The Lower Depths

By Pamela 2022-04-19 09:02:54

Sound design is a pain

It's a good film, only very hard to watch. It's hard to watch not only because the audience would have a difficult time with empathizing any of the characters, but they'd probably also hate the sound design-- the long trivial conversations, with old alcoholics talking non-sense and women screaming. The plot structure is also unconventional. Nobody evolves, which proves to the point that these jobless poor people are living in hell. Even the landlord and the police-like uncle...

By Roslyn 2022-03-15 09:01:10

A little emotion and association

Behind the bottom are often scarcity, crowding, and noise. People at the bottom are not always sympathetic to each other. They are more often sarcastic and complacent about their superiority to each other. They also hate this environment, but they cannot escape. Will be sucked deeper and deeper here. In such an environment, how can a person keep getting more and more humble, and rely more and more on dissolution and short-sightedness to make oneself happier? And these can only be turned into...

By Pearlie 2022-03-14 14:12:30

living hell

It is said that Akira Kurosawa's works are more humanistic and larger in the eyes of Westerners. After so many movies, "Lower Class" really made me feel Akira Kurosawa's insight into society. This is perhaps one of Kurosawa's most overlooked masterpieces.

There is no need to set off the background of the times, and there is no need to sing the samurai. Whether it is placed in the Meiji Restoration, modern America, or contemporary China, he is the truest portrayal of the nihilistic...

By Bo 2022-02-07 14:46:18

Everyone is living in the dust

All the films are like stage plays, and the small stage condenses the big life. Especially the old man sent by Qiu Dai, with a peaceful smile, a pleasant tone, and his accommodating to everyone, I feel that there are too many stories. When I saw the words printed on the back, I suddenly felt that this was the "hospice care" of life arranged by the Buddha. The sick wife who complained to her death that she never had enough to eat, after all, she had someone to accompany her at the last moment of...

By Fay 2022-02-07 14:46:18

Desperate, lethal disease

Even if we should have such a spirit—to write a blind man well, we should simply cover our eyes—we cannot fully appreciate the mentality with which a real blind man faces life. But this is more or less a shortcut. Many times, when we experience a hopeless pain, the soul will come out to comfort: fortunately, everything will pass, and the universe will leave the footprints of life. As the strange old man in the film says to the tinker's wife, the poor old woman who is dying: "Put your hope in...

By Kacey 2023-09-28 20:07:58

The dancing and singing at the end is very exciting, and the original Gao Lao drama is so powerful in this last...

By Rachelle 2023-07-27 10:22:18

It's cool to give the director a low score. . Legend has it that Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece cannot be appreciated, and can be summed up in the sentence "Poor people must have something to hate". But it took 2 and a half hours, and everyone was very...

By Josefa 2023-07-25 02:40:47

In Kurosawa's creative chronology, this movie doesn't seem to be too prominent, but I think it is one of the works that best reflects Kurosawa's directorial skills. Its use of space can be viewed as a teaching...

By Anabel 2023-07-12 21:19:13

More tragic and desperate than the French...

By Vincenzo 2023-07-07 05:28:56

Playing cards and singing songs, the rhythm is really good. The staged lines are too serious to be accepted at all. Everyone doesn't speak very popular, and I can't feel Kurosawa Akira's style. Maybe it's because I haven't read the original work. Dislike as much as...