BGM: Yellow Magic Orchestra "Tong Poo"
Today I thought I might watch a movie, but my mood changed so I just read a book. I finished reading Masaaki Tsuzuki's "Reading Yasujiro Ozu's diary". As I always write, I am never a cinema fan (cinephile? No!). It was beyond my 40s I started watching movies as a habit. Before then, I just watched movies once a year. The decade 1990s I spent my youthful days was the period Tarantino, Wong Kar Wai, and Leos Carax showed their masterpiece. But I never watched their movies at that time.
After my 40s, I stopped drinking alcohol. I started thinking that I would like to start something that will change me. At the same time, I was impressed by a music magazine's article because the writers discussed movies really a lot. So I swear I would like to watch movies as a habit even if I was over my 40s. Yes, from nothing. I started with the great ones by Stanley Kubrick, and after them, I tried to watch others one by one. I also watched Ozu's "Tokyo Story". We say "casting pearls before swine". That's correct. I couldn't understand it well, but I watched that again and again, and I felt I could understand its value bit by bit.
Now I spent my life with a movie, at least once a month. Now my knowledge contains a certain amount of movies. Indeed, I want to admit that I have not watched movies so much basically (I want to accept that must be "readymade"). But I don't want to hurry. Slowly, slowly... Yesterday, the 12th was the birthday of Ozu (and he had passed away on that day) but I could do nothing. Although I wanted to decorate that day with any red items as clothes or commodities (I heard Ozu liked red things as his ethic). After reading "Reading Yasujiro Ozu's diary", I want to learn Ozu's policy of "All things must pass".
Ozu left a quote that "I follow trends about tiny things. I follow morals about important things. I follow myself about arts". Recently I can find that many things which don't have any certain sources are being discussed loudly. But, although I would follow trends by my will (if I could accept trends only negatively, then I wouldn't have a smartphone), I want to treat my morals and point of view as an important compass. I would be brown by various things but want to keep on empowering my core step by step. I want to watch Ozu's movie again if I can save time at the end of this year.
