Watch Odour of Chrysanthemums
- 2000
- 28 min
This is a powerful, poignant story of an alcoholic man who is married with a family. He abuses his wife. When he dies in a mine accident, his body is brought out. A vase of pink chrysanthemums shatters. The pink chrysanthemums provide a symbol of a love that is not a true love for the abuse overrides any feelings of love. The wife receives her husband's body but does not mourn for her husband, because she realizes that he was not capable of loving her.