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taotrooper) wrote2007-02-21 04:19 pm
taotrooper) wrote2007-02-21 04:19 pm
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Sharing: Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams"
Personally, and I hope you don't take it the wrong way, Kurosawa's samurai/feudal movies make me sleepy. Still, I remembered these days there was this movie of him I watched late at night years ago, in the middle of an insomnia attack. And it was really pretty and weird and paranoid. Time passed and I discovered by accident it was a Kurosawa movie, and all the different parts were telling of actual dreams the director had had (supposedly).
I'm uploading the first two dreams. Incidentally, they're the least paranoid of the lot (although the windmill village is really pretty and all, but it has this social preach tone going on). They're quite supernatural, probably because they're a child's dreams/nightmares. I don't know, I feel like this could actually happen on XXXHOLiC.
Dream 1: Sunshine through the Rain
The mother tells the boy not to go out in the rain, because that's the weather in which the kitsune celebrate their weddings. The boy doesn't listen to her and runs to the woods, where he peeks at a kitsune wedding procession. When he's busted, he goes back home as fast as he can. However, the mother scorns at him and lets him know a kitsune had come to the house and wants the boy to kill himself with a knife as a punishment. The mother, however, tells him to ask them for their forgiveness. Then the boy walks to the end of the rainbow, looking for the kitsune.
Download video (subtitles)
Dream 2: Peach Orchard
The boy's sister is preparing the doll festival with her friends, but he's sure he had counted five girls instead of four. The fifth girl was a spirit who leads him to the orchard. In it, he finds the spirits of the peach trees, who had taken the forms of a giant set of traditional dolls. They explain him they can't go to his house because his family had cut down all the peach trees from the orchad. But since the boy did love the peach blossoms, they make a dance for him. In the end, after they're gone, the girl comes back. But when he catches her, she turns out to be a lonely, small peach tree in bloom.
Download video (subtitles)
How the subtitles work: I think you can make them work just with BSPlayer, or maybe it's a codec thing. Dunno, just google it because I'm not sure. What I DO know is the subs file must be in the same folder than the avi.
I'm uploading the first two dreams. Incidentally, they're the least paranoid of the lot (although the windmill village is really pretty and all, but it has this social preach tone going on). They're quite supernatural, probably because they're a child's dreams/nightmares. I don't know, I feel like this could actually happen on XXXHOLiC.
Dream 1: Sunshine through the Rain
The mother tells the boy not to go out in the rain, because that's the weather in which the kitsune celebrate their weddings. The boy doesn't listen to her and runs to the woods, where he peeks at a kitsune wedding procession. When he's busted, he goes back home as fast as he can. However, the mother scorns at him and lets him know a kitsune had come to the house and wants the boy to kill himself with a knife as a punishment. The mother, however, tells him to ask them for their forgiveness. Then the boy walks to the end of the rainbow, looking for the kitsune.
Download video (subtitles)
Dream 2: Peach Orchard
The boy's sister is preparing the doll festival with her friends, but he's sure he had counted five girls instead of four. The fifth girl was a spirit who leads him to the orchard. In it, he finds the spirits of the peach trees, who had taken the forms of a giant set of traditional dolls. They explain him they can't go to his house because his family had cut down all the peach trees from the orchad. But since the boy did love the peach blossoms, they make a dance for him. In the end, after they're gone, the girl comes back. But when he catches her, she turns out to be a lonely, small peach tree in bloom.
Download video (subtitles)
How the subtitles work: I think you can make them work just with BSPlayer, or maybe it's a codec thing. Dunno, just google it because I'm not sure. What I DO know is the subs file must be in the same folder than the avi.