"How short life is, let a girl fall in love. Before the red lips fade, before the enthusiasm becomes cold, no one knows what will happen tomorrow, no one knows what will happen tomorrow; Before the hair fades, while the flame of love has not been extinguished, today will never come again, today will never come again", when the protagonist in the movie sang this song for the first time, I laughed, it felt very absurd, Between the halter skirt and the goblet, Shimura sang this love song tragically. The noisy crowd didn't know how to react. The strange expression on the novelist's face made me laugh. I had no sympathy for Watanabe's unwillingness. I'm just a theatergoer. But at the end of the film, the singing started again, and I cried. Watanabe is sitting on the swing in the park, the snow is fluttering, he is like a child, no one disturbs him, he sings quietly, his whole body is very lonely, but his heart is happy, and no one can share this happiness , This difference between hot and cold made my heart palpitate, and Watanabe's life ended like this.
There is a small detail, the face of the big brother in the back is very similar to the novelist Watanabe met at the tavern.
I have to admire Akira Kurosawa's cleverness and sharpness in the rhythm and script arrangement of the film, that trendy hat, this love song of the 1920s, no one will not ask for leave for 30 years, and no one will not change it for 30 years. Top hat, absurdity comes from this exaggeration and mockery of reality. (But in reality, there will be people who will not marry for the sake of their children for 20 years. I really don’t understand this kind of “don’t ask for return” of the Orientals for their children. They put too much weight on their children. That part of the weight is taken out, and they seem to have nothing.) The female clerk, as a clean stream in a stale government establishment, rips off those figurines, and the humor comes from irony and from the wonderful connection between irrelevant things.
What Watanabe yearns for is not the feedback of the girl's emotions, but the fresh vitality and the power to dare to change. He wants "Live".
PS Shimurabashi's performance is really powerful. After he was tired from repairing the park, the eyes of drinking water really hit me. I couldn't help it all of a sudden. It's just a close-up of his eyes. For me, the impact when it shot out from the eyes of the person was incomparably great.
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