High and Low

Adolf 2022-01-09 08:01:17

It's so exciting, so beautiful! Kurosawa is worthy of being one of the world's four major film directors! All types of movies can be perfectly controlled.

This crime reasoning film is great, the logic is meticulous and there is no flaw, and the criminal complaint at the end sublimates the idea of...

Genoveva 2022-03-21 09:02:38

Some of Kurosawa's more famous films are costume films, such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Spider Sparrow City, but his non-costume films are rarely seen. Heaven and Hell is one of the classics. It tells the story of the kidnapping of the son of a rich businessman's driver, but the rich businessman...

Novella 2022-03-28 09:01:07

Heaven and Hell, this is the first time I see Toshiro Mifune without a costume play!

Madalyn 2022-03-26 09:01:09

[Great] The indoor scene of the first hour fully proved Kurosawa Akira's scheduling level (calling him the "God of Scheduling" is not an exaggeration). From the first shot, the protagonist Quan Teng was in a state of being "enclosed" all the time. Whether it was the coercion of the previous shareholders or the moral torture encountered later, they all used other characters in space. Shown by the encirclement. Using the position, composition, depth of field and camera displacement to emphasize the characters' predicament, enhance the drama through the characters' sight lines, contradictions and the size of the space they occupy, and visualize the emotional conflict in the picture. And the criminal investigation in the second half is simply enjoyable, and the magic of genre films lies in this. What really distinguishes "heaven and hell" is not the gap between rich and poor and class, but one of Kurosawa's best elements, "heat". The heat had nowhere to hide, but they were as cold as corpses. This double contrast between internal and external levels is the film's most eloquent interpretation of class antagonism, which shows the depth of Kurosawa's skills and the vastness of his realm.