"Tea has the beauty that even if you are killed, you still want to get it"
1.
His endgame
On the morning of The Lishu's belly, the clouds were thick and the wind was fierce. Lee Hugh and his wife sat under the eaves and watched the storm coming. Outside the house, there were three thousand samurai arranged by Hideyoshi, who had been waiting for a long time. In the face of Hideyoshi's coercion and the advice of the messenger, he said, "In this world, only beautiful things can make me bow my head." Then he committed suicide by cutting his stomach in the tea house. He dedicated his whole life to that cup of tea.
The film uses flashbacks, and through the interpretation of the film, we can not only see his legendary life, but also see the Japanese tea ceremony spirit and the ultimate pursuit of beauty. The film is full of Japanese tea ceremony aesthetics, sets, costumes, and compositions are very elaborate, and each frame has a different sense of beauty, which coincides with Riccio's pursuit of beauty. And we, as the audience, will also have a very beautiful viewing enjoyment.
Born in 1522 to a japanese merchant family, Senritsu studied tea ceremony from an early age, studied tea ceremony at the age of 18, became the tea head of Oda Nobunaga in 1574, and then due to the change of Honnō-ji Temple, Oda Nobunaga committed suicide in battle, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took power, and Chiritsu became the tea head of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The tea ceremony idea of "harmony, respect, purity, and silence" put forward by Senritsu had a profound impact on the development of the Japanese tea ceremony. He also combined the tea ceremony with the aesthetics of silence, pursuing the unity of knowledge and action, natural simplicity, and the beauty of mutilation and perishability, changing the extravagant atmosphere of gold as the aesthetic value orientation at that time. Not only the tea ceremony itself, but also the arrangement of the tea house and outside, the tasting of calligraphy and paintings, the gardening of the garden and the pottery for drinking tea are the focus of the tea ceremony, and his aesthetic views run through all aspects of daily life. To this day, "Li xiu fence", "li xiu color", "li xiu bean paste", etc., many things named after li xiu are derived from li xiu's profound influence on aesthetics.
2.
His past
Twenty-one years ago, many people sacrificed treasures to Nobunaga, including paintings by Zhao Chang of the Northern Song Dynasty, flower ornament tea pots from the Tang Dynasty, and his own heirloom tea bowls, but none of them entered Nobunaga's eyes. The belated Lishu carefully opened a wooden box wrapped in cloth and saw nothing special. Then Riccio pulled open the door and poured water into the box, and Nobunaga looked at the box and gave him a whole bag of golden beans. Here the director uses a delayed method, the audience actually does not know what is in the box, only that he conquered Nobunaga, and then Hideyoshi and other Nobunaga left, to see the box, we can borrow Hideyoshi's perspective to see the beauty of the box, a round of bright moon, with the golden waves at the bottom of the box and the birds in the sky, forming a unique scenery, overwhelmed all the treasures present. Since then, he has become Nobunaga's tea head.
Here I have to mention the actor Ichikawa Kai Laozang who plays Rishi, as a Kabuki actor, he has a deeper understanding of traditional culture, and the rhythmic beauty of the movie between his hands and feet, the handsome face of Toyoko Shin, so that you can't see the performance traces at all, as if It is Senritsu himself who has stepped on the flow of time. Miki Nakatani, who plays Rishiu's wife, has a delicate and dignified classical beauty in every smile, and the performance of the two people with the very good light and shadow of the movie is a beautiful enjoyment for the audience.
Nobunaga once asked Riccio to entertain a Portuguese missionary, and during the meal he asked the Portuguese what they thought of the bud in the storeroom, and he said, "The bud of life, a cup of tea can make people feel happy, and even the earthen walls of the storehouse can shine." Nobunaga said that Lishu challenged Europe with that bud. Although the empty and mysterious aesthetic pursued by Rishio is presented here, it is also deeply politically intentional, otherwise Ricci would not have presented the treasure to Nobunaga in the first place. He has always been very ambitious, but his ambition is different from Nobunaga's ambition, and he wants to spread the spirit of the tea ceremony. So when Nobunaga asked him, "Who decides the value of discovery?" Li Xiu said": "Beauty is determined by the contemptible, and the treasures chosen by the contemptible can breed legends." Then Nobunaga laughed and said, "Around me, there are people who want to take over the world again." "This refers to two people, one is Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the other is Ritsuki. It's just that one of them is a courtier who wants to get the world, and the other is a tea person who has no desire and no desire, and these two people are doomed not to be people on the same road from this time on.
