I'm used to knowing only a small amount of a movie before I watch it. At this festival, many of them didn't even check it at all. I bought tickets just by looking at the title. There are only a few relevant information I know about this "Chaos": Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 4K restoration, good film. Then he went to the science and technology museum cinema with such a blank brain.
At the beginning is a blood-red word "Chaos", the handwriting is rough, straightforward, and stinging. Then it was hunting, drinking, and talking about housework. Here is a detail: Although Saburo is the most unobtrusive, after his father fell asleep, he was the only one who was still worried that his father would be exposed to the sun. It can be seen from the beginning that only Saburo really cares about his father. Then there is separation of family business. When Saburo struggled to break three arrows with his knees, there was a small-scale laughter in the theater. Although this plot may be ridiculous, I think it is precisely a very sad place. He might want to use this to express such a point of view, that is, a bunch of arrows are constantly breaking, not because of how united they are, but because the external power is not strong enough. How can brothers who have grown up in troubled times truly unite? The other two brothers, Taro and Jiro, although humbly and declining pretendingly, this is actually a kind of credit in the Eastern style. It can be compared to the sweet words of the eldest daughter and the second daughter to the father in "King Lear". . Wait a minute, what are you talking about, King Lear?
At this point, I suddenly realized that an elder of the king would divide his property among three heirs. This structure is very similar to that of King Lear! However, I was not sure that I was King Lear at the time. I always thought "This is very similar to a Shakespeare play! What is it called? King Lear or Macbeth? Maybe it is King Lear, right?"
Then, as expected, the plot went in the direction of "this Shakespearean play". The arbitrary and partial father ousted Saburo and a trusted believer who spoke out and persuaded him. Saburo was appreciated by others, and his cronies left to secretly care about her husband. This place even has the feeling of ancient China, that kind of indifferent farewell, that kind of loyalty, they live not to survive in the world, but to live for loyalty and loyalty. Ah, this kind of poetic values can really only survive in ancient times.
Then there was a series of struggles, a series of expulsions, and a series of escapes. The husband was forced to sign and detained by the boss. He left the city for his dignity, thinking, "Anyway, I have a place to go, and a son is not filial. It's a big deal, I still have one." The two had already exchanged letters and colluded to expel their father. The old father's face was lost at the boss and second place, and the moment the city gate was closed behind him, his face was clearly repentant and hopeless. Perhaps he was in troubled times, he didn't properly discipline the children who grew up in troubled times, maybe he finally understood the bottomless but obvious selfishness of human nature. Because of him, isn't he also such a tyrant? Burning down other people’s cities, killing the girl’s parents, and asking the victim to marry into her own home, and asking her to think about hatred all the time. The gene of violence has always been there.
But the husband who fled was still so desperate at this time, resolutely refused to accept the help of the third child, thinking that he was ashamed of him, ashamed of the only upright person, he was ashamed of this, but he fell into a deeper level. Trap. Saburo's subordinates were as loyal as he himself, so they abandoned Sancheng and went to their leader. The three cities were occupied by the boss, and the old father was tricked into entering this city. Good trick, please enter the urn. As soon as the old gentleman entered the urn, the people outside began to boil the water, and one after another took arrows into it, in order to let this old gentleman die so well to divide the spoils.
But they were wrong. It happened to be the person who wanted the most to give up, unscathed. The battle scene here cannot be said to be burning, but it is really shocking. Blood like bright red paint is not real, but it is more terrifying than reality. The bright red is so glaring, as straightforward as the inscription at the beginning.
Until later, he ran into Tsurumaru, one of the survivors of the tyrant incident, who had his eyes gouged out in order to survive, he played a flute for the old man. I can't remember the melody anymore, but the flute is piercing at the height, and it is also piercing at the broken sound. Everywhere is a blind man's accusation of his life's grievances. The flute sounded in the bleak night, with the unique Japanese style of single-handedness, and blood like paint, just like the inscription at the beginning, all bright and dazzling. This flute is the soul of Tsurumaru. No wonder he insisted on going back and fetching it when he fled later.
