Later, pirated disks began to spread, I bought one, and completed the first anime completion in my life without stopping. Then there is the Internet, in that era of turtle speed, hanging up all night and dragging the subtitle version of Anime Garden back from em.
I read Kenshin three times in total, including the manga version four times, and every time there were some unpleasant points that I read over and over again. For example, Zhi Zhixiong's sentence "Don't judge others by the standard of your happiness", and later Saito's "evil is killing".
This work is not so much a story of a swordsman who does evil and promotes good, but rather a story of a young man looking for his own beliefs.
Back at the beginning of the story, Bigu Qingjuro taught the sharp sword. At that time, he saw the misfortune of the troubled times and hoped that the sword in his hand would bring happiness. When he was young and vigorous, he quarreled fiercely with the master craftsman and went down the mountain. , I don't know if he can remember the phrase "this world is a struggle for justice and justice".
But a teenager in his teens quickly became confused. You said that this was to create a new era in which everyone could live and work in peace and contentment, but for this reason, innocent people had to be killed. The teenager may not be able to figure it out. The self-righteous justice in his heart will soon fail to make him firm. Join the troubled world, become the devil. But where is the salvation you thought of at the beginning?
It was Shedeba who insisted that he complete the restoration. When he killed his wife, I believe that he had collapsed. He had near-perfect strength, but he did not have the strength to control this strength. He was completely lost in the troubled times. But ending this troubled world is always something to do, isn't it? Ba's life has been paid, isn't it? He regarded himself as a sharp sword and handed it over to the reformists, no longer thinking about the right or wrong of killing.
When the troubled times were over, he didn't want to remain as the sword of the reformists in the new era, so the boy built a reverse-edged sword and started wandering. In a new era that no longer needs to kill, it is necessary to find the faith to live in wandering.
A sword is a weapon, and swordsmanship is a killing technique. He admired Kamiya's lively "sword to live", and insisted that he would not kill anyone, but at Kamiya Dojo, he also admitted the fact of killing swords - he was very contradictory. The choice to stay at Kamiya Dojo is not necessarily for the girl I met for the first time, but more likely to understand the irreconcilable contradictions in happiness.
The oath not to kill is just an oath, just because he killed too many people for the comfort of atonement, this kind of unstable thing was thrown aside when the Xun Palace was in danger. And in fact how could a determined swordsman care about that? Broke a vow and become the old self? If you kill someone, you can never go back? These are just some of the naive conditions that young people set for themselves.
Yang Xiu raised his brows lightly: "Weak? Wrong! If you follow through with your belief that you can't bear to kill, that's also a kind of firmness." He raised his slender fingers and waved it twice in front of Liu Xie, in a lecturing tone. Dao: "I tell you, the real weakness is that you don't know what you want to do, the head is on both sides, and you are confused!" - "The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss"
is naive and weak, which is also the beginning of Saito's dissatisfaction with Kenshin The place. Saito, who is called a running dog, has no pressure when he is called a traitor, and never hesitates to kill or not to kill. His beliefs, like his teeth, are inexorable and run through the troubled times. If you are a reformer, if you disturb the security, I will kill you; if you are a fallen gentry, if you harm the society, I will kill you. firm. ruthless. absolutely. Li. What new era or old era is not worth mentioning in his mind. Compared with him, Kenshin is two extremes.
The movie chapter is over here, but in the animation, Kenshin is still exploring. In the face of an enemy like Zhi Zhixiong, kill or not? How to kill? Because his strength was not enough, he met his master Kiyojuro Higu once again. Juro let him think clearly, and came back the next morning to teach him the ultimate meaning of Feitian Yujianliu, or, death.
But Jian Xin didn't understand the master's intentions. He picked up the murderous mood and the consciousness of being killed again, thinking that this was the secret to making the sword faster. That's why Bi Guqing got angry and yelled at you idiot to teach this idiot apprentice a lesson with his actions.
Here, Heyue buried a big foreshadowing, going back to the beginning of the reminiscence chapter, Qingli was assassinated, but a low-strength samurai could stab Kenshin. It can be seen that the most powerful force is not the consciousness of death, but survival and face. Courage to challenge. Here, Jian Xin finally woke up, and he finally had the prototype of his own beliefs. Be it the Restoration, the New Era, or the Justice, great strength does not exist to kill people, but to protect ordinary happiness.
In fact, judging from this line, many enemies are dispensable, just like Cang Zijun, his belief in Kenshin is insignificant, it is just an artificially increased level boss in the anime to increase the visibility, he is not even as black as black Li - responsible for provoking Jian Xin to confuse himself. The only important enemies are probably Sojiro, Zhi Zhixiong and Yukino Yuki.
Sojiro is the epitome of Kenshin when he was young, a knife that fully accepts Zhizhixiong's idea of the law of the jungle. Seeing that Kenshin is angry and confused about another idea of the sword, he embarks on a wandering journey. Zhi Zhixiong is a test stone to verify the prototype of Kenshin's concept, making him firm. Xuedaiyuan is the last journey of this young man's mind, freeing himself from the old guilt and erasing the last trace of hesitation on the sword. This is Rurouni Kenshin, the journey of a young man who lost, wandered and found the heart of the sword.
Finally, about the movie, other film critics have said it almost, and I would like to add my personal opinion: when I saw the poster, my heart was ashes... But after looking at it, this is the best live-action adaptation I have ever seen! The center of gravity is well grasped, and I will not only play with the pictures and fights. The memoirs are appropriately inserted to make it more poignant and beautiful. Even if I have not seen the original work, I can understand it very well.
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