watched for Mohsen‘s Seminar. Rural v.s. urban; trains; vernacular Japanese houses; oku; Westernization and its different speed with men v.s. women; industrialization v.s. tradition; kindness v.s. selfishness, etc. Layers of space; layers of emotions;
"It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. "