historical lament

Jaylon 2022-03-21 09:02:10

Do we want to learn something when we read history and watch the great achievements of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu? Are you trying to learn a lesson? Probably only know what desire can make people do!

Countless people have said this, but Kurosawa, in my opinion, has done an excellent job of expressing it in the language of the camera and in a brief monologue.

1. Narration and monologue in the film:

1.

"Look at the ruins of the ancient city full of desires,

Wandering ghosts still linger.

Human desire is like a tragic battlefield.

No matter the past or the present, it will never change.”

2.

"How ugly the world is,

Having been born into the world,

As cheap as ants, yet stealing life.

Why bother yourself, how stupid.

Life is like a flower, it comes and goes in a hurry.

It must be turned into a carrion skeleton in the end.

people for power,

not hesitate to burn with lust,

Don't hesitate to jump into the deep pool of five turbidities.

Sins hoarded,

to the end of confusion.

Carrion falls to the ground and blooms, releasing fragrance.

Funny people, so ridiculous.

2. Psalms:

1.

Linjiang Fairy Rolling East of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty: Yang Shen rolled the east of the Yangtze River, and the waves washed away heroes.

Success or failure turned empty.

Aoyama is still there, How Many Suns.

The white-haired fisherman on the river Nagisa is used to watching the autumn moon and the spring breeze.

A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet.

How many things in the past and the present are all in jokes.

2.

Peach Blossom Fan • Aftertaste • Leaving Pavilion Banquet With Resting Pai Shaqing • Kong Shangren

Seeing the tingling of birds in the Jade Palace of Jinling,

Qinhuai waterside gardens bloom early,

Who knew it would be easy to freeze.

Seeing him rise from Zhulou,

Seeing him feasting guests,

Seeing him collapse!

This pile of green moss and green tiles, I once slept in the wind;

Satisfying the rise and fall of fifty years;

That Wuyi Lane is not surnamed Wang,

Mochou Lake ghosts cry at night, owls perched on Phoenix Terrace.

The dream of the ruined mountain is the most real, and the old world is hard to lose.

Don't believe this map replacement.

A set of mourning for Jiangnan, and a sad voice to sing till old age.

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Extended Reading
  • Sedrick 2022-04-23 07:02:32

    Finally a work of Akira Kurosawa with four stars. But still very thought provoking. The same prediction results, there may be very many process possibilities, positive and negative. Only villains and women are difficult to raise. "Little Women" is more fun. . .

  • Gracie 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Akira Kurosawa almost completely materialized Toshiro Mifune in his image world. Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's films is not a flesh and blood person, he is more like the consistent core symbol in Akira Kurosawa's films. Every time he stares , anger, and hysteria are just a twilight-like reproduction of the original image of his body. Like Banderas in the early Almodovar films, it refers to a pure and highly concentrated entity of sensuality and desire. The same is true of Toshiro Mifune. His masculinity and sturdy sexiness are the most dazzling ideograms in Akira Kurosawa's video world.

Throne of Blood quotes

  • Taketori Washizu: I am terribly drunk...

  • Old Ghost Woman: [singing] Men are vain and death is long, And pride dies first within the grave, For hair and nails are growing still, When face and fame are gone, Nothing in this world will save, Or measure up man's actions here, Nor in the next - for there is none, This life must end in fear, Only evil may maintain, An afterlife for those who will, Who love this world - who have no son, To whom ambition calls, Even so - this false fame falls, Death will reign - man dies in vain.