The stinky angel refers to the doctor played by Shimura Joe, who is still a strong and paranoid character, and still a warning scene - the stagnant water that exudes the stench that is omnipresent around the shanty towns. The description of this silent, filthy pool of water, in time and time, externalizes the rascal's psychology, played by Toshiro Mifune, whose morbid body and life contrast with stagnant waters. In the first half of the time, the beginner guitar player who was with the dead water at night played incoherent monotonous tunes, and the confrontation with the dead water successfully rendered a kind of uneasy mood, but at this time, Kurosawa's technique was not as skillful as he was later. atmosphere. This is Mifune's first film for Kurosawa Akira. It won the title and robbed Shimura Joe's lottery, so Kurosawa Akira had to revise the plot and characters for his crazy acting skills. I have always felt that Mifune's exaggerated body language, physical appearance and strong voice are more suitable for period dramas, but when he plays modern themes, it seems incongruous, so in Kurosawa Akira's films with modern themes, Mifune has always played the kind of strange Ordinary experiential and psychological characters, such as the old man in "Records of the Living" who wants to escape the atomic bomb and go to Brazil, paranoid characters with neurotic and incomprehensible thoughts.
I watched Li Zhiyi's "Rogue Doctor" before I found the savage angel. He is also an unlucky doctor in the market. He does not care about the details of the shanty town, but with a more playful attitude, the doctor rendered by Li Zhiyi is more inspiring than Zhizhimura Joe. The urge to get close, but the savage angel is serious, showing pity and sympathy for the character of Toshiro Mifune, and possibly the portrayal of this rogue who was abandoned by fate and his master, making Mifune's body thicker than Shimura Joe, more than the doctor. What he thought was a lifelong mess, Mifune's performances and scenes made his inner struggle stronger. When he learned that he was suffering from lung disease, he was disappointed with his life, especially when the people around him abandoned him. The desperate gamble of life makes this character have a strong attraction. The only surreal scene in the film is Mifune's Dream. He dreamed that a rectangular wooden box floated by the rough sea. Wearing a white scarf, he struggled to open the wooden box and found that the wooden box was haggard. The terrifying self, he is startled then turns around and runs desperately, but the sick self comes out of the wooden box and chases him faster and faster, while himself runs slower and slower (slow motion), even though he keeps running as hard as he can Run, and the self behind him still catches up with him (overlay). The surreal dream here is easily reminiscent of Isaac's dream at the beginning of "Wild Strawberry". However, in terms of time, Kurosawa Akira's 1948 completed "Drinking Angel" is more than Bergman's "Wild Strawberry" in 1957. "Nearly ten years earlier, it's no wonder that Fellini, who is obsessed with dreams and babble, is proud of his relationship with Akira Kurosawa.
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