It's easy to associate this film with "Middle-aged Sadness", and one can't help but wonder if Akira Kurosawa has borrowed from "Middle-aged Sadness". The two seem to have similarities in how to live and find the meaning of life. "Desire to Live" provides additional material for discussing issues of bureaucracy.
The pursuit of the meaning of life has more or less troubled you and me. What is the meaning? It is difficult to give a clear definition, because the criteria for meaning are often divided. Schopenhauer said that people are always wandering between the two poles of pain and boredom, or suffering from lack of desire, or boredom when desire is satisfied. Can it be understood that meaning is the real deliverance of man from the slavery of the master of desire? "Making virtue and meritorious deeds" is the three major pursuits of ancient Confucian scholars. Kanji Watanabe, the chief of the Citizens Section, the official of Sesame University, left a park and an image that can be commemorated, isn't that the point? In this way, Schopenhauer's questions and discussions about the meaning of life are inadvertently answered: to make others live better. I don't have time to hate because I'm running out of time; I don't have time to appreciate the twilight I've watched for thirty years because I'm running out of time - but I have one wish, to do my part for this community, Leaving a trace of my presence there.
Bureaucracy is an important theory of Marx and Weber's sociology and an effective means of modern state governance. But the various drawbacks of the bureaucracy are twin brothers with the bureaucracy itself. The uterus that gave birth to the bureaucracy also gave birth to inefficient prevarication. Every staff member in front of the mourning hall, in front of the dead statue, repented, baptized, and reborn through Dionysus' divine revelation - crying to say goodbye to the past and live in the present. When the camera switched, when the ditch was flooded, when the newly promoted section chief of the Citizens Section was found, the section chief replied: Go to the Civil Engineering Section. The opponents sat down silently, burying their heads under the pile of documents.
Akira Kurosawa's films are very scary: the expressions of the actors are always terrifying - but it also declares the strong artistic appeal of the film! Slightly lacking, or somewhat confusing to the audience, the popular novelists and female staff members actively intervene in the story, but the scenes come to an abrupt end - it would be better to weaken their role at the beginning, and their absence after that is understandable .
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