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Derek 2022-04-19 09:02:12

It's too classic, too classic. Sixty years later, China is still like this. This film has a third-person narrative, telling stories through memory, and jumping and cutting at the same camera, which are all formal innovations. From the comical shirking of blame at the beginning, to the final grabbing credit, to analyzing the motivation, and then to everything as always, the irony of this story is divided into several layers.

Another line is for people to reflect on, what are we doing, crowded on the subway every day, what are we doing? More and more people have the title of mummy. Nights with vulgar novelists, and every day with girls, I fully understand how beautiful girls are. Wei Xiao is like that. Sometimes in life, doing one thing is enough, unless we change the world.

"Life is so short, girls hurry up and fall in love."

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Extended Reading
  • Tabitha 2022-03-22 09:02:01

    The sequence is loneliness and carnival, illness is irony and criticism, and breaking is reflection and introspection. While satirizing the numb reality of the Japanese government, it inherited the technique in "Rashomon"-constant flashbacks, restoring a Watanabe who was dying, and depicting the "outsider" written by Camus. The image of the second son also made Akira Kurosawa's portrayal of the characters more profound - inspired the later "Seven Samurai".

  • Eula 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Still a strong sense of shape. The exaggerated acting skills of the crowd really ruined the movie, and even Shimura Joe was not immune. The last paragraph was good, but the actor lost his appetite. The exposure and satire of the bureaucracy tends to be superficial, which shows that Akira Kurosawa and his two screenwriters are really pretending to understand, which directly leads to the fact that once he involves social themes, it is almost inevitable that he must speak big truths, and sometimes even Ignoring reality can force dramatic conflict (heaven and hell). The world is too complicated for him to reach at his level. But having said that, all of these are perfectly fine if they are put into period dramas, which is why the Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yuxinbang and Tsubaki Juro are obviously much more comfortable, and it can even be said to be seamless. This is a major limitation of Akira Kurosawa.

Ikiru quotes

  • Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: It's freezing. Just as bad inside as out. That's why I hate Japanese houses.

    Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: It's such a drag coming home to this. I'd like a modern house.

    Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: Honey, a house of our own would cost around 500,000 yen, right? Could we use your dad's retirement bonus as collateral?

    Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: It must be worth 700,000 by now, plus a monthly pension of 13,000 yen and another 100,000 in savings.

    Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: But you think he'd agree?

    Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: If he doesn't, we'll say we're moving out. That'll clinch it. Even Dad doesn't want to take that much money to the grave.

  • Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: Stop making that face. Enough about your dad. He has his life. We have ours.