Serious film, about where to go.

Abigayle 2022-03-20 09:01:56

Desire for life: The destination He calls it the desire for life. Can it be understood as the meaning of survival itself? After all, people have to face the problems that plague almost everyone (maybe only those who are in the predicament of survival, not everyone will have the opportunity to think about this problem, the opportunity here refers specifically to the opportunity ) Lifetime question: "What is the meaning of life?" Find the answer from the movie. After losing his wife, the protagonist has been repeating his "undifferentiated" life day after day for nearly 30 years. "After the cynicism of the employees, he lived a life of twists and turns that was different from the past (direct motivation, knowing that he would be dead soon). What kind of life? Take the first long vacation, the first big expense, the first drink, the first bar, the first gambling machine and the first prostitute. Buy socks and food for the female employee, accompany her to the playground, take her to the hotel for dinner and other second-class life. Seek a solution to the previously "shelved work", such a third type of life. I divide his life into three categories. Such points are, literally, just stating these seemingly unrelated film facts. These three types of life are the "different solutions" of the protagonist to the same problem. Just think: If you face the problem of belief collapse and lack of identity, what will you do? The protagonist, this is the state. In the past, I lived a given life with a given answer and never thought of other possibilities, so I had the jaw-dropping "nearly 30 years of work, no record of asking for leave". Suddenly, someone told him "you're like a mummy", opening his door to "what's the meaning of life". He thought about it, seeking answers from his son, whom he had always been proud of. The result is the indifference and "selfishness" of the son and daughter-in-law (when he dies, use his pension and savings to buy a new house). He thought that since she said that I am a mummy, I have to do something new (something I have never done before, and what I dared not do before, that is, the first type of life mentioned above). As a result, in exchange for his son's accusation (overspending money, not going to work), and an increasingly irreplaceable emptiness inside. He thought that since she said that I was a mummy, she must know "what should I do", so he relied on her to meet her various needs, and used her "youth, youth, and vitality" to illuminate her. Light up your "darkness in front of you". (Second type of life) As a result, in exchange, the son and daughter-in-law's incomprehension and accusations are still in exchange, as well as "her impatience". He explained the reason to her, only asking for an "identity" in exchange for liberation, ending the current life as soon as possible, and continuing to live the original life, she told He, in fact, is "why don't you ask yourself, don't look for problems from yourself". He was "exhausted and exhausted" and ended in "failure" (and still accusatory) in a final compromise with his son. Finally, in "his own job, within his ability", he found "the answer he got". He chose to use his dying life to stand the last post of "responsible, alive, and remembered" in his own work. In the end, we saw his change, "You can, as long as you have the determination." As a result, "he finally resolved the actual social problems behind the complicated and repeated relationship network with the determination to return home." At the end of the film, through the protagonist's funeral, the wonderful dialogues of people of different identities, as well as the post-event comparison. The director, without evading, conveys to us the "ideal, and the real reality". Ideal, what is it? It's the "excitement" that we can express in words, it's just this kind of ideal, it's just a pseudo ideal. A real ideal, like a seed, needs to "persist" and "choose to grow" after being "battered by the wind and frost of reality", just because it has always existed like that. Reality, what is it? In the material world, most states of existence are like a burial ground where many ideals are buried. It is also like a barren land, even if there is no grass, there is always the possibility of survival. In the movie, from the director's point of view, yes, no matter how you don't want to deal with it this way, the reality is reality, there are not so many "achievements", but more "degeneration". "Today's me is not yesterday." In short, this is a "serious" film that expresses reality and shows a "truth, truth" attitude. The desire to live, if one day, we have to accept the result of "death is not exempt", what should we do? Maybe what we can't take away, we no longer care. Maybe even if I can't take it away, I want to destroy it. Maybe since I can't take it away, how about doing a little more? That's it, through this film, I saw the shadow of "home", although, it may not be possible to do it. Still see it. Change, "You can, as long as you have the determination." As a result, "he finally resolved the actual social problems behind the complicated and repeated relationship network with the determination to return home." At the end of the film, through the protagonist's funeral, the wonderful dialogues of people of different identities, as well as the post-event comparison. The director, without evading, conveys to us the "ideal, and the real reality". Ideal, what is it? It's the "excitement" that we can express in words, it's just this kind of ideal, it's just a pseudo ideal. A real ideal, like a seed, needs to "persist" and "choose to grow" after being "battered by the wind and frost of reality", just because it has always existed like that. Reality, what is it? In the material world, most states of existence are like a burial ground where many ideals are buried. It is also like a barren land, even if there is no grass, there is always the possibility of survival. In the movie, from the director's point of view, yes, no matter how you don't want to deal with it this way, the reality is reality, there are not so many "achievements", but more "degeneration". "Today's me is not yesterday." In short, this is a "serious" film that expresses reality and shows a "truth, truth" attitude. The desire to live, if one day, we have to accept the result of "death is not exempt", what should we do? Maybe what we can't take away, we no longer care. Maybe even if I can't take it away, I want to destroy it. Maybe since I can't take it away, how about doing a little more? That's it, through this film, I saw the shadow of "home", although, it may not be possible to do it. Still see it. Change, "You can, as long as you have the determination." As a result, "he finally resolved the actual social problems behind the complicated and repeated relationship network with the determination to return home." At the end of the film, through the protagonist's funeral, the wonderful dialogues of people of different identities, as well as the post-event comparison. The director, without evading, conveys to us the "ideal, and the real reality". Ideal, what is it? It's the "excitement" that we can express in words, it's just this kind of ideal, it's just a pseudo ideal. A real ideal, like a seed, needs to "persist" and "choose to grow" after being "battered by the wind and frost of reality", just because it has always existed like that. Reality, what is it? In the material world, most states of existence are like a burial ground where many ideals are buried. It is also like a barren land, even if there is no grass, there is always the possibility of survival. In the movie, from the director's point of view, yes, no matter how you don't want to deal with it this way, the reality is reality, there are not so many "achievements", but more "degeneration". "Today's me is not yesterday." In short, this is a "serious" film that expresses reality and shows a "truth, truth" attitude. The desire to live, if one day, we have to accept the result of "death is not exempt", what should we do? Maybe what we can't take away, we no longer care. Maybe even if I can't take it away, I want to destroy it. Maybe since I can't take it away, how about doing a little more? That's it, through this film, I saw the shadow of "home", although, it may not be possible to do it. Still see it. So many "achievements", more "falls". "Today's me is not yesterday." In short, this is a "serious" film that expresses reality and shows a "truth, truth" attitude. The desire to live, if one day, we have to accept the result of "death is not exempt", what should we do? Maybe what we can't take away, we no longer care. Maybe even if I can't take it away, I want to destroy it. Maybe since I can't take it away, how about doing more? That's it, through this movie, I saw the shadow of "home", although, it may not be possible to do it. Still see it. So many "achievements", more "falls". "Today's me is not yesterday." In short, this is a "serious" film that expresses reality and shows a "truth, truth" attitude. The desire to live, if one day, we have to accept the result of "death is not exempt", what should we do? Maybe what we can't take away, we no longer care. Maybe even if I can't take it away, I want to destroy it. Maybe since I can't take it away, how about doing more? That's it, through this movie, I saw the shadow of "home", although, it may not be possible to do it. Still see it.

