PM Review

"G o home to your mother and live a long-life eating gruel” -Sanjuro [Toshiro]   One of the best philosophical directions of human life; either live a long life peacefully or live a lavish short life, I have found in the Yojimbo [1961]. What man is quest for ultimately; especially in the realm of arts & cultures is always a big and unsolved question to me. There may not be an exact answer we can get, not in the past, present and not even in future. Since I have been watching Kurosawan films some contemplation appears in my mind that: literally I have observed that humans are not capable of seeing the complete sequences of lives of a person, a family or group at once. Reading can give a glimpse of them; but films make better because of its advantage of auditory, visual and common engagement with the form.   Yojimbo [1961] is one of the thrilling and aesthetically pure in the genre of political allegory I have seen as of today. I have found a sheer semblance wi...

                                                                    " This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves.                                     If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself "   When I heard Kambei Shimada ’ s dialogue , a  ronin , the leader of samurais  starred by  Takashi Shimura ; I just press the pause button instantly to hear it repeatedly and felt a great pleasure and thought that is the essence of human artistic prestige that drive us to surrender to art both spiritually and philosophically.   If Rashomon [1950] was about technically triangular compositions then Seven Samurai [1954] is about cinematically crowd compositions. I am amazed w...