How did Watanabe help fill up the stinky pond near the community and build a small park on it, Kurosawa Akira did not directly express it in a direct way, but first through Watanabe's funeral to show the ugly face of city officials, and then Through the mouths of everyone, all questions and details are solved in the form of flashbacks. One negative and one positive, the contrast is sharp, which deepens Watanabe's new life at the last moment of his life and the transcendence of his personality.
The last 50 minutes of everyone's flashback to Watanabe is the most exciting and climax of the whole film, which reminds me of "Twelve Angry Men" directed by Lumet five years later.
To show the propositions of "family", "society", "life and death" in one movie, and show it so well, Kurosawa is indeed powerful enough, he is a genius of the movie!
What is life for? 64 years ago, Akira Kurosawa gave us a good answer.
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