Japan's samurai spirit has always been admirable, but without a suitable living environment, how would these samurai survive?
When Guan Liu waved his hand in his yard, the meal was started. As a result, a large group of warriors came to eat from all directions, as if a group of beggars had received alms from the landlord. This makes me feel very embarrassed that the samurai of the past can be reduced to such a situation.
This is a samurai movie, which tells the story of a samurai who was outstanding in swordsmanship in the past, after quitting killing and fighting for justice. The tone of the whole story is light, but we need to put aside the Chinese logic of the 21st century to explore the meaning of this film. In a distant Japan, in a distant era, what kind of environment did the people living there live in? There were gangs of rogues who forcibly robbed the martial arts hall. I thought the local security team would ignore it, but they were taken away by the police in a blink of an eye.
When the story loses its logic, we can only explore its meaning outside the logic. Just as portraits don't take the appearance of the characters as the only standard, because then the camera will become the best portrait artist.
The traditional system cannot guarantee the stability of society at any time, because when the evil turns around, it can survive in a grand manner. For example, like Guanliu, he is called an industrialist, but behind him, he hires murderers to kill, manufactures and sells drugs, buys arms, and does all kinds of evil.
Fourteen years ago, some relevant personnel set up such an organization. This organization hired some highly skilled people to assassinate those perpetrators within the scope of legal protection. The male protagonist of the film is a well-known figure in this institution. His name is Hiicura Kenshin, and he is also known as Drawing Sword Studio. After many assassinations, he found that his killings also brought a lot of pain, especially after he assassinated a samurai who was about to marry, the next day he saw the samurai's wife kneeling on the ground and crying. He then quit the group and led the life of a wanderer.
Live by the sword, die by the sword, this is what the samurai of the past and the police of today often say. Killing will bring hatred, hatred will bring killing, cutting off this relationship is the mission of this counter-blade knife, and this is the answer of drawing the sword. But in this film, no matter which sentence is deeply portrayed, on the contrary, I think a sentence said in Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" is more in line with the theme of this film. How much responsibility there is. After drawing a sword, he will still encounter all kinds of injustices after returning to seclusion, so he needs to take responsibility.
Sometimes you make relative choices and you get the same result, a lesson the samurai police taught Totosai. When evil is indulged, they come to do evil again. The second time I saw the crying back, the corpses that fell in front of me were the actions of a group of village ruffians who had fought against him a few days ago. The samurai police told him that if you killed those people, you would not have done it. There will be today's dire results. This also makes me feel embarrassed, because when you want to reflect a profound topic, please come up with more convincing facts. We never knew how many souls were under the sword of the samurai who was about to get married in the past, let alone The responsibility of the police and others who died this time is attributed to the people who were left under the sword at the beginning of the sword. We should not seek deep meaning from imprecise stories, because the lack of logical reasoning is difficult to be convincing. We should understand its meaning and respect it, rather than accepting it based on lack of logic facts And agree, such behavior is more like the instigation of feudal superstition.
In the era of police, when we get some criminal information about criminals, we should call the police and let the police solve the problem. But in the story, no one actually took this approach. The police seemed to have a helpless choice. Miss Hui was a novice in sword dancing, but after she learned that Guan Liu had poisoned the well, she brought a knife with her. I want to go to assassinate Guan Liu. I think this is also a "superstition" kind of behavior. It tells us that we should be full of justice in our hearts, but it does not give us a proper path to maintain justice at all, but only proves our inner justice through the sacrifice of moths to flames. feel.
Of course, Ba Dao Zhai also made the same choice. He took a companion to Guan Liu's mansion. But relatively speaking, he is at least more powerful than He Ye. In this bloodless fight, in the end all Guan Liu's subordinates were defeated, and he himself was also captured. But I can't figure out, if the samurai police didn't show up in time, then after drawing a weapon and pointing at Guanliu, what exactly should he do. If he was going to send it to the police station, why didn't he say hello to the police earlier?
This is an extremely vicious crime, poisoning the well and infecting many people with disease. But in the end, the reason why the police came was because the kid was afraid that the two of them would not be able to deal with Guan Liu's team, so he went to greet the police. From the beginning to the end, they did not take into account the need to call the police for this poisoning incident.
In the end, there was a duel, a warrior with high martial arts who originally worked for Guanliu, he captured Miss Xun, and then aroused the anger of Tuo Zhai, and finally Ba Dao Zhai abolished his hand and did not kill him. he. But then he killed himself with a knife. I feel inexplicable. If there is any hatred between him and Ba Daozhai, then he will try to kill Ba Daozhai. If it is just for a competition, why would he have to lose his life like this, and be said to be so vicious in the end curse.
About beliefs.
The police samurai and the swordsman have different beliefs, one wants to eliminate evil by killing, and the other wants to cut off killing and hatred.
But two people don't understand why the other has such beliefs, they just stick to what they agree with. This may be a kind of insistence, but it's also absurd. If you don't try to understand people who are contrary to your beliefs , then how can you correctly understand your own beliefs.
Is this again like the favorite trick of those demagogues who never try to convince people with facts and reason, but just want to confuse your heart and make you follow in their footsteps.
So, with regard to belief, I think, more important than persistence, is understanding.
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