Under the leadership of Virgil, Dante walked through hell, purgatory and heaven. He saw endless suffering and struggle, and also looked at holiness and glory. Dante left the world as a human and mortal body, and arrived at a place he had no way of knowing. New places, some he fears, some he yearns for.
Whether intentional or not, I think the seventh dream borrows the theme of the Divine Comedy.
Dante has become a traveler in a bucket hat and a worn-out travel bag on his shoulders.
And Virgil has changed from a persuasive mentor to a one-horned ogre in ragged clothes.
But the pattern of leadership remains the same. The ogre is like an old friend to this strange traveler. Maybe it's because he was once a person. When he finally saw a person again after a long time, he still couldn't help but feel He poured out his heart.
Nuclear radiation, deformed creatures, dandelions as tall as a person, roses whose stems grow from flowers, and himself who has turned into a unicorn... He said indignantly, and the traveler sat beside him and listened silently.
This is a purgatory-like world. People live in the form of ogres. The more horns on their heads, the stronger their abilities, and the easier it is to find their prey. However, he suffers more. The unicorn took the traveler to see the group of demons that could eat themselves at any time. They were screaming and struggling by the water, their shadows reflected in the water, bloody scarlet.
Seeing the traveler's fear, the ogre told him to leave.
The traveler asked: Where to go?
The ogre did not answer, but pushed forward and asked: Do you want to become an ogre?
The traveler fled in a hurry. It doesn't matter where you go at this moment. The important thing is to get out of here.
This is the dream.
Why do travelers come here? There is no account.
Where are the travelers going? unknown.
But that really doesn't matter anymore, this dream is just another insinuation of the Japanese people's sense of crisis. If the volcanic eruption of the sixth dream was caused by natural disasters, then the seventh dream was purely man-made. In the sixth dream, all the people struggled and perished in human form. In the seventh dream, we saw the survivors in Noah's Ark, who were no longer human.
The so-called Noah's Ark does not exist at all.
It's more of a play than a movie. Basically, the large panorama and the small panorama are the main ones, and the low-key lighting brings a depressive atmosphere. The dandelion design looks more like a stage set. The actors' performances are more staged, especially the group of multi-horned ogres, whose postures are even more exaggerated. In this way, Akira Kurosawa has formed a kind of alienating effect. It is not so much that he wants people to be emotionally involved in it, but it is more rational to think about the ugly future that human beings may face.
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