The film is divided into two parts. The first half is the old man's self-examination before his death. He feels that his life is wasted. In the second half of the story, I use the eyes of others to tell the story of what the old man finally accomplished. The characters of various colors appear one after another, full of irony.
There can be three themes of the film. Akira Kurosawa discusses how people should live a meaningful life, and exposes the various insufficiencies of the bureaucracy, which has a sense of social awakening. In addition, the separation between people, the elderly and the Children, old people and people around, who really knows him? Only after death will I recall the details and beauty of the past exchanges. The final funeral is like a big stage, connecting the stories behind the crowd. People are telling the story of the old man, but at that time and place, who helped him.
Akira Kurosawa's discussion of life and death is too much to my liking. If it wasn't for the time of death, perhaps the protagonist was still a mediocre civil servant who continued his usual life. Death made him think about life. I feel that for human beings, death is an ultimate direction, an eternal goal, and an eternal gap. When facing death personally, only people will fight and think about the value of life. In the movie, when someone at the funeral said "we will die too", everyone was silent. Death is the ultimate enemy of life. However, most of the time, most people choose to forget death, escape death, and waste their lives with this attitude. In other words, living people rarely respect death, and of course they are able to live in the world because of it.
As for the old man in the movie, in the last scene, he sits on a swing in the park he built, serenely and peacefully, singing songs, maybe he has found the value of life. From noise to silence, from adults to children, from liveliness to solitude, Akira Kurosawa finally gave a little bit of poetry and tenderness. The old man was saved, but for the living, they will continue to live numbly until death. nearly.
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