"The Imperial Law" is adapted from the novel of Sima Ryotaro, and like Kurosawa Akira's "Rashomon", it is also a combination of two novels. These two novels are "The Frontier So Saburo" and "Sanjo Beach Ran Blades" in Sima Liaotaro's "Xin Zan Group Blood Wind Record". The Shinsengumi, also known as the Shinsengumi, was a pro-shogunate samurai organization during the end of the Tokugawa period, and it was also an armed group of the ronin at the end of the Tokugawa period. Mainly active in Kyoto, responsible for maintaining local law and order, dealing with anti-shogunate reformers. The Ikedaya incident they planned, which severely damaged the power of the Kyoto sect, delayed the Meiji Restoration for a year. According to China's orthodox historical view, it is obviously a reactionary group. However, due to the power of the Shinsengumi, the stability of Kyoto at that time was ensured, as well as the personal charm of the outstanding samurai in the Shinsengumi. The Japanese have a good impression of the Shinsengumi, and they highly respect the excellent samurai among them.
The start of the film is set in September of the first year of Yuanji (1864), three months after the Ikedaya Incident. The Shinsengumi team recruited members for the second time, and the location was moved from Mibu Village to Nishi Honganji Temple (Xiajing, Kyoto City). Area). Among the main characters, there are real people in history, including the director Kondo Isamu (defeat at the age of 34, and then beheaded), deputy director Hijikata Toshizo (nicknamed deputy ghost, killed at the age of 35), the team leader of the first team Soji Okita (a famous and talented young swordsman, nicknamed "Tianjian", died of illness at the age of 26), the leader of the sixth division Genzaburo Inoue (died in battle at the age of 40), and the team member Yamazaki Sho (known as "the legendary ninja", Died at age 35). Another beautiful man in the film, Sozaburo Ghana, is fictional.
Shortly after the film started, the new team rules formulated by the vice-chief of the ghosts, Toshizo Hijikata, were introduced. The regulations in the game: "Don't deviate from Bushido. Don't leave the team. Don't make money. Don't abuse lynching. Don't fight privately. "To formulate such strict regulations, it is often intended to clean up or maintain the discipline of the team. However, Fadu is so inhumane that he was beheaded after taking a loan privately (Seijuro Muto, a member of the fourth division in the movie), often implies the collapse of morality from the other side. It is no wonder that the main plot of the story is that the members of the new writing team, from the director to the team members, all coveted Ghana's male sex, and even the director and deputy director are partial to Ghana, and the team members fight against each other privately. The title of the film, "Government of the Law", means to destroy the law. If the law refers not only to the "law in the bureau" of the third year of the earthwork, but also to the general affairs, then the leadership of the new writing group has already exceeded the law. The leader of the sixth division, Genzaburo Inoue, was promoted to leader just because he and the director, Isamu Kondo, were brothers and sisters. Although his swordsmanship and strategy are not enough for the position of team leader. Even when they heard that Inoue Genzaburo and Ghana Sozaburo were privately chasing the two samurai who mocked the Shinsengumi, in order to protect Inoue, Hijikata did not hesitate to lose the lives of other team members, and hurriedly led a team to rescue.
At the end of the film, in order to prevent the collapse of the Shinsengumi group, Garner was regarded as the culprit who lured the members of the group to violate the rules of the bureau, and was executed by Chief Okita. The director used the fall of the cherry tree to symbolize the death of the beautiful man Ghana. However, I feel that even if Hijikata Toshizo cuts down the cherry tree that tempts people to transcend the taboo, it cannot completely stop the depravity of the members of the Shinsengumi. Because it is more important and more fundamental than cutting off tempting and forbidden things, it is to strengthen a person's heart that is susceptible to temptation. My heart is fragile and I can't resist the temptation of desire. Instead, he denigrated the things that aroused his desires. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?
However, people are more willing to choose to uproot the things that tempt them than to strengthen their hearts that are easily tempted. Simply because the latter is easier to do than the former. Once caught in a certain desire, whether it is a preference for male sex or other, people often can only act according to their desires. Going against one's own desires, like an ascetic, is really difficult. Moreover, even ascetic monks have not really escaped the cage of desire. Complete abstinence and complete indulgence are two extremes on the surface, but their essence is the same. They are both confined in desire and have not reached the realm of freedom. In the face of desire, one can truly be free. Neither indulgence of desire nor restraint of desire, but restraint of desire. If the legend is true, Socrates' attitude towards drinking is a prime example. Socrates never got drunk no matter how much he drank. As if alcohol would not have an anaesthetic effect on his body. Obviously, to do this, it is too difficult, too difficult.
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