In order to thank Chinese friends for their encouragement and solidarity with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Information Office of the Japanese Embassy in China specially arranged two warm films in May. The first part made me very moved. It was about an excellent mother who was very emotional. The other is the thirtieth film by Akira Kurosawa that has been filmed for fifty years.
I wanted to invite a friend to go with me, but unfortunately my friend has something to do temporarily, so I had to go alone, which is very regrettable. Although it was raining lightly in the evening, many moviegoers came as promised, probably because of the fame of the masters, but I, a movie fan, are particularly eager for warm films, probably because there are too many cruel things in the world.
Most of Japan's award-winning films focus on pessimistic, philosophical, and alternative themes. The details of last year's "The Undertaker" showed love in every detail, expressing the characters' experiences in a beautiful and dramatic way, which was done by Akira Kurosawa many years ago. Although he has won many awards for films such as "Seven Samurai", "Rashomon", "Ran", etc., this film made in his old age can be said to be the accumulation of his many years, it is his own work, and there is no need to make it. Some alternative and crude characters have turned to express Japanese humor and pure passion to the fullest, so that everyone can see that Japanese movies are not only a symbol of coldness, but also a scene of warmth and humor, which can be described as a masterpiece in the classics.
The gist of the plot is: Teacher Jin, who is loved by the students and who is different from the others, who teaches poetry happily in class, will retire at the age of 60. After retiring, his students held a Moa Tuo meeting for him every year on his birthday (are you still there? I'm still here), hoping that he would live longer.
Teachers make a living because they have a certain reputation and can write reliably. After retiring, I bought a yard and set up a reception day at home. One day on a non-reception day, the teacher called the students and invited everyone to eat stewed red venison and have a drink. This can be said to be rare in difficult times. Delicious, he also announced today as his sixtieth birthday. At the birthday party, the teacher told the story of buying horse meat. The teacher was an instructor at the Army Academy, and it was extremely difficult to eat meat during that difficult period. So he heard about a place that sold horse meat, so he rushed for thousands of miles. past. When he was waiting for the seller of horse meat, a war horse passed by and stared at him with wide eyes. He was very sad. He knew the horse, and the horse kept looking this way, as if to say, "Instructor, what kind of meat did you buy?" It made his heart hurt. . . . It shows the very kind side of the protagonist.
The teacher also said that he was very afraid of the dark, and the students laughed at the teacher. He said that people who are not afraid of the dark are abnormal. Because darkness makes people associate, there will be a sense of awe. He also said that if there are often foxes in this place, I will often see many people as foxes when I walk here. . It seems a ridiculous idea, but it shows the teacher's rich imagination and a childish heart.
Because the price of a small courtyard is very cheap, I later found out that the room was always stolen and no one dared to live there. The teacher is also afraid of being stolen, but the family is poor. The students were afraid of being stolen from the teacher's home, so they came to investigate. It was found that after years of research on thieves, the teacher came up with slogans such as "The thief's entrance, the thief's passage, the thief's lounge (prepare cigarettes and cushions), and the thief's exit." "Let the students endure it. .
Due to the repeated bombings of the defeat, the teacher's house was gone. He and his wife hid in the house where the concierge of a duke's house lived. The room was very narrow and long, and no one could stand in. The students brought a lot of items to the teacher and persuaded him to do so. After moving out, he was glad that he was still alive. He was very content in this small room, even compared to the quiet fasting of his predecessors. Unfortunately, there was no stream nearby, only the toilet would make the sound of water. . Only one bird that was raised from childhood was brought out during the bombing. And a book, instead of letting the birds fly around in the firelight, they will inevitably die, it is better to let them die in their own homes. The teacher also hides under the quilt to be afraid of thunder like a child, and prepares incense to avoid thunder at home, which shows his reverence for nature. In winter, they live on quilts. Living in poverty, they are happy in their hearts, reflecting their revolutionary optimism. Finally one day the teacher dressed up to participate in the first Moa Tuo meeting.
At the meeting, the teacher had to drink a large glass of beer to prove that he was in good health. . Next to him sat a health doctor and a monk. Everyone wants to bless the teacher. There is a student who can't bless and report the station name of the slow train for a long, long time. . . . Another person became an executive of a company, and the teacher told him that you have become a heavy labor, heavy labor, and heavy responsibility. . . Waiting to give some explanations, the student was so frightened that his head was sweating. . . . . Everyone still ran together to sell medicine 121, so unhappy. . . Then suddenly there were no people, and only those who recited the station names were left to finish the last few stations. . . The music remembered that the monk was in front of him, and everyone stood in line carrying an official wrap. Upon seeing this, the teacher hurriedly asked if this was me, and quickly put his hands together. . . At this time, the corpse jumped up, raised a fan, danced and sang, and the teacher happily said, "I'm not dead yet." .
The teacher has a new home with the help of the students. Of course the student told the teacher that because his book had the copyright, he had money. . The teacher specially designed a large circular pond for the new house, because it was afraid that the fish in it would suffer from spinal diseases because of the small space. A willow tree was also planted with an island in it as a meditation place. He was very sad when he learned that the next-door seller was determined not to sell the land because the buyer wanted to build a three-story building, which would affect the neighbor's exposure to light. The students bought the land for the good deeds of the landlord and not to make the teacher sad.
The teacher is very fond of cats, and will ask for it like a child in order to hold a cat. But the cat is lost. The students promised to help him find it, knowing that the teacher is different from ordinary people, his imagination, sensibility, and kindness. In the film, a lot of space is used to show the pain of the teacher's cat Nora (meaning wild cat in German) after the loss. He will imagine the cat suffering everywhere and searching hard, like he is looking for his own child, even I don't eat, drink or take a bath, sleep uneasy, and burn into dark circles. Although he tried many times to no avail, he was still made fun of, and he even heard a lot of bad news, such as someone stealing a cat and selling its skin to make a sanxian, which made him even more distressed. The teacher even wrote a thank you letter, hoping that the cat would bring Bell with the address when it was found, but it was not the cat that was found in the end. Later, a cat with black and white flowers came from the corner of the courtyard. The mother fed the little fish, and the cat stayed at home. The teacher's pain also improved, and the students were naturally very happy. The teacher sang the story of the little white rabbit and the black wood when he was celebrating with the students, which made people cry. The teacher said that the students, all the caring people who care about this matter are Mr. Black wood, the teacher Singing high, full of gratitude.
At the second party, everyone happily danced and sang 21 to ease the melancholy mood and dissatisfaction with the world. They even brought in the U.S. military to maintain law and order. Seeing that they were just playing around, they quickly left.
Forgot to introduce the cat's name as Guluts (short-tailed in German), and it stayed for a long time until it died of old age. Like Nora, two graves were erected in the courtyard. . It is time to hold the seventeenth Moatuo meeting this year. The teacher was dissatisfied that the beer mug was getting smaller and smaller, but he still drank it in one gulp. The daughters of the students presented flowers, and the grandchildren of the students presented cakes. The teacher exhausted seven candles. He sent a message to the children to let them use the energy of graduation to find and engage in the things they really like and love. . . . This time the teacher was in bad health. . I was helped by the students to go back to rest, and I was still screaming in my sleep, I was not finished yet. . The film ends with the last dream. The teacher was still playing hide-and-seek when he was a child, and he always wanted to hide himself safely in a straw pile. Unexpectedly, when he lay down in the straw pile, he saw the yellow and pink sky. It was very big, very sunny, and radiant. ...It seems to imply that this is a peculiar person protected by the heavens, and he will also have a glorious life.
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