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Great Sequence Involving the Mourners

posted 12 years ago by lovethathat
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I loved that entire 4 minute sequence, starting with Yumiko noticing the mourners wearing bells like the one worn by her dead husband, then to the procession seen through trees, when, by luck or careful timing, it begins to genuinely snow. The haunting music starts and carries on into that amazing two minutes where a ribbon of mourners walks slowly from right to left, a thin strip on a screen filled with grey sky. She, not being part of the mourning family, trails them, caught up in her own sorrow.

I've posted it here on Youtube, though the quality doesn't do it justice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqdndcXTSAA&feature=youtu.be

[–] Nephilim-6 9 years ago

Did you notice that when they walk from left to right it was filmed at an angle so that the sea is just above the mourners heads?

Maybe I'm reading too much into that but it seemed deliberate. As if to say the body was given back to the sea (since it's a fishing village and all).

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