7.12

Garrett 2022-03-22 09:02:01

I like it very much. If you don't have life experience, you will definitely not be able to make such a good movie. The layering is distinct, and every shot is beautiful, elegant, and passionate. The description of people who are immersed in work, how they make excuses for themselves, how they look at life in their own way, and how they look at the world, and how they forget themselves again and again in the midst of their busy schedules. Dying Watanabe, how to wake up in death, he raised his head, abandoned his inactive work, tried to find his meaning in pleasure, it was not cancer that made him despair - man is despair, he He just understands this, he likes the energy in the girl, the charming texture of life, the girl told her that her job is to make toy bunnies, so he understands that in the futile journey of life, there is no such thing as It was more meaningful than facing up to this futility. He decided to resist to the end, resisting the dying day by day. He handed over his body to the world with an attitude of acceptance. When the citizens came to see him, the drama was full of tension and very natural. After that, everyone began to recall Watanabe's life before his death, recalling the obstacles he encountered in the government when promoting the construction of the park, recalling his tenacity, and everyone understood their own sinking. Bian's soul has gradually become clearer, the face of society has gradually become clearer, and even the fate of the entire human being and the spirit of the times have become clearer little by little.

The funny thing is that this public servant of the people is truly born to die. It is death that makes us individuals. It is not a sense of collectiveness, but an unavoidable, duty-bound, desire to become one's own, which may lead human beings to the Datong society.

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  • Erwin 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Impressive. It's just that the actor's play is a bit delayed after seeing it, and the last few consecutive reversals are wonderful and powerful. In fact, many people will be so lonely when they get old.

  • Eldridge 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    (9/10) I came to know this film because of "The Murder Case of Flower and Alice". After watching it once, I realized that this 1952 film had a great influence on later works. As an early story about a terminally ill protagonist, it is the most unconventional work. I thought this story would end with the old man and the heroine playing happily and spending the rest of the time, or with the completion of the park as the ending of the story and the protagonist in the I closed my eyes in satisfaction, but it turned out to be nothing... Kurosawa is really a master. In contrast, similar works of later generations continue to shoot clichés that Akira Kurosawa desperately avoided in this film. In addition, this work also makes people sigh that only a few years after World War II, Japanese society has undergone great changes.

Ikiru quotes

  • Novelist: That's not art. A striptease isn't art. It's too direct. It's more direct than art. That woman's body up there? It's a big juicy steak. It's a glass of gin. It's a hormone extract. Streptomycin. Uranium!

  • Kanji: [singing] Life is brief / Fall in love, maiden / Before the crimson bloom / Fades from your lips / Before the tides of passion / Cool within you / For those of you / Who know no tomorrow...