Hi everyone! Thanks so much for all the encouraging comments! I had a really great time making this video :D Being a graduate film school student is taking up a lot of my time, but summer break is about to start and I hope to put out more videos then! Looking forward to sharing those. If you have any suggestions of what movies (or other art) I should cover, feel free to comment! I've got Lee Chang Dong's "Poetry" on my mind right now.
The shot of the funeral march going down between the dead tree and the living one, with the snow drifting from the live tree to the dead tree is one of the Greatest shots in cinema history in my opinion. Poetry in motion.
6:58 in addition to the last time she saw Ikuo, the tunnel scene is also reflective of Yumiko's grandmother leaving when she was a child. Her husband dying compounded that original childhood trauma.
I was incredibly moved by this film and was disheartened to find little written about it. This was a great analysis and thanks so much for linking your sources. I hope you do more!
Hey, thanks so much! I really appreciate. "Maborosi", along with "Nobody Knows", are two of my favorites from Kore-eda. He's really an amazing filmmaker. I'm hoping to do more videos, too! Thanks for the sub!
Maborosi and Wandafuru raifu are both award winning movies by Koreeda. Maborosi is introvertic, whilst Wandafuru raifu in opposite, shines through different characters, their wishes and emotions. There is scary silence in Maborosi, which gives the viewer room for contemplation.
In this movie, especially when she visits her former home, I feel the way grief makes us think of who we used to be in that place and time, the future we thought we had with that person. Thoughts of' what if' and 'why me' are always with us. The fact that the sea is so omnipresent in her new place seems to symbolize the eternal danger of life and learning to accept it.
I think the last scene, the window of the room shot is the symbol of acceptance. She is living her present, but still cherishing the memories. A harmony.
That was my favorite moment, too, in the film. Wonderful analysis. This is certainly such a splendidly symbolic movie and light, degree & nature of light, is a character in this film. It is certainly the most important element of this film, it IS the brushstroke in this piece of art. The cement anchor blocks when he sits to smoke, are like accumulated blocks of time, finally creating a wall, somewhat of a barrier, just like time and grief’s relationship. Time must accumulate. Yes five years must accumulate, because during those first years, nothing new is happening, that healing curve is so very steep, it feels like nothing can change, improve or heal. Only the accumulation of time can hold back the tide of grief. I also find it interesting that she goes to live at the ocean, the waves act like the pull of sadness, the ocean of sadness, the ocean of tears, and finally over time, they represent a washing, wearing down, and later, finally, they represent some peace.
I felt like I didn’t ”get” the film so I decided to watch an analysis video which is something I rarely do. But you presented your ideas about the film so beautifully that now I want to see the film again! Thank you so much for making this!
Someone older taught me recently that in his lifetime he has learned to read and watch less material but to watch or read the same thing several times. He has watched movies several times, he has read a few, grand books but read them several times. Life can be so intensely packed into so little. I am finding he is right. Sometimes we can find our meaning when we absorb something on a deeper level.
I watched this film back in the late 90s. It’s a film that keeps in my mind whenever I think about a person’s grief. Your video is a masterpiece.. I hope to view more content on this channel.
This essay made me shed tears! I normally don’t feel this way after watching video essays but this truly made me appreciate/understand how deeply I felt this film. I believe we can all relate to this film in some form as I’m sure everyone is grieving some thing or another and should be reminded of the healing nature of time and the quotidian. I love to think of this film in relation to ozu. The way he implements a fascination with the quotidian in his own way is beautiful! Thank you!
Maborosi is the third Koreeda film I've seen (first one was Nobody Knows and second was After Life) and it's so memorable! It depicted grief so effectively and like you said, it doesn't have any grand moments but a film doesn't need those kinds of scenes to accurately portray a certain emotion or event in a character's story. Really glad to have come across this film and your analysis! Great job 💖
I have returned to watch your analytical essay a year later. This is a quality video that not only expresses your understanding, but also a rich sampling of the sights and sounds of Maborosi. I love the intro montage of shots from different films as reference as well.
