Departures (Okuribito)

Literally, it is a profession of 'encoffiner', the person who send off the dead people to the last journey of live- it is another 'departure' by narration of this movie. This movie is superb- excellently indicating that death can be tranquil; death can be reminiscent of elders and people who being loved; death can be a tradition that how people think of subtle gap between life and death; death can be a kiss with regrets；death can be a forgiveness.

It is about an untalented cellist became Okuribito. After the dismission of orchestra, he found a job which regarded as dirty and tainted job by the society. Touching a corpse is an embarrassment. At first, the job was described by the boss vaguely. But it could be seen as that this job could be undescribable-it has to be felt with intuition as well as experiences. I found that this job is respectable with depiction of that the main character felt proud of his job even though his wife and friend couldnt accept the nature of this job. The movie has a nice-flow. By the professsion performance of sending the death, it seemed very accurate and attentive. Through it audiences can be able to feel the meanings of death indeed.

Death served s a significant process of human life, is an transcending of life's pains. The pace of this movie was directed very fairly. Sometimes there is a humorous joke but you couldnt laugh. Death can be very peaceful. I was moved though i'm not a person who adherent to traditional rituals（although I feel very aggresive to chinese funeral practices-messy). In shory for this movie, I have a question-why don't watch it now?

By the way, initial contacting with this movie is through the soundtracks. Joe Hisaishi is a great musician that l love starting from studio Ghibli movies(if you don't know, just check and watch it, it need no any explanation). One of these tracks is called Ave Maria-literally mother'love. It is touching and thinkable music( you can get it from me). New road, another track is not my sms ringtone. Anyway, you should listen to it. a piece of movies

Some Anthropological Assumptions

There is somewhat like metaphysics that even experts have to prove there is an existence for metaphysics. Anthropology, in other way, propels people to believe that there might be some benefits of learning. Comparing with philosophy, I’ve never thought of what good is of learning philosophy because it is so intriguing to learn it. Instead anthropology is making me to think despite it is for a while- what’s good of learning it? Having studied primatology, one aspect of anthropology, I’ve realized that there is some assumptions underlying ourselves that we used to believe, trust on and make faith of.

1. Driven by our curiosity, we do unmindfully believe learning anthropology would be advantageous to our thinking process or awareness.
2. Unlike history dealing with modern history and cultures, anthropology in some aspects is researching into primates’ fossils and animals such as apes and monkeys, bearing a likeness to humans so that humans could learn of their origins and habitats.
3. There could be similarities between humans and apes whereas humans’ cultures are so distinct with apes’ living styles.

There assumptions are as alike as David Hume’s matter of facts that we could only choose to believe. If we are not content, and trying to figure out why we are spontaneously inclined to so-called ‘anthropological assumptions’, we might end up like me confining into a space that unable to step further more. And deny lot of things. a short piece of thoughts