This is a movie that entered IMDB250 in May 2012. It is not a new movie, but a very old Kurosawa Akira movie.
The film tells the story of a samurai who usurped power. The male protagonist is a samurai who has made outstanding achievements in a great battle. The male protagonist went to the castle of the city master to collect the reward together with another warrior who also had outstanding military exploits. On the way, the two encounter a monster, and the monster predicts that the hero will become the city lord, the other samurai will become the general and the son will become the city lord in the future. The two did not believe it after hearing it, but the prophecy came true after the two met the city lord. After the promotion, the male protagonist was thinking about the prophecy of the monster at home, and his wife advised him to do it first: kill the city lord first, so that the other samurai who knew the prophecy would first complain to the city lord. So, the heroine's wife assassinated the city lord late at night and blamed others. Later, the male protagonist entered the castle using the remains of the city lord, and became the city lord with the help of the samurai who knew the prophecy. After that, the male protagonist wanted to treat the warrior's son as a stepson according to the prophecy, and let him inherit the city lord, but the wife told the male protagonist that she was pregnant. After that, the hero sends someone to kill the samurai, but the samurai's son escapes. For a period of time, the castle was in a state of panic. Soon, the old city lord's son led the castle's enemies to attack the hero's castle. The male protagonist went to the woods to find the monster again, and the monster told him that unless the woods moved, he would not lose. The hero returned happily and told all the soldiers about the monster. The next day, the woods really moved, and the soldiers inside the castle fled. The hero orders everyone to attack, but the soldiers shoot arrows at him. In the end, the hero died under the arrows, and the hero's wife became mentally abnormal.
This movie is a Kurosawa Akira movie. For Europeans and Americans, this should be the Asian director they are most familiar with. Because of this, the films directed by Akira Kurosawa have a good reputation among Europeans and Americans, or have high ratings on IMDB, or have won major film awards. In short, Kurosawa's movies are not liked by Europeans and Americans, but very much liked. For these reasons, such a film with a simple theme and a dull story can only enter IMDB250.
The theme of this film is very simple, that is, to show human desires, just like the song sung in the title: "Human desires are like a tragic battlefield, no matter ancient or modern, they will never change." Radio tells people that human desires are never-ending and will never change. These stories told through movies can tell all: in order to achieve his goals, a person can abandon all kinds of beliefs, can betray anyone, and can have blood on his hands, even if he is in a passive state. I don't know how many times I've mentioned this topic in movies at all times, at home and abroad, so I don't have any special feeling after watching this film. To put it simply, Akira Kurosawa is telling people the big truth...
Of course, this film is adapted from Shakespeare's famous play "Macbeth", it's a fact to repeat others. Therefore, if the film wants to be excellent, it must naturally show its own characteristics. However, I am a layman when it comes to filming, and I do not understand the various techniques of filming and the meaning beyond the picture, so I won't say much. In fact, I feel the same about this film as "Chaos", they all have exquisite and cliché stories, but the shooting is very dull. Hey, Kurosawa Akira's film adaptations are better than his original works. I still like "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon".
Even so, I still want to say how the film feels to me: it very traditionally reproduces the atmosphere of that era in Japan, including the communication between people, the relationship between the protagonist and the family, and the kind of turbulent times. madly slaughter. To put it bluntly, this film is a window to understand Japanese culture, and the information learned from the pictures of this film far exceeds the description of words. The above is my intuitive feeling, that's all. When I watch this film, I only see this level. Will those who can write tens of thousands of words for this film laugh at me?
The wife of the hero in the movie has to be mentioned, she is the driving force behind the hero's death. Every word she said to the male protagonist revealed human ambition, and some people said that this was the external avatar of the male protagonist's desire. There is some truth to this. As the saying goes, "a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier," so a samurai who doesn't want to be a city lord is not a samurai either. However, in this film, I didn't feel the ambition of the hero. He just followed the trend and was instructed by his wife, and he didn't have any ideas subjectively. In this case, the actor's wife is the real culprit, and the actor is just a puppet. From these, we can see that one is that the sentence "Women are a disaster" is true, and the other is that everyone must stick to their own ideas-if the male protagonist doesn't listen to his wife's slander, he will not end up in such a miserable end. In short, in this film, the hero is a hapless person who is directed to follow the trend, and the real manipulator is the misfortune - the hero's wife.
Not to mention the filming, it is very traditional, very classical, so classical that there is such a strange dance in traditional Japanese culture. This dance looks very uncomfortable.
The actors in this film are average. The male protagonist Toshiro Mifune only gave me one image - blowing his beard and staring, and nothing else. He does so in this film, staring at every turn, and his staring is exaggerated, as if the eyeballs are about to fall out. The performance of the heroine's wife, Yamada Isuzu, is even more average. She is basically the same expression throughout the movie, and her mood changes only at the end of the film. In short, can't understand the performance of the actors in this film, they look very strange.
in conclusion. This is a movie with a very good reputation, but it is not suitable for a laity like me to appreciate, I can't appreciate it. Therefore, the content of this film is still left to film critics to analyze and study.
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2012-05-18
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