Wow, watched this film for the first time a couple of days ago and it's just stuck with me. I think it's my new favourite film. Love this channel. Please make more content!!
Great analysis. I interpret that funeral shot differently. She is finally saying the quiet part out loud. Its the spoken confirmation of all the grief we have been witnessing in the peripheries of the film. The ongoingness of love and grief. She is moving in the present but the impossible question remains.
I'm surprised you didn't get into the end between her and her husband where she asks him why her first husband committed suicide, and he told her about his father's visions of the lights when he would go out fishing. It's kind of the culmination of the story, that is where the title comes from. The actual reason for the suicide is still a mystery, but her husband's words seem to give her some solace. I think that might be one reason why the movie ended with her and her father-in-law, because her first husband might have seen those same beconing lights, her father-in-law represented a connection between her and her first husband. I think that might be one of the reasons koreeda made a special point of showing the bond between her son and his grandfather. This film is a perfect piece of art,why can't American directs make movies like this? I guess it's not so simple to make simple movies. I'm looking forward to seeing "Brokers".
This film was a sublime experience. I watched 'Still walking' a year ago and has been following other directors since then including Yasujiro Ozu. I felt compelled to come back to Koreeda after developing great affection for Ozu's movies. Koreeda's style picked up where Ozu left and continues to pay tribute to him. I enjoyed this review and feel u paid the attention and observation this film deserves. Great job putting this video together and pls don't stop making more. I'll be looking forward to more of ur work. Sending u warm regards as a fellow cinephile.
sad to learn this is your only upload :( i learned so much about this film from this video and it made me appreciate maborosi even more. please upload more videos!!
Such a great analysis! Felt that most of what I sensed while watching the movie was put here with a very considerate look. Hope you keep making videos like this one :)
I know you're probably busy, but you still have one fan waiting your next release 😊 I think when you do, it'll finally inspire me to stop being lazy and write something about this film lol.
Just discovered this film and its director and found your obervations really helpful and full of insight. As in life, it is what remains unsaid that is so telling and grief is full of those moments of puzzlement and the feeling of being adrift. Perhaps film is one of the best art forms to capture these areas of feeling? Perhaps, also, it is not just coincidence that she moves to live by the sea? Thanks for putting this together and posting it. PS. I am not sure about this but my view of how it ends is pretty dark. Empty room, open window out onto the sea, the breeze blowing the fabric around the window, a table with paper and some writing implement on it. Unlike some other shots in the film where we stay watching after people have left the frame, the camera stays here for a short time and then fades - end of film. Previous to this we have had the funeral procession and some dialogue about the previously 'unspeakable' - why did he do it? We have had many shots of her gazing out through windows, doors, openings but now she is not there. Could the paper be her own suicide note?
This is a superb and well thought-out analysis. I watched the film a few days ago expecting something else from the synopsis...and couldn't shake the feeling that it didn't quite 'click' for me, a shame considering I like Kore-eda's work. But this video really brought it together for me, so thank you! Even if his other stuff like 'Nobody Knows' and 'After the Storm' are not explicitly about grief, what I think they share with 'Maborosi' is a beautiful and delicate depiction of human loss in all its different forms.
Watched this one tonight and I thought I've missed some details and of course I had. I thought I'd be crying my eyes out when I began this one as I knew it was about grief. By the end of it... I didn't cry. My eyes watered up and that was it and I think it was because I too was conflicted by the grief of the past and the joy of the daily. Thank you for this analysis.
I am absolutely at a loss of words after watching this movie tonight, but watching your analysis made so many things so much clear. This movie is an absolute masterpiece and thank you soo much for dissecting it like no one else has done before. What an underrated movie and what an underrated YT channel! Question, do you think there is any similarity between how Maborosi and Drive My Car was made?
