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Document Details : Title: Twee keer Ozu Author(s): SYMONS, Stéphane Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 84 Issue: emeritaatsnummer Date: 2022 Pages: 279-289 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.84.5.3290721 Abstract : In the West, Ozu’s work is usually associated with the culture to which he belonged and with which he undoubtedly had a great affinity: Zen Buddhism. By avoiding a complex narrative structure, by repeatedly seeking inspiration in the same themes and by sometimes even filming the same story identically, Ozu would have illustrated that human passions and plans lose their meaning in the light of the greater whole to which they belong. Yet a totally different interpretation of Ozu’s work is also possible. In the interpretation of Gilles Deleuze and Hasumi Shiguéhiko, Ozu is no longer just a director of emptiness or reduction, and he does not simply want to exhort us to accept our finitude. According to them, Ozu does not aim at erasing differences at all, but rather wants to make them visible. |
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