Timeless warmth~

Chelsea 2022-04-20 09:02:50

Look at Qingbingwei at dusk.

"Twilight" was called by the protagonist's colleagues behind their backs because he made fun of him. It means that this person is very strange not to participate in the activities between colleagues. After the master announced "I'll be here today", he got up and said, "Let's say goodbye." Back home before dusk. There are two lovely and sensible daughters, aged 10 and 5, and a debilitated and delirious mother. His wife died of tuberculosis a few years ago. Qingbingwei's monthly salary was only fifty shi, and his wife's funeral depended on the income from selling the samurai sword. Qingbingwei did not have big ambitions. In his view, he kept himself in order, received his monthly salary on time, fished and chopped firewood in his spare time to make insect cages, and took good care of his daughter and mother, and everything went well. Life is like a small stream, flowing forward slowly until Miss Pengjiang appears. Pengjiang is a friend's younger sister and a childhood playmate. After the divorce, he has been living at his brother's house and waiting to find another home. When a friend mentioned that Pengjiang and Qingbingwei were married, Qingbingwei reluctantly rejected him, thinking that as a low-level warrior, Miss Pengjiang would never get happiness when she married, but may also add shame to the family. Of course, Miss Pengjiang didn't understand the reason. Fortunately, Qingbingwei asked the young lady to come to the house to help take care of it before performing the mission in the vassal. When he expressed his love since he was a child, he hurriedly left to perform the mission. After hugging each other and living a poor but sweet life for 3 years, Qingbingwei died in the fire of the Emperor's army, and Pengjiang worked hard to take care of the children. Although life is hard, the love between family members will bring greater power, which cannot be given by money and status, and will accompany the children throughout their lives.

The above is a summary of Rosso's storyline. Here are some small ideas:
1. Logically, I'm not interested in the subject of the shogunate, but I watched it carefully from the first act to the last scene of the movie. The kind of timeless warmth that is inadvertently revealed seems to be a warm and comfortable sun in the winter night. Qingbingwei supported his daughter to study, and the daughter asked curiously, "Dad, since reading is not as useful as a tailor, why do you still study. Qingbingwei replied: "That's because reading can help you think." It's a simple answer, but so simple The answer comes from the impoverished Qingbingwei, which is deeply touching. This is the hope of an immortal life. There are many more scenes like this, and the film is worth appreciating deeply. And some other films tell the story of being seriously ill. Crying loudly at the end of life and death, it may have been stinging in my heart at the time, but after the curtain was over, it was left behind, and there was nothing left. But this film is not, it is deeply imprinted in your mind.

2. Japanese by The woman's heartfelt and eloquent words are really heart-warming. For example, the narration and Miss Pengjiang's words in the play are so warm that people will be melted. But if you say it harshly, according to the difference of seniority and class, harsh words It makes people feel lonely and painful. For example, "Uncle" heard the stench of Qian in the bathhouse of Qingbingwei Province, and was blamed by the lord of the feudal lord and then criticized at home, which was very harsh. In the film, Qingbingwei's mother secretly cried afterward.

3. Weirdness in Japanese culture. Weirdness is to me, without any emotion. Lord Yuwu could have escaped, but when I heard that Seibei just brought a bamboo sword, he was furious and thought it was disrespectful to himself, and it was not worth dying in the end, Too fancy some unnecessary things such as names, etc. Compared with precious lives, names and the like are nothing to talk about.

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The Twilight Samurai quotes

  • Ito: With a sick wife, two young daughters and an aged mother in his care, my father was unable to drink with his colleagues. He had to hurry home every evening at dusk. I was told the men he worked with gave him the cruel nickname of 'Twilight Seibei'.

  • Kayano Iguchi: Father, If I learn to do needlework someday I can make kimonos. But what good will book learning ever do me?

    Seibei Iguchi: Well, it probably won't ever be as useful as needlework. But you know, book learning gives you the power to think. However the world might change, if you have the power to think you'll always survive somehow. That's true for boys and for girls. All right?

    Kayano Iguchi: Yes.