At the beginning of the film, the ruins of the spider nest city are looming in the mist, and the background soundtrack sings: "...Look at the ruins of the ancient city full of desires, wandering ghosts, still lingering...". The subsequent fog transformed the ruins into the Spider Nest City of that year, and the story of that year began.
The whole film tells the story of the defender Washatsu listening to the monster's prophecy to win the city lord, and then, as the prophecy said, the forest moved, the city was breached, and his life was in the city. The monster's prophecy does not have any magic power. Like the instigation of Washatsu's wife, it is a magnifying glass of Washatsu's desire for power, magnifying Washtsu's desire and finally killing the king to win the city lord. As a result of greed, Washatsu became suspicious and killed his generals; and he remembered that the monster predicted that someone else would become the city lord, which made him panic all day long. In the end, it was as prophesied, but the movement of the forest was done by the enemy, not by the magic of prophecy, which confuses Washatsu, made him panic, lost the spirit of the army, and made the once impregnable Spider Nest City be broken, and he was finally killed. His generals rebelled and killed him.
I think all of this is the result of Washatsu's pursuit of endless desires, making him the lord of the city, making him suspicious and panicking, and making his subordinates betray and finally kill him. And this is also the theme of this film - if you continue to pursue endless desires, people will only go to death. Regarding the description of human desires, director Akira Kurosawa not only described the consequences of Washatsu's pursuit of endless desires.
In the latter part of the film, when the city was besieged by Washatsu's wife, she kept rubbing her hands, trying to clean the blood of the former castle lord killed by herself and her husband Washatsu on her hands, but in fact her There was no blood on the hands. She just kept rubbing vigorously in the basin, looking extremely terrified, and shouted tremblingly: "The nasty blood, why can't I wash it off! ... There is also the smell of blood, such a strange blood stain, it can't be washed off when it seeps into her hands. . . ." This bridge is really brilliant, reflecting the evil that has always existed in the hearts of people - endless desire, like the blood stain, has already penetrated into the body as a part of the body, when I woke up because of this endless desire, It was too late to find out.
At the end of the film, the spider's nest city was transformed into the current site of the spider's nest city in the mist, and the background music still sang: "...Look at the ruins of the ancient city full of desires, the ruins of ambition, the wandering ghosts, still lingering. ..." The whole film ends.
Although the spider nest city was destroyed, people's endless desires lingered in people's hearts like wandering ghosts.
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