Very beautiful analysis. Just watched the movie a few days ago and this video made me all emotional again. I'm very happy TH-cam recommended this to me. I would love to see an analysis of Lee Chang Dong's Poetry... if you got time and energy. Very much appreciate your insight :)
I don;t feel such a resolution at the end. I'm bothered by the pen and paper on the table in the last scene. I think it could be Yumiko's suicide note.
Maborosi is adopted from a book and supposedly this character Yumiko has internal monologues consistently in the book. Koreeda skips over these in the film and instead highlights a book and a pen at the end to denote that she has taken up writing to herself as a process of getting over the grief and finally moving on. He clarifies it in an interview.
@@paradisekiss1678 unfortunately no...I've heard that the film is based on a novel in a post screening Q and A session at UCLA . And Kore-eda speaks about the film in depth. The video is available on you tube.
Hi everyone! Thanks so much for all the encouraging comments! I had a really great time making this video :D Being a graduate film school student is taking up a lot of my time, but summer break is about to start and I hope to put out more videos then! Looking forward to sharing those. If you have any suggestions of what movies (or other art) I should cover, feel free to comment! I've got Lee Chang Dong's "Poetry" on my mind right now.
The shot of the funeral march going down between the dead tree and the living one, with the snow drifting from the live tree to the dead tree is one of the Greatest shots in cinema history in my opinion. Poetry in motion.
I was just telling someone about that shot. It has stayed with me for years. I agree with everything you said.
6:58 in addition to the last time she saw Ikuo, the tunnel scene is also reflective of Yumiko's grandmother leaving when she was a child. Her husband dying compounded that original childhood trauma.
I thought I understood the story of the film, but I did not appreciate the film as an art piece. Now I do.
I was incredibly moved by this film and was disheartened to find little written about it. This was a great analysis and thanks so much for linking your sources. I hope you do more!
Hey, thanks so much! I really appreciate. "Maborosi", along with "Nobody Knows", are two of my favorites from Kore-eda. He's really an amazing filmmaker. I'm hoping to do more videos, too! Thanks for the sub!
@@anatomyofart699 I'm eager to get through his filmography now, but I definitely feel this will be one of my favourites! You're welcome 😁!
Maborosi and Wandafuru raifu are both award winning movies by Koreeda. Maborosi is introvertic, whilst Wandafuru raifu in opposite, shines through different characters, their wishes and emotions. There is scary silence in Maborosi, which gives the viewer room for contemplation.
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In this movie, especially when she visits her former home, I feel the way grief makes us think of who we used to be in that place and time, the future we thought we had with that person. Thoughts of' what if' and 'why me' are always with us. The fact that the sea is so omnipresent in her new place seems to symbolize the eternal danger of life and learning to accept it.
I think the last scene, the window of the room shot is the symbol of acceptance. She is living her present, but still cherishing the memories. A harmony.
That was my favorite moment, too, in the film. Wonderful analysis. This is certainly such a splendidly symbolic movie and light, degree & nature of light, is a character in this film. It is certainly the most important element of this film, it IS the brushstroke in this piece of art. The cement anchor blocks when he sits to smoke, are like accumulated blocks of time, finally creating a wall, somewhat of a barrier, just like time and grief’s relationship. Time must accumulate. Yes five years must accumulate, because during those first years, nothing new is happening, that healing curve is so very steep, it feels like nothing can change, improve or heal. Only the accumulation of time can hold back the tide of grief. I also find it interesting that she goes to live at the ocean, the waves act like the pull of sadness, the ocean of sadness, the ocean of tears, and finally over time, they represent a washing, wearing down, and later, finally, they represent some peace.
I felt like I didn’t ”get” the film so I decided to watch an analysis video which is something I rarely do. But you presented your ideas about the film so beautifully that now I want to see the film again! Thank you so much for making this!
Someone older taught me recently that in his lifetime he has learned to read and watch less material but to watch or read the same thing several times. He has watched movies several times, he has read a few, grand books but read them several times. Life can be so intensely packed into so little. I am finding he is right. Sometimes we can find our meaning when we absorb something on a deeper level.
