Day 474: Sociable, and Only Yesterday
Jul. 2nd, 2021 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday was my third get-together with a friend in eight days - this time it was with HS from the youth orchestras, and we sat together outside Barry's Deli and chatted about our families and also, naturally, the youth orchestras. She has such a grand thank-you gift planned for SMM's departure from the board of directors - or rather, she had the idea and I strongly encouraged her, and I think she's going to go with it. And as I have no reason to imagine SMM would ever read this, I can say that it will be a hardcover book with photos of her three children's experiences in the organization. It was great to see HS for the first time in about ten months!
Tonight's streamed movie was Only Yesterday, which I've seen twice - a beautiful film, but very long and slow, and not one I would ever have recommended for J, so we voted for a different one (all three were non-fantasy animated works from Japan's Studio Ghibli). But Only Yesterday won, and I was happy both to see it again and that J. has now seen it too (and without me having to pressure him to do so!). The premise is: Taeko, a young woman living in Tokyo, travels to the countryside for her vacation; she's arranged to spend it helping some farmers with the safflower harvest, which she finds delightful and worthwhile. On the trip there, and once she's arrived, though, she has lots of flashbacks to various events happening when she was 10 years old, and indeed, we see pretty much everything of note that happened to her that year - events that weren't particularly dramatic, but that made an impression on her at the time. By the end of the film, she's chosen a new direction forward. Beautiful, but really more suited to patient middle-aged women than to most male viewers, especially those who want action or intrigue or complexity. (R. would have been asleep within 20 minutes.)
Tonight's streamed movie was Only Yesterday, which I've seen twice - a beautiful film, but very long and slow, and not one I would ever have recommended for J, so we voted for a different one (all three were non-fantasy animated works from Japan's Studio Ghibli). But Only Yesterday won, and I was happy both to see it again and that J. has now seen it too (and without me having to pressure him to do so!). The premise is: Taeko, a young woman living in Tokyo, travels to the countryside for her vacation; she's arranged to spend it helping some farmers with the safflower harvest, which she finds delightful and worthwhile. On the trip there, and once she's arrived, though, she has lots of flashbacks to various events happening when she was 10 years old, and indeed, we see pretty much everything of note that happened to her that year - events that weren't particularly dramatic, but that made an impression on her at the time. By the end of the film, she's chosen a new direction forward. Beautiful, but really more suited to patient middle-aged women than to most male viewers, especially those who want action or intrigue or complexity. (R. would have been asleep within 20 minutes.)