Akira Kurosawa said that the film would give Mifune 120 points. It does. He showed the fear and cowardice in his heart with his stumbling, dodging eyes, wanting to stop talking, and the tension that his entire body was immersed in fragility when he roared. Although it was really too hard, it was hearty. The stretched courage and dignity displayed in this way, in the background of the stinky ditch and the wind, seems to belong to an entire era. If it is not strong enough, how can it be able to drive this huge sadness.
While watching this film, I fell into a drowsy sleep many times. I watched some episodes many times, and some episodes could not be connected. Every time I open my eyes, I see light and shadows flashing gracefully in the black and white picture, the stinking ditch and the hair of the woman, the glass window and the flowers...with their shadows flowing forward together, this "front" is not the orientation on, but on time.
It turns out that the flow of light and shadow that people always say is real, not just a metaphor in words. It turns out that the shadow of time is such a thing. Nor is it just a literal metaphor.
There is also soft beauty infiltrating in the movie, the guitar sound is clanging, the gentle tones of women sway without leaving a trace, under the contrast of the iron-blooded "heroes", they are more crisp and soft... Isn't it, the heroes are dead , the gang disappeared into oblivion, and these music and beauties lost their sustenance, and no longer had the beauty of weakness. But they only belong to moviegoers, and the protagonist never understands the style and insists on showing his "power".
Akira Kurosawa is so obsessed with the beauty of power, even if it destroys the aesthetic conception, he never hesitates.
He once said that he was not strong, he just hid his weakness for fear of being seen by others. The two protagonists hide their weaknesses in different ways. They are also the director who held a long sword as a child, drank heavily as an adult, and raised his camera to withstand all kinds of storms, real and symbolic, his own reflection.
Chewed carefully, I really found this very moving.
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