Hmm 🤔 I’m a go w/Ikiru ~(even though I’ve not properly seen it since at least 2008; kind of hard when your most prized copy & therfore possession, was taken away from you,, by some one who’s soul purpose was to hurt 😞 you! Well, done ✅ A-
bravo 👍 & encore_):
but now! I often cite this as my number one ☝️ or two tip film of all time when asked (or not, & offered instead... by me of course!)
Ikiru - (which, it is said translates as “to live,” in Japanese). . . It is the story of an older gentleman whose spent his life working a meaningless unfulfilling job, until one day, he gets a cancer diagnosis (stomach of course from the ashes in the water from the bomb, as this was now post-war japan 🇯🇵 anyways, apparently at that time anyway, one of the more common forms of cancer). And anyway, Id my memory serves which it very often doesn’t; in their culture the “stomach,” is akin to the “heart,” over her in the states... but anyway!
Back to Kurosawa’s Masterpiece. Thus comes at an interesting time in his career. For such a great director, and anyone interested in the making of movies, it is interesting to study history and take a look at tier careers. Thus can right after Rashoman, which was famous for its multiple perspectives, and I though t when I’d seen the ending of Jacki Brown tha t that was exciting and new and the first time ever in cinema - nope 👎 wrong. . ; ) but any way I also remember Fellini saying in his documentary (im a born liar 🤥). That he was amazed at hus ability to fI’ll sunlight coming through the trees like that - that is (not only point ing the camera directly at the sun, which was once thought to be a bad idea); he had managed to capture or create a visual way of narrating or Narration, just with these movable images. . ; ) so it came right after that celebrated work (which recount s or tells the story of a rape, or attempted sexual assault; I forget which...) & just before his most well known, and remade film. Seven Samauri.
So anyway, where were we? Oh yes, with the film that the critic from the sun times of Chicago (roger every), said, something to the effect of, “if there is one ☝️ film to see that may make you Chang e your mind about how you live and make you live your life differently after seeing / viewing it.. thus is it/5$3 te film 🎞 “
so the rest of the movie is him having this discovery, or epiphany about coming to grips with the fact that he’s wasted his life, and done nothing of noteworthiness ~~*~~ until he finds a purpose! That there is still something to accomplish and live for. And thus begins that voyage. Which includes a connection with a younger female colleague / co-worker.
It really and truly is a story of powerfully dramatic work. In essence of cinema, as he used to like to say and or elude to (or is it allude!). . ; )
I find that some of these older pictures have a tendency of Doung a better job than contemporary ones of putting you into a specific time and place ?duh) , but that they then do a superior job of transporting you to that setting, and giving you a good sense of what it was like to live and breath and feel in that time and place and overall world...
I suppose it might. E too dated for a younger audience or generation. That is, if yo can’t watch it on your computer of phone while don g eight million ltners things at lmce but if I had to list one film that describe s me best in the history of then - thus wood be the fulm! ( ;
I’m sorry for the typos , I know I know ... I’ve got a lot of distractions goong on - & let’s be honest there’s really only one way to stop all that