Trains are used effectively, I think, as a symbol (or do I mean index?)
of the modern condition in Juozo Itami's Tampopo. In a movie
explicitly concerned with the role of food in our lives, those lives
are linked together visually by the recurring appearance of elevated
trains.
Also, if one considers the Lumiere film, I think it would be a good
idea to consider also Jerome Hill's Film Portrait, which quotes from
and recreates the Lumiere film, appropriating it as a symbol (yes,
symbol) of the self-refreshing nature of film art.
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