Iron Triangle

Stephon 2022-03-20 09:01:57

While watching this movie, I happened to watch the tower sculpture time, and I have seen some Japanese movies on and off before, and once again realized the charm of movies as an independent art, the works that have both cultural heritage, form and content are works of art themselves. The three are a bit like the Iron Triangle. It is most stable when they have both, but most of the time it is difficult to have both. I also recall the relationship between ritual and content in Shi Tiesheng's soul, which is really interesting. I think it has reached the height of a work of art, even standing on the top of a mountain, and I am very fortunate to be able to enjoy such an excellent work. Now I recall many movies I have watched before, and the latitude and cognitive system of viewing are also slowly merging. Change, just like watching various exhibitions, can be regarded as an invisible "feeling", a kind of cognition that integrates various ideas. My history of watching movies is not short. When I was a child, I benefited from my father's love for it. For the sake of collecting CDs and DVDs (influenced by my father, I also got a lot of collecting addictions, books, cassettes, and even weird yo-yos), I watched a lot of movies with my father, every time before dinner Watching movies seems to have become a routine in my family. It is about the fourth year of my senior year when I really start to seriously record the experience of watching movies. I can’t stop it any longer. I wrote more than 3,000 notes in bits and pieces. I, who loves writing, established a connection. I really don’t know why I took the road of science at that time. Is it just because of my good grades in science? Eh, off topic, the exploration of human nature and culture in this film is what attracts me the most. In one sentence, I think it should be that the Bushido spirit is just a facade.

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  • Gerardo 2022-04-23 07:02:33

    When watching the movie, it feels like the heart is being held by someone's hand, as if it were hanging in the air. I want to find someone to go to McDonald's for one night and talk about this movie all night. I am puzzled. I will describe the oriental aesthetics contained in Japanese samurai films in detail. I am also eager to hear more about the relationship between Bushido and human nature, and I want to be cold-blooded. To dissect the death ritual of 'cutting the abdomen', its beauty, dignity, contradiction, or even hypocrisy?

  • Rosemarie 2021-12-22 08:01:08

    Who has the greatest power? This exquisite work by Kobayashi Masaki gives the answer: whoever is narrating has power. The narrative of the male protagonist and the elder fought fiercely on the battlefield of historical interpretation, while the current time narrative of the film unifies the two, making the real story appear more dazzling in the false frame, and the historical narrative is false. The seriousness is obvious. The composition and oil painting of the whole movie are generally regular, and Nakadai is very dumb.

Hara-Kiri quotes

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: When my master's house fell we immediately left the domain and moved to Edo. The streets of Edo were crowded with ronin - flotsam from the Battle of Sekigahara. In former times, other clans would have gladly taken in any ronin who'd earned a name for himself. But in an era no longer in need of warriors or horses, so peaceful that no wind even rustled the leaves on the trees, it was a constant struggle simply to find a meal. Indeed, it shames me to recall our miserable lives of these last eight or nine years.