In order to finish the "Samurai Trilogy" (the other two are Kurosawa Akira's "Seven Samurai" and "Shadow Samurai"). I spent the whole morning watching this film on Saturday.
To be honest, I personally don't feel how unsightly. But I always feel that there are some places I don't like, I want to go all night, and I would like to talk about my personal feelings.
The film focuses on two opposing forces, representing the samurai who adheres to the traditional Japanese culture and uses only cold weapons, and the innovator who accepts Western culture and uses advanced hot weapons. The contradiction between the two is indeed difficult to reconcile, but whether it has reached the point of death or death, I don't think so. However, if there is no intensification of contradictions, the following plot may be difficult to unfold. Aside from this, the portrayal of the characters on both sides is not ideal after the film, and the samurai class represented by Katsushika is overly beautified, in order to create an image of a knight with superb martial arts, noble thinking, and poetic beauty. ; And it is not completely ugly to the innovators and the new army, but it is also biased. Its leader Omura has a face of profiteers. The new army of civilian origin is either timid or stupid, or rude and arrogant. When oppressing the samurai, it is full of the meaning of a villain. . In the film, there is a clip of a samurai being forced to shave his head by a new army of civilian origin. Although the samurai who fell to the ground and humiliated is extremely sympathetic, the film does not mention that the samurai has the right to use civilians who think he is rude not long ago to "test the sword." "With impunity (the system of "relief and impunity"). In comparison, the "Seven Samurai" dealt with it more rationally-it did not overly beautify the samurai or belittle the peasants. In terms of combat effectiveness, the new army and weapons are weakened regardless of reality. In the process of rescuing Katsumoto, the protagonist squad carrying a bow and arrow abused a large number of riflemen. Considering the raid preparation and the halo bonus, I can barely accept such a result. But later in the battle of large forces, the new army took the initiative to send a wave of soldiers to step on traps and take an arrow bath, which is really incomprehensible. Perhaps the director knew that the samurai would definitely lose in a normal way, so he had to lower the IQ of the new army a little bit, so that the cold weapons of the samurai would be useful. After the samurai are handsome enough, we will arrange for the rest of the people to ride into the Gatling formation for a perfect collective curtain call (the upgraded version of the battle of Nagashino). This is indeed gorgeous enough, but also naive (hold this Tiangang sword) , Smile to face the Marine Corps. jgp).
Back to the main theme of the film. The director is trying to extol the traditional charm of Japanese samurai culture (I feel that the director is actually an obsessive person who lacks a deep understanding of Japanese culture), and Katsushimoto is a perfect combination of this culture, so the film is naturally It is deliberately idealized. However, traditional culture faces the tide of the new era, and its decline is inevitable. The director obviously understands this and arranges its tragic ending. Finally, let the protagonist be resurrected with full blood, and let him persuade the emperor not to forget the old tradition after he comes into contact with new things (the "Hundred Birds as the Phoenix" basically also has this framework after more than a decade). But the problem is that the American military officer played by Tom Cruise, his thoughts and emotions are actually not so pure. At first he hated the bloody cruelty of the war because he had experienced bloody battles with Indians. At this time, he should uphold a humanitarian spirit. In his eyes, Castell, who ignored his subordinates' lives, was a completely negative image. But unexpectedly, Katsumoto praised Custer for seeing his death as home, and compared himself with him before the final battle. At this time, the American military officers also used the story of the Three Hundred Warriors at Hot Springs Pass to express their approval (and indirectly admitted Kas). The positive meaning of the image of Sturt), and then he was immersed in the battlefield killings he had previously hated. By this time, humanitarianism has been unable to find any place to develop. Perhaps the director wanted to incorporate the positive thinking of humanitarianism into the samurai culture at the very beginning, but at the end he found that the two were indeed not perfectly compatible, so he had to give up, which resulted in imperfect themes.
Of course, this movie also has many things that satisfy me. For example, large-scale and meticulously portrayed war scenes, exquisite and gorgeous Japanese-style scenery, philosophical and poetic character dialogue... To be honest, I feel that I use the resources of filming to produce "Shadow Man" or "Shogunate: Total War" "Games like this may be more successful.
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