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Missouri 2022-04-19 09:01:18

Every time I watch Seven Samurai, I have two thoughts, one is that time flies so fast, and the other is how well it was shot. There are three reasons why the filming is good, the story is well told, the camera position is good, and the actors act well. The most regrettable thing is that if this film is in color, it is really invincible. Seven Samurai is my favorite Asian movie. In my heart, it is better than Infernal Affairs, better than Double Flag Town, and better than Sad City. Better than Xiao Wu. The Seven Samurai tells the story from the story level. In three hours, the brilliance of the seven people is vividly portrayed. The audience goes from unfamiliar to the fullness of the seven people's characters. It is often a sentence that reflects a past event. Then in the last half hour, the story of the seven people and the spirit of the samurai reached their peak. In terms of background and metaphor, Akira Kurosawa is regretful, reflecting the alternation of human greed and the undercurrent of the times in an action movie, samurai are lonely, and the spirit they believe in will eventually be killed by bullets and selfish desires . Killing not only the mind, but also the body. In these three and a half hours, he said in a succinct manner, "Small water flows", but it did not make people feel that the time was long, and it was the magic of a master storyteller. In short, Akira Kurosawa used a story that could be understood with a little brain, and expressed his inner reluctance and yearning. There was no stream of consciousness, no new realism, and no empty shots to replace the lines. Yes, it's just the rivers and lakes that have passed away and the white clouds and dogs that are unique to each era. In the last sentence, Toshiro Mifune woke up with the action of looking for a knife, and I was also shocked.

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Seven Samurai quotes

  • Kambei Shimada: Train yourself, distinguish yourself in war... But time flies. Before your dream materializes, you get gray hair. By that time your parents and friends are dead and gone.

  • Woman Farmer: Is there no god to protect us? Land tax, forced labor, war, drought and now bandits! The gods want us farmers dead!