the meaning of life

Alexandrine 2022-04-21 09:02:28

The contrast between the two characters, a dying old man who has been mummified for thirty years, and a young girl who bravely jumped out of the boring cycle. The excessively noisy loneliness of the first night of the old man's indulgence was extremely evident in the scene where a group of men and women danced. The whole film belongs to a big proposition, discussing the meaning of life. Borrowing the perfunctory and inaction of work within the system to express the pursuit of a meaningful life. Seeing the filth of the world, there is still a sincere core.

Akira Kurosawa is very ambitious in the film, trying to express the ignorance of the public, the estrangement between relatives, the helplessness of life, and the dirtyness of politics. But what impresses me the most is the choice of life. Maybe solve this problem and the other problems above will be solved.

What are we looking for all our lives. How to live your own life. What a big proposition, I still have no solution to this at the age of 30.

Is living in someone else's heart still alive? Does it make sense to commit to a cause that benefits others?

Can you be at forty without confusion...hey

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Extended Reading
  • Newell 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    "Spring night is too short, girls love it." It turned out to be a love song from the 1920s. The male protagonist uses hedonism and personal feelings to experience the feeling of "being alive" without success, and finally achieves something in his mediocre work position. Can you live like the male protagonist after learning that you are terminally ill? No, you won't. Akira Kurosawa treats the male protagonist very kindly, allowing him to accomplish a meaningful thing and die contentedly and happily in the park he built. Respected and remembered after death. Usually, it will be emotional to the end from the first point of view, but Director Kurosawa chose to tell it in the mouth of everyone at the funeral. Ironic, but also more moving. The performance style is more theatrical style, and the civil servant's play is too deliberate, but he is still deeply moved by the male protagonist. The pitiful appearance is heart-wrenching, but the weak and cowardly have his strength. Looking at his figure that keeps bending down and still doesn't give up, it is sympathetic and admirable. The bureaucracy will never change, and when I think of "change", I have a hard time even trying to cancel the tea. The point of this machine is to consume your life, just like the world. But whether you are "alive" is always in your hands.

  • Erwin 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Impressive. It's just that the actor's play is a bit delayed after seeing it, and the last few consecutive reversals are wonderful and powerful. In fact, many people will be so lonely when they get old.

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.