- Appreciation No. 2 of Akira Kurosawa's "Dream"
/Fan Daming/In
addition to the fifth dream "Crow" in Akira Kurosawa's "Dream", the first and second dreams of the eight dreams "Sun Rain" and "Peach Garden", Also very beautiful and philosophical.
Both of these dreams involve the question of whether the little protagonist can go home again, which is not a small problem, especially for a teenager. But this boy is not an ordinary boy. As the incarnation of Akira Kurosawa's youth, he is undoubtedly a boy who is innocent and simple, but sensitive and eager to learn. He is very curious about various external things and is good at thinking and judgment. With the help of the words and deeds of the young protagonist, these two dreams are full of philosophical connotations in the external aesthetic form. Perhaps what they want to express is the proposition about how the troubled teenager can redeem himself. It is conceivable that Akira Kurosawa encountered similar difficulties in his daily life when he was a child. Only a teenager like Akira Kurosawa can turn danger into safety and turn danger into safety in such embarrassing and difficult situation. , to obtain self-redemption.
This embarrassing and difficult situation is expressed in the "Sun Rain" as the mother's order: According to the custom, those who commit the "crime" of peeking at the fox's marriage and going out must "kill themselves", or only find the fox and seek it Forgiveness is the only way to be exempted from the death penalty and to re-enter the house. In the film, we can see that the thick and heavy door was closed by his mother at this time, and the teenager had no other choice but to act according to his mother's orders. Obviously, the mother here has actually become the embodiment of strict folk customs; of course, the mother is not completely heartless, she has given a rough guide to the boy, his son: the boy must find where the fox is if he wants to be exempted from the death penalty. Just where the rain of the sun is bound to create a rainbow landscape in the sky.
At the end of this dream, the teenage protagonist holding a "self-cutting" short knife really walked to the sky, where the rainbow is reflected in the field, and the fields are colorful and flowers are like brocade. The panorama of heaven and earth here in the film is completely a sacred realm, and the young protagonist reaches his destination with the courage and fearlessness of his actions. This dream has come to an end so far, and the audience's worries have been relieved so far, because it has actually predicted that the young man will be able to obtain redemption for the "sin" he committed.
In the second dream of "Taoyuan", we see that the young protagonist has more supernatural abilities in his physical nature. He can surpass ordinary people such as his sister and see the sixth person who came to the house to attend the Girls' Day party ( There is a bit of Kubrick's "The Shining" flavor) - this girl is from the "Peach Garden" in the spiritual world. She is a peach blossom essence. She uses her own appearance to lure the teenager to the felled "Peach Garden", because the family has cut it down before. All the peach trees, someone in his family must take the responsibility. The intelligent and sensitive young protagonist has become a representative of his family because of his intelligence and sensitivity.
Faced with the reprimands and the imminent punishment from the peach fairies, the young protagonist burst into tears. But crying itself cannot offset the punishment, although the crying may effectively cover up the fear in your heart (in the face of the opposite, often the more you cry and the more afraid you are, the more severe punishment you will be punished by the other party). It was in anxiety that he became wise, and he answered the reason for his crying: he cried not because there were no peaches, which could be bought, but because of the felled peach forest, and without the peach forest, there would be no more peaches, and he was also Stop family members from logging. From this, the young man was praised by all the peach fairies-here, the young protagonist was redeemed for his family's "sins" and for himself, who was a scapegoat with the kindness and sincerity of his heart, including his wisdom. This dream finally left a cluster of blooming peach blossoms in the felled peach orchard, which represents that nature still leaves a ray of life for the human beings who destroy nature, and the responsibility of the rebirth mission is also assigned to our young protagonist. . The composition of these two dreams should be based on the legends about the folk customs of the hometown that Kurosawa learned when he was young.
Since these two dreams involve the question of whether the protagonist can go home again, I have noticed that in these two dreams, the home door has a deliberate expression and ingenious spatial scheduling: the home door in "Sun Rain", the scene is shot The angle is from the outside of the house to the inside of the house, while the door in "Taoyuan" is from the inside to the outside of the house. In addition, "Sun Rain" has an excellent deep space performance, that is, a 3D effect, when a teenager enters a large forest; while "Taoyuan" shows a flat or dramatic stage effect in terms of space processing when entering a terraced Taoyuan. This constitutes the change and contrast of the spatial processing of the two dreams. In this dream, the white faces and the various colors of the costumes of the dolled peach fairy are gorgeous and rich in decoration. Because they are set off against the large background of green grassy slopes, the bright and colorful costumes are neither dazzling nor "hometown". Qi”, but it looks very beautiful and very harmonious.
February 28, 2013 at Meiyuan Pavilion, Hangzhou, added on March 2
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