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Pleasant slice of life
It's a pleasant wee movie where no one thing was explored in depth but a range of things around a theme were touched on.
I think its intent is to make statements about women living by their own terms, but it's still immersed in a very patriarchal and male-centered society. As an outsider peeking in through their cinema, I don't know enough about feminism and sexism in Japan a decade ago to know if they were saying anything significant for the time and place. That divorce factors in so prominently probably is. I do think a theme is women defining themselves. It's just that their options are framed in terms of men.
The three sisters and their mother all embody different aspects of that. The relationships between the women are largely supportive, they're the glue connecting them rather than the focus of drama or narrative events.
The slice of life nature makes this work. It's a couple of weeks in the lives of an unconventional family. With a lovely Kagoshima lantern festival for more texture and beauty.
I think its intent is to make statements about women living by their own terms, but it's still immersed in a very patriarchal and male-centered society. As an outsider peeking in through their cinema, I don't know enough about feminism and sexism in Japan a decade ago to know if they were saying anything significant for the time and place. That divorce factors in so prominently probably is. I do think a theme is women defining themselves. It's just that their options are framed in terms of men.
The three sisters and their mother all embody different aspects of that. The relationships between the women are largely supportive, they're the glue connecting them rather than the focus of drama or narrative events.
The slice of life nature makes this work. It's a couple of weeks in the lives of an unconventional family. With a lovely Kagoshima lantern festival for more texture and beauty.
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