A beautiful summation of a beautiful film. Thank you.
This is my favourite film of all time and I'm so glad you covered it! Thank you :)
Currently writing about Hirokazu Koreeda for an essay and this was just wonderfully executed. Feeling really inspired!
Beautiful and articulate. Great analysis, I'm sure you put alot of thought and effort into this video essay and you deserve more subs
I watched this film back in the late 90s. It’s a film that keeps in my mind whenever I think about a person’s grief. Your video is a masterpiece.. I hope to view more content on this channel.
Your video helped me understand the importance of details that didn’t make sense to me while watching the film. Thank you for your excellent analysis!
This essay made me shed tears! I normally don’t feel this way after watching video essays but this truly made me appreciate/understand how deeply I felt this film. I believe we can all relate to this film in some form as I’m sure everyone is grieving some thing or another and should be reminded of the healing nature of time and the quotidian. I love to think of this film in relation to ozu. The way he implements a fascination with the quotidian in his own way is beautiful! Thank you!
Maborosi is the third Koreeda film I've seen (first one was Nobody Knows and second was After Life) and it's so memorable! It depicted grief so effectively and like you said, it doesn't have any grand moments but a film doesn't need those kinds of scenes to accurately portray a certain emotion or event in a character's story. Really glad to have come across this film and your analysis! Great job 💖
I have returned to watch your analytical essay a year later. This is a quality video that not only expresses your understanding, but also a rich sampling of the sights and sounds of Maborosi. I love the intro montage of shots from different films as reference as well.
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Wow, watched this film for the first time a couple of days ago and it's just stuck with me. I think it's my new favourite film. Love this channel. Please make more content!!
Great analysis. I interpret that funeral shot differently. She is finally saying the quiet part out loud. Its the spoken confirmation of all the grief we have been witnessing in the peripheries of the film. The ongoingness of love and grief. She is moving in the present but the impossible question remains.
You made me cry. I appreciate it as you have no idea.
Absolutely same feelings here, man.
Beautiful, hope there would be more!
I'm surprised you didn't get into the end between her and her husband where she asks him why her first husband committed suicide, and he told her about his father's visions of the lights when he would go out fishing. It's kind of the culmination of the story, that is where the title comes from. The actual reason for the suicide is still a mystery, but her husband's words seem to give her some solace. I think that might be one reason why the movie ended with her and her father-in-law, because her first husband might have seen those same beconing lights, her father-in-law represented a connection between her and her first husband. I think that might be one of the reasons koreeda made a special point of showing the bond between her son and his grandfather. This film is a perfect piece of art,why can't American directs make movies like this? I guess it's not so simple to make simple movies. I'm looking forward to seeing "Brokers".
Beautiful analysis. I am very overwhelmed to find a great cinema essay by a woman in TH-cam. You should make many more of these video essays.
Thank you so much for this.
Great job with this. Amazing picture.
A superb video for a superb film
This film was a sublime experience. I watched 'Still walking' a year ago and has been following other directors since then including Yasujiro Ozu. I felt compelled to come back to Koreeda after developing great affection for Ozu's movies. Koreeda's style picked up where Ozu left and continues to pay tribute to him. I enjoyed this review and feel u paid the attention and observation this film deserves. Great job putting this video together and pls don't stop making more. I'll be looking forward to more of ur work. Sending u warm regards as a fellow cinephile.
excelent work
Amazing analysis! Deserves more views!
This is my all time favourite film and I'm so grateful to have found such a thoughtful video on the subject. Thank you for sharing this.
Beautifully done, keep up the amazing work ❤
i am very grateful for this, thank you so much for making this. i hope you continue making these kind of things, youre killing it!!
Officially subbed
I’ve been trying to find more YT channels like Nerd Writer so thank you
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sad to learn this is your only upload :( i learned so much about this film from this video and it made me appreciate maborosi even more. please upload more videos!!
Amazing analysis!! Looking forward for more films. Subscribed!
