This is the third Akira Kurosawa movie I've watched. Compared with "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon" that I have seen before, "Intentional Stick" has a consistent style, but it does not make people feel repetitive and cumbersome.
The stories are very concise. "Seven Samurai" is actually a rural defense battle, and "Rashomon" is a suspected murder. As for "Bang with Heart", in Japanese, it means bodyguard and thug. The protagonist Tsubaki Sanjiro is a poor warrior who has no money. The compensation for his meal is to be an inn thug. In this sense, this movie is also a story of a foreign warrior intervening in a local gang conflict, a concise story. There are generally two kinds of movies that come out, one is very watery and the other is very good, and Akira Kurosawa undoubtedly belongs to the latter.
dramatic conflict. The attack and defense of the small village in "Seven Samurai" and the testimony expressed in "Rashomon" make the film full of drama and swaying. The appearance of new characters in "The Stick of Heart" brings the best interpretation of this drama - it was originally a group of brainless men, but it changed because of the addition of Tsubaki Juro; The scales have tipped; after the poor woman joins, the hero's chivalrous and righteous deeds have taken a new level. The ability of the master is to be good at creating conflict, consuming conflict, Hitchcock, Wilder, nothing less.
confined space. "Seven Samurai" takes place in a small village, "Rashomon" is basically a valley and a broken temple, and the main story of "The Stick of Heart" is a large road and a few houses in the town. A really good story isn't about constantly changing framing, it's about making people feel less of the set and focus on the plot. From this point of view, the famous "House of Flying Daggers" by the National Normal University and "The Promise" by Kai Ge's ring and ring are indistinguishable from the black-and-white films of several decades ago.
Changeable weather. I think the movies that can make the best use of rain are "Rashomon" and "Seven Deadly Sins". In Rashomon, the whole story begins and ends in the rain. The torrential rain made the story weird and the characters blurred. In "Stick with Heart", wind and rain are also linked to the plot. The wind on the long street and the rain when injured leave different aftertastes.
Unforeseeable future. In fact, there is nothing to say about this. Isn't the charm of the story coming from this? In fact, think about it, as small as a movie, a novel, a game, as large as a trip, a career, or even the reincarnation of life.
Unpredictable, not only helpless, but also more enjoyable.
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