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Good Morning - Criterion Collection
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	List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.96 *Features* • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : February, 1962 DVD Release : 22 August, 2000
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Good Morning - Criterion Collection description
By the time he made Good Morning in 1959, Yasujiro Ozu had completely eliminated camera movement from his uniquely simple but elegant directorial style. He chose instead to emphasize static but meticulously purposeful compositions that rarely, if ever, wavered from their recognizable low-angle perspective. In Good Morning, this observational approach is put to sublime use to establish setting (a late-'50s Tokyo suburb) and to view the world through the eyes of the film's central characters—-two young brothers who take a mutual vow of silence to protest their parents' refusal to buy a TV set. Their father claims that television will create "a million idiots," while their mother is angered by the boys' neglect of schoolwork in favor of watching sumo wrestling on a neighbor's TV.

In Ozu's hands, this sublimely simple conflict inspires a comedic exploration of Japan at the dawn of its electronic age, when consumerism and materialism are in vogue, salesmen solicit their wares in constant door-to-door visits, and even the purchase of a washing machine can prompt neighbors into a frenzy of gossipy speculation. Funniest of all are the conspiratorial brothers, who play an amusing variation of "pull my finger" (proving that even great directors can indulge a fart joke if they choose), and employ their silent strategy with the stubbornness that only children can get away with. Through it all, Ozu develops a handful of intermingling themes of love, communication, goodwill, and the changing of societal traditions. Utterly simple on the surface, Good Morning reveals its complexity in careful proportion, with the affectionate humanity that was Ozu's greatest gift. --Jeff Shannon

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Amusing and satirical exam of communication

Once you have watched an Ozu film, you will recognize it clearly as his. He often casts the same actors to fulfill roles. His films deal with the common everyday life's situations with mothers, fathers, children, families in love, conflict, and death. Ozu first film was in 1929 and his last in 1962.

Use of Red or Blue
Since I have not seen all his films, I recognize in many, an eyecatching motif is the use of colors, namely blue and red. In Good Morning, almost every scene here you can spot something red standing out. Whether it is a rug, a pot, shoes, clothes on a line, a wall, whatever, something in red is strategically placed in the shot. Blue is used more in the outdoors, like the sky or rooftops.

Geometric figures
Ozu frequently uses circles or rectangles as background patterns. Almost all the scenes have these geometric designs. It is easy to spot.

Low-angle camera shot
Another recognizable feature is the use of low-angle, he places the camera the level of the floor; this is our view of where action is, the floor.

Set in 1959, two young boys, and I equate them to young Wally and Beaver Cleaver stage a silent protest until they get a TV. The younger boy is so adorable, and he so reminds me of little Beaver Cleaver. He looks up to his older brother, mimics his every move and even exhibits some amusing actions of his own. The background story is a satirical examination of the communication, gossip, rumor fueled by the adults. This is humorous and enjoyable. .....MzRizz

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