I really want to die with you - Dream No. 4

Buddy 2022-03-23 09:02:50

The first dream is eerie and mysterious.
The second dream is gorgeous and moving.
After all the hardships and dangers in the third dream, there was a happy ending.
This fourth dream is only heavy and sentimental.

The first three dreams are all descriptions of fox demons, peach demons, and snow maidens in myths and legends, while the fourth dream is about the ghosts of soldiers who died on the battlefield but did not want to admit that they were dead. If it is said that the first three dreams are the wanton fantasies in people's hearts, then the fourth dream directly points to the cruel and cold reality.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was a nightmare.

In the twilight sunlight, a thin middle-aged soldier was walking in the countryside. He walked into a dark tunnel. It was pitch black in front of him. Suddenly, a ferocious wolf dog emerged from the hole. It ran to the soldier's side and faced him fiercely. Bark, what's on his back? A dagger? grenade? I can't see clearly. The soldier took a few steps back in fright. The dog just barked, but did not pounce on the soldier.

The soldier entered the tunnel, his steps weary and slow.

The soldier walked out of the tunnel, and dusk had turned into night.

The soldier looked back, and the sound of footsteps in the tunnel made the soldier flinch.

"Second Class Noguchi!!!"
Facing the pale-faced subordinate who died in his arms, the soldier was stunned. He had no choice but to tell him over and over again: You are dead. Noguchi pointed to his home, where his parents were waiting. He looked like he was still just a child, and he was so unacceptable to his own death that in the end he could only return to the darkness under the watchful eyes of the soldiers.

Before the soldier recovered, the sound of uniform military boots completely overwhelmed him.
Those soldiers who were lined up neatly with pale faces and expressionless were his subordinates.

"Report Commander, Third Squad, no casualties!"

The soldier finally decided not to run away, he decided to face himself honestly, the entire army of his subordinates was annihilated, his own capture, everything, finally spit out all from the silent mouth, he said earnestly, his body slightly slightly. Leaning forward, the sadness of his words and expressions was so deep, and the ghosts of those soldiers still stood there, expressionless and motionless.

Finally, the soldier pulled his messy coat, stood proudly, and drove his last duty and authority as a commander.

"Third Squad, all turn back!"

The ghosts of the soldiers were always unable to let go of their own deaths, but their conditioned reflexes and long-standing habits of military orders made them irresistible. He turned around and walked toward the dark footsteps, gradually walking away.

Soldiers stood and performed the standard military salute.

When the footsteps disappeared, the soldier fell to the ground, unable to support his body any longer, just as he could not face the heavy past.

Then the barking hound appeared again, its anger and sharp teeth exposed in the night light, it barked around the soldier, but could not hurt it.

At this time, I suddenly realized that the dog had already turned into a ghost.

The dark tunnel forms a huge metaphor, which represents the process of the soldier traversing the painful memories of the past. When he thinks that he has walked out of the dark years and entered a new life, the cruel encounters on the battlefield in the past and the painful Memories still tore at his heart, and he couldn't get rid of them.

Maybe all his life, he can only wander at the entrance of the tunnel, constantly looking back, unable to move forward.

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  • Holden 2022-03-20 09:02:25

    4.1. Actually, it was Kurosawa's dream from childhood to adulthood, his round hat. The visual impact is great! A lot of Pu Songling's feelings, the reality is: 1. Childhood curiosity about fox fairy. 2. The sadness about cutting down the peach tree. 3. Perseverance after encountering difficulties, 4. Sorrow for the wronged souls after experiencing war, 5. Infatuation with Van Gogh. 6. Helplessness and criticism after nuclear pollution. 7. For a while, I thought about the fantasy of death when I committed suicide. 8. The expected posthumous ceremony.

  • Letitia 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    Akira Kurosawa and I are absolutely incompatible. Except for the first "Rashomon" I watched, I didn't like any of them. At the previous Beijing Film Festival, "Dream" was miserably late and slept in the audience... I didn't expect to find it so soon. opportunity to revisit. "Dream" is the kind of movie that I thought I would prefer before watching it, but after watching the whole movie, I found that I only liked the first dream "Sun Rain", which has the misunderstanding, strange crisis, a little fear and lack of children's dreams. The weird beauty of logic. Since then, a series of large-scale environmental protection science and education small theaters have all kinds of places that people do not like. "Taoyuan" is beautiful and plain; "Blizzard" promises to knock down your insomniac's gospel within five minutes, and make the boy next to me nod; "Tunnel" is such a straightforward reflection on war; "Crow" "It's as false and overkill as Scorsese's Van Gogh; "Red Mount Fuji", "Weeping Evil Ghost" and wind spectacles are paired with inferior special effects and simple preaching; "Waterwheel Village" is probably the image of utopia in the eyes of Emperor Kurosawa, But before the end of my love to death comes, there is the "great wisdom" that he poured out through the mouth of the old man.

Dreams quotes

  • Nuclear Plant Worker: The red one is plutonium-239. 10,000,000th of a gram causes cancer. The yellow one in strontium-90. It gets inside you and causes leukemia. The purple one is cesium-137. It affects reproduction. It causes mutations. It makes monstrosities. Man's stupidity is unbelievable. Radioactivity was invisible, and because of its danger, they colored it. But that only lets you know which kind kills you.

  • [first lines]

    Mother of 'I': You're staying home. The sun is shining but it's raining.