Ran

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane." I never would have thought that a war can be portrayed as colorful a life. This movie captures the cruelty and messiness of war in an organized way that does not look to gory and to inhumane, the horses do not trample fallen soldiers, an army in perfect unison, and soldiers who still carry kindness and pity. Two sides of war is those who die and who kill and everyone is both, we kill to live, but we're killed for someone to live, those who carry the will to live the heaviest lives, neither any character in this movie has the will to live, Saburo is willing to risk everything to give his father peace, Sue is willing to risk her life for a flute, Jiro is willing to risk Sue and himself for Kaede, and Hidetora literally dies because of how heavy his shame and love for Saburo. This also shows the loyalty and willingness of anyone to someone, Kyoame sets his mindset to sunk-cost for Hidetora, the 30 soldiers of Hidetora who died for him to have a chance to live, Tango and his loyalty to Hidetora, and Saburo's loyalty to his father despite of everything he had done to him. I actually can't get over about Sue's death if only she had stayed. Those who carry greed and lust for power always lose the war, Taro died, Jiro died, and Kaede died, because they bera hatred in their hearts, I know that Hidetora did too, he killed so many people but he is human enough to feel ashamed for what he did. Second film I've watched from Kurosawa and I must say I'm very pleased, he captures humanity and how inhumane humans are and how humane humans are, he is that complex based of what I've seen. I'm actually impressed with this Shakespeare reimagination.