The blend One Wonderful Sunday and The Lower Depths is Kurosawa's first trying of such artistic Hyperlink Structure and the dream-like color.
This is a heartfelt cinema, without any fancy charisma polishment.
The degenerate train boy is a sign of vision, the vision of dark, beautiful, twisted human life. Even though he didn't show up for more than 5 scenes, but he rambles across the whole group of lower-class life.
The nagging dreamy wanderer with a kid, the hysterical housewives and drunken husbands, the girl poorly raped by her relatives, the epileptic man with an abominable wife, the thief with a kind old man. All those colors and patinas are separate stories that lead toward the misery, it's linked together. All those people struggling their lives not to be hungry to death.
It could be the most obscure, inexplicable film to Kurosawa, but it is the most ambitious one, we perceive the humanistic rather than heroism, and it works pretty well with Kurosawa's bravura dream-like color handle. The color is close to the child-painted cartoon, which gives us a sign of the future and dream, the miss-en-scene is also unreal, making life here like an isolated island where there are only dreams and nothing.
The ending of wanderer is marvelous.
This is a heartfelt cinema, without any fancy charisma polishment.
The degenerate train boy is a sign of vision, the vision of dark, beautiful, twisted human life. Even though he didn't show up for more than 5 scenes, but he rambles across the whole group of lower-class life.
The nagging dreamy wanderer with a kid, the hysterical housewives and drunken husbands, the girl poorly raped by her relatives, the epileptic man with an abominable wife, the thief with a kind old man. All those colors and patinas are separate stories that lead toward the misery, it's linked together. All those people struggling their lives not to be hungry to death.
It could be the most obscure, inexplicable film to Kurosawa, but it is the most ambitious one, we perceive the humanistic rather than heroism, and it works pretty well with Kurosawa's bravura dream-like color handle. The color is close to the child-painted cartoon, which gives us a sign of the future and dream, the miss-en-scene is also unreal, making life here like an isolated island where there are only dreams and nothing.
The ending of wanderer is marvelous.