Class Suffering and Survival in the Cracks

Leanna 2022-04-21 09:01:17

The greatness of tragedy lies in tearing apart the beauty and integrity for you to see, and you can perceive your existence and meaning under the stimulation of this pain. Because of a natural aversion to death and incompleteness, such distortions and contradictions are the ingredients of a great film. That being said, for every death in Seven Samurai, I pause for a moment. I'm still vulnerable, unable to let go of life and death flaws.

It's a good movie, and it's still worth pondering about what it revealed 60 years ago even now. This is the meaning of history.

There is no winner. If there is any, it is the villagers who sang and danced after the storm. The loneliness and death of the samurai express the end of a class. Amid the joyful singing of the villagers, three calm warriors stared at the four knives stuck in the tomb. So a sullen anger was trapped in his chest, and the source was the prejudice of the class, that the arrogant and wise warrior should not sacrifice his life for the narrow and ignorant peasants. Maybe when the laughter comes from the big name and sacrificed in the war between countries, I will have a completely different idea, but the king is the world's affairs, and won the name before and after life. It can be seen that it is human nature to obey the strong and never get around the law of the jungle.

The warriors did what they were not supposed to do, just to pursue the Bushido in their hearts and the obsession of righting and eliminating evil. Its essence is still a cry against the samurai class that is increasingly dying and annihilating. As more and more samurai were killed by firearms, more and more samurai fell to their knees. This cry will still be wiped out by the development trend of history.

The estrangement between peasants and samurai will never be erased. The peasants hid their grain and cut the women's hair. It is also an inevitable result that the two sides cannot trust each other so that there is a difference. This reminds me of various scenarios in the real world. The red neck in the field does not believe the words of Wall Street, the separation of rural and urban China. Naturally, it has its corresponding results. Kikuchiyo's is the connection between these two worlds, and perhaps the most painful life. The name of the thirteen-year-old girl on her back is proof. On the one hand, he worked hard to fight arrogance and arrogance, in order to prove that he was a member of the samurai. On the one hand, he does not shy away from trying to understand his identity as a farmer. Killing Matt, which was popular a few years ago, seems to be similar to it. Because of the lack of recognition, you need to give yourself a sense of security. The performance is the pain of incomplete urbanization.

And what about the end of the samurai? Maybe next time it will be life and death.

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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!