Between Reason and Emotion---Snow Falling on Cedars

Bell 2022-03-21 09:03:29

Whether it's love or hate,
we need to find a release point for this intense emotion.
The film Snow Falling on Cedars provides people with such an angle of thinking.
This is an unfair policy and an unjust war because of racial prejudice. The resulting story,
when these three elements are intertwined,
will inevitably lead to the tragedy of the individual society
Although sometimes we have to admit
that injustice seems to be part of life,
although we have to agree that
we are bound to sacrifice for this injustice
And the power to end tragedy and injustice
is stronger love and reason
and justice in justice

in a desaturated tone.
The story brings people's attention back to the Seattle
white fisherman Carl, who died in a sea trip shortly after
the end of World War II. People's doubts all fell on the Japanese fishermen's palace, who went to sea with him. The
procuratorate arrested the suspect on the charge of intentional homicide.
However, due to the complexity of the incident and the doubtful points of the evidence itself, the
judicial authority initiated the jury procedure
. The war caused by Germany and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
, whether it was the members of the forensic jury identified by the police officers investigating the crime scene or the white residents who
were listening in, paranoidly focused the case on the palace itself.
Not only did he become the ultimate criminal suspect People have also become the release point of people’s inner anger and hatred.
As the reporter who reported on this case, Isa
found the most favorable evidence of the defendant’s innocence, and
also met the
Japanese lover who was in love with the defendant’s wife who had been separated for 9 years.
In the auditorium, the
director used freehand freehand shots to show us the old scene of Issa and her lover
, the gray-blue beach
, the cedar tree, the
lover's pure eyes, the
drizzle and the snow
, all intertwined with love and nostalgia.
The boat of life that carries him floats in the depths of the heart.

When the reality is colder and crueler
, the beautiful and ignorant memories of youth
are more moving, bright
and inspiring.
With the years, the memories are brewing into wines that
are sweet but tingling and spicy.
At this moment, Isaac is in deeper and deeper pain.

His body
is mutilated by the war.
In his heart
is the emotion mutilated by deep love.
He has more reasons than any other jury member to borrow. The solution to the inner and physical injuries is whether it is self-willed emotional venting or fulfilling the lover's family, which is always tormenting
him Unforgettable emotions or expressing the nostalgia of lingering dreams , retrospecting in time, recalling emotions, thinking, and constructing a spiritual home that is absent in reality, all of which revolve around two kinds of "loss of love" What unfolds is the loss of human fraternity - the devastating pain that the war brought to Isa, which also led him to finally understand the precious quality that transcends human nature












Another kind of eternal loss of pure love between the two sexes---the demise of the first love made him a spiritual wanderer, the lover is
close to his eyes but he can't ask for it, only the sentimentality of a memory is accompanied by it. Tightly pulling the audience's heart, following his psychological
curve, interrogating history, comprehending life, and reflecting on love Liberate it, whether it's bigotry, hatred, or love." ---------Outside of the film--------- ==photographer== As one of the few thinking about racial policy in post-World War II America The film is very easy to attract the Oscar judges with a strong taste in terms of subject matter , but due to the lack of strength of the story itself, it was only nominated for the best cinematography, so I have to mention the photographer of the film, robert richardson , who worked with Robert The talented photographer of De Niro's "Horse Whisperer" and "Kill Bill", which is a model of violent aesthetics, uses unique tones and perspectives to naturally bring people into a kind of beauty that is full of sadness, showing unique beauty from a three-dimensional perspective. Ultimateness and diversity cleanse our aesthetic senses == Supporting Actor == As a veteran Swedish actor who does not lose to ethan hawke, max von sydow is particularly good at playing oppressive and severe characters. In this film, as an old but still shining wisdom Almost every appearance of the defense lawyer of the defendant with the light of humanity is a bright color in the film, and even the silence when he thinks




























It is full of dramatic tension
, and when new evidence does not appear,
it will push the film to a spiritual climax when there is no new evidence. It
will push the film to a spiritual climax, making
people involuntarily pursue the highest value of reason and torture their hearts


= legal The flash point ==
As the historical background of the film
, after World War II, it was one of the most brutal periods of American racial policy,
whether it was the confiscation of Japanese residents' property to restrict their personal freedom
or the segregation of blacks and
the work discrimination against Chinese Americans.
In the legal studies since then Frequently mentioned cases
include the famous "Chinese Laundry Case" and "Campus Isolation Case", which
have become important cases for reflection and application in the American legal community in the future. This film is a reflection
on the special historical environment of this period. We can't ignore the victory of "fairness and justice" as one of the ancient legal principles in this film. The more the excellent character of adhering to the law in extraordinary times , the more difficult and important it is . "We must remember that we are thinking about a person When one dies, one is also weighing the fate of another."







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Snow Falling on Cedars quotes

  • Nels Gudmundsson: Accident rules every corner of the universe... except perhaps the chambers of the human heart.

    [NB these are the last words in the novel]

  • Young Hatsue Imada: Don't be sorry. I'm not.