After watching this movie, I think, I can't stand in the identity of a modern person and look at this movie with the eyes of the moment. I don't understand Japanese samurai spirit, so I don't understand more.
There's a line in The Shawshank Redemption, "I had to remind myself that some birds can't be caged, their feathers are so beautiful that when they fly away...you feel like locking them up It's a sin, but you'll feel lonely when they're gone..." At first, I was confused when I saw that Mimura was blind, but he didn't tell his wife the first time. Shouldn't the marriage between the two be shared honor and disgrace?
But the relationship between the two, in my opinion, is actually the identity of the master and the bird. Mimura believes that he is the only support for the family, and also his responsibility and honor. The two of them met because of Jia Shi's adoption, and Jia Shi was always in a weak position. Mimura, on the other hand, has complete control over Gase. When Kase had to commit himself to Samurai Shimada Toya for Mimura's dignity, didn't Mimura know that Kase was just a poor woman? Doesn't he know that Gase was raped? He knew it all, but he still drove away his unsupported wife. For him, it is that he no longer has the ability to master this bird. What he cares more about is that his dignity is trampled on, and he has no chance and strength to restore his ownership of his wife.
And the two are not always on an equal footing. The matter of Jia Shi sacrificing herself to preserve her husband's dignity, in her opinion, is entirely for her husband, but she also considers it a betrayal, an act that will be killed by her husband, even if she repeatedly emphasizes that she is for her husband. Are the two really desperate and need the wife's prostitution? As Gashi said, she could choose to be a maid to take care of the family, but it was considered a shame by the family. And why she didn't discuss it with her husband, I think she also knew that her husband would not allow her to do something that would damage his dignity.
In the end, Mimura chose the challenge. Rather than avenging his wife, he wanted to save his samurai spirit. When he finally challenged Shimada Fujiya, it was also the time when his dignity was restored after his blindness. At this time, he regained the ownership of the bird.
When he found out that his wife was being forced, why didn't Mimura immediately seek revenge, but made a desperate attempt after learning the truth that Shimada Toya did not help him. I think, perhaps, he was bound by the honor of the family. Because if Shimada really caused him not to be removed from the family, he might have less of an excuse to kill Shimada. His challenge, for him, was not straightforward or straightforward. After all, Shimada saved his place in the family.
To Mimura, Kasei was the bird in the cage, and to Shimada, the two of them were the birds to be teased, and to the whole era, they were all birds in the cage.
Of course, all of these ideas may be judged by me from the perspective of a modern person, just like we can't expect Qin Shihuang to use mobile phones.
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