The first one I saw was Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune, but Nakadai did not lose to Mifune in the movie hahahahaha. In this movie, two people represent different things, so there is no difference between winning and losing. But having said that, in other movies starring the two of them, especially in samurai movies, the roles of the two of them are often different values, but the two of them will conflict. For example, in the Bodhisattva Ridge, the three ships are kind. , Nakadai is death, for example, in the deadly sword, Mifune is the heart of the samurai, and Nakadai is the soul of the samurai. In this movie, Nakadai plays justice, and Mifune plays a person who is the guardian of people. At the beginning of the film, a very important image appeared: shoes, Mifune is the leader of the shoe company, he said a very important sentence, to the effect: shoes are things that carry people's weight. Since he learned that the boy was kidnapped, he was destined to give money, because his belief in making shoes is to make something that can carry people. A pair of shoes is a tool that bears the weight of people and walks between heaven and earth. It carries people. If a person's life itself is threatened, then Mitsubun will definitely pay the ransom. But is it because of this that the preciousness of shoes and appliances (in Mifune's meaning, the career of protecting people's dwellings) has been abandoned? no. What is abandoned is the height of the career, not the essence of the career. Just like the essence of human beings (think of a friend hahaha), the essence of the career that protects people’s habitat will not be lost, because the earth and the sky The patrol in time is the place of human nature. Looking back at the kidnapper’s behavior, what did the kidnapper hate? It is a human representation of the opposition between heaven and hell, or just this opposition. He saw his simple residence and a three-ship mansion standing high on the hill, so he became dissatisfied. His dissatisfaction stems from the valuation of the residence, life, and everything. With valuation, there will be opposition and opposition. The essence is threatened. The threat does not lie in "I will kill this child". The threat lies in: My valuation can make the world forget all humanity! Let the world become the object of valuation and valuation, change Like the directors of other companies in the movie who are driven by material desires.
Therefore, the two conflicting parties in the movie are the three boats who guard the essence of human beings, and the kidnappers who are persecuted/driven by modern society and have forgotten all essential things (if the kidnapper really forgets the essence of human beings, then he is separated from human The essence? How the film demonstrates this, I will talk about it later).
And between the two, the conflict occurs with the help of the people and the police. They are people who uphold social justice. They are often in between. The ending of the film obviously protects social justice and the law is enforced. But what What's the price? The life of an addict! However, this is the consequence of justice. This justice is by no means the justice required by the shoemaker played by Mifune, but the justice required by society. If Mifune is allowed to choose: sentence the kidnapper to death and sacrifice an addict, or The kidnapper is only sentenced to 15 years. There is no doubt that he will choose the latter, because the shoemaker is always the one who guards the walking of people, just like Kurosawa is always the one who guards the patrolling between the world and the earth.
Regarding the kidnappers, he is a bit reminiscent of the protagonist of crime and punishment Raskolnikov (haha, I remember it), he is still bound by the appearance of society he projected, and he believes in his own hatred. And justice, but he did not realize how his appearance is an appearance: just because he is also a person, he can fall, and can give people’s lives and put them on a price tag. When the victim appears in front of him, He is almost insane (at the end of the film, Mifune goes to meet the kidnapper who is about to be executed) because he discovers that the other party is not an appearance, and will not fall into the misfortune he imagined because of his behavior, because as mentioned earlier, Mifune’s work , Its essence has not been threatened. So he sees himself clearly, what he has forgotten long ago: he is a thing that cannot be fully represented, he is a person. This situation is somewhat reminiscent: if you let metaphysics look in the mirror, it will definitely be mad.
Finally, I want to say: If you imagine that the one who lives on the top of the mountain is one of several other directors, what will happen? First of all, they will definitely not pay the ransom. Like the kidnappers, they believe that they live in the opposite of the "hell" at the bottom of the mountain. "Heaven". Therefore they will not choose to sacrifice their property. The kidnappers may tear up their votes. What will happen to the public opinion of the society and blame those directors? No, public opinion will only sympathize with the victims, because everyone thinks that if they are themselves, they will not hand over the money. At this time, they will also be reduced to believing in the existence of "the heaven and hell of valuation." It can be seen that the public opinion in the movie, or the public, can only circulate between "heaven and hell" and "heaven and earth". They are torn apart by these two forces, sometimes forgotten and sometimes remembered.
It may be said that the real heaven is the nature of man being guarded, and the real hell is the nature of man being forgotten and the races on the earth, people, living in the two.
In any case, the ending of Akira Kurosawa gives hope.
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