The first dream in Akira Kurosawa's "Dream" asked the students to look at them and ask them how they felt, but not many could say something, most of them were far-fetched, and most of them "didn't understand".
This dream is divided into four parts in structure: 1. Mother's warning. On a rainy day, the mother packed up the things hanging outside, and by the way told the child that the fox got married on a rainy day and could not watch it. 2. The child saw the fox getting married. The child ran into the forest and saw the fox getting married. Akira Kurosawa borrowed Japanese Noh to create a weird and terrifying scene. 3. Mother's ultimatum. After returning home, the mother said that the angry fox had come and left a knife. The mother asked the child to go to the fox and ask for forgiveness. 4. The child saw a rainbow on the mountain covered with flowers.
Of course, for works, "the death of the author" is common sense, and everyone has the right to reconstruct the meaning of this work.
One netizen explained: "The rain is over and the sky is fine, and the boy is walking towards the rainbow with a dagger in the field of wild flowers blooming. The picture of the film is beautiful and cruel, because the child does not know his future destiny." I thought it was very good. He opened up the story with multiple possibilities for the ending. This is the sweetest analysis I've seen.
However, I would like to explain from the perspective of the boundaries of knowledge.
I thought, this is a story of seeing beautiful scenery without being punished. My mother overestimated the fox's marriage. In her opinion, foxes can't be seen getting married, otherwise disaster is imminent, but she hasn't seen them. Later, the fox came to visit and left the dagger, and she took it for granted that the fox urged her son to commit suicide. I think this mother is very incompetent. She did not think about her son from the beginning, but was immersed in the horror of self-deception. It is a typical self-censorship, and she has no courage to fight and explore. Even the things she said about the fox's visit may be a lie made up to teach her son. The son did not obey his mother's advice, not only saw the fox marry, but also saw the rainbow. These are all beautiful scenery of life, belong to children. Because the child has not heard the legend, he has a strong curiosity about the world; his ignorance is precisely the reason for fearlessness. We can't be as fearless as children, and we can't see otherwise.
As for the knife left by the fox, why must it be used for suicide—people didn’t invent knives to wipe their necks—to cut through thorns and thorns, and to be invincible. I think it's a gift from the fox to the child.
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