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Clovis 2022-09-04 01:31:15

When the tram lights at the end swept across the mentally handicapped's hut, the bright colors shone in front of my eyes and in my heart through the splendid paintings in the house, but I seemed to be unable to speak, even to express pity and sadness. This light illuminates a beautiful picture, but it also sweeps away sadness and despair. I don't even know who is sad and who is happy. Maybe you would say that art always exaggerates and magnifies life, but I believe that life is more cruel than art, because the extremes of human nature's good and evil definitely exceed the artist's cognition and even their imagination. Everyone is just a mirror, which reflects the problems of the whole society. People with morals and grief are constantly exploring and verifying the process of human history, and asking God what is the ultimate destiny of human beings. Whether it is a pessimist or an optimist, they all have the same belief: for a better future for mankind. It is because of these lovely people that I still look forward to tomorrow.

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Dodes'ka-den quotes

  • Yukichi Shima: [speaking to his three guests] Let me ask you a question. Have you ever found a way to get rice from a rice store? I don't mean borrowing, I mean taking it right in front of their eyes.

    Yukichi Shima: [continues] You take a big pot and get it all wet on the inside, and have it filled at the rice store. Try to get it on credit and they'll refuse. You throw the rice out, but the pot is wet. So some rice remains stuck to the sides. If you repeat that three times, you'll get enough for a meal. Eh? Great, isn't it?

  • Taro Sawagami: Father...

    Ryotaro Sawagami: What is it?

    Taro Sawagami: Is it true we aren't your children?

    Ryotaro Sawagami: Think for yourself. Do you think you aren't? I know every one of you is mine. So, you're all dear to me. But if you don't love me, and if you don't think I'm your dad, then I am not. Right?

    Taro Sawagami: But people have always said that we aren't your kids, that our fathers are all different. And they didn't just tell me, but also Jiro, Hanako and Shiro.

    Ryotaro Sawagami: People say what they want. You can't stop them from saying all kinds of things. Right? No one can really tell whose child is whose. If you believe someone is your dad, then you are his son. If someone says you aren't my kids, then you ask him about his own father. I'll bet he can't answer. After all, it's either you believe me, or you believe the others.

    Ryotaro Sawagami: [looks at the kids] Who do you believe?

    Taro Sawagami: You, father.

    [all the kids raise their hands and shout in agreement]