Cold Fever : Wilbert Hill

This film was very interesting. The film started very slow for me. I tried to understand what was happening in the beginning but finally caught on when his parents started talking to him through the advertisement to come to Iceland and show his burial respects to his mother and father. The Japanese business man was not into rituals and traditions. He did not have a very honorable relationship with his parents. This man was very comfortable in his life; he did not respect or understand the act of ritual or tradition. The young Japanese business man was a career oriented man, who was very busy.
This film focuses on the significance of ritual and tradition. Their was a women in the film who tried to teach the Japanese business man of the significance of burial and memorial. She views a funeral as a time to celebrate the life of the person who was deceased. She also believed that a funeral service was a beautiful event. The music at a funeral was absolutely beautiful to her. She tried to get the young Japanese man to understand that death is a wonderful part of life that should be celebrated by the tradition of burial or a memorial.
By the end of the movie I really understood the importance of sacred ritual and tradition. Death is a part of life that should be celebrated. The sacred ritual takes place when humans exemplify respect for the life that the now deceased person once lived. The Japanese man finally had to cross that bridge of sacred ritual by himself at the end of the film, and come to the realization that I must put my feelings aside and righteously show my loving respects to my parents.