Ikiru
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This movie will stay in your mind long after watching it
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| I wathed Ikiru twice in two daya. This movie has a simple premise: a dying man tries to give meaning to his life. He longs for a connection with his distant son, he works at bureaucratic job that is all paper-shuffling. He decides to live out his last few months with meaning. At first, he issimply having fun and living through the expriences of others--a novelist and a young female coworker with a zest for life. When he realizes that he can't live their lives, he tries to create his own purpose and meaning in the time e has left. A haunting song of his youth tells it all. When he reprises the song at the end, I daare anyone to have a dry eye! Takashi Shimura is a wonderful actor; his face is expressive and the viewer feels all his emotional pain. We suffer wth him and our hearts go out to him. We want a fairy-tale/Hollywood ending, but what we get is ultimately more satisfying. I cannot stop thinking of and talking about Ikiru. This is Akiro Kurosawa's best, and quickly became one of my favorite movies of all time. I recommend it most highly. Be warned that this is NOT a Samurai movie. |
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