Numbness for too long, I haven't cried like this in a long time.

Branson 2022-03-24 09:02:11

On the afternoon of February 28, 2012,

when the piano sounded and people were planning a new round of dance steps, the deep singing of the old man Watanabe floated out of the screen, and people slowly stopped dancing.

Life is so short ,

girl , let's fall in love ,

before the red lips fade, while the

enthusiasm is not cold ,

no one knows what tomorrow will happen,

no one knows what tomorrow will happen Not extinguished today is gone forever today is gone forever... At that moment, I couldn't help but sing along with a little choked up. At the beginning, I saw the actor Watanabe (Shimura Joe), and the "Seven Samurai" that I had watched sounded. Of course, there are also several "Seven Samurai" actors. There's also a touch of comedy. The expressions of Japanese movies and actors that are too exaggerated to me always give me a bit of a comedy element at the beginning. When the singing sounded, this peaceful heart could no longer be calm. And when Watanabe went through a crazy life with a popular fiction writer, he asked the female employee who had resigned why she had lived like a mummy for 30 years, and how she could live as energetically as she did. The strong collision of characters' thoughts activated Watanabe, and he suddenly understood the meaning of how he really lived in a government agency. That moment. Director Akira Kurosawa made the birthday celebration music play at the dinner table next to him. Along with the music of "Happy Birthday", Watanabe's old body rushed downstairs, and the birthday protagonist was only taken by his back. I understand that at this moment, Watanabe's terminally ill body is reborn. This is not the original Watanabe.






















After he went back to work the next day, he immediately began to work on the "Heijiang Town cesspool" incident that was played with by all government departments and could not be solved at the beginning of the film. (This close-up at the beginning of the film to the staff of N government departments to shirk matters, reminds me of the situation when I was looking for the current government to do things). When all the subordinates were astonished and dumbfounded, Watanabe picked up his hat and clothes and strode out of the government building, accompanied by the music of "Happy Birthday" again.
At this time, the film has progressed to 1 hour and 32 minutes, and the narration of the film told me that "the main character of the story is dead". There are still 50 minutes left in the film. Was wondering at the time. What's going on here?
Next is Watanabe's portrait and mourning hall, filled with a group of large and small bureaucrats led by the deputy mayor, as well as Watanabe's colleagues, friends and family. In the movie, everyone was wondering why Watanabe suddenly changed. Play back the last days of Watanabe. All their questions and answers unraveled little by little. And I saw countless afterimages of the people around me and myself, our collective sentient beings.

When the policeman described: "It's all my fault, I saw him at eleven o'clock the night before, I thought it was an alcoholic who was playing the swing in the snow, I was so negligent. I really treated him as an alcoholic as usual. Yes. I did something wrong. Because I was very happy to see him, I don't know how to describe it, he was singing with dedication, and his singing moved me surprisingly" The
screen changed.
Watanabe was swinging on a swing, covered with snowflakes, and he sang that song quietly while the snow fell. .
Life is so short ,

girl , let's fall in love ,

before the red lips fade, while the

enthusiasm is not cold ,

no one knows what tomorrow will happen,

no one knows what tomorrow will happen Not extinguished today gone forever today gone forever ... i cried again. . . . . . . .














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Extended Reading
  • Rogelio 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    If it weren't for Shimura Joe's performance in the second half being a little too hard, this movie would be full marks. This scenario is common in post-war Japan more than fifty years ago, or in the great powers of today, or in any "organization," "class," or "society." Not only about class society, but also about the meaning of life, using a variety of faces and expressions of life to talk about birth, old age, sickness and death.

  • Bianka 2022-01-03 08:01:17

    The representative of the early reality theme, humanitarian care, "started a new life only after getting cancer." The irony of the bureaucracy, the awakening of life. The protagonist used a lot of flashbacks to his past and everyone to the deceased, which in a sense continued the way of Rashomon two years ago. Kurosawa slapped another person at the end. After a mourning and repentance, the section chiefs shirk their responsibilities and kept their heads down with the staff.

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...