Seven Samurai

For 70 years, Seven Samurai has been available for the public to watch. This evening, I watched it for the first time at the State Theater. I got there at 2:00 PM and left at around 6:00. Not one time did I think to myself, “How much is left?” I laughed out loud at a movie for the first time in a long while, and I and everyone else laughed numerous times. Even though every performance was absolutely perfect, Toshiro Mifune stole the show. The audience felt every emotion as his character the whole time. To think that people saw this movie in 1954 makes my head spin. I can’t imagine how blown away they were.