So beautiful

Gilberto 2021-11-20 08:01:41

"It's so beautiful", this is my sigh after watching the film.

Kurosawa Akira's work in 1985 is still magnificent, tragic, and solemn today, more than 20 years later, the past smoky atmosphere of public opinion has dissipated, but it shows the brilliance and calmness of the work itself.

Kurosawa uses the lens as a paintbrush, the whole film is bright and bright, and the picture composition is clean and beautiful. It is a perfect work of art. The Japanese people have always paid attention to the topic of the four seasons. The natural changes in the works are full of metaphors. Several shots are switched from the clouds in the sky, expressing good and bad omens, which coincides with the change of personnel.

The plot and characters are very simple. The two characters who have a deep impression are Mad Ami and Blind Tsurumaru. Kuang Ami is the role of court jester, who uses rap to ease the passionate emotions and conceal the heavy nature of things. (The story of the rabbit performed by Kou Ami at the beginning of the film is a classic small play in Japanese Kyogen.) With this harlequin, it is convenient to use his mouth to say something that is inconvenient for others to say. When Xiuhu encounters a tragic change in the world and becomes crazy , He said: "It is normal to be mad in a frantic time." When the

blind Tsurumaru took in Xiuhu, he tried his best to suppress the grief in his heart, but the flute he played was stern and sad, which made people moved. At the end of the film, the sky and the earth are dark, and Tsurumu stands alone on the desolate abandoned city, and accidentally drops the picture of the Buddha statue of Madame Mo. Perhaps, in such a cruel era of princes' struggle for hegemony, the merciful and compassionate Buddha had nothing to do with the killing of the human world. Poor Tsurumaru, just like fluttering. (Tsurumaru is starring Nomura Mansai, although there is not even a frontal shot in the film.)

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Extended Reading
  • Tressie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    ! Edited to blow up. Compared with the two-line structure of King Lear, it is not simpler, and after the concentration, more Shakespeare emotions are put into it. The hesitation caused by the killer's order, the peculiar melancholy among men, the ecstasy brought by power, and the ambiguity of the public and private fields, Shakespeare's plays constantly test the confusion and tragedy brought about by this ambiguity. The role of women is politicized rather than dwarfed, and the vision of a wife as a courtier has both the East and the West. The two women are like two paths. The contrast of colors in the natural environment and the integration of dreams, the blind and the lunatic have become Japanese symbols without abruptness, the Stoics are more open after enduring reason and replaced by Buddhism, the harlequin, the jester, the scourge, and the slave are both existing and growing... It is a very fitting Japanese strife and family hardship and chaos in the imagination. Shakespeare is so good, there will be a kind of sadness of the times after reading it. Good drama is the question, not the answer.

  • Beulah 2021-11-20 08:01:41

    A great masterpiece, 4K restoration and rescreening feels like a pilgrimage to the 30th anniversary of the typhoon in the house full of people. Sujing boss M. Barker said with infinite admiration and nostalgia, "Every frame of film comes from the hands of this 70+ old man". Kurosawa Akira's adaptation of Shakespeare makes people even more aware of the universality of a classic that crosses ethnic and language barriers. The last shot is really shocking...

Ran quotes

  • Kyoami: In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  • Hidetora: [Hidetora has just signed a pledge abdicating his authority to Taro] Are you a son?

    Taro Takatora Ichimonji: What do you mean?

    Hidetora: Is this a son's attitude? The hen pecks the cock and makes him a crow.