Caught this at the cinema few years ago during the BFI retrospective, what an extraordinary experience
Such a great analysis! Felt that most of what I sensed while watching the movie was put here with a very considerate look. Hope you keep making videos like this one :)
I know you're probably busy, but you still have one fan waiting your next release 😊 I think when you do, it'll finally inspire me to stop being lazy and write something about this film lol.
Just discovered this film and its director and found your obervations really helpful and full of insight. As in life, it is what remains unsaid that is so telling and grief is full of those moments of puzzlement and the feeling of being adrift. Perhaps film is one of the best art forms to capture these areas of feeling? Perhaps, also, it is not just coincidence that she moves to live by the sea? Thanks for putting this together and posting it.
PS. I am not sure about this but my view of how it ends is pretty dark. Empty room, open window out onto the sea, the breeze blowing the fabric around the window, a table with paper and some writing implement on it. Unlike some other shots in the film where we stay watching after people have left the frame, the camera stays here for a short time and then fades - end of film. Previous to this we have had the funeral procession and some dialogue about the previously 'unspeakable' - why did he do it? We have had many shots of her gazing out through windows, doors, openings but now she is not there. Could the paper be her own suicide note?
This is a superb and well thought-out analysis. I watched the film a few days ago expecting something else from the synopsis...and couldn't shake the feeling that it didn't quite 'click' for me, a shame considering I like Kore-eda's work. But this video really brought it together for me, so thank you! Even if his other stuff like 'Nobody Knows' and 'After the Storm' are not explicitly about grief, what I think they share with 'Maborosi' is a beautiful and delicate depiction of human loss in all its different forms.
Wow I thought this was a big channel. I never watched this movie but was encapsulated by the depiction of the scenes and of course the headline.
Watched this one tonight and I thought I've missed some details and of course I had. I thought I'd be crying my eyes out when I began this one as I knew it was about grief. By the end of it... I didn't cry. My eyes watered up and that was it and I think it was because I too was conflicted by the grief of the past and the joy of the daily. Thank you for this analysis.
Thank you
Love the vid... I had to watch this as part of a lecture and break down your very well put together analysis
So glad you enjoyed it! Are you studying at SCA? If so, I'm guessing Steven Armour assigned it?
You make amazing video essay
I am absolutely at a loss of words after watching this movie tonight, but watching your analysis made so many things so much clear. This movie is an absolute masterpiece and thank you soo much for dissecting it like no one else has done before. What an underrated movie and what an underrated YT channel!
Question, do you think there is any similarity between how Maborosi and Drive My Car was made?
Very beautiful analysis. Just watched the movie a few days ago and this video made me all emotional again. I'm very happy TH-cam recommended this to me. I would love to see an analysis of Lee Chang Dong's Poetry... if you got time and energy. Very much appreciate your insight :)
Please make more videos!!!!
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I don;t feel such a resolution at the end. I'm bothered by the pen and paper on the table in the last scene. I think it could be Yumiko's suicide note.
Maborosi is adopted from a book and supposedly this character Yumiko has internal monologues consistently in the book. Koreeda skips over these in the film and instead highlights a book and a pen at the end to denote that she has taken up writing to herself as a process of getting over the grief and finally moving on. He clarifies it in an interview.
@@planktoncorpus8051 Hello, do you have the pdf version of the book? or if you know where I can get it?
@@paradisekiss1678 unfortunately no...I've heard that the film is based on a novel in a post screening Q and A session at UCLA . And Kore-eda speaks about the film in depth. The video is available on you tube.
@@planktoncorpus8051 thank god for your comment man. I got really scared with the original comment because it suddenly seemed like a possibility.
Wr we can watch this movie online
Why u don't make another video
Did he left the bicycle deliberately just before the suicide??
12:07 I feel like an idiot for missing this when I watched it
Your analysis is better than the movie
i implore you to get better taste & opinions :)
OMG! You should invest more time on this. Don't waste your talent and please do review and explore more movies.