Yasujiro Ozu On Trains and Automobiles
"A compilation of Yasujiro Ozu's common "pillow shots" (to give audience a rest between dialogues)" by Hiroshi Kokubu.
At once contemplative and poetic. Ozu's fascination with trains. The camera (set close to the ground) sits and humbly looks on, almost in awe, at ongoing Life enacting in front of it. Ozu's camera is often positioned at the eye level of one who is knelt/seated on the floor (such as in a respectful, traditional japanese manner), about 3 feet above the ground. Excellent composition of shots. :)
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"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to think that the reason it matters to care so passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size."
(The Movie - Adaptation)
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