Comment by dleibovic
13 years ago
I'll be the dissenter here-- I was not a fan of the movie. It was a boring piece about a man obsessed to the point of craziness about sushi. His kids said to the mother: "Mommy, who is the strange man in our house?"
The man was Jiro, their father. Is that the childhood you want your children to live? For me, the mastery of a craft is not worth this price.
That seems to have been a major problem in many Japanese families, to the point that the absentee father is kind of a trope in a lot of Japanese media. If any of you guys played Earthbound, you might remember that, while the mom was always at home, the dad only talked to you over the phone no matter what time of day it was. Just one more clever little thing from that game.
IMO, most comments & takeaways around the documentary focused on being passionate and loving your work. But the documentary does make you ponder over whether it is worth the price of not being there for your children.
On a separate note, the scenes of the fish market shows the ugly side of over fishing our seas.
the scenes of the fish market shows the ugly side of over fishing our seas.
What do they show? I can't figure out how one thing could show the other.
You have to know some subtext: those tuna take human lifespans to grow. There are dozens of them there, every day.