live, at dusk

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese national treasure director. He grew up in Manchukuo and returned to the motherland with Japan's defeat. His impression of Manchukuo in the concept of hometown has a great influence, which makes him criticize and criticize Japan. Sense of distance. In addition, Yoji Yamada is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Tohoku University with excellent grades. After graduation, he did not choose the path that his classmates often choose: entering a public office as a civil servant, but joining the Shochiku Film Company, one of the five major film companies in Japan (Five: East Bao, Dongyin, Nikho, Shochiku, Kadokawa Films). With Yasujiro Ozu, Nagisa Oshima are colleagues.

Yamada Yoji's films have always focused on expressing the warmth of family and family and the lives of little people, among which the "Story of Torajiro" series with more than 48 episodes is the most representative. The film "Twilight Seibei" is the first part of Yamada Yoji's samurai trilogy. The background of the story is at the end of the Edo shogunate. The samurai bureaucracy with the "Shogun Zhengyi" as the chief executive is about to collapse, and the situation of samurai has been decline. In the film, the rebellion and subversion of the samurai spirit are revealed from beginning to end. The warrior represented by the protagonist in the film is also a loser in terms of fame and fortune, with a difficult family and always poor.

However, after watching the film, I sighed and thought: This is really a good man, a small but great man. Poor and humble, he is precious, warm, forbearance, responsible, and kind.



Just like when the film tells the short life of the fallen samurai from the daughter's perspective, the daughter said:
During the Meiji era, most of my father's colleagues and superiors were famous and successful, and I often heard them say: "Twilight Qingbingwei is really good. An unfortunate man."
But I don't think so. My father was not a man of fame, and he never considered himself unfortunate.
He loves his daughter deeply, and is loved by the beautiful Miss Pengjiang.
His short life is full of good memories.
I am also proud of this father.

In fact, I agree with the above paragraph. There are countless people who have gained fame and fortune in the society, and there are also many people who have become prosperous. However, the poor, humble, kind and intelligent men are often not in the mainstream vision and reputation. is ignored, which is determined by the collective ideology and mainstream values. In the environment I live in, in the mainstream values, men are expected to be successful and rich, and this is also the biggest criterion for judging whether they are a good man. Russell once said a simple truth: polymorphism is the source of happiness. Why does everyone merge into the mainstream collectively and cannot maintain the unique style of each individual? Qingbingwei was not a person who craved fame, how could he know that the source of his happiness was not his cherished lover, children, and the noble and wise principles he adhered to in his life?



As his daughter said, Qingbingwei is happy. Although it is short-lived, and although many are helpless and endure, he brings safety and happiness to the children and obtains the love of childhood sweethearts that crosses the secular stratum. The person who is responsible is responsible for living out the right and important things for the people around them to see.
Although he did not change the times or leave a name in the history, his short life lived a real life.
Thanks to this movie for letting me feel again: the ordinary happiness of small people has infinite power.

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