Conciencia y fugacidad: la vida frente a la muerte
- Autores: Antonio Santamarina Alcón
- Localización: Nosferatu: Revista de cine, ISSN 1131-9372, Nº. 25-26, 1997 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Yasujiro Ozu), págs. 34-37
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- Conscience and fleetingness: life in the face of death
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Resumen
Tied lo the motifs of tamily loss and loneliness. the subject of death in Ozu's films appears more and more as his work reaches its final stages. The author analyses how the film-maker has presented this subject (almost always masked over) throughout his film career and highlights the stylistic techniques used in some of his films in relation to death. He then stops to look at the influence that death has on the life ofOzu's characters and the different ways they deal with it. ln almost every case there is a connection to the acceptance of the ephemeral nature of existence, the need to go on living despite all odds, and holding on to the memory of those who have passce away. Finally. the author poinls out what it means to these characters to have seen someone else die and how much more aware they become of their own and other people's existence. as well as of nature itself. The author also reminds us of the equal parts of nostalgia and bitterrness that death provokes tn these people and, to a large extent, how they combat both sentiments in OZu's films.
