Ikiru
*“How beautiful! Truly beautiful. A sunset. I don't think I've really looked at one in 30 years.”*Bro just made me appreciate life again.
Throughout Kurosawa’s career he’s made better thriller’s than Hitchcock, bigger and better epics than Lean, his influence is comparable to Kubrick and his works as existential and philosophical as Bergman. This man has taken me on journeys to so many different worlds and covered so much within his filmography; he’s the LeBron of Cinema and perhaps the greatest to ever do it.
Ikiru is absolutely incredible - no doubt about that every aspect is pristine and the way it’s presented is so unique to anything thats remotely similar. Every aspect emphasises something different to the experience. But the thing that makes this movie so special is the way the plot is handled and how sincere and devastating the development is. The dialogue really captures you in these moments of anguish and sadness but sprinkles them with this wonderful optimism I don’t think I’ve felt before with a movie, just the most oxymoronic movie experience I’ve ever had.
Overall,
The movie is depression dynamite - it completely destroyed me, but it also made appreciate life and it made me wanna watch it again and those three things has never coincided with anything I’ve seen before absolutely insane how good this film is.