Crazy Ami, who has been following her husband, has been performing the truth as a jester. It's like a narration, but it's fuller than the narration. He wants to run, although no one cares about him, but he can't run. His behavior is not like the loyalty of his subordinates to his boss, but more like the feeling of getting along day and night. Although everyone only regarded him as a clown, his feelings for her husband had long since become a helpless family relationship, and he couldn't get away if he wanted to go.
Now I want to make a sudden change in the style of painting, and talk about two female characters, Sister Feng and Er Sister Mo. Ahmad has always been a victim. Since childhood, both of her parents have died, and she was taken back by the murderer, just to cultivate her hatred. But she believed in the Buddha in order to make her inner peace more peaceful. In fact, this is just a little psychological comfort she seeks in this miserable world, and she won't let the feeling of hatred destroy herself. She smiled and said to her husband, "I don't hate you, but it's actually the best counterattack against him." Later, she became someone who must die again for no reason, but she was still persuading her brother to believe in Buddhism until she was dying. Ah, what a kind and innocent deceased. As for Afeng, the first shot of her came out and I thought she was not easy to provoke. In fact, she was also the one who most directly caused the dispute between the boss and his father. Desire for complete control of power originally gave way to respect for her father, but she, with a simple sentence, was able to pick that desire out of the water. There is also the sound of her walking, the rustle of the gauze cloth rubbing, the authority of forbearance is there. But what I didn't react at first was that after she subdued Jiro, she did not kill him, but had a relationship with him and confirmed that she belonged to Taro. I felt bored for a while, why not just kill him? Later I realized that this was the smartest way for women of that era. No one would recognize the authority of a woman, and as an ancient lady, she had no other resources to achieve her goals. She has a kung fu, but those who only need to subdue the biggest authority are enough. Her beauty is the most powerful resource. So she was able to get Jiro's mind to kill Ahmad under all kinds of soft and hard bubbles. But ushered in an insult from a loyal official. When I saw that stone fox head (clearly a smiling dog's head, okay!), I wanted to laugh every minute. This prop is made, it's the emperor of emoji! (Well, this is the change in style)
The latter thing, to briefly explain, is that the lord lost his father, Saburo sought his father, and the three-way melee. After Taro was killed, Afeng surrendered falsely, and was killed after revealing his true intentions (the blood sprayed on the wall is really shocking), Saburo found Father, he was suddenly stabbed when he returned triumphantly, and his father passed away in sorrow. When Saburo was assassinated and the lord went mad, the entourage next to him tortured him, but what can God do? This kind of "asking the heavens" feels especially Shakespeare's temperament. That paragraph is really the best summary of the whole film. God, he didn't teach us to kill each other, he looked at us in the sky, and the people on the ground killed each other, but he could do nothing! Everyone in this world, why are they fighting for pain, why are they fighting for death! Look at that city. People in it are fighting for death and pain!
Sure enough, it was a grand historical tragedy, which very much verified my previous thought that it was similar to "the Shakespearean play". The so-called "everyone died in the end". The tone is the same as the joke, expressing the cruel reality. The last shot is uniquely poetic, but it is also particularly embarrassing. It was a triumphant team, but when it returned, it became a funeral procession. There was a shadow on the mountain, which looked like a human figure. After the camera was zoomed in, it was discovered that it was indeed a person. It is Tsurumaru who has survived a disaster once again. He cautiously moved forward with a cane, and found that he had reached the edge of the cliff, and quickly turned around. In a panic, the Buddha statue in his hand fell off the cliff. That statue of Buddha appears from time to time in the film, and Xu wanted to express "the suffering of the human world, God can't do anything about it". Tsuramaru stood in the wind, the camera zoomed out and ended.
I almost forgot to applaud at the end, because the end was really unexpected, but I thought about it but found it very appropriate. Especially there is a Japanese poetry. The same poetry is also expressed in the soundtrack. The flute that expresses the sad emotions and the drums that express the tension are simple and just right. Especially the drum sound, I think the soundtracks of "Burst Drummer" and "Birdman" seem to have something to learn from it, and have similarities with it.
Taking advantage of the fresh feelings I just finished reading, let's write so much first, a very shocking, grand and poetic tragedy.
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