Money rents happiness. It doesn't buy it.
What truly buys happiness? I dont know.
I think that if your meaning of happiness stems in Money, you will never have enough.
Tokyo Story (1953 - Japan)
I had been putting off this film for a couple years. Mostly because it seemed long. I had tried watching it twice before on separate occasions but the scenes always seemed to drag. Like the characters in the film, I was busy. Or at least that's what I think I was being. Busy. It's an entirely different story structure of what I've been used to. For the first half I didn't quite figure out what the premise was. Is this a story about these two old couples wandering around Tokyo? Or maybe they reminisce about their life while seeing their children? I like it because there's a subtlety to it. Like Life in general, Often we don't realize that this is it; That our daily lives are often mundane with the big moments happening in phases. The biggest draw I would say is that we have a tendency to become so enamored with our own lives that we forget the very people who raised us. That we drift away. It's hard not to feel sad for the grandmother, and for the gran...
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