"Rurouni Kenshin" is a work that needs to be linked together to understand. Although each has its own theme and has its own independent and complete story, if you look at each in isolation, you will feel that it is incomplete. It feels to reach the culmination in the third "The End of the Legend". In addition, the entire series of "Rurouni Kenshin" as an action movie always has a very strong narrative core, so it cannot be viewed as a pure special effects movie, but the martial arts cannot be ignored. In the part, using martial arts instead of lines, facial expressions, and daily actions to tell stories and express characters, requires the audience to have a more keen understanding. The several important battles of Jianxin may not be so gorgeous in the scenes and actions, but they actually bear the burden. Very important task of expressing characters. The martial arts scenes of the whole series have a very significant feature. Partial close-ups are rarely given. The actors’ faces are often blurred by sweat and stains so that they can’t be seen clearly. Most of the shots show the overall posture of the characters and their Weapon.
At first, the imagination of Kenshin in "Rurouni Kenshin" is a story of a hidden master punishing the strong and helping the weak in troubled times, but this kind of story that simply shows personal heroism is still slightly boring. The real Jianxin is just like the title, a wandering soul at the end of the screen, constantly searching for his place in this world. At first, he established himself in this world with a sword, hoping to use his weapons to establish order and practice justice in an unordered world. This part of the tragedy can probably be attributed to the contradiction between the spirit and the flesh. How can a weak soul control the powerful? Body? His mind completely collapsed in front of Qingli's dead soul, but was stitched up by Qingli's fiancee Xuedaiba. After reading "Reminiscence", understanding the story between Badaozhai and Xuedaiba is the last piece of Jianxin's puzzle. Xuedaiba is not the kind of vengeful woman who falls in love with the murderer in the conventional context. Her story has even greater revelation. Ai Qingli is real, revenge is real, and it is also real to fall in love with Jianxin and decide to protect him with death. Xuedaiba’s life is like a slowly flowing river. She decides to take revenge, and she decides to protect her enemy, these two people The huge transformation of life was just a turn of the river without any hindrance. She left home and embarked on the road of revenge, and she was free from the shackles of social morality. Under the protection of Jianxin, she was also rare in the chaotic world. She was clean every day. Recording her heart in her own little world and insisting on keeping a diary is Xuedaiba's way of asking her heart. There is love and hate in that thin book, but her heart is always a flawless pure white. The knife that Xuedaiba blocked in order to protect Jianxin, the rain of blood sprinkled in the snow, the silent "I'm sorry", the silent picture is really beautiful, it is the picture itself, but also the tragedy. The shock. Xuedaiba left Jianxin with a complete cross scar before his death. This cross scar has become synonymous with Jianxin ten years later, but if you think about the original meaning of the two scars, you will realize how much Jianxin is. Poor character, because half of his life was built on such a tragedy. So I think this is also the reason why Ba apologized to Kenshin. She felt the fragility of Jianxin’s mind and apologized for her inability to accompany her. At the same time, in order to support Jianxin’s fragile life (mind), she chose to work with her fiancé for Kenshin. There is a scar that will never go away, even if the meaning behind this scar is so bleak, she apologizes for having to leave such a mark.
The second choice of Badaosai, who failed to gain a foothold by force, naturally became to live to protect the happiness of his lover, but the relationship between Badaosai and Xuedaiba was destined to be a tragedy. The second half of the whole story gives people a very strong sense of fate. The thread of fate is entwined with the sword fast, which makes him doomed to experience killing and pain. It seems that he must experience ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties to get beyond the world and achieve real happiness. Thinking about it this way, this again seems to be a story of calamity. Rie Megumi told Sanosuke that the scar on Kenshin's face was too deep to disappear for a long time, and the cross scar was still deeply imprinted on Kenshin's face at the end of the movie version, so even though it was a happy ending , The haze that used to be a dagger-sai is still looming over this man who has become Kenshin of Himura. Sometimes it is difficult for me to tell whether the tragedy is too profound, making the characters busy for the happiness of Kenshin's life seem too shallow. Looking at Sanosuke and Kaoru Kamiya, this feeling is particularly strong. The scene of the companions that must be brought together in the Japanese Hot Blood Manga also makes people feel unnatural. The "End of the Legend", where several partners are fighting together, does not have a very high evaluation of the scene of Zhan Zhi Zhixiong. In the final chapter, this model is still used. It can only be said that cutting the grass looks pretty cool, but is it really necessary to take out all the characters and emphasize the feeling of the "grand finale"? On the other hand, the ending means to say goodbye to the past siblings and brothers of Xuedaiba. When I saw the ending, I wondered whether Jianxin could usher in real happiness after experiencing so much pain? In the last shot, the tombstone with a small flower on it representing Xuedaiba stands quietly behind Kenshin and Kaoru. Perhaps the dead Ba will be waiting silently for the happiness of his lover in the sky. It is also in line with his heart. It is the Bajiao that gave Jianxin.
The narrative rhythm of each film strictly follows the pattern of inheritance and transformation, because Kenshin’s own story is of excellent quality, the sense of routine is not too strong, and the director’s excellent performance in some key plots concealed many of the shortcomings of the early stage (in addition, Sato Takeru Handsome enough to ignore the plot......). As an action movie, the entire series is also wonderful and enjoyable. It is a true reproduction of the fictional "Flying Imperial Sword Flow", with agile and flexible sword heart, clean and sharp sword moves, and the strongest living swordsman. The "Inverse Blade Knife", which was originally set to be very interesting, has also supported its proper position in the battles. The live-action version of "Rurouni Kenshin" is truly over. This is a very well-completed feature-length movie story. No matter from which angle you appreciate it, you will find the highlights. It is a moving story that really stays in the audience's memory. do.
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