The first Japanese black and white movie I watched was not directed by Akira Kurosawa, and the overall look and feel was good. The play is really similar to many of Lu Xun's works. Behind the vigorous maintenance of the old rules of old things is the human blood price paid against the trend of the times, which is very ironic. The structure of the play is very good at using interlude, expanding the main line that happened in a day and interlocking various interlude layers, making the story very layered and more ups and downs.
Audiovisually, it is basically a typical technique. There are a few shots that impressed me deeply, such as a depth-of-field shot showing the couple unable to sit down in the front and back, and the diagonal composition when the samurai confronts the head of the house, etc. The camera movement in the whole film is very slow, but the rhythm of the film is not protracted. On the one hand, it is the switching of the rhythm in the play, on the other hand, it benefits from the slow and catchy music of the film. Control the rhythm.
Finally, back to the theme, the film first fully displays the Bushido spirit, and then smashes it with a realistic event, and at the end of the film, how many lives did the Ii family lose to maintain the Bushido spirit that is just a "facade". Satire.
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