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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Extended Reading
  • Hester 2022-01-03 08:01:17

    Shimura Joe’s performance already resembles Tatsuya Nakadai in "Ran". Kurosawa likes to express the "moving" part that should have climaxed repeatedly with relative "stillness". Like a compassionate heart, watching quietly. Hei Ye likes to reason, he thinks movies should be simple and easy to understand, and lively and interesting. I like Hei Ye, precisely because of his magnanimousness, and he doesn't make any sense of mystery. "Doctrine" will not increase the value just because you speak profoundly. "Doctrine" must be accepted by people. Nakai Asaichi's photography is impeccable, the favorite of the early black master.

  • Anahi 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Another film that I still remember very clearly is this 生きる. This may also be the earliest Kurosawa Akira I have seen, and of course the least Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa. It may open up a new direction for the realism of individuals. Its standpoint is both cosmopolitan and constructive

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.