In fact, it only tells the story of a boy growing into a man with the background of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, but it has the magic power to let the boys who watch it also gain inner growth.
It involves the cruelty of society, which comes from the fact that history is always ruthlessly advancing along the predetermined track, even with all kinds of bloody sacrifices, it cannot be stopped. It reveals that when a person is caught up in the torrent of history, no matter how powerful he is, he will eventually spin and drift like a drop in the ocean; however, the brilliance of human nature is manifested at this time, even if he wanders, even if he is so powerless, Have faith and work hard to realize your own value. It also expounds the cruel fact that the progress of this world has a price, and the price is that backward and weak things will recede; at the same time, the growth of people also has a price, and the price is the departure of close people. In fact, every time I see the kind of American blockbuster stories that allow a protagonist to complete a simple growth, I always ask myself: What is the price of this growth? Can growth without cost be meaningful and valuable?
When Shedaba used a scent of calamus to act as the scabbard of Hiimura Kenshin, I began to pay attention to the meaning of plants in all subsequent films. It was "Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance" that made me understand the ingenious and powerful rhetoric of metaphor, so much to this day I feel that when people face both implicit and explicit expressions, implicit is always better than explicit. There must be inner tension. When Hiimura Kenshin's face was marked with a cross scar, I started to pay attention to the facial features of the characters in all the films since then. It was "Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance" that made me pay attention to the charm and value of symbols, so much to this day I feel that it would be really boring if a face was white and nothing was there.
Speaking of cross wounds, this is the core of the reminiscence chapter. The most powerful part of the memoir is that it draws a scar on the face of an executioner with the help of the hands of a husband and wife. In fact, the love between Hiicura Kenshin and Xuedaiba, who came to him with the purpose of revenge, is a bit artificial in itself. This kind of artificiality is a deliberate arrangement by the plot to make this pair of enemies fall in love. If there are no cross wounds, this kind of artificiality will eventually be displayed in perfect condition. On the contrary, with cross wounds, this kind of artificiality has become an endless possibility of thinking and interpretation, which makes Kenshin Hiimura and Shedaba The human nature that transcends the identity of revenge has an outlet for expression. In this sense, the greatest part of the author's creation of the reminiscence chapter is not the creation of the characters of Kenshin Hicun and Xue Daiba, nor the dramatic conflict in which the enemy finally gets married, but the creation of the cross wound. The symbol that gathers all the emotional power of the reminiscence chapter!
It was a coincidence that the knife of Shedaiba's ex-fiancé scratched Kenshin's face; it was an intentional act of Shedaiba to scratch Kenshin's face again with a dagger at the end; so the cross wound was first of all a combination of accidental and intentional. The cross wound is not formed at once, but is formed in two times, which causes a problem, why does Xuedaiba also slash Jianxin's face, and why does she have to use it with the previous one? The fiance crossed the line to draw this knife? Maybe she wanted to use this knife to wash away the mistakes that Kenshin had made in the past, or maybe she used this knife to express her final revenge - this is of course a loving expression; but my interpretation is that she used her own The knife drawn by the last force of life is cutting away the knife mark in front. Since it is a cross, it must be crossed. She wants Kenshin to forget the past, even herself, and start a new life. What an expression of love this is!
The reminiscence chapter is full of paradoxes of human nature. For example, Jianxin's sword is powerful, but when he faces a weak Xuedaiba, he is powerless. This makes us think about what is power? For example, Ba's revenge is a typical way of revenge for women. The strength of a woman may lie in her obsession with devoting everything to her beloved, but why can she still be softened in the end with such a strong obsession? There was also a chance for revenge, but it was impossible to take it down, which made us think again about what is power? Can protection be an excuse for killing and hurting, and is an evil deed for a well-intentioned purpose just right? The intersection of Ba and Kenshin has kept both of them in a dilemma. We know that dilemma is the best expression of human nature, because it means that we have to give up something in exchange for something else, which is the price.
Jianxin chose to fall in love with Ba, and his price was to provoke another responsibility and have a "scabbard"; Ba chose to fall in love with Jianxin, and her price was to give up her obsession, or even betray to marry his fiancé, which would make him internally condemned. Of course, the growth of Kenshin from an executioner used by others to a chivalrous man with his own opinions and values also has a price. The price is the death of Ba, and the cross wound is the eternal brand of this price.
"Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance" is such a work, which can inspire you to think endlessly about society, about love, and about people. It is a documentary about social changes, sublimation of love, and growth of human nature written in the way of animation. . Whether it is the plot, characters, historical view, color, action, background, music, care, details, symbols, it is so memorable and memorable. I will always remember this movie!
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