Rarely heal, always care, always comfort

Sadye 2022-01-12 08:01:38

The film is full of humanistic care. As a former medical practitioner, I still have a good impression of this kind of film with medical practitioners as the protagonist, and I very much recognize a few of the concepts:

1. In the final analysis, many diseases are poor diseases, and poor diseases are social diseases that cannot be cured by doctors.

2. In the face of most patients, medicine is actually powerless. In this regard, although Red Beard is respected as a famous doctor, he himself is still very clear. Regardless of the era of the red beard, it is still today that most diseases are restored by self-immunity, and drugs and treatments can play a small role. Even from the perspective of evidence-based medicine, many drugs have negative effects.

3. Even so, doctors are still useful.

What is the value of the healer?

Rarely to cure, always to care, always to comfort.

What the healer needs is not only to heal the human body, but also to heal the human mind.

There are several important characters in the film, and I feel that everyone’s story can be made into a film:

1. Crazy rich lady: How did her father raise her, so that she was violated by her own store guys over and over again, and she couldn't make complaints. The scene of her dealing with the young doctor reminded me of "Instinct".

2. The woman who married her mother's lover: It was a tragic fate. Her mother was also very strange. She gave up her daughter in order to keep her lover, but this kind of case seems to still be reported in the news today. The sorrow of the old age, without economic freedom, there would be no personal freedom. She gave him three children, which was even more tragic.

3. The man whose wife escaped: This is also a tragedy. He and his wife are talking to each other. One day he suddenly went home and saw that his wife was gone. A few years later, I ran into each other on the street and found out that she had been married as another wife and gave birth to a baby. This woman is also quite weird. Why didn't she refuse at the first time, why she defected to others later, and why she committed suicide in the end? ?

4. A prostitute who was almost forced to sell herself: Although the scene of her wanting to buy a bowl through begging moved me, I still feel that to be loved, one must first love herself. Unfortunately, this kind of life is unworthy of praise for people who care about themselves.

5. The seven-year-old "Little Mouse" who stole things: His conversation was impressive, "I want to become a horse so that there is grass everywhere and I won’t go hungry." Later, the whole family hanged themselves. , Is also quite shocking. Let him die, or let him live humble, this is an unsolvable ethical question.

The university has a course "Medical Ethics", teachers and classmates do not pay attention to it, but I still like it. I always feel that the doctors we train always lack some humanistic care.

Today, the overall situation of society has been greatly improved, but there are still poverty, ignorance, disasters, and human physical and mental diseases are more complicated. We still have to uphold the principles of the year, rarely cure, and always care. It is to comfort.

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Extended Reading
  • Ethyl 2022-04-22 07:01:45

    It is still quite simple and warm in the process of watching movies. I always think that works like "Twenty-Four Eyes" are not complicated. Now it seems that fewer and fewer people will try this kind of work. It's a pity; but to be honest, Akira Kurosawa How distrustful of the audience.. Some of the plot shots, which are quite subtle in themselves, imply a character action, imply a final character dialogue or even a self-talk. Anyway, I must say it again..

  • Joannie 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    [China Film Archive Kurosawa Akira Film Festival] Through the medical hall opened by Red Beard, the stories of seven individuals, including disciples, nurses, and patients, are drawn. The plot is as rich as a series of multi-episodes melodrama, showing the Edo period The miserable life of the poor and the bottom people and their yearning for a better life. Sad but still hopeful. The crazy girl recounts a scene, a long shot can switch freely between the middle and close shots, and the scheduling of the shots is amazing! The upper half is better than the procrastinated lower half. This is the last film that Kurosawa Akira and Toshiro Mifune have collaborated with. From then on until Mifune's death, the two never interacted.

Red Beard quotes

  • Dr. Noboru Yasumoto: It smells like rotten fruit.

    Genzo Tsugawa: It's the smell of the poor.

  • Genzo Tsugawa: We knew you were coming two weeks ago. It seems he likes you. He's unfriendly to people he likes. Not me. He never finds fault with me. He ignores me completely.