One. introduction
I believe that many people on the short video platform such as Douyin have resisted such editing videos, looking at the video picture with a very style and artistic sense is always in the clouds, it is difficult to find the source of the film but do not understand, this article will be from the perspective of Akira Kurosawa and "Dream", in detail what this forced work says?
Two. Biography of Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa is a Japanese film writer, director, and producer.
Born in 1910 in Ebara-gun, Tokyo, Japan.
Akira Kurosawa was born into a Japanese samurai family and grew up with a strict family, but he grew up in such a family and was very interested in painting. This is also the projection of fantasy and beauty by the childhood protagonist in "Dream". It also laid the foundation for the portrayal of Van Gogh in Dream 5.
In secondary school, Akira Kurosawa participated in the organization "Union of Proletarian Artists". Not only that, but he also became one of the workers of the newspaper and periodical Proletarian News. Perhaps it was this stage that gave Kurosawa a deeper understanding of war. And this corresponds to the content of Dream 4 Warriors and War.
Three. The content and interpretation of "Dreams"
"Dreams" has a total of 8 in the movie, which can be roughly divided into 3 parts from adolescence to middle age to twilight, and 8 dreams interpret Akira Kurosawa's views and insights on the world. The content of "Dream" in the article "Alive" once wrote: "Teenagers go wandering, middle-aged people want to dig up treasures, and old people become monks." ”
A similar ambition is presented in "Dreams".
The first is the recourse of adolescence. The story of the fox and the sun rain tells the male protagonist who peeked at the fox to marry the relatives when he was a child, and in order to apologize to the fox, he walked to the fox's residence at the end of the rainbow after the sun rain.
The story is simple and not complicated, but it is intriguing in the "blank space". Some people say that this comes from the child's nightmare, but in fact, it is more of a child's curiosity and adventure about external things.
At the end of the story, the child walks through a sea of flowers to the residence of the illusory legendary fox, which also makes the story more like a fantasy journey genre film about teenagers.
The second story, Peach Blossom and Daughter's Day
To add useless knowledge, the Hatchet Festival (ひな祭り, hina matsuri) is a festival for Japanese girls, derived from the Shangmi Festival in China, because this is when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, so it is also called the Peach Blossom Festival. Correspondingly, the Dragon Boat Festival on May 5 is also known as the "Calamus Festival", and "Calamus" is homophonous with "Shangwu" in Japanese, thus becoming a boys' festival.
The boy follows the girl who appears out of thin air to a peach orchard, where he is stopped by a group of fairies and asks why he cut down the peach tree. The teenager replied to his own opinion of cutting down the peach tree, containing a childlike understanding that belonged only to the teenager.
At the same time, this may be the last childish fantasy of the teenager, and the dream after that will never be so childlike.
This story is the teenager's thinking and choice of beauty and evil, but also reflects the serious consequences of the current blind development without regard to the environment, the film from the peach blossom flying gods singing and dancing to the final bare mountain only a peach tree left also hints at the final choice of the teenager, which is the end of the teenager's fantasy, the beginning of mental maturity. It is the choice that everyone experiences when they grow up.
It is mentioned here that Akira Kurosawa's film uses color and composition perfectly, making people feel unparalleled beauty under the impact of color.
The third through seventh dreams are adults' views on the world.
Dream 3 Wind and Snow Girl Middle School Mountaineering Team braved a steady stream of snowstorms to resist sleepiness and wind and snow. It is in this situation that the protagonist sees the Snow Girl, and her seductive voice hypnotically tells the protagonist that the snow is warm. In the end, the male protagonist pushed away the snow girl, and the snow girl also showed a vicious face.
The blizzard here is like a difficulty in adult life, and the appearance of the snow girl is like the hope of "lying flat" on the way of life. In the end, the male protagonist pushes the snow girl away to push away the illusion that can make him happy and warm. Found their own camp.
The fourth dream is about war. Akira Kurosawa was an anti-war activist. So in this film, Akira Kurosawa exposes the darkness and suffering of the war through the mouth of the commander. There is an implicit contrast here, and it seems to be more "stubborn" than the Japanese "team" that appears first after the fallen soldier who misses his hometown. The former, persuaded by the commander, returned to the tunnel, while the latter remained unmoved until the commander stood up and shouted the army's instructions and returned to the tunnel in a neat stride. This seems to imply that the youth in the war, the youth under that era, have lost their autonomous personality and are living in illusory dreams.
"Turn back" is the commander's instruction, and it is also the last low sigh that belongs to them in the wartime.
The sixth dream swept away the dark colors in front of it and became bright and vivid. This is the author's encounter with Van Gogh. It can also be said that others have reminisced about their original intentions in middle age. The protagonist in the painting asks Van Gogh, who is in the ideal beauty, what should he do next? Van Gogh's answer is actually to say that adults who find ideals and original intentions should also seize the time to work hard.
The sixth and seventh dreams are similar. It is all about the contradictions and interests of the environment and people themselves. The former tells the catastrophic scene of the explosion of a nuclear power plant, bright yellow and dazzling red, and under the colorful and beautiful smoke hides the deadly blade that leads to the demise of mankind, and the human beings who choose the latter in interests and environments will inevitably bear the consequences of this choice. The latter is more focused on "people". On the surface, the scene of human beings turning into devils and killing each other is due to the use of nuclear bombs, but what this dream really wants to express is the greed and malice of human beings who use nuclear weapons. The scene of the horned monster swooping down on humanity implies the darkness of humanity and human society, war killing, class contempt, and the miserable scene of hell on earth is not so much a nuclear weapon as it is humanity itself.
The eighth dream is the countryside and the way home, which is a manifestation of the old man being a monk. The ronin who died in the village also seems to imply the ultimate destination of man's life. In this dream, there is no evil and misery, only harmony and tranquility. In the dream, through the mouth of the old man, he also explored the philosophy of life that conformed to nature, and the old man said, "Those scholars, who may be superiorly intelligent, have only invented things that will make people unhappy in the end." "The development of new things such as metaversity, AI intelligence and so on has greatly improved the quality of life of people, but such development may imply disorder and conflict." It's like the old man's narration of the electric light.
Are we also too daunted by the dazzling "neon lights" to forget the starry sky in the sky? Have you also gone too far and forgotten why you set out?