High expectations

Dessie 2022-01-11 08:02:34

I can't live without expectations for Kurosawa, especially the Delsu he interprets. But this movie disappointed me. The most glamorous part of Del Su in the original book is forgotten by the movie. Del Su, who is like a quick and free cheetah in nature, disappears. What we see is a hunter who is optimistic and capable, but thin in image. The whole film has a heavy philosophical taste, but there is a danger of falling into preaching.
Kurosawa is good at talking about human nature, but he rarely stumbles in front of Del Su. I don't know why.
Many details make me dissatisfied with this film. For example, Kurosawa chose a crowd of Mongolian descent to play Delsu, but in fact, hunters in the Ussuri Mountains should not have the iconic O-shaped legs of the Mongols (the result of long-term horse riding?) , I don’t remember that there are such O-shaped legs on Del Su’s photo in the original book. These legs make people look really uncomfortable.
There are still some great masterpieces worth seeing. Xingkai Lake is risky for a period of time. The sunset at the end of the horizon is blurred by the wind and snow. In the close view, Delsu and Captain are desperately cutting the reeds to get their lives. There is no such courage.

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Extended Reading
  • Jessyca 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    The first film after Akira Kurosawa's attempted suicide was a Japanese-Soviet co-production. A film about man and nature, Del Su Uzala is like 1900 in later films, and his forest is the 1900 point ship. Uzala is uncomfortable in all aspects of the city, but is free in the forest. He is happy, he is the son of nature. The film is too long, the rhythm is slow and there are no ups and downs, it looks too boring, and Akira Kurosawa's style is very light, and it won the Oscar for best foreign language film. Finally, this tm is our Chinese land, and the Hezhe people are Chinese. Lao Maozi occupied a lot of our land more than 100 years ago. 7 points.

  • Hollie 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    Watch Akira Kurosawa's second film in 2021. Delsu Uzala, an old Hezhe hunter, all his relatives died of smallpox. He roams and lives in the forest alone. His belief is animism, the sun is a man, the water is a man, and the wind is a man. People, forests are also people... He can talk to all people, and finally he met the Tsarist Russia survey team and acted as their guide along the way, saving their lives, and finally he was old and could not see the prey, and was kind-hearted. The commander brought him to live in the city, still yearning for nature, and finally returned to the forest and died in the forest. When Akira Kurosawa fell into the bottom of his life of attempted suicide, he went to the Soviet Union to make this film about man and nature. Much Western literature, especially Russian literature, has been influenced by it.

Dersu Uzala quotes

  • Dersu Uzala: My home nowhere. Small hut in mountains where I can sleep. That my home.

  • Arsenev: They call me Arseniev. What about you?

    Dersu Uzala: Dersu Uzala.