The film fully expresses the sadness, helplessness and inferiority of farmers in the background of that era. They have to pay taxes to the government, but the government can't protect them; robbers also come to rob food and even women from time to time; they want to protect themselves, but they can't do anything other than farming; so they decide to ask the samurai to help, they only You can see whether a seed is good or bad, but not a samurai.
Fortunately, there was still justice in that era, and the righteous warriors fought for justice no matter how much their salary was. When the seven samurai arrived in the village, they were not greeted with a warm welcome, but the gates of every household were closed, avoiding the samurai they invited to defend their homeland like a plague god. Why did they ask the samurai to help but they were afraid of them, hiding the women's food and not giving the samurai the trust they deserved? When Kikuchiyo asked someone for a stable, Li Ji was frightened and hurried to avoid it. Kikuchiyo said, "This is your own home, what's there to be afraid of?" I think this should be the inferiority of the villagers. The villagers are no longer bullied all the time and everywhere, so they are afraid, and they are afraid to do anything, and they are unwilling to trust others, even those who help themselves. Did the times create their inferior roots, or did they have inferior roots in their bones? That old widow, carrying a hoe to kill the robber, vividly embodies the villagers' hatred of the bandit.
Kikuchiyo is definitely a "treasure", he is carefree, but black and white; he is condescending, but righteous; he is stupid, but has a brave heart. Who would have thought that he was also a peasant, and he was still an orphan, which made people feel desolate. It can be said that because of hatred, he has a goal, and only when he has a goal can he go forward.
"It's better that they really love each other than to commit adultery with a bandit," Liji said. So far, everything about Kikuchiyo and Likichi has been explained clearly. (I don't understand why farmers and samurai can't be combined, the answer given by the movie should be related to class...)
From Shiro's eyes and actions, we can see that he is a young man with dreams. He advocates justice and aspires to be a courageous, highly skilled warrior. Teenagers who have dreams and work hard for them should be the objects of our study.
At the end of the movie, one side is the joy of the villagers singing and dancing, and the other side is the desolation in front of the samurai's grave.
In the same way of killing bandits, the peasants won, but the samurai lost. I think the reason why the samurai lost was because they tried their best to kill the bandits and even took their lives, but in the end they still didn't gain the trust of the villagers. The villagers only celebrated on their own while forgetting their savior. For the samurai who died in battle, they did not cry or worship, and for the living samurai they had no thanks, no gratitude, or even farewell. What kind of indifference, what kind of isolation, what kind of distrust, what kind of inferiority caused this situation.
It really makes people feel that it is not worth it for the samurai, and it is a pity.
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