Reflect and face

Issac 2022-04-19 09:02:45

The whole film uses a stable lens, aiming at several characters, and then the movement of the internal characters constitutes a scene change. Sometimes music is played, or heavy or lively, but even if it is lively, it will make people feel solemn and dignified. Therefore, the whole film is saturated with nostalgia and heaviness, relief and sentimentality, understanding and deep-rootedness. Through the expression of the emotional behavior of the four children, the emotional tone of the whole film is colluded with, repeatedly emphasizing the unforgettable, richly rendering the sadness and warning of the post-war emotions, and also expressing the forgetting of the past and changing circumstances, reminding people several times, not to forget history. In the film, the grandmother is the positive character, and the parents are the opposite, but gradually understand and sober. The communication between the two is through the four children, which also allows the audience to have a clear understanding of the concept between the grandma and the parents in the film because of the language and behavior of the four children. clear understanding. The director may be worried that the audience is unknown in some places, and from time to time, he uses the piano repair boy's mouth to remind him by name. The whole film is solemn and peaceful, with running and brisk music at the end, it is the intersection of the heaviness of the past and the happiness of the present, which penetrates into people's hearts. There is also a line to repair the piano, when the American and grandma met, his piano was repaired. This aspect expresses whoever dislikes war. Including grandma and others chanting the scriptures later, the Americans were looked at by everyone and bowed to express their apology.

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  • Taya 2022-03-20 09:02:48

    The Japanese never thought that they were defeated by us. They always thought that they were defeated by the Americans and American atomic bombs.

  • Donna 2022-04-21 09:03:17

    This film is a work of great artistic level and humanistic concern of Kurosawa Ming in his later years. The reflection on nuclear war is less radical in the early years, but more a return to the basics. The whole film has always been in a warm and smooth atmosphere, but this film It seems biased that the ideology only emphasizes Japan's victim in the war, while ignoring the fact that Japan was originally the aggressor

Rhapsody in August quotes

  • Kane: I got old and so did this organ.

  • Kane: People do anything just to win war. Sooner or later it will destroy us all.