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Learn from him, lover!
"The Life of a Man" is a gentle and romantic film in the true Japanese spirit with a bunch of an uncle / maiden, or a man / girl who likes as much as possible. Filled with subtle irony and light humor, shot on the manga of the same name, with exact observance of the images of the characters, down to the details of the clothes, but significantly surpassing it in all respects.
A man is such a right and right uncle in the right place at the right time. Etsushi Toyokawa was surprisingly suited to this role. I did not see any introvert and freak, on the contrary, confident, wise for years, therefore calm and even ironic about his age, a person with the presence of intelligence and life drama, who knows the nature of things and man. If you are not confused by the word “peasant”, I will add it.
His white shirt, his pants and his suit look great! And I liked the combination of the get/shirt/trousers, it was on it that I liked, looked surprisingly organic and whole. I think it underscored his inner freedom and true Japaneseness, despite having a foreign education (or a foreign one, to be inserted). I loved how the wooden soles of his Gat were shuffled on the road! I like how the sleeves of a snow-white shirt are twisted, exposing beautiful hands. I liked his bare feet, and her too.There was so much frank eroticism in these feet that the mentioned genre should be added to the description. I liked that eternal cigarette in his fingers, intelligence and education, glowing on his forehead with a running line. I liked his gait, posture and slimness, but not the emaciated thinness, his grace, but not femininity, his calm voice, his confident look and his glasses.
With what graceful disregard he threw them away at the crucial moment. And this ridiculous cartoon fight. Reason? Impulsiveness and fear, fear of losing something precious. I liked the smooth plot twists and close-ups. The whole action is accompanied by some unobtrusive humor, ridiculous and at the same time subtle and clear.
I find myself thinking that I would look closely at him, having met him in reality.
Maiden:Well, like a maiden. All right, let it be a maid. Her spacious clothes instead of strict office apparently symbolize the long-awaited freedom of soul and body, emancipation (relative), and the color scheme - modesty and good upbringing. The maiden has her own drama of life. Who doesn't have it? It is very beautiful to show the change of a woman when a man appears in the house. Her sudden desire to dye fabrics is not a desire to paint her dull life with bright colors?
Socks. Encore scene. In Japan, a man makes any offers to a woman in a different way than is customary in the middle of Russia. The sock scene is something deep in meaning, touching and intimate. At this point, they made a tacit agreement: “I am yours and you are mine.” Love it! The Japanese are pretty cool about it.
I haven’t been a fan of toe kissing since Sid and Nancy, but I changed my mind when I looked at the other side: What if, at fifty, the first kiss was like this? Maybe we should start at the bottom, changing half the table. There's something about that. Encore 2.
Shot beautifully and atmosphericly, the sounds of nature, cicadas, delicate greenery and bright sun. Did you know that cicadas in Japan sing about love? A hint that the film is still about love, albeit incomprehensible to many, albeit exaggerated and ridiculous.
Different periods of life correspond to different colors. Painted stripes of fabric were also of different colors, with the first love - it was the color of dawn for him, that is, a new strong feeling, and with the virgin - the blue color of the sky, perhaps speaking of the depth and constancy of feeling. I don’t think so, I just thought so.
Key. The key to the house and the heart. When you give the key, you give the heart. The loss of the key indicates the final termination of the relationship (breaking the threads of fate, etc.) with the one who gave it. Or maybe at this point, the one who gave the keys freed him from self-love. As they say, accidents are not accidental.
And I also liked the harmony everywhere and in everything, including between residents, between relatives, harmony even in the solitude of the main characters, between interior objects, a pleasant house, a pleasant picture of a couple walking in the Kyoto forest, all so unbearably beautiful, light and translucent.
The film suddenly made me smile and sincerely want a beautiful couple to come true. Thank you.
P.S. Learn from him, this uncle in love!
10 out of 10