Since I watched BARAKA a year ago, this is the second movie that left me in a daze for a long time. The difference is that the former has no lines, only music and images, while the latter has little music but more dialogue and pictures.
I love those bright dreams, they are just dreams.
Sun Rain Fox Marry: A naughty and fresh fairy tale dream. The fox wanted to marry on a sunny day and was afraid of being seen, but the little boy secretly hid behind the tree and saw the strange face of the fox turning back after three steps. He was driven out by his mother because he committed this taboo. He found the end of the rainbow and there was a sea of flowers under the sky. The little boy laughed.
This is the most natural and most dream-like dream. Childhood dreams are innocent, like a child's fantasy. There is no big reason for the sun and rain fox to marry and ask you to go away. The big eyes full of children are puzzled and curious.
The Peach Blossom Forest and the Fairy: The little boy saw the Peach Blossom Fairy who was invisible to his sisters and followed her to the withered peach forest. The immortals who suddenly appeared hated the destruction of the environment by human beings, but were moved by the heart of the little boy. The beautiful scenery of peach blossoms is displayed with dance music unique to Japan.
I think the dreams of these two little boys are Kurosawa's childhood dreams. Akira Kurosawa's younger sister died suddenly when he was in his teens, like being blown away by a gust of wind and never coming back. Yet it is still clear decades later.
Van Gogh and Rice Fields: Van Gogh's paintings all come out of the wall are endless rice fields. Van Gogh told the young people who came here, "painting is as natural as a dream". Young people walking in Van Gogh's painting, the last scene is the vast rice field growing on the horizon, a flock of black crows fly from a distance, the train whistle blows, when it is time to say goodbye, the young people will never see Van Gogh again.
This dream also has nothing to do with the big theme of life and death in the world, but a cordial dialogue between Akira Kurosawa and Van Gogh. Akira Kurosawa must have liked Van Gogh, and even Van Gogh was deeply influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e. Akira Kurosawa used this dream to express his lifelong pursuit of art. To be close to nature, Van Gogh could see beautiful things in every grass and tree. There is beauty everywhere in nature. This is art. The ideal to be pursued and the source of inspiration.
The quiet waterwheel village: by the gurgling creek, the old grandpa who is repairing the waterwheel in his prime tells the simple stories and the meaning of life. On that sunny day, the villagers in full costumes sang and danced to bid farewell to an old man who was at the funeral that day. "A person lives well, works hard, and dies after a lifetime of hard work is worth celebrating." The slate by the stream is always full of flowers.
Those dark nightmares are reluctant to remember (thinking that the blizzard will never end, seeing the fairies telling them "the snow is warm", climbers finding their base camp; endless tunnels unwilling to believe their martyrs who died in battle, living It's not as good as the officer who asks the dead to rest in peace. This is the only part without the soundtrack. It's very uncomfortable to watch; the explosion of the nuclear reactor dyed the Fuji snow mountain and melted; and the dialogue with the twisted people of the ogre, death lingers.)
However, I like it the most . The old grandfather of the waterwheel village told the young man a familiar sentence: "The night is so dark as if the sky during the day can't see the stars."
I think dreams are also the stars of each of us at night.
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