When parents are concerned they
have only two expectations from their children. For them to be successful than
the parents ever were and for them to look after the parents in time of need in
their latter part of the life. But many parents left hopeless in both these
expectations which sometimes make you wonder who is to be blamed. Is it the
parents struggle to make children successful that ultimately leave them lonely
at the end? Tokyo Story is a beautiful movie that speaks of this painful truth
in a slow but steady phase. And truly it is artistic cinema.
The plot of this movie has neither
twists nor shortcuts. There is an old couple from a rural part of Japan coming
to visit their successfully well set children in Tokyo for a holiday. However
though the children finds the parents visit a joy they struggle to make time to
spend for them. And the story evolves showing how the children passing their parents
from house to house and parents naturally feeling the burden they put on the children.
As I mentioned earlier this movie
is beautiful in its own way though what it speaks about is not joyful. There
are moments you actually feel good seeing the happy faces of the old parents
knowing that their children has done better. But in the back of their mind they
swallow the sadness they feel knowing that the treatment they got in Tokyo is
not what they expected. Isn't that what all parents do? Not complain but
understand each time their children turn their blind eye to something. This is
what makes Tokyo Story a beautiful warm movie about parents and children.
Though it doesn't give you anything fresh or extraordinary it will make you
feel something that you can take away from it.
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