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I'd agree, absolutely, about your life comments SPOILER TO FOLLOW

Posted by tinear on January 21, 2010 at 07:57:14:
but I'd say the film primarily was about accepting death, its finality and irreversibility-- and not ignoring (as your comments may) its power. Once we are dead, words cannot reach our ears, nor smiles our eyes.
In Japan, those in that profession traditionally are seen as unholy, as dirty. So I think that, yes, one can make the case that the film is about the bigger picture but I think it's a mistake solely to look beyond the vehicle itself, the ceremony. Death is natural, its ceremonies are about facing it, NOT looking aside and trying to find solace in some facile explanation about the after life or life itself. Death is its own domain. I think the massive amount of care taken to make the dead presentable, attractive, peaceful, is to make death itself acceptable, not something to be hated, feared. This is a journey we all must make, only the departure time varies. What's to fear?
All that being said, I think the film had too many flaws to be "great." Those little surprises such as the demise of the dad, the stone business, and the revealed identity of that geezer during the old lady's cremation ROCKET the film into the universe of melodrama and, well beyond it, into bathos. I did appreciate, and earlier fail to mention, the quiet and powerful performance of the old master.