of the U.S.
Sh-it's a secret!
Not to defend Cousins but that's not quite right either. The relationship between the parents and Noriko isn't that simple and rosy, the parents aren't depicted as complete saints (it's implied in the drunken episode that Haruko Suigmura experienced her father in this state many times as a child) and Ozu isn't condemning their biological children ("...blood relations feel nothing for their soon-to-die parents" is absolutely not an accurate representation of the film.) Ozu doesn't take the easy way out, these are all rounded people with complications and motivations.
Just like in The Only Son - we see that the son isn't a failure at all and the mother tells him so yet she still feels the same disappointment in him for not achieving the heights she had hoped for him...and it's not necessarily wrong for her to feel that way.
Yes, instead of "feel nothing" I should have said "can barely disguise their annoyance" and "use the excuse of work to avoid taking them sight-seeing" and "keep dumping them on each other" and "the daughter brags about buying the visitors some special cakes, but then eats them herself," or at the funeral she is distracted by what they are wearing, because mourning is a nuisance to her.
Should have said "feel no love for each other."
Sh-it's a secret!