The shogunate was not a sanctuary, and there was an endless stream of samurai who came to beg in the name of the shogunate. Standing at the collective level of the shogunate, the ministers decided to take this down-and-out young man as an incident and let him complete the severing as an example.
In the middle of the abdominal cutting, the retainer found that this poor young man had lost even the most basic dignity as a samurai, the knife. He came to the abdominal cutting with a bamboo knife and made him die embarrassingly. It was political correctness and defending the dignity of the samurai.
Desperate young men die in great pain and humiliation. The shogunate wrote articles and widely publicized speeches, asking the belly to be cut, giving him dignity, and letting the retainers carry the body and go to his home for some humiliation. This can be called a perfect political operation.
Unfortunately, the above is not all.
A few days later, another middle-aged samurai from the same place went to the shogunate to seek abdominal incision. The general told him the previous story. The down-and-out middle-aged samurai scoffed and admitted that he had come to beg for death, but before he died. To tell a long story.
He said: Before I followed other shogunates, I had a great reputation, and I got your Tokugawa family's clever plan to cut down the princes and want to centralize power. My generation has been interrupted by many careers. Of course, this doesn't matter. Fortunately, I still have a daughter and a son-in-law. Painful, but also happy. It's a pity that life has not been so smooth all the time. My daughter has been bedridden because of exhaustion and contracted a disease. When it made me even more sad, my little grandson also became ill and had a high fever. As a reckless husband, apart from fighting There is no other ability to kill, the son-in-law said that he has a friend who lends money, and maybe he can help. Before he left, he said that he would return in the evening, so we waited and hoped, but what came was a corpse and a humiliation .
The general was in a rage, and his intention to kill was determined.
The middle-aged warrior continued to ramble: I am not here to take revenge, nor to reason, I am going to follow my grandsons and the others, but before I leave, I have to regain the dignity of my son-in-law as a warrior. His poverty, his heartache, his pressure, you high-ranking people will never understand, but you can't judge a samurai's Bushido because of your superficial morality.
The purpose of the middle-aged samurai is very clear, to make political correctness submit to individual dignity and admit a mistake.
To the conspirators, this is a joke.
The middle-aged warrior threw his trump card: Since you value the way of Bushido in face, then these warriors who humiliated us should die. He threw the buns of the three warriors who had humiliated their son-in-law on the ground. Decapitation.
The general left the field in a rage, a fight with one enemy and many, the middle-aged warrior chopped to death and wounded many, and finally died by cutting his belly, but the battle ended with hot weapons. This is not a metaphor.
Before his death, the middle-aged samurai smashed the general's armor, the spiritual totem of the Tokugawa shogunate, to pieces. In this individual and collective battle, he won a glorious and heroic victory, but the ending of the film turned sharply, focusing on the perspective of historical documentary. Looking at this event, the historical description is simple and clear: those who seek abdominal incision have to be incised, and it will end.
At the end of the movie "Seven Samurai", Kanbei said: "Ah, we lost, and it was the peasants who won." Nothing more than that.
Apart from the topic, I prefer to talk about the story structure of this film. I call this theme: the story of a man using his life to restore the lost dignity. As long as this theme is used, no matter what coat you put on, the movie will not be too ugly. For example, Eastwood has "Classic Car" and "Unforgivable", Galaxy Image has "Vengeance" and "Exile", and John Woo has "The True Color of Heroes". , Takeshi Kitano's "Big Brother", and one of my favorite novel scenes is also this theme, which is the chapter of "Bloodwashing and Injustice" in Gu Long's "Passionate Swordsman Ruthless Sword", the criticized villain Long Xiaoyun to give birth to an heir Morality must be applauded.
There is also a theme of swords and halberds that is also commonly used in films, probably: the story of external visitors stirring up the deadlock and revitalizing it. For example, Akira Kurosawa has "Red Dead Redemption", "Junior Tsubaki", "Zatoichi" series, etc. Western films make good use of this theme, the originator of John Ford's "Searcher", such as "Noon", etc. Wait. A person from outside, with a unique charm, stimulates a pool of stagnant water, destroys the old rules of the world, brings light and brightness, and brings vitality.
In fact, these two themes describe the behavior of a hero from two aspects: to save people with the trend, and to transform themselves against the trend. Confucianism says: If you are poor, you will be good at yourself; if you are successful, you will help the world. It should be so.
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