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  • Anahi 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Another film that I still remember very clearly is this 生きる. This may also be the earliest Kurosawa Akira I have seen, and of course the least Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa. It may open up a new direction for the realism of individuals. Its standpoint is both cosmopolitan and constructive

  • Theron 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Still a strong sense of shape. The exaggerated acting skills of the crowd really ruined the movie, and even Shimura Joe was not immune. The last paragraph was good, but the actor lost his appetite. The exposure and satire of the bureaucracy tends to be superficial, which shows that Akira Kurosawa and his two screenwriters are really pretending to understand, which directly leads to the fact that once he involves social themes, it is almost inevitable that he must speak big truths, and sometimes even Ignoring reality can force dramatic conflict (heaven and hell). The world is too complicated for him to reach at his level. But having said that, all of these are perfectly fine if they are put into period dramas, which is why the Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yuxinbang and Tsubaki Juro are obviously much more comfortable, and it can even be said to be seamless. This is a major limitation of Akira Kurosawa.

Ikiru quotes

  • Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: That's Dad's mentality. Typical petty bureaucrat.

  • Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: It's freezing. Just as bad inside as out. That's why I hate Japanese houses.

    Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: It's such a drag coming home to this. I'd like a modern house.

    Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: Honey, a house of our own would cost around 500,000 yen, right? Could we use your dad's retirement bonus as collateral?

    Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: It must be worth 700,000 by now, plus a monthly pension of 13,000 yen and another 100,000 in savings.

    Kazue Watanabe, Mitsuo's wife: But you think he'd agree?

    Mitsuo Watanabe, Kanji's son: If he doesn't, we'll say we're moving out. That'll clinch it. Even Dad doesn't want to take that much money to the grave.