Akira Kurosawa's film makes people feel Buddhist
Looking up, the shadow warrior is the era of epic turbulence. The eve of the victory of the Xinxuan four-color army siege. Can put the flag on the dream of Kyoto... The retreating soldiers are changing long and short shadows under the fiery red sunset in the desert about to fall to the ground In a misty morning on the sea, the boat carrying the wine urn containing Shingen's body gradually disappears A few years later, the three old retainers of Takeda Molu met in the heavens to meet to see you again. The return of Duke Xinxuan reveals a sense of disillusionment and impermanence of the changing times...
From a young age, I looked at the story of Takeda Shingen, the story of the shadow warrior. The side description of the film made me marvel at the fact that even though Shingen died early, his existence was not weakened for a moment. Instead, he passed through his retainers, through his attendants, through his younger brother Shinlian, and through his The enemy is strengthened again and again by trying to imitate his shadow, he is everywhere, and can even scare off the enemy when he is dead...
Looking at the shadow warrior is also a personal story of shadow. He jumped from a small person who was to be nailed to death for stealing to the center of the stage of the times, never reluctantly wanted to escape overnight until he found Xinxuan dead and struggled. Finally, he felt grateful. The kindness he met and the people around Shingen infected him and he decided to do something for him. He had to work hard to live like Shingen, deal with his retainers, deal with his wives and concubines, deal with his children, deal with his enemies... In many ways he did well but A well-informed retainer, when satisfied with his performance, never forgets his disgusting background as a thief. In the cold eyes of many retainers, his role as Shingen's shadow is necessary and useful, but that's all. Only Shingen who has also played Shingen's shadow. Lian Cai knows very well that suppressing his own nature and living like someone else in a crisis that may arise at any time will be as painful as being nailed to death... But he still perseveres. He even learned that Xinxuan is immovable on the cruel battlefield. It looks like he respects Xinxuan more and more and resembles Xinxuan more and more, so much so that he is confident that he can ride his horse like Xinxuan... It may be Xinxuan's kindness that made him persevere in those years. After being a disgusting little person for half a lifetime, the sense of action and achievement brought by being a great actor like Xinxuan and being active in the center of the times may be that he has become a spiritual follower of Xinxuan as he gradually understands him. There is a little grandson at home that he likes... In front of people who don't know, he must always keep in mind that he is Shingen, and often collapses and sweats profusely. In front of people who know, he can feel the other party sometimes revealing and hiding. The cold eyes in the depths of the pupils can only be more relaxed in front of the little grandson This kind of enjoyment that he feels from the heart is called the joy of family, so when he was kicked out of the Takeda family, his only wish was to say goodbye to his little grandson, but after losing his identity as Shingen, he will never be able to touch that world again.
Looking back, as the shadow of Xinxuan's actor, his choices are actually free most of the time. His roar at the beginning shows that in his cognition, stealing is not such a terrible thing in this turbulent era. After all Those big men are fighting against each other and plundering the name of the hero behind the dead body. As a person who was about to die, he was not afraid of threatening him. The choice was made by himself most of the time, from playing Shingen to refusing to play Shingen and then to Playing the role of Shingen to the end of his martyrdom... But this kind of freedom doesn't make us feel happy at all. On the contrary, his life experience shows us how little people can't help themselves like rootless duckweeds under the turbulent times of the times.
Finally, I come back to the place that makes me feel a little similar to the movie "Ran". In "Ran", the old protagonist has gone through the process of retiring from retirement to being betrayed by relatives and guards, dead and homeless, and finally from madness. Turning around and riding the same horse with Saburo and returning to see hope, Saburo was shot and died in an instant. Not by some well-planned scheme Not by the splendor of sword fighting on the battlefield Not by whom or why Not by dying for whom or why Not by dying so suddenly and by nameless . . . When it was full, I suddenly poured a basin of cold water on you, so that you can clearly realize the insignificance of yourself relative to the heaven and the earth relative to fate Even in great detail and tirelessly, the little fat unknown soldier who shot Shingen re-demonstrates how he fires with his little dexterity. you can't stop
That's why I said that watching Akira Kurosawa's movies will make people become Buddhist
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