The camera cuts to Rishu's abdomen ten years ago, Hideyoshi was angered by Nobunaga, and went to Rishu's tea room to ask for tea, and the idle words on the wall of the tea room complemented the simplicity of the tea room. With a bowl of weedy porridge, Rishi reminds Hideyoshi of the scene of his childhood with his mother, which makes Hideyoshi cry, and a bowl of tea makes Hideyoshi taste the joy of life. At that moment, he touched Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi may have regarded him as a friend, a teacher. However, when Hideyoshi was in power, he could not appreciate Ritsuru's arrogance in the eyes of all beings as much as Nobunaga did. Because he came from a humble background, he wanted to get it desperately, as the abbot said: "In the world, there are three poisonous flames burning, greed, resentment, stupidity, and the poison of Hideyoshi, that is, the greedy thought." And this greedy thought, which is growing day by day, will one day burn out everything in Lixiu.
At the national tea party, when Hideyoshi saw Li Xiu, who was admired by all the people, he finally reached the limit of his endurance. Ignoring Li Xiu's pleas, he killed Zong Er to warn Li Xiu. But Although Li xiu could have compassion for everyone, he always put his life behind beautiful things.
Hideyoshi wanted to take away everything Ritsuru had, so he ordered Naritsu's daughter to be the side chamber. Here is a short memory of the daughter's perspective, the bamboo forest flying snow, to this sunny place, covered with a black mat dyed with toner, it is to mistake the warmth of the ground for spring. Li Xiu's daughter was amazed at how her father could deceive bamboo shoots. In order to worship her father as a god, she chose to fulfill his father's persistence and belief. At that moment she should have no fear.
3. His beginning
The last third of the film returns to The Perspective of Qian Lixiu, which is the process of how he forms an understanding of beauty, and it is also a process of solving puzzles for the audience and for his wife. When he was young, Senritsu fell in love with the fallen Goryeo princess who had been bought as a slave by an adult, and he went to take care of her, making her goulash, and when he learned that she was about to be sent to be enslaved, he wanted to take her back to Goryeo. Such love is actually doomed from the beginning, they are chased to the end of the road, the two people who do not understand the language, by writing Chinese characters on paper to communicate. Li Xiu asked her whether she wanted to live or was willing to die, and she gave Li Xiu the answer with a poem by Bai Juyi: "Hibiscus is proud of herself for a day, why should she love the world and often worry about death." ”
He personally cooked the last tea for her, and he and she agreed to go to Huangquan together, but he did not dare to drink the tea with poison. He thought it was he who had failed her, and the last Koryo she said before she died was actually to ask you to live well. He wept bitterly in the heavy rain, and since then he has only been accompanied by the incense box and a severed nail she left behind. Senritsu's pursuit of beauty stems from this past, so whenever the hibiscus blossoms, he disappears, in fact, to miss her.
At the end of his life, he finally burned the broken armor and was determined to go with her. And when he committed suicide by cutting his stomach, his wife wanted to smash the hand pot, and she couldn't bear it, because it was the last object related to him in the world, because it was the "treasure" that he had carefully protected all his life. His wife actually belongs to the role of a witness in the film, witnessing The life of Li Xiu. However, the audience can feel her delicate and strong emotions, from the beginning of her saying "I want to be your wife" to the end of covering him with linen, this short decades of companionship, how much she wants to have no end.
The film's multi-emphasis narrative technique expands the film's horizon and makes the story and characters richer and fuller. First of all, it starts with the wife's point of view, then the objective perspective, and then returns to the wife's point of view to echo the beginning, and the film finally becomes the point of view of Qianlixiu. Although Senritsu lost his bliss as a person who entered the world, his understanding of the spirit of the tea ceremony and the pursuit of beauty after his birth became eternal, and to this day.
Bai Juyi's "Five Songs of Speech" Taishan don't deceive the end, Yan Zi has no intention of envying Old Peng. Pine trees are decaying for thousands of years, and hibiscus flowers are proud of themselves one day. Why should you love the world and often worry about death, and you should not feel tired of life. Life and death are illusions, and the mourning of phantom people is what kind of feelings.
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