21/07/2018
Departure
The sweet melody is flying away. The musician, alone on the edge of dam, under the blue sky, is absorbed in playing Cello. The field spread out a color of green. The soul of musician is fusing with the nature. His heart is getting the beat with the dream of souls passed away.
In a very late night, I suddenly came across a film named departure . The main character, Daigo is a Cello artist. He came back his country, Yamagata, after the orchestra, his working place was broken up. The dream to be an artist therefore is broken up as well. By the ads on newspaper, Daigo went to a rich businessman's office. It was so suprising that he is a co**se making-up artist. Having struggled with himself, Daigo decided to learn that so special job.
Coming back the country, the Cello artist had role of a son seeing off father. The pale sunshine went into small wooden house. Sitting quietly, he recall the time being with father, picking up cobblestones, playing his favorite song. That moment, when he was on the edge of the other world, his hand was still holding that old cobblestone.
The Sunset went down on the bank of Yamagata. The Cello artist picked up cobblestones and threw out the river. The memories from childhood all rose up. Suddenly, the wife put the stone in her stomach. Well, nature is so wonderful, the death is also the beginning of the life. Yellow leaves were falling on the bank but somewhere on the tree, the buds were sprouting. Sooner or later, their child would be born. The idea for the film came up right after the director, Yojiro Takita, came across the funeral along the Hang river's bank when he traveled to India. The film departure gained lots of success beyond its expectation. In 2008, the film got the award in Moltreal film festivals, after that, in 2009, the film got the Oscar prize for the best foreign film.
The dawn has been outside the windows. Look, a white bird is flying in the blue sky. Maybe a soul of someone is trying to escape from tiny frames of Mortal to reach another life of the universe. Thinking of that, my heart seems to be blooming out like a sakura getting ready to set off a new journey in this country
By Thu Ha