The Awakening Desire of Light and Shadow

Lukas 2022-03-21 09:02:10

1. Four scenes 2. Three questions 3. An excerpt There is an excerpt that I like, which can reflect this feeling.) 2. The protagonist and the vulgar novelist are in a ballroom bar. The hedonism represented by post-war jazz is prevalent. However, the protagonist ordered an old song from the 1920s (life is so short, girls should fall in love) This single-shot tearful solo clip really touched me, and I felt emotionally substituted (the protagonist played really well) 3 .The protagonist and the subordinate girl had dinner together while buying and playing women's socks, and they showed a sincere smile for the first time. 4. When the protagonist and the subordinate girl had dinner for the last time, they showed the most genuine desire to survive: I want to be like you, You are so healthy, beautiful and energetic, you taught me how to do it (At first I thought that Uncle Salty and Wet 0.0 was really blasphemy to Master Kurosawa, disrespectful) (The metaphor is too vivid, the girl asked the protagonist why he followed him. The protagonist Saying I don't know, it's like drowning, my parents are not there, the only thing I can catch.) The girl told him that I only work in the factory, and I make toys for children. Then the protagonist understands what he can do, and turns around and goes down the stairs, and the girl who walks upstairs is an 18-year-old girl who is coming upstairs. ; one is an old man who is about to die and has completed his final mission) Three questions (around the ironic scene where officials are defending class interests at the end, around the theme of why the protagonist will change his personality in the end): 1. The officials said that it must be because he knew himself Got stomach cancer, must be the way to change the character. One person proposed: We will die at any time 2. The officials said that we will all be like the protagonists, and that we will change ourselves if we know that we have stomach cancer. One person said: Stop laughing at me, it's just you 3. All the officials are discussing that there are good people in the government, but they will change after a long time. The organization is too big and we don't have free time. One shouted: Don't talk nonsense*. In the last clip, the officials concluded that we must remember his great spirit, and the scene of clinking glasses with each other in harmony and unity is ironic. At the end, there is a character who suddenly rises up against the inaction of the new citizen section chief, but finally sits down and does things honestly, and the camera gives a stack of thick documents. *. The two repetitions of the song (how short life is, let the girls fall in love) are great. The second stanza is done swinging on the swing and the ending scene with the kids playing on the swing is awesome. ~The Myth of Sisyphus~ Live with the rifts that the world has given us to heal each other's wounds with broken palms Stubbornly move towards happiness People should be happy as long as they do their best to embrace the light of the moment, don't put hope in emptiness Sublime utopia exhilarates because survival itself is the most powerful resistance to absurdity

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Ikiru quotes

  • Toyo: I'll cover for you. I'm not like Carp Windsock.

    Kanji: Carp Windsock?

    Toyo: Yes, Mr. Sakai is a human carp windsock. His lips are always flapping, but he's just hot air inside. Plus he always acts like such a big shot. He makes 200 yen more a month than I do, so he looks down on me.

  • Kanji: Tell me, where do they sell women's stockings?

    Toyo: You want to buy some? Western clothing stores carry them.