Two hours long, the director used 100 minutes of summer heat to set off - crowded buses, baseball games with 50,000 people, crowded nightclubs, incessant handkerchiefs to wipe sweat, violent rage, the delay of prisoners, The crying of children and a series of shooting crimes in midsummer make people feel both irritable and aggrieved. Ichikawa, the old criminal policeman played by Shimura Joe, is like a ray of breeze fighting against the heat alone. He is not in a hurry or panic. He is sincere and sincere. , This patience is really rare. The so-called genius of solving crimes is just a little bit of diligence, a small step every day. His calmness also gradually moved the fledgling criminal policeman played by Mifune - when arresting the criminal at the last minute, he calmly identified the real culprit. In addition, this film can be seen as a post-war Japanese genre painting - the director did not deliberately show the trauma of the war, but the young police and criminals were both involved in the war and were traumatized, and the two walked away completely. There are different paths, one is to turn grief and anger into power to punish evil and promote good at a critical moment, and the other is to retaliate against the society and give up. The director still hopes to use this comparison to wake up the world. The sequelae of war are the hard work of ordinary people in ordinary jobs to heal. There has never been a person of great good and evil, and he has never severely condemned a person's fault. He has suffered unfortunate and bland acceptance of injustice, and the children are sleeping soundly on summer nights. Like a pumpkin patch that gives hope, there is always hope. The director gave an optimistic answer. The last 20 minutes of the film is the climax - a torrential downpour ended the previous heat, the foreshadowing of the sudden change in the plot, and then the rain passed and the sky was sunny again, and it was a sunny sunny day, where sinners were vindictive and good people were rewarded.
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