What I saw was the 126 minute international version.
The director's greatest desire is to show modern people the Japanese style of the end of the shogunate. The budding consciousness of freedom in the middle and upper classes of society is bound by the traditional ethics of stubborn samurai and generals. Read Mr. Huang Renyu's big history series again, and try to think about the behavior of the thirteen assassins with his historiographical concepts. It is not difficult to find out the reasons for the end of the shogunate's rule and the social foundation of the Meiji era.
What the film shows is no longer the golden age of samurai warriors, in which the gods of the Warring States Four Wars or Toyotomi Houkai was arrogant, holding up a broken iron piece and slashing at anyone. The daimyo and the generals no longer need free-range thugs but more professional troops, and after years of peace and savagery, the samurai class has also lost the spirit of the Warring States period and the skills of swordsmanship. Therefore, the result of the thugs who are revived can be imagined. If you look at the film in reverse, it is obvious that the general's younger brother and future middle-aged people do not take samurai seriously at all.
The director has used irony many times. Of course, this is not uncommon in cult B-level films, but it is used a little more. At the same time, considering that this is a group play without distinct characters, the black humor when shaking the burden is real. Kind of hard to laugh at.
Discuss a detail that a lot of people have questions about (of course, the movie has a lot of detail). It is the "resurrection" of the mountain man hunter. In fact, when I saw him being stabbed, I didn't think he could hang. He had to appear to satirize the samurai's poor skills and poor physical fitness (both the enemy and us), and even he died. Isn't this a satirical irony? As long as the director and screenwriter are normal, they will not play in their own works. own face. Therefore, there is only one truth... that Orion's being stabbed can only be an episode and suspense, and this buddy will have to make a comeback later.
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