vase在这里到底有什么意义呢editing is about assembling images for the film that help tell the story. It's not about just cutting between shots—you have to layer in ideas, So why did Ozu cut to the vase? 他为什么要故意打乱秩序让镜头的叙事功能模糊起来呢?这些pillow shot is not just the object itself,虽然没有推动叙事的功能,但是它是情绪的落点。东方尤其是日本文化中这种隐忍、含蓄、内敛让Ozu不会把矛盾摆到明面上来,是subtle and restrained,you have to feel but you can't describe. 但是这种conflict是故事发展不可缺少的部分,filmmaker通过conflict传递他的世界观。女主说到angry的时候,父亲睡着了,她的情绪又隐忍了下去,深埋心底,the contradiction is placed beneath the surface,藏在普通人很难注意到的地方。花瓶的剪辑消解了montage制造真实的意义,因为女主根本就不可能看见花瓶,这样模糊的镜头意义不是好莱坞式的editing,似乎lack the function of narrative,但是就像婚姻、家庭这个话题本身一样,本来就是模糊的,难以解释的。空镜承载的是情绪,并且在这一瞬间建立了一种共鸣,观众和character的情感共鸣,The vase itself means nothing, but its presene is also a pace and into it pours our emotion, 让女主情绪在这几秒的镜头中酝酿发酵,这个情感落点,这个gap让我们去rethink,去体会,这种留白艺术which expresses something deeper than itself, the inner unity of all things