Departures

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2017)

Departures is an okay movie about a former orchestra cellist who has to move back home, to the countryside, with his wife. Diago, the husband and main character, finds a job as a traditional mortician. However dealing with the dead is considered a shameful job. Though being a mortician is shameful in a lot of cultures. I thought the way Diago prepares a body for a funeral was interesting; however, I would not want to do it myself. On another note, I did not care too much for the wife. I understand that she was trying to be supportive, but she did not seem like a real person to me. The only time she really got upset is when she found out that Diago was mortician. However, that might just be a cultural difference. From this movie the wife seems to take care of the husband and be a "dutiful wife", but in the US women are more outspoken.