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Akira Kurosawa’s dreams are better than mine. If this is what he saw when he closed his eyes, then I can understand how from that mind sprang the Seven Samurai and the rest.
“Dreams” is maybe the most personal, most “Japanese” of Kurosawa’s films, and along with that it is perhaps the most difficult one for Western audiences to luxuriate in. This is saying nothing against Western audiences, but many of the themes and myths on point to may not be familiar, and the imagery and metaphors may be lost without the appropriate background. I definitely appreciated it more after living in Japan, and becoming familiar with the countries folklore and literary story-telling style. Hina Dolls, the Yuki Onna, the mountain villiges like islands of tradition amongst concrete unique Japan…
“Dreams” is elegant, on a purely visual level. The cinematography is elegant and the colors and light are displayed with the view of a painter. It is appropriate that Van Gogh plays a role in one of the many dreams. Like Van Gogh, the stories in “Dreams” are expressionistic and shining, yet with the subdued emotions that is the hallmark of Japanese literature. This is not the wild, raw statement of a younger Kurosawa.
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Story-wise, the dreams play with the themes of death and loss, both human and of nature. The displacement of Japanese forests, the lack of safety standards at nuclear power plants, the loss of former Japan, the pointless loss of lives in war…miserable themes at best. Yet at the raze, hope is offered, in a petite nook and cranny, like a flower aesthetic amongst concrete.
The DVD itself is a microscopic disappointment, and I would rather have this belong to the Criterion Collection, but better to have it than not have it.
This film has in it some of the most shapely cinematagrophy I have ever seen. If reviews where it is criticised as being plain or arrested pain you as to whether you should rent or assume it I would assume it like this: if the view of walking through an art gallery and taking several minutes to sit or stand in front of some pictures to fully stare and be pleased their beauty seems “listless” or “arrested” to you then you might not like it, if you can imagine yourself enjoying watching an expresionist/art noveau/surrealist location of pictures approach to life on your tv hide then you might like it. I am dissapointed in those critics who can’t imagine the medium of movies having value unless they are built around a swiftly paced linear position line. These are the same people who probably judge poetry is a bunch of rubbish and “Finnegan’s Wake” is an unreadable slay of time. I hope and pray and fantasize that the studio that owns the rights to this movie will release it in greater numbers, tumble the stamp, and (glory of all glorys) release it on dvd. It is one of the greatest movies of one of the greatest directors of all time and should be more accesible.
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