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High and Low 1963
This is only my fourth Kurosawa film (after Rashomon, Yojimbo and Sanjuro) but so far it’s his most human. Here, Mifune’s character doesn’t make decisions because of a generic sense of sympathy or honor that bind a warrior, but because of the emotions of the people in his household: the desperation of a chauffeur whose son has been kidnapped, the idealism and sympathy of a wife that has never known struggle, and the fears of his own son that was…
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Casablanca 1942
For the first few minutes I was a bit dismissive because it’s so Hollywood (studio scenery, no obvious director signature, dialog that could only exist in a screenplay, etc) but with time the film starts to shed some basic but universal truths about cynicism as a pretense to hide fear and denial.
The setup is a bit contrived, but I cared about the characters so much that my heart was pounding throughout the final scene at the airport. The world…Translated from by
