Well, sincerely I’ve been trying to remember some movies that I really loved, but I forgot some things of them, so I will talk about one of the last films that I have seen and that I liked. It’s “Dreams”, a 1990 film directed by Akira Kurosawa. There appears actors like Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho and also the director Martin Scorsese. This film is divided into eight separated short films, which are dreams that Kurosawa had through his life, and that has some overlaps in terms of characters and themes (it raises up the relation between man and the environment and the relation between traditions and the modern age).
The short films are: “Sunshine through the rain”, which tells the story of a child whose mother forbids him to go out because outside there’s a foxes’ wedding ceremony, and If they manage to see it, this would cause problems. “The Peach Orchard”, where the same boy find the spirits of the peach trees that have been cut down by humans. “The Blizzard”, which takes place in a mountain and where some mountaineers fight against the death and are saved from a blizzard by Yuki-Onna, a mythical spirit. “The Tunnel”, where a soldier finds to spirits of their army, and whose deaths he was responsible for. “Crows”, which shows the encounter between an art student and Vincent Van Gogh. “Mount Fuji in Red”, which shows the devastations because of a nuclear shipwreck. “The weeping demon”, which shows the terrible life of some nuclear catastroph’s survivors. Finally it’s “Village of the Watermills”, which shows the peaceful lifestyle of a little town.
My favorite part of the movie was “Village of the Watermills”, because it shows a particular way of thinking. People in that town decided to live far from the modern cities, and seem to be freer than them. I liked a scene of a funeral, where people laughs, celebrates and recognize death as a natural fact and as “the right final for a good life”.
I liked it because it’s way of criticizing the modern life and showing the fragility of human condition in opposition to the omnipotence that man seeks through the modern life and that affects to their own living and nature.
The short films are: “Sunshine through the rain”, which tells the story of a child whose mother forbids him to go out because outside there’s a foxes’ wedding ceremony, and If they manage to see it, this would cause problems. “The Peach Orchard”, where the same boy find the spirits of the peach trees that have been cut down by humans. “The Blizzard”, which takes place in a mountain and where some mountaineers fight against the death and are saved from a blizzard by Yuki-Onna, a mythical spirit. “The Tunnel”, where a soldier finds to spirits of their army, and whose deaths he was responsible for. “Crows”, which shows the encounter between an art student and Vincent Van Gogh. “Mount Fuji in Red”, which shows the devastations because of a nuclear shipwreck. “The weeping demon”, which shows the terrible life of some nuclear catastroph’s survivors. Finally it’s “Village of the Watermills”, which shows the peaceful lifestyle of a little town.
My favorite part of the movie was “Village of the Watermills”, because it shows a particular way of thinking. People in that town decided to live far from the modern cities, and seem to be freer than them. I liked a scene of a funeral, where people laughs, celebrates and recognize death as a natural fact and as “the right final for a good life”.
I liked it because it’s way of criticizing the modern life and showing the fragility of human condition in opposition to the omnipotence that man seeks through the modern life and that affects to their own living and nature.
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