Kurosawa Akiko was there. He did not follow our usual line of thinking to make the company's top executive with the most obvious conflict of interest the murderer behind the scenes. Instead, he let a citizen with a very ordinary criminal motive plan the entire crime. As far as entertainment is concerned, this has increased the difficulty of solving the case, and the direction of the movie has become more confusing. On the other hand, it has also prevented this crime from falling into the contradictions of the company's high-level internal conflicts, and has become a direct manifestation of the contradictions between the rich and the poor in society.
For the cruel and extreme Takeuchi, why didn't Kurosawa Akira tell him that he was flat or even sold out in the end?
This is because this may cause the audience to empathize and pity him, and this may not be in line with Kurosawa Akira's original intention-Takeuchi is not the object of our pity. In this film, Kurosawa Akira has no preference for Gonto and Takeuchi who are placed at both ends of the scale. Like all his films in the past, each character has his own one-sided authenticity, standing in his own world to speak and act. Therefore, in "Heaven and Hell", the emphasis is definitely not on hating the rich and helping the poor, nor is it purely punishing evil and promoting good. What is more important is to use the suspenseful genres of police and bandits to involve two seemingly opposing classes. In a dramatic confrontation, and ended this confrontation in the form of dialogue. In the dialogue at the end, the audience will find that the situation of the two opposing parties is understandable, and class conflicts cannot be resolved by excessive means, so as to realize the educational significance of this film full of social care.
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