Qingbei at dusk

Novella 2022-03-27 09:01:22

At dusk, Seibei has to rush home to take care of the housework, so he is ridiculed for being rigid and uninteresting, while others spend every day in the tavern, drinking and flirting with the tavern owner.
The situation of Japan's low-level samurai in the entire shogunate system has become increasingly difficult, and in the tavern, the samurai is anesthetizing themselves day and night. Those ronin wandering in Kyoto are either chasing fame or fortune, or just seeking daily food, They are all victims before the curtain call of the shogunate. The "Twilight Qingbingwei" refers on the one hand to the loyal and benevolent Qingbingwei, and on the other hand refers to the twilight samurai class and shogunate rule.
The salary is fifty shi, and twenty is still an overdraft. In reality, there is only thirty shi, which is only a drop in the bucket for a low-level warrior with an old man and a junior. The funeral of his deceased wife made him pawn his own handed down sword, which is the soul of a Japanese samurai. In the film, the bitterness and pain in his heart were only slightly passed. The cruelty of reality cannot be resisted by anyone, and who else should resist?
The deceased wife's father's family salary was 150 shi and married his daughter to him. When he was about to die, he could not help but feel sorry for him. This made Qing Bingwei feel cold, and Peng Jiang asked his brother to propose marriage to him. Iinuma said that he underestimated Tomoe, but Iinuma also underestimated the dignity of Qingbingwei as a samurai. Even Yu Wushan gave up running and fighting to the death because Qingbingwei prepared a bamboo sword to compete with him at the end, which seriously hurt his dignity as a samurai. Because we are not samurai, it is difficult for us to understand, but Kiyobei ​​clearly understands that he must draw his sword.
Perhaps the deceased wife was not as utilitarian as we thought, otherwise they would not have married him in the first place, and perhaps they used to love each other very much. Otherwise, in the end, his wife will not stab him when she is dying and the previous transformation. She does not want to believe that there is still true love in this world, so she is so cautious. At the beginning, their original intentions were very pure, but what about the face of firewood, rice, oil and salt?
Pengjiang appeared, and she reminded me of Yun Niang in "Six Stories of a Floating Life".
There is one word in the label that surprised me, human. Indeed, I think the human nature discussed in this film is very deep. But in the previous article, their family, love and friendship are the themes of almost all movies.
Qingbingwei is not an incompetent person. In fact, he is a martial arts master hiding among the common people. It is easier for him to gain fame and fortune than to find things. But his concealment and forbearance are an inexplicable mystery of human nature.
Whether poor or rich, are you willing to stay with him?
Are you willing to stay with him regardless of poverty or poverty?
The difference between the answers to these two questions is that no one has a fixed answer in their life. Those who participate in the choice are like gambling, but every bet has a probability of winning. But in the latter one, there is no probability of winning, we can only hug our own misfortune?
The so-called human nature, probably everyone is an egoist, the so-called "no benefit can't be done too early" has already been said to be the bad root in human nature. But human nature is also beneficial to it. Family, love, and friendship are all manifestations of altruism.

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The Twilight Samurai quotes

  • Seibei Iguchi: I am ashamed to say that over many years of hardship with two daughters, a sick wife and an aged mother, I have lost the desire to wield a sword. A serious fight, the killing of a man, requires animal ferocity and calm disregard for one's own life. I have neither of those within me now. Perhaps in a month... alone with the beasts in the hills I could get them back. But tomorrow, I am afraid, is completely impossible.

  • Zenemon Yogo: So they sent you...

    Seibei Iguchi: Zenemon Yogo, by order of the clan, I come for your life. Draw your sword, please.

    Zenemon Yogo: [Intoxicated] Have a drink? I know you're all keyed up, but I'm going to run.

    Seibei Iguchi: Run?

    Zenemon Yogo: Yep. I want you to let me get away. If you please.

    Seibei Iguchi: I didn't expect that fromt he clan's best one-sword man. My orders are to kill you. I can't let you escape.

    Zenemon Yogo: Don't be so impatient, you can kill me at anytime. I'd like to talk to you. Have a seat. It's a nice day.