love is not the most important thing

Rebeca 2022-03-24 09:03:51

The biggest difference between Japanese films and American films is the reality, the cruelty of reality. However, this film is different from the sad Japanese films of the 1980s, especially the love films co-produced by Momoe Yamaguchi and Yuka Miura, such as "The Dancing Girl of Izu" " and "Chunqin Copy".
The cruelty of reality reveals the happiness of the characters. The short-lived junior samurai Iguchi, the five-year-old daughter without a mother, the childhood sweetheart and divorced Pengjiang... Although they live in hardships, they are happy.
The first half of the movie has a scene with the samurai father and the eldest daughter. At night, the salaried 50-shi (very low) samurai and his daughter sat in front of the fire, weaving bamboo worm cages to make ends meet, and the daughter recited the Analects of Confucius, saying that she is now learning how to be a tailor and can work when she grows up, but she is confused about reading What's the use? My father said a wonderful sentence:
"Maybe reading may not be as useful as learning a tailor, but reading gives you the ability to think and makes you know how to think. No matter how the world changes, as long as you can think, you can survive. , this principle applies to both men and women..." A
samurai is considered an unfortunate person by others, but Pengjiang, a childhood sweetheart, feels that his short life has beautiful memories and is happy, which can be seen from the samurai's words. .
Yamada Yoji's films bring people a positive belief in life, and always end with a lover who is married, a lover, a man, capable, but not seeking fame, a woman, beautiful, but not. Fame and fortune, great.
Another point, I'm very moved, obviously a person who has no desires and no desires, a person who duels with a wooden stick has to go against his inner will and use a small sword to solve a high-level samurai who is unmatched. This can be understood as the helplessness of life, but it can also be explained as a stronger and deeper persistence behind one's own persistence. It was obviously not Pengjiang, because at that time he thought he had missed it.
Love is not the most important thing, but it is beautiful to get a love.

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  • Kristofer 2022-03-31 09:01:09

    There is no need for a sword anymore, and there is no reason to swing a sword, because something worth protecting has been found. This may be the real swordsman movie, such as the warm spring breeze, the surging spring tide cleanses the soul, and tells the true humanity and warmth

  • Dominique 2022-03-22 09:03:02

    Yamada Yoji is a family creature. The subject matter he likes is reminiscent of Yasujiro Ozu. The narrative style of this movie is reminiscent of [To Kill a Mockingbird]. This association is so wonderful, the samurai's Values ​​have been completely subverted. ★★★★

The Twilight Samurai quotes

  • Kayano Iguchi: Father, If I learn to do needlework someday I can make kimonos. But what good will book learning ever do me?

    Seibei Iguchi: Well, it probably won't ever be as useful as needlework. But you know, book learning gives you the power to think. However the world might change, if you have the power to think you'll always survive somehow. That's true for boys and for girls. All right?

    Kayano Iguchi: Yes.

  • Seibei Iguchi: I am ashamed to say that over many years of hardship with two daughters, a sick wife and an aged mother, I have lost the desire to wield a sword. A serious fight, the killing of a man, requires animal ferocity and calm disregard for one's own life. I have neither of those within me now. Perhaps in a month... alone with the beasts in the hills I could get them back. But tomorrow, I am afraid, is completely impossible.