Akira Kurosawa's "If I Had Three Days of Light"

Reginald 2022-04-20 09:01:48

"If I Had Three Days of Light" by Akira Kurosawa. "Desire to Live" has a boldness that no rookie can imagine. One is at the beginning, the sentence: "This is the protagonist's stomach" has been haunting me for a long time, and it is the beginning of film history that attracts me the most. The second point is that the progress bar has only gone more than halfway, so it tells me that the protagonist has died. Not only bold but neat. Watanabe's two rebirths and two deaths clearly and concisely tell us what it means to be alive. The group scene in the second half was like "M is the Killer", but the inquiries were not as profound as "M". The whole story is half introspective, half bashing. I like the happy birthday song of Watanabe going down the stairs and on the swing, the part that Watanabe sang: "Life is so short, girls, let's fall in love, before the red lips fade, and Shen's enthusiasm has not become cold, no one knows tomorrow."

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  • Cyrus 2022-01-03 08:01:17

    He died in the middle of the movie, and reborn in the middle of the movie, happy birthday to you! At the beginning of the movie, he had been dead for thirty years, but at the end of the movie, he got immortal with every swing. The formal structure is classic, the first half is like the meaning of a mummy struggling to live alone, the second half is sublimated and quietly overlooks the life and death (and thus transitions the meaning of life and death from the individual to the whole society), which is like reversing the order of death and life, which is consistent with the theme . With a gentle attitude, he made the sharpest criticism of reality, leaving everyone present speechless. Great movie.

  • Dina 2022-03-24 09:02:11

    Akira Kurosawa always speaks clearly and deeply about human nature and the social state it consists of. The last 50 minutes were amazing, a great example for group portraits/personal arcs! Unexpectedly, I cried 3 times during this period...Movies are not made like this anymore, but the movies from 70 years ago are still very attractive to me. And the most magical thing is that this is still true in today's society!

Ikiru quotes

  • Toyo: [telling joke] "You've never had a day off, have you?" "No." "Why? Are you indispensable?" "No. I don't want them to find out they can do without me."

  • Kanji: Now I remember: I nearly drowned in a pond once when I was a child. I felt exactly the same way then. Everything's going black. I writhe and thrash around, but there's nothing to hold on to - except you.

    Toyo: What about your son?

    Kanji: Don't talk to me about him! I have no son. I'm all alone.

    Toyo: But...

    Kanji: No, you don't understand! My son is somewhere far away. Just as my mom and pop were when I was drowning in that pond. Remembering it now, it's even more painful than it was then.