Just want to leave traces of life, that's all

Kaleigh 2022-04-21 09:02:28

This is the first time I saw Akira Kurosawa's film.

Many classic shots and metaphors

. This citizen section chief, who

has been on the job for 30 years,

is always a rubber stamp. Even if he

has no self, even if he gets the excellent performance and the attendance award

, it is just a kind of like The irony of working like a machine It was only



after he found out that he had stomach cancer, he seemed to be

reborn, or

he began to think about what it means to live a real life.



At first, he confided his thoughts to a stranger in the bar, and

the stranger took him to eat, drink, and gamble. He

experienced and felt it

, but it was still bitter.



He also had close contact with a young and healthy female subordinate in the company. The

reason was that this girl made her feel healthy, energetic, and alive.

He said that he was excited and

told me how to be like before death. It's good that you live like this

girl tell him

I'm just working and eating and that's all, it's nothing special

and remind him not to think it's his son's fault that he's mummified

because the son didn't ask him to do it



finally he found his own The realization of life

should be in the field of the city hall where he stayed for 30 years,

so he found a case

, devoted all his blood,

enthusiastically ran between the public and the public sector, and

finally turned a cesspool into a small Lovely park



and then

he died in the park he built

and sang happily



in the wake of the people before he died

Who is the bigger credit for building the park?

He didn't get the rewards and rewards he deserved during his lifetime,

but he was psychologically satisfied

and left his own life. As a result,



I think

I can feel that deep sense of powerlessness

and the feeling that he was struggling at the end of his life.

This feeling is probably

"just trying to leave traces of being alive"

This kind of feeling



maybe this concept has been in the era at that time. It's a novel idea,

but now it seems that

at least according to my current life course,



this way of dying is not good at all.

In the end, he still thinks that work is the most important thing. In the

last time of his life, he

didn't use it to say goodbye to his son .

Love saying goodbye to his subordinates and friends.

I can imagine seeing him before he died .

Even if he sang

, he should still have a lot of regrets in his heart. Even if he

left an inheritance and pension to

his son, wouldn't his son have regrets for life?



He doesn't try his best to do politics,

let go of other things that might be very important,

insist on turning this cesspool into a park,

and other places will have a budget to build a park, not

to mention

that building a park is not so touching and touching people's hearts. One of the work

, the people in the village will not be so exaggerated in gratitude to him as in the play.

It does not meet my expectations for the proposition of "if it were me, how would I say goodbye". The

most exaggerated thing is that

At the time of the wake,

family members and close friends are actually sitting silently. They are

completely supporting roles. Generally, they are only responsible for serving tea and welcoming guests

.



It is completely unreasonable and irritating

. Isn't the proposition about the relationship between him and his son? It



can only be said that he still reflects the

old concepts of "Japan", "that era", "man-based", "work first"

and then brought it to the extreme



. So

this film

It didn't move me

and made me feel impatient and a little angry.



Although I can understand

the feeling of wanting to leave traces of life

, with my current values,

I still prefer to play all the way until I die.

This kind of experience of life before death. Beauty and the beauty of the world

live in everyone's memory,

such a feeling

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Extended Reading
  • Talon 2022-01-03 08:01:17

    "The Desire of Life" is a great movie. Even if the film's analysis and criticism of the numb reality of the Japanese government at that time is aside, it is also great from the perspective of human awakening, and the structure of the movie alone is enough to be a great movie. The movie, inherited "Rashomon" and opened "Twelve Angry Men". The theme song "How short is life/Girls should fall in love soon/Before the red lips fade/While the enthusiasm hasn't become cold/No one knows what will happen tomorrow" pessimistic and positive

  • Marilou 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    Does it seem that his movies are not classic? ?

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.