The last samurai

Theodore 2022-03-19 09:01:02

When we have Western artillery, machine guns, and put on western clothes, the last thing we should forget is who we are and where we come from.
If it is said that "The Last Samurai" exaggerated the decline of a class, from the warmth and coldness of the world to the blood on the battlefield. Then the result is to raise this class to a spiritual level. Finally, when Emperor Meiji was holding Katsuemoto's sword, the contrived sentence came to the finishing touch. It was quite a bit of the notion that you are dead, but your spirit will live forever.

The ups and downs of the national soul, the disputes between conservation and reform, that are the essence of culture that pushes the blood to break through tradition. In other words, it has a taste of "learning as the body, and western learning as the application". Japan still strongly respects Bushido, such as in World War II and modern commercial warfare. In China, which also moved from the Eastern world to the Western world, faced with new education, new systems, and new clothing, there was also a thinking about who we are and where we are from.

When the school introduced the Western educational system and when the norms introduced international standards, can we see if there are still ancestors in our land.

Regarding the Qing empire, the only memories we have left are the Aixinjueluo with big braids and the grinning Lafayette. Regarding the Ming Dynasty, we only remember the hanged Chongzhen and Eunuch Wei Zhongxian. Could it be that there is no exquisiteness and paradise in that passing memory...

Regarding the past, I am looking forward to the appearance of the Chinese version of "The Last Samurai".

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  • Felicia 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    History is development, and the law is the survival of the fittest. It is inevitable for the samurai to withdraw from the stage of history as an outdated class, but the samurai definitely does not only worship the Japanese sword instead of using other weapons, and the samurai is not stubborn and enterprising. From this point of view, many parts of the film are simply untenable and unconvincing.

  • Dayton 2021-10-20 19:00:43

    The wheels of history whizzed past, and tradition vanished in the flying dust.

The Last Samurai quotes

  • Katsumoto: The Emperor could not hear my words. His army will come. For nine hundred years, my ancestors have protected our people. Now... I have failed them.

    Algren: So you will take your own life? In shame? Shame for a life of service? Discipline? Compassion?

    Katsumoto: The way of the Samurai is not necessary anymore.

    Algren: Necessary? What could be more necessary?

    Katsumoto: I will die by the sword. My own, or my enemy's.

    Algren: Then let it be your enemy's.

  • Katsumoto: If I am no use, I will happily end my life.

    Emperor Meiji: No, I need your voice in the Council.

    Katsumoto: It is your voice we need, Highness. You are a living god. Do what you think is right.

    Emperor Meiji: [ruefully] I am a living god, as long as I do what *they* think is right.

    Katsumoto: What sad words you speak.