I just finished watching "Da Bodhisattva Ridge" and then watch this one. Based on the introduction, I thought it was a movie with a dark male as the protagonist. And from the recollections of the male protagonist, the content of the film is very concise and clear.
In the first appearance, Yoshimura is a country samurai with a burst of force. From Saito's perspective, he is short-sighted, a country bumpkin who is obsessed with his hometown, greedy for money, and a cruel and ruthless guy when he chops off the heads of his colleagues. He felt that the money he had exchanged for the lives of his colleagues was far from enough, and he asked for a little more, showing no shame. According to Saito's words: This man is asking the Shinsengumi for everything he can ask for. In short, a slightly wretched, greedy and greedy warrior image appeared.
Saito is a self-proclaimed samurai, and even though the Shinsengumi is a group of rural samurai, he is self-righteous and looks down on many. So the Bushido he upheld was full of conceit, arrogance, and arrogance. He is a representative of the old warrior class. He does not show emotion, bears humiliation and bears heavy burdens. If he needs to cut his abdomen, he may also do it, because these are things that are worthy of the pride of the warriors. Before this person met Yoshimura, he obviously didn't think about life and death. He believed that no one could kill him since he survived to this day. He pursued the existence of a more powerful opponent.
Yoshimura clearly knew the issue of life and death, and confirmed that he wanted to live. He has survived to this day, just because he wants to live, and this is also his kendo - the sword of survival. At this point, we thought that Yoshimura would be a person who would do anything to survive.
From the doctor's point of view, Yoshimura is a well-informed and ethical person. He taught the children of the tribe swordsmanship and culture, and won the respect of the tribe. Until he defected from the tribe and joined the Shinsengumi.
Wretched, cruel and well-informed, what makes two almost opposite personalities converge on one person? is love. As a country warrior, he rebelled against the rules for the first time by marrying his beloved wife, the woman who was originally going to marry his daimyo and become the daimyo's concubine. His extensive knowledge and foresight let him know that the drought is coming, the people are struggling, and his salary cannot support his family. So, betrayed the clan, betrayed the daimyo, betrayed Bushido, and became the Yoshimura of the Shinsengumi. And in the Xinxuan group, the village bumpkin Yoshimura, who was wretched and wretched for money, became the righteous Yoshimura who sent every penny to his family.
It's hard to go, hard to live. The way of survival by doing everything possible and the bushido of cutting belly are completely contradictory and conflicting. This has always been the reason why Yoshimura is not looked down upon by others. It is also the reason why the prosperous Shinsengumi likes to make fun of Yoshimura. At the same time, Yoshimura is full of humanity. Of course, the poor season is now. As we see the Shinsengumi split and decline, the visionary Yoshimura should have also sensed that the era is about to abandon the samurai class, to which he has been defecting. When thinking about how Yoshimura could use his vision to get out of the predicament again, Yoshimura refused to defect and chose to stand with the Shinsengumi, who had been abandoned by the times. This is a shocking choice: the Yoshimura of morality and the Yoshimura of humanity are intertwined.
When the Shinsengumi turned from a weapon of the country into a traitor, Yoshimura, who rushed into the smokescreen of the Musket Team, seemed to signal the end of an era.
Originally, a film that used history to express personalities completed a generation of legends in the smokescreen, but the film seems to want to go further. Instead of leaving Yoshimura to die under the gun, as was the case with knights, samurai and many aristocrats of the era, the film has him fleeing to a friend's house. When facing death, reflect on your choices. What a cruel thing this is, more legendary and more difficult than dying under gunfire. Usually we make a choice followed by another choice. In Yoshimura, the new choice becomes a reflection on the old choice. He can completely split the past and live invisibly, just as he did when he defected from his clan. And in the end, he was confused.
Originally, I didn't want to spoil it, but Yoshimura's final choice was like a floating stone, which inspired a series of water patterns, which stirred up each other and affected the fate of many people and even the family.
Until the end, the film did not give an answer to whether Yoshimura's choice was right or wrong. It just makes those people related to Yoshimura intertwined, and the memories piece together a vague silhouette of a country warrior who wants to live, recreating an inconclusive era. Perhaps, the real metaphor of the film is the image of Yoshimura itself, who represents the intricate and accidental relationship between people and the ideal pursuit of good and evil in the film.
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