Everyday Secularity
In "Twilight Seihei", Yamada Yoji began to describe some daily scenes of home cooking, cleaning, and work. In "Hidden Sword and Ghost Claw", these scenes also reappear. And the description is also very detailed. But I am not disgusted with this kind of "repetition", it allows me to see that people who are samurai also have the same life as ordinary people. In the face of this life, the concept of "class" has become very vague (before watching "Hidden Sword and Ghost Claw", I didn't know that a samurai could not marry a farmer's daughter). Although Xihui has a different identity from Katagizongzang, she can also "smile Yan Yan" in front of these everyday worlds. And as an ordinary person, seeing such a scene will also make me feel that that era is not so far away and intangible from me. Although
Qing
has not come into contact with many films about Japanese samurai, before watching Yamada Yoji's "Samurai Trilogy", Japanese samurai gave me the impression of destruction, destruction and despair. They pay attention to a kind of "extreme", this kind of extreme makes them do nothing at all, so "destroy" and "destroy" come immediately. Based on this impression, I have a slight resistance and unwillingness to approach the Japanese samurai. But Yamada Yoji's film has subverted my view of Japanese samurai. Whether it is in "Twilight Qingbingwei" or "Hidden Sword and Ghost Claw", family affection, friendship, and love have never been broken. These feelings flowed in the film one by one, hitting my heart drop by drop.
The inner voice is
in "Twilight Qingbingbei", Qingbingbei did not follow the crowd, he has always followed his own heart. So although his life is bitter, others are not. This kind of "listening to the inner voice" is very gentle in "Twilight Seibei" (mainly reflected through Seibei's life philosophy), but it is much more intense in "Hidden Sword and Ghost Claw". After learning about the despicable behavior of the veteran, Katagiri Sect assassinated him with the "ghost claw" skill taught by the master and him. He didn't cling to the word "loyalty" in Bushido, he listened more to his inner "Bushido".
There is a saying called "The most fortitude is also the most gentle person." I think this sentence can also be reversed: the most gentle person is also the most fortitude. Kiyobei and Katagiri Zongzo have never treated people of other classes with contempt or disrespect because they are samurai. Whether they are facing servants, farmers or businessmen, they always have equality and respect. The heart is treating. Although their lives are not much achievement or earth-shattering, as long as they face a voice that does not match their own hearts, they will rule out everything that is difficult to listen to their own inner voices. So I say that they are both "the gentlest people" and "the most resolute people".
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