untouchable person

Bernhard 2022-04-23 07:05:54

It must be the live-action version of "Insect Master" that caused me a lot of damage. For a long time, comics and movies have become my restricted area. At that time, I was busy dealing with weird personnel affairs, and I was indulged in the trouble of not being able to write novels. What kind of Rurouni Kenshin live-action movie, I have never heard of it. Now the news of the second and third volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin live-action version is sweeping like fire. I'm not a fan of the TV version, and I haven't read the comics, only "Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance" was a huge impact when I was very young. At that time, I was still young, but I was immersed in accepting all the stories in the plot. Beautiful and sad. From time to time, I think of it when my life changes, drag it out to take a look, and wash the time. So in today's film, seeing Hiimura Kenshin in Mr. Gui's mansion, receiving orders and silently assassinating the shogun, with cruel methods and simple motives, I was moved to tears. The layout of the Japanese-style house, the lighting of the scene, the tone of Mr. Gui's speech, Kenshin's standing posture, hairstyle and even clothing, all fall to the front of the eyes from the reminiscence chapter. In addition, what absolutely cannot be shown in animation is the static and infinite subtleties of real people. The same Kenshin, Sato Ken just standing like this is completely different from the two-dimensional one. The picture of the film breathes together with my present reality and the memory that I have recovered from the yellow spring, and the surrounding scenery has a pervasive connection with any details of the picture. The actor's performance is extremely delicate, neither overdone nor underdone, and can quietly lead people to the deepest part of the situation at any time, and I don't know when they can turn back. After the end of "Memories", I never thought about what Kenshin Hiimura did and what it would become. The TV version is a 17-year-old, full of enthusiasm, cute and kind-hearted young man. He is very different from the silent assassin in "Memories", who kills decisively, has blood on his sword, and is good at enjoying the wind and drinking. The two roles have overlapped. It wasn't until I saw the live-action version of Kenshin Hiicura that I saw the continuation of the life of the boy who deeply hurt him in my memory. He is still the Hiicun Kenshin who is silent and has a sharp sword edge and is good at enjoying the wind and drinking. It's just that the blade is no longer bloody. He's still a little cute, and the little childlike pleasures shown in "Remembrance" - this is his cut-off childhood - are still carried on in the movie. The images in several scenes naturally link Hiimura Kenshin's past. His sense of language is too strong. For viewers who haven't watched the reminiscence chapter, it may be just melancholy, but in my opinion, it is completely clear to see the activities of Hiimura Kenshin's inner turnover when he speaks every word. Once a feared assassin, and his brutal ways—as if he was only pursuing the most bleeding and most destructive methods...he killed until the end of the shogunate. After the new era, it is too unforgivable to want to stop the sword and be a person who protects peace. From the age of fourteen, before he understood what murder was, his hands were full of blood. After gradually understanding, he has been pulled into an infinite sense of guilt and cannot turn back. After realizing how many people's happiness and how many people's lives I have destroyed, the sense of guilt and repentance in my heart cannot be recognized or interpreted. Because it's too big for him. It's the eternal pain that he can't make up for with a few lives. Dying is easy. (Although he is very difficult to kill in terms of swordsmanship and movement, unless he commits suicide.) If he dies, the only way is to commit suicide. It is possible to express atonement, but it is still cheap. His life might be more valuable to those he killed. Being alive can still protect people - this is his involuntary passive choice. Every swing of the knife is a ludicrous redemption of wishful thinking. But only in this way can the deceased and the path he chose before have value. But he Living like this is like walking dead. In the deep and silent long confession, Xuedaiba is the heavy snow flying in his heart, which makes his heart extremely cold. He hadn't talked about this woman with anyone he knew later, including his master. After she died, no matter what she drank, it only tasted of blood. Simply masochistic to put yourself in the most painful way. He accepts what he has done, does not obliterate it, and does not regret it to the point of fear. In his silent repentance, he was thinking of Shedaba all the time. "One of them was made by a young samurai. The other was made by the wife of that samurai." Facing the exaggerated cross wound, he just gave such a "respectful" explanation. Behind homage, repentance, and love lies the purest tenderness. This calm and slow line directly brought tears to my eyes. Only then did I understand Kenshin's choice for this matter. What kind of mentality did the swordsman who disappeared after the "Remembrance" face that incident, and what shape did the wound take to explain the world. What kind of person a person is depends on the choices he makes when faced with certain things. So he became such a person. Such a gentle person. He "cherished" his own life, also because his life was earned by Shedaba's sacrifice. The more you understand what you have, the more you understand that other people's lives are equally valuable and cannot be harmed or given up. Such contradictions are intertwined, and they accumulate deeper and deeper in silent repentance. The master saw everything in his apprentice more clearly than Gu Qingjurou. He saw clearly his kindness, the motives of all decisions, and the consequences of his apprentice continuing like this. "You will die." "You will be brought to death by a sense of repentance." His inward repentance is non-aggressive toward the world. Therefore, his swordsmanship is not as sharp as from the front, his movement is somewhat relaxed, and his swordsmanship cannot be advanced. The plot of "The Last Chapter of Den Said" is not complicated, but it uses a slow long shot to make Kenshin realize a very subtle and very heavy truth. To convince yourself to live normally. Treat swordsmanship normally, fall in love normally, and feel the world normally. For Kenshin, it was very difficult, and it was not until the thirteenth year that he began to realize it. As for sin and remorse, I cannot judge. After all, no one in the world is Kenshin, such a romanticized person. Only the Japanese can create such a beautiful, sharp, gentle, and remorseful introspective character. For us, there is only "beauty". The story doesn't matter, only the state of "beauty" matters. In addition, there is a story with twists and turns of time. "Rurouni Kenshin Remembrance" OVA is 199 9 years public offering. The year before Meiji, Hiimura killed the shogun as an executioner; in the thirteenth year of Meiji, he suddenly appeared in the Tokyo Dojo to continue his story. The live-action film "Rurouni Kenshin" premiered in July 2012, which is 13 years apart from 1999. It seems that this kind of fate was deliberately created, allowing me to travel through time at the same speed as the film, tossing around in the world behind me, and now I see the sun again, as if the spirits were just brewed to the most mellow concentration. I'm the best time to watch this movie right now, and the miss in 2012 must have been intentional by fate. For me now, it is also the best moment to meet Takeshi Sato. 2015.3.26

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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins quotes

  • [Kenshin is going to kill Jin-E]

    Kaoru Kamiya: KENSHIN, DON'T! Don't become a manslayer again... Please don't kill him... Kenshin... For those who died by your blade... And for everyone whose life you have saved... Please don't kill him... A sword that doesn't kill... A sword that can protect... For this new age of peace... Isn't that what you fought for?

  • [Kaoru thinks Kenshin has left, then he appears with groceries]

    Kaoru Kamiya: Welcome home, Kenshin.

    Kenshin Himura: ...I'm home. That I am.