The plot and the ending are truly merciless. For example, the title of the film "The Desire of Life", what makes people think about "life" during the viewing process. Large-scale organizations, especially those involving administration and public welfare, can easily become passive and neglectful in the absence of simple and clear interest "restrictions". This may be an inevitable rule. But I think Akira Kurosawa's focus is not on the organization itself, but in this inevitability, how should the meaning of the individual and his own life be faced? If there are no major changes, the protagonist's life may end in the same way as the past 30 years. But like the feeling when the birthday song sounds, after finding a certain meaning, no matter whether the good or the bad is important or not, life is indeed born from this moment.
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