Surface and underground: A discussion on the themes of Our Sweet Days
To sum it all up, I want to restate the important points. On surface level, we see a number of issues in the movie. The male leading character’s lowliness was magnified in the movie to raise the character of the girl. Through point-of-view shots, we see the world through the man’s eyes – obscured and unstable. Marriage has been a prominent theme in the movie and it would be the be and all of it. The guy chases the girl, the girl refuses, the guy strives, the girl gives in, the guy is happy, the girl dies. Although marriage in this movie has been ideal which makes it implausible, there is that sense of wonder why tradition would be juxtaposed against western influence. In addition, western influence was also noticeable in this movie from musical scoring to set design to quips on famous western people. In a deeper discussion, the sense of patriarchal society, building of nationhood and feminism were evident in the movie.
