Yesterday, I read "The Origin of Modern Japanese Literature". I mentioned the role of Japanese literature in the construction of Japan's modernity and nationality, and the ideology behind the appreciation of the scenery, all kinds of things. After reading this book and looking at Akira Kurosawa, I can clearly feel the author's temperament in Akira Kurosawa.
This work must be appreciated as a literary work, and the most crucial point is the subconscious change of memory, the psychological motivation behind the lie. To rely solely on narratological interpretation is only superficial and arrogant.
But now in the 21st century, we are surrounded by a spirit of blockbusters, explosions, special effects, optimism and entertainment. Literature is fading, and so is the ability to appreciate literature. Asking questions such as "What's so good about this film; the police can understand the truth as long as they are tortured more" and so on, all of which show how humble, unimaginative, pragmatic, and silly optimistic times I live in.
Behind this lack of understanding of the language dimension of the previous era is the separation between ideology and the concept of the world, just as the montage revolution is actually a revolution in cognitive methods and ideology. Oftentimes, there are even so many people who firmly believe that history must be progressive and that ours today must be better than yesterday, and cite it as self-defense.
This kind of self-justification is no different from 19th-century scientific optimism (and perhaps even adds to the arguments that even the atomic bomb didn't really destroy the world, and the 1929 stock market crash didn't destroy the global economy), and is therefore more spiritual. Contrasted with the emptiness, triviality and boredom of this era.
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