Some old movies are hard to watch for a modern audience. This one shouldn't be one of them, unless you are addicted to 10 second reels on Instagram.
It's instantly gripping through the camerawork alone, showing beautiful scenes with effects that intend and succeed in denominatng moments from the past, in one's mind, or taking place in the spiritual realm.
It made me think of Dostojevski's 'Crime and Punishment', and I wish that there was a book of it too, it might really be as good if written well. The dialogues are short and straight forward. I really like the stoicism of the past times Japanese people in general, and in this movie it really shines, as it adds to the mystery of the protagonist. He's not completely evil, and shown to be admired by many, doing good deeds and donations. At some point you almost want to believe in his innocence. But he betrays himself, as many do, fulfilling the prophetic saying that haunted him since the early stages ' There are many ways to hell, but no way back ' I wonder if in the end, he really suicided, or perhaps swam to shore to continue his life under another new name.
It's instantly gripping through the camerawork alone, showing beautiful scenes with effects that intend and succeed in denominatng moments from the past, in one's mind, or taking place in the spiritual realm.
It made me think of Dostojevski's 'Crime and Punishment', and I wish that there was a book of it too, it might really be as good if written well. The dialogues are short and straight forward. I really like the stoicism of the past times Japanese people in general, and in this movie it really shines, as it adds to the mystery of the protagonist. He's not completely evil, and shown to be admired by many, doing good deeds and donations. At some point you almost want to believe in his innocence. But he betrays himself, as many do, fulfilling the prophetic saying that haunted him since the early stages ' There are many ways to hell, but no way back ' I wonder if in the end, he really suicided, or perhaps swam to shore to continue his life under another new name.