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The controversial film "Records of the Living" is considered to be Akira Kurosawa's most failed work. I don't think it is unreasonable. It is really difficult to understand the deeper meaning that Akira Kurosawa wants to express. Every director with an international reputation is not only a filmmaker, he is also a Shakespeare in the film industry, a thinker. But in this film, I didn't understand this old man named Xiyi. From the beginning of the film, he had a violent conflict with his family. He said that there was a conflict between the father and the son, and the relationship was not in harmony. I don't think so. After the court quarrel, he bought drinks for his son and his family after the court and stuffed it into his son's hands. The old man, Xiyi, is a successful man. He owns a coal mine and raises a large family, including one wife, two concubines, two sons, and three daughters. Ever since the U.S. and the Soviet Union dropped hydrogen bombs on Japan, he had been terrified of the nuclear radiation from hydrogen bombs. To this end, he spent a lot of money to buy land and build a basement. Later, someone went to explore and said that Japan was no longer safe; at the instigation of an old Brazilian man, he planned to move his family to Brazil. To convince his family, he set fire to it. His decades of hard work in the coal factory have been blamed by the workers for being irresponsible. The old man's crazy actions seriously touched the interests of his sons. The selfish family members and the family members who peeped at the old man's property finally couldn't help but sent Xi Yi to a mental hospital. In the hospital, the transition to depression, and being ridiculed by prison inmates, even the earth is not safe. The old man finally went crazy. He fantasized about being sent to a safe alien planet, but he was still worried about the safety of the people on earth, and whether there was still life on earth. This point is also related to the theme in Kurosawa's "Dream". Director Hei uses a surreal technique to describe the last person on the earth, walking on the earth where trees and animals are fully mutated, and the smoke is curling up, encountering mutated long horns Humans, super-large flowers, are all the after-effects of nuclear radiation. This is a scarred earth that is close to extinction. Akira Kurosawa's worries are not unreasonable. The earth will one day be destroyed in the hands of human beings. It will not be broken and stand. After hundreds of millions of light years, new life will appear, but at that time, I don't know who is standing at the top of the food chain. Still not human.
The role of Kiichi is very surprising. I watched it for a long time and didn't recognize that this was played by Toshiro Mifune. He is 15 years younger than Shimura Joe. He played such an old man without any sense of disobedience. The teacher's painting is very dark, with hunched back, two deep nasolabial lines, and the old man should have a shriveled body, sometimes stubborn and sharp eyes, and sometimes empty and dull expression. Just an old man. A kind and crazy old man, living in this cruel real world, is doomed to have no good end. Toshiro Mifune is truly worthy of the praise of "Akira Kurosawa of the world, Toshiro Mifune of the world".
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