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Elton 2022-02-07 14:45:16

Although it only lasts for more than 90 minutes, I personally think that he is one of Akira Kurosawa's best works. In terms of the fluency of the narrative and the theme of the work, it is undoubtedly a great work.

I rarely express my love for a film so openly, it is like a quiet night, quiet and peaceful, but thought-provoking. The surrounding black should be an additional element, and duel is another dimension of dynamic input to static, and sometimes it can even be simply regarded as a restless factor, but this kind of restless stirring turns into a pot Delicious miso soup.

There is no end to it, and surgery may be performed on the wounded in the tents of the war, which is as ethereal and even numb as the war in the distant future. The sound of water droplets echoes the steaming air, and tropical Southeast Asia is moving towards peace step by step.

Kyouji Fujisaki played by Toshiro Mifune is very successful, showing me all the performances that a doctor, a person, and a good person without two hearts should have. In the film, Fujisaki has this sentence: "I am a doctor, and I must have the conscience of a doctor, the conscience of a person, no matter how painful it is." His kindness from beginning to end moved Mingishi (a once arrogant dancer, now a nurse), she Even fell in love with Fujisaki.
Finally, what the police chief said: There are saints among doctors.
And Fujisaki's father, the dean, replied: "He was just by the more unfortunate side. If you are happy, you may accidentally become poison.
At the end of the film, a pure flower flashes, which symbolizes the saint among healers, and also implies a healer like Fujisaki.

His humanitarianism even made him a god-like person. He saved the fetus in Minegan's womb without asking for anything in return. He exhorted Nakata to cure syphilis without asking for anything in return. He endured the desire in his heart (the flesh) because he was infected with syphilis. , and broke up with the beloved Misao. He is God, no doubt about it. People who are like God are often not understood. His goodness is misinterpreted by some people to harm them, and this is also the greatest blasphemy against God.

Regarding desire, there is a description in the film, which is what I understand Fujisaki's pitiful interpretation of his own desire: 1. In the war, with a young and pure emotion, light is forcibly endured.
2. During the war, I kept telling myself that after I was discharged from the army, a happy marriage, Misao, was waiting for me.
3. However, one day the body was infected with blood, and everything became disillusioned. If it weren't for this, I would have thought about it a long time ago, thinking of the flesh...

After that, I also vented with moral conscience, freedom, frankness, and funny clowns, but these were all due to his good starting point. He can also push others off the cliff to satisfy his own desires, just like Nakata. The very different starting points also led to the great difference in the life trajectories of the two of them, but it is clear at a glance who the winner is.
As Fujisaki said in the film: "In addition to your happiness, there are other people's happiness and peace."
Why not, at this time, think about our real society, let people sigh, all the glitz and appearance make many people degenerate , decoupling purity from beauty, allowing ugliness and vulgarity to prevail, cowardice and cowardice everywhere. If we have the least sense of right and wrong, if our country can educate our future in the right direction, what will our society be!

The nature of people to be good will not disappear, just like Fujisaki's absolute victory in the film, so to some extent it is a duel between good and evil. The expression of goodness is involved in almost all of Kurosawa Akira's works, and Kurosawa Akira's other films "Drunken Angel" and "Red Beard" similar to this film have similar themes and are all about doctors. The story, the content is also a good embodiment of good.

Misao's beauty lies in her understanding and persistence in her personality. The relationship she was able to keep with Fujisaki for six years also had a certain correlation with their fit.

They are all people, and individual differences do determine their direction. It seems that the environment is often an excuse. However, the formation of individuality has to take into account the influence of environmental factors, so there is no mistake in the origin of human nature and goodness.

To borrow two more sentences from the film: The world is really interesting, and there are insiders inside.
Eavesdropping can sometimes know the inside story.

This is the issue of the smooth flow of information. If the social order has no inside information, power and public welfare have no inside information, and freedom and human rights are used to speak, the normal order of society will return to the track of goodness.

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The Quiet Duel quotes

  • Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki: If he had been happy, he might have become just a snob.

  • Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I thought I could forget everything when she married. But I can't!

    [He walks over to the window]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I'm fighting desperately now to curb my desires. I feel sorry for myself. Young and fastidious before the war, I suppressed it. It was the same during the war. The thought of Misao and a peaceful home sustained me!

    [His voice chokes, and he sits down on the couch]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: But one day, without having fooled around myself, my blood was contaminated by a man's diseased blood!

    [He angrily kicks over the chair]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: If I'd known it would happen... it makes me think sometimes!

    [He gets up again]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I don't know when I can satisfy my desires!

    [He turns towards Rui]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: Why must I suffer like this? I have syphilis! But it's not my fault or the result of playing around!"

    [He begins to cry]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I'm pure yet my desires unfulfilled! It's intolerable sometimes! But my conscience tries to crush out my physical desires.

    [He throws his stethoscope]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: My stupid conscience!