Foreign Film Review: 'Chaos'
Akira Kurosawa said, "I wanted to see ordinary people making this film from God." And he did.
Akira Kurosawa, who I have always been admired by the world, is called by the name of Emperor Kurodi, and he is when. The shock of reading Chaos has long been unsettling. Even if we have a broad view of the world at large, few directors can embrace such momentum and ideas.
The story is set in Japan during the Warring States period and the text suggests that Tiger has aged out of his military life and is finally king in a Japanese regime. He is cruel and unusual in his contribution, relying on sleight of hand and a cold heart, but gradually becomes tender and mercurial as he enters his twilight years. At the age of seventy he finally made a decision to give himself a family divided into three to three sons: Hyo was the tiger, the tiger and the tiger's straight, the eldest son of Hyo the tiger king succeeded, the second and third assists, coalescing into a powerful family of kings and texts of the trade. Keeping their banner, the three sons turned to the three ages.
The eldest sons all went along and were loyal to the table, only the three straight to the tiger father, who saw this as a mistake, were adamantly opposed, eventually angering the tiger show and several outspoken ministers were dismissed. Straight down the tiger, to neighbours as grooms, and finally the father surrendered power.
After becoming a writer's master, Xiao Hu soon settles down in the main city. At the same time, he becomes like a man and begins to swell his ambitions. His wife, Feng, on the other hand, becomes more dominant, while encouraging her husband to dominate and completely reject the text back home. Hidetora, on the other hand, begins to show the tigers. the city is finally in the city mainly because the son and daughter-in-law humiliate the angry too much away from the main city, the city is to be defected to by the two tigers. The tiger-like and dutiful tiger heart wants to monopolise a text property, so the father also creates various obstacles. It is then that the tiger realises that the prophecy of the straight tiger has been fulfilled, that he has been abandoned by his son and that the family is about to face great difficulties with the text. He fled to the three cities, which his three sons had long since abandoned, at which point he was betrayed by his own men, leading to a siege by the tigers and the tiger army to kill him. Eventually the city was destroyed, all the guards died in the battle, the performing tiger went mad and the tiger was killed by the tigers.
Tiger, a man who controls words, at this point, becomes infatuated with a dutiful tiger lady, Maple, and at the instigation of his ex-wife, Tiger is alienated and eventually put to death. Encouraged by Maple, Tiger sets out to destroy his missing father, taking the opportunity to kill the straight tiger and the two parties come out small.
Having learned of his father's face, Straight Tiger finally defeats Tiger by force rather than alliance, storming a home in the text. After his victory, Naotiger is finally reunited with his father, only to be struck by a bullet and killed instantly, while Man-Tiger ends up taking a huge hit in his death. A sentence that disappears in the blink of an eye. But the period of world turmoil and killing continues. God Buddha closes his eyes and reincarnates, and the bitter fruit continues: You kill me, I kill you, endlessly ......
The film is an adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece "King Lear", and the early "Spider's Nest City" adaptation "Macbeth", in the hands of Akira Kurosawa all Eastern and Western classical tragedies, at this time, as a drowsy grey man, after decades of thinking and settling, Kurosawa has reason to go further, more self, more crazy way to express their inner feelings, strong gorgeous bleak and vicissitudes, crazy and atmospheric decline, and deep inside the tragic atmosphere, let people.
From a certain point of view, Chaos is a classic film from the era of the masters of Japanese cinema, the pinnacle of the most magnificent sunsets and heroes. Along with the ageing of a generation of masters, left and right, once the great moments of the big studios collapsed, the smaller independent productions have been irresistible and have gradually become mainstream. The heavy and atmospheric, tragic and profound "Chaos" became the last limit of Kurosawa's life, the last elegy of the time. 2.4 billion yen, 30,000 actors, 15,000 horses used, a film that no one had worked on before in the history of Japanese cinema. Not many directors, even around the world, could have sculpted their artistic pinnacle with such a large specification.
