mourning faces

Toby 2022-04-21 09:02:55

2021/3/11Operation handling

Faced with this kind of "no action" mourning repeatedly recently, it should be recorded.

A form of idolatry often begins with the repeated mourning of the living: while the living is alive, it is assumed that the presence of the dead is a false emptiness, and the last word is considered a gift from the dying, a gift, given by This shadow warrior finally embarked on the road of replacing the monarch from the physical and political level. This is an act of recognizing Mayakovsky’s poetic imagery. The deceased leader is made into a statue. The statue itself is a symbol of idolatry. It erases the revolutionary radicality of the leader itself. A reversion to radicality, that is, "to take an additional power from the dead against the living itself" (Derrida). This removes the special floating status of the dying, and the dead, in an ethic of "faire œuvre", and shows that mourning is a ritual excluded from productivity.

But the statue is, after all, an iconography, a powerless simulation, especially when it has to live in a community. Only the image can reveal the face directly to itself, penetrating the overlapping complex with light, identifying where the heterogeneity of the two lies. For example, in the Noh drama that replaced the mass mourning ceremony after the death of Takeda Shingen, the mask, as a retelling face, pointed out to the viewer its own body—a signifier that cannot be highly simulated, so that mourning really hides Occurs at the shadow warrior in the dark part of the auditorium. Unproductive and unproductive mourning marks death, and the "complete death" presented by the clear image is irreducible.

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Extended Reading
  • Shakira 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    In the 1980s, Kurosawa had another golden period. He abandoned active intervention in reality and started a new writing of classical warrior heroes. The images of warriors with multiple identities formed a tension relationship with symbolic functions under the opposition of characters. Searching for self-awareness, experiencing heroic roles, and hypothetically realizing heroic complex; the spiritual illusion of the warrior class, a tragic epic of cultural reflection.

  • Krista 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Black director's film - stinky and long. The popularity of this film is entirely due to the inexplicable sense of oriental ritual that fooled the foreign devils. In addition to clarifying the plot, the choreography of performance scenes (especially war scenes) is lackluster

Kagemusha quotes

  • Nobukado Takeda: I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing.

  • [the double's aides are worried that others will find out he is an impostor]

    Masakage Yamagata: Little Takemaru was a problem, but the horse is worse. It can tell. Only the late lord could ride it.

    Nobufusa Baba: If the double falls off, everyone will suspect.

    Nobukado Takeda: Lord Shingen has been ill. He must refrain from riding.

    Masakage Yamagata: Good idea.

    Masatane Hara: There are many other problems. We must be careful to keep the late lord's intentions.

    Katsusuke Atobe: Tonight he will have to meet the late lord's mistresses. How will he be with them?

    Masakage Yamagata: Our master has been ill. He must refrain from riding.