Why are so many Ozu films about families trying to marry off reluctant daughters? : r/TrueFilm
I don’t have any real formulated thoughts here, just genuinely wondering why after watching Late Autumn the other day. Between that, Early Spring and An Autumn Afternoon this is definitely a repeated plot - I haven’t seen it, but it sounds like Early Summer is also about this, as well. Misaligned expectations and dealing with disappointment within a family is a cornerstone theme of a lot (all?) of his work - parents and children in Tokyo Story, the two boys with their father in I Was Born, But…, so I get how this plot fits into that. Why do these women always end up getting married, even though they clearly don’t want to? Why is it always daughters and never sons? I get that auteurs often revisit similar material, but why this plot line with Ozu? Is the marriage in the end about managing the disappointment of personal desire vs. giving into the greater good of the family (by starting the next generation of the family)? Is it good that these women end up getting married, bad or bittersw