The Lower Depths Comments

  • Alice 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    7.2/10 The plot is too boring, and the translation of the version I read is not up to standard. You may have a different view later...

  • Jovanny 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    Great! awesome! The drama-like situation of the small space uses the language of the film to schedule eighteen changes. The characters of the group play are all distinct, the dramatic power is even more subtle, and flesh and blood are seen in the details. The long group dance at the end and the sharp contrast of the last line of dialogue permeate unparalleled the power of! Awesome! It's...

  • Emilio 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    I haven't read Gorky's original work, so I don't know how much it fits. The prequel to Akira Kurosawa's stage play "The Thief Family" is real....

  • Talon 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    A single scene like a stage play, all kinds of characters are drawn and painted, but they cannot escape this dark, dirty and cramped "bottom of the world". The only old man in white clothes is like the incarnation of "Buddha" and "Hope" in his own mouth, to enlighten these people who can't find a way out. But is what he said true? - "He exists to those who believe in him." Akira Kurosawa raised the tragedy of this lowest-class life to the level of belief and...

  • Fernando 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    Good deeds will always be rewarded in life, and spreading hope may make it worse. Completion is as high as ever. It's just too much drama style, personality symbols, philosophical preaching, emotional depression, and lack of personal preference for the space change, rhythm, and emotional ups and downs of black films. Three and a half. ...I didn't recognize the landlord as Nakamura Karujirou for a while. It's as if he didn't recognize the villain Sweet Dream for the second time as Sen Yazhi. The...

  • Nat 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    It can be compared with "Trolley Maniac", at this time, Kurosawa has not lost hope, and the white-clothed wandering monk symbolizes the power of redemption. Two percussion songs and dances, especially the final dance. Using multiple cameras and scenes to control the rhythm in a limited space is extremely smooth. Everyone's chatter about their own situation is too straightforward, and their heart-piercing screams are not Japanese. But these are the labels that belong to...

  • Mona 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    Adapted from Gorky's novel, you can feel the Russian alcoholic flavor of the story, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is larger, and the characters are more extroverted. But localization is very, very good. The structure is like a drama, and the design of the slums also has a sense of stage setting (reminiscent of a university dormitory =.=), but the motivation of Kagawa's character's behavior is a bit...

  • Destin 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    [Beijing Film Festival Screening] I felt confused at first, but gradually I was attracted by the performances and stories of various characters, and the more I watched, the more engaged I became. There are only four scenes in two indoor and outdoor scenes. However, it shows the character experience of the homeless people at the bottom of the slums vividly. Emperor Kurosawa is amazing! Toshiro Mifune's acting skills stand out from the crowd. The kind-hearted grandfather who came down to earth...

  • Tyreek 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    This film is adapted from a play written by the great Russian writer Gorky. Similar to "Trolley Mania", it is a work that seems to be the most free style of Akira Kurosawa. The composition and lens movement of this film are extremely simple. Akira Kurosawa captures the poverty, filth, and rotten smell of the bottom world. The group portraits of prostitutes, thieves, drunkards, gamblers, carmen, craftsmen, etc. are very well shaped. Akira Kurosawa has endowed this hellish miserable world with a...

  • Wendy 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    1. This is a drama, a stage play. 2. The appearance of the characters and the angle of the scene are very particular. Solo play, double play, and group play are all wonderful, and the dramatic tension is very strong. 3. Why can't you go out? Sickness, death, disputes, gambling, alcoholism, prostitution, nothing good happens here? You have to believe that there is a Buddha, there is a heaven, and there is another world, but you have to find it yourself and take that step by...

Extended Reading
  • Fay 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    Desperate, lethal disease

    Even if we should have such a spirit—to write a blind man well, we should simply cover our eyes—we cannot fully appreciate the mentality with which a real blind man faces life. But this is more or less a shortcut. Many times, when we experience a hopeless pain, the soul will come out to comfort:...

  • Samson 2022-02-07 14:46:18

    Another echo.

    A film based on Gorky's masterpiece, this one echoes the later "Trammania", and Akira Kurosawa seems to have made many similar corresponding films inadvertently. The sadness, despair and pain this film brings to people is a typical example of Akira Kurosawa's films. The film is almost completed in...

The Lower Depths quotes

  • Asa, Tomekichi's Wife: You're a nice old man... very nice...

    Kahei the Pilgrim: Oh, I'm like a pebble in the river... washed down from the mountains, polished and smooth all over.

  • Tatsu: Why don't you hurry up...

    [He suddenly screams at Shimazo through his unfinished barrel as though it were a megaphone]

    Tatsu: AND HITCH YOURSELF TO OTAKI?