Since he was born in the world, as lowly as an ant, and still secretly born, why seek trouble for himself, how stupid, if life is a flower, coming and going in a hurry, it must eventually be turned into rotten flesh and bones, man's desire for power, he will not hesitate to burn his life, and his sins will not be scattered.
This "Spider's Nest City" is adapted from Shakespeare's "Macbeth", director Akira Kurosawa is good at interpreting Western dramas with Eastern stories, compared to the well-known "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon", this movie is less famous, but it is undeniable that this is a masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa's directorial career. In the Buddhist teachings, all sentient beings are tormented by desire, and for the enlightened Buddha, all sentient beings are suffering, and the movie "Spider's Nest City" takes human desire as the theme, and dissects how vicious and terrible the face of desire really is. In the face of desire, loyalty, morality, and even life have become pale and vulnerable, and under the hand of the black guide, Spider City has become a purgatory of suspicion, and everyone is a little ghost waiting to be judged.
In the Spider Hand Forest, Hatsu and Miki inadvertently get a prophecy from the youkai that Hatsuzu will become the lord of the city, and Miki's son will become the second lord of the city. It was this adventure that became the beginning of the tragedy.
Director Kurosawa's cleverness is reflected in this, desire is always reflected in breakthroughs, Vulture became the guard of the North Pavilion after making battle achievements, and the status of ten thousand people under one person made Vulture Tsu have no pursuit except for the position of the lord marquis of the city. More memorable than the suffering of people who are born with lust for profit and the transformation of loyal and benevolent people, Kurosawa mobilizes the power of the camera, and through the words of his wife Asagori, he excavates the desires of Hatsuzu's heart again and again, in front of the camera, Vulture is sometimes silent, sometimes violent, sometimes struggling, and has to admire the control ability of the black guide, profound and not excessive.
After Vulture Tsukijun, he could not let go of the long grass in his hand for a long time, indicating that a loyal and righteous person had become a slave of desire.
The climax was partly in Hatsuzu's ceremony of lordship, which could have been fulfilled in the safest way, and hatsuzu, who was childless under his knees, was ready to succeed Miki's son so that Miki's son could become the next lord. It can really be said that one thought becomes a Buddha and one thought becomes a demon,
His wife's pregnancy made Vulture want to get into his heart, kill Miki, seriously injure the Lord, and when a person's desire reaches its extreme, the person becomes a demon, and the same way to the road of destruction. Many acts of unrighteousness will kill themselves, and at the end of the film, the helplessness of the rebellious Vulture in the rain of arrows is like the judgment of evil spirits in the fire of karma. "There is more help for the righteous, and less help for the lost."
Unlike Rashomon's labyrinthine narrative, this Spider's Nest City throws out a result from the beginning, putting the center of gravity on the narrative process. The world has always vigorously pursued the result of the omission process, kurosawa Akira this time strongly proved that the process can also be more wonderful and wonderful than the result.
For the scene scheduling ability, director Akira Kurosawa may be the best I have ever seen, for the layout of the array, the etiquette of the characters to the greatest extent of the reduction and restoration (there is a domino military salute in the middle, really nothing to say, too cattle), anyway, the follow-up to complete my Kurosawa Medal plan, this article will be shared here first.
Akira Kurosawa's medal plan progress 6/20