But in addition, the author believes that, as the first real Kurosawa-style film, this film carries the above two points on the surface, but also reveals the "humanity" that Kurosawa has always adhered to in the future. doctrine".
Everyone who pays attention to the film is sure to notice the following two scenes:
First, Sanada finds Matsunaga in front of the dance hall and asks to see the X-ray film, but Matsunaga refuses. So Sanada said: "Those who care about others like me are simply angels." Matsunaga replied: "What a dirty angel". Sanada retorted: "You are lustful, thinking that angels are like dancing girls."
Akira Kurosawa's movie titles are generally relatively simple, such as "Rashomon", "Seven Samurai", "Spider Nest City", "Shadow Dancer", etc., which are relatively straightforward. Only this "Mud Drunken Angel" is confusing just by looking at the name. It is ridiculous why the angels are confused with dirty words such as mud and drunk. So when the audience saw the above shot, they suddenly realized that angels can indeed match the words "muddy" and "drunk", and these two words alone are enough. Akira Kurosawa is really clever. Mud is expressed in the mud of a stinky pond. When you are drunk, you can use a doctor's medical alcohol. This is not enough. What is an angel? Caring about others is an angel. "Humanism". To this day, how many people still fantasize about the plump wings of angels. Who knows, Akira Kurosawa has already seen through it sixty years ago - angels are just human hearts.
In order to compare with the "drunk angel" of the doctor, Akira Kurosawa also added a "dancing girl angel". This person is Nana Jiang. Later, this person saw that Matsunaga was seriously ill and the river was declining. He decided to take refuge in Okada. Who is the angel? , at a glance.
Second, after the death of Matsunaga, the liquor store girl and Sanada mourned Matsunaga by the smelly pond. Sanada said, "The hooligans are so stupid and so ignorant." At this time, the previous female student Huai came to announce the good news with a "graduation paper", and asked Sanada to fulfill her promise and invited her to eat red bean cake. Sanada invited the girl from the wine shop to go with him, but the girl declined. So Sanada and the female student left hand in hand. At this time, the female student asked, "If you are rational, you will not be afraid of lung disease, right?" Sanada paused and said, "Being rational is the most important thing in being a human being." After Sanada finished speaking, he took the female student's hand again, and passersby cast surprised glances. Sanada smiled and continued on the road.
After the scene where Matsunaga was tragically killed, the tension in the audience's heart has not been relaxed, and it has little to do with the development of the plot. Why did Akira Kurosawa spend a lot of space to describe this incident.
Whether the hooligan is stupid or not, in fact, Sanada gave the answer at the beginning of the film. He said that although Matsunaga is a gang leader, he is still afraid of lung disease and has a conscience. And every time Matsunaga refused to see a doctor, and even got deeper and deeper into the underworld, Sanada was full of complaints. From this, it can be seen that when Sanada said this, he was actually angry and uncontested, and he was not handsome. Even, these words can be linked to Okada's wife. Sanada once said that she knew that when she returned to Okada, she would live a slave-like life, but she did not repent and was "slavish". It is also an expression of anger. In short, Sanada, the angel, is really out of the mud and unsullied, and right and wrong are always clear in one sentence.
The reason why Sanada is able to distinguish right from wrong is due to the word "reason". The word rationality first appeared when the female student first went to the doctor to see a doctor, and at the end of the film, it is emphasized again, which shows that Akira Kurosawa did it on purpose. So, what is "rationality", which is not directly stated in the film, but if we look at the previous plot, rationality may be to listen to the advice of others, make the right choice according to the secular arrangement, for example, Sanada persuaded the evil people of Miyo not to come near For example, the girl in the wine shop persuaded Matsunaga to return to his hometown for self-cultivation. However, the last detail of the film made me overturn this conclusion. Sanada held the hand of the female student, which was considered unethical by others, but Sanada laughed rationally. The rationality here seems to be what the West calls "individualism", that is, everyone lives in this world with human rationality. As for what's right and what's wrong, I'll leave it to the judges to decide.
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