There is a saying that people only care about the present. For example, even if God appears to tell mankind now that some of your current actions will lead to the extinction of mankind in 200 years, then the world will fall into a short-lived panic, maybe 3 days, maybe 3 months, and then everyone will Returning to the past life, the crisis after 200 years is too far away, neither can I see it concretely, nor can I have a real sense of crisis. For another example, compared to some major events in history, some gossips in life are more emotional and more enjoyable.
Humans are such an animal. I'm not scolding, just objectively describing a brain defect.
Speaking of this movie, I don't think there are many people who can keep watching it. This is related to our brain defects. Because the film does not tell the story of the present, but the life of a few decades ago that has been almost forgotten, or the life of Japan. Full of old ballads, songs and dances.
Even worse is his content. The film is more than 2 hours long, but there is not much content, the music is not exciting, and the plot is not ups and downs, just like a four-frame comic describing daily life.
If someone were to tell me that this movie was so boring that I couldn't watch it, I couldn't argue with it. However, looking at Kurosawa Akira's face, no one should dare to say that. You say that the master's movies are not good, the master is still a master, and you are a guy with no taste. In fact, even if you don't understand the master's movies, you can't really say that it's not good, because the master's works are carefully crafted.
It's like you like football, but your friend gave you basketball. You can say the gift is not good, but you can't say basketball is bad.
The same is true of Kurosawa's film.
This is the second Kurosawa Akira movie I've seen, the first being "Desire to Live". It's a bit of a coincidence that both of them are actually talking about the feelings of living people about death.
Talking about death seems to be an easy and ordinary thing for Japanese people, but in China, it is a taboo and a curse. At several birthday parties, Mr. Bai Xian joked about his death, and the students laughed after hearing it, and even once performed the professor's funeral for the professor. The husband ended up in bed with a few students guarding the door, and they were happily drinking together as they did in their school days.
This is unthinkable in China.
As far as the life I have been in contact with, it is disrespectful to say death, last wish, etc. to a person who is seriously ill and dying, and it will provoke public anger. For a person who is suffering from cancer and will die soon, do everything possible to hide his illness from him and say that it is a minor illness, and you will definitely get better. A high school classmate and I were born in the same year, the same month and the same day, and we often celebrate our birthdays together. At a birthday party one year, I made a joke that we were born the same day and didn't know who would die first? As a result, at that time, another classmate gave you a severe lesson. At this time, how can you say such unlucky words. Ominous!
That is to say, in our usual understanding, death is unlucky, but in this movie, death has become a game for children to hide cats and cats. In "The Desire of Life", Akira Kurosawa showed an attitude of refusal to death, but in this "Curved Sunset Love", it doesn't matter whether he dies or not, what he emphasizes more is to be sincere, calm and innocence Live with fun.
In addition to showing the attitude towards death, the film also shows a strong teacher-student relationship. The time span of the film is long, but their friendship doesn't seem to be affected by time at all. It's really enviable. There needs to be a culture behind this. For example, when they get together, there are always interesting stories from the past year, songs that can be sung together, nursery rhymes that can be recited together, and a dance that can be danced together. This commonality connects people as a whole. This reminds me of the gatherings of my friends and I. We got together like in the past, but because our lives have changed, we are no longer the same people who were similar to each other in the school. Everyone got together, but each took out his mobile phone. Swipe.
Sometimes I feel that Mr. Baixian has received too much favor from the students, but from the happy expressions of the students, we can see that they have received more from Mr. Baixian. When the children of the students, and the children of their children, celebrate the teacher's birthday, the culture of respecting the teacher and the Tao has been best inherited.
I heard that Mr. Bai Xian is indeed a real person, which makes me envious. This is my favorite teacher-student relationship.
PS: One of the advantages of watching such a super slow-paced movie is that you can think of a lot of things in the gaps of the movie, just like running.
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