Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa
Apr. 8th, 2019 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorI watched the Seven Samurai recently. That was intense. It was interesting to see a story where the main goal was to protect some farmers from bandits. I can also kind of see how elements from this film could have inspired a lot of Hollywood action films, including Star Wars. But I also feel those films tell a fundamentally different story from this one. I think this story ends with a lot of unanswered questions, but very intentionally so.
There's a lot of violence, though for me what was most viscerally upsetting was the way Shino's father treats her in the film. Besides that, there's a lot of death in this film, but for the most part it didn't annoy me in the way that copious character deaths typically do. I really appreciated that the farmers aren't just this undifferentiated crowd, but have a variety of characterizations both as individuals and as a group. And it's their crisis that drives the story forward.
There's a lot of violence, though for me what was most viscerally upsetting was the way Shino's father treats her in the film. Besides that, there's a lot of death in this film, but for the most part it didn't annoy me in the way that copious character deaths typically do. I really appreciated that the farmers aren't just this undifferentiated crowd, but have a variety of characterizations both as individuals and as a group. And it's their crisis that drives the story forward.