A little emotion and association

Roslyn 2022-03-15 09:01:10

Behind the bottom are often scarcity, crowding, and noise. People at the bottom are not always sympathetic to each other. They are more often sarcastic and complacent about their superiority to each other. They also hate this environment, but they cannot escape. Will be sucked deeper and deeper here. In such an environment, how can a person keep getting more and more humble, and rely more and more on dissolution and short-sightedness to make oneself happier? And these can only be turned into deeper tragedies.

Akira Kurosawa is different from Hirokazu Koreeda's family of thieves in many ways, but the same, it is still the bottom, this person is a heavy and worrying group. Japan can be considered to have experienced rapid development for decades, hey, but those bottom layers do not still exist...

I just went back to my parents’ house today, and I took a bus by mistake. This is Beijing, China in the 21st century. The dirty air in the bus, people crowded together with expressionless faces, each other’s heads bowed in indifference. It's dark, and no one will take the initiative to make it easier for the person who wants to get off. If you walk by him, you can feel that he is dead there like a corpse, or he slightly raised his head and stared at him with a black face full of frowns. you.

It was already dark, and I watched people in the carriage staring down at their phones, the light from the screen shining on their faces like a group of ghosts exuding pain and resentment.

And one of them, who was playing lottery tickets, blocked the door of the car.

At that time, I was very emotional, the bottom, poverty, deprivation, these are some terrible words and conditions...

To be able to pass through them can be said to be a realm

It's not bad to be able to escape them.

If you can't do these two points, hey, it's really sad.

I hope that one day such works can disappear and no longer have a sense of personal experience.

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Extended Reading
  • Jacklyn 2022-04-21 09:03:29

    The subject matter and temperament are quite different from most of Kurosawa Akira's works, and the sense of existence is very low. The whole film is filled with gloom, despair and anguish, and the life structure of life among the lowest-level marginal people living in shacks is like ants and mud. In an extreme environment, a large number of lines reflect the character and choices of the characters. The despicable selfishness and numbness seem to be an inevitable imprint under the high pressure of suffering, but the ending becomes cheerful, and the ending that abruptly ends is as strong as thunder in a sunny day.

  • 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 on

The Lower Depths quotes

  • Yoshisaburo the Gambler: [to the actor] Gimme five pennies. If you do, I'll consider your 'naturally gifted actor' a star-billing, tip-top, top-notch, sterling-silver actor.

  • Rokubei, Osugi's Husband: Three mats' worth for bedtime and taking over the common room. I'm raising your rent by ten pennies.

    Tomekichi the Tinker: Why not just strangle me?

    Rokubei, Osugi's Husband: Because I wouldn't get a single penny out of that.

    Tomekichi the Tinker: Wanna fight?

    [Rokubei staggers back, accidentally treading on a reclining Yoshisaburo]

    Yoshisaburo the Gambler: Hey! Ouch!

    Rokubei, Osugi's Husband: [to Yoshisaburo] Don't scare me.