19 Nov 2017
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations, Imagination vs. Being (The Spiritually Pauperized Architect And His Doomed Son) – From Akira Kurosawa’s “Dodes’kaden” (1970)
Among other mini-narrations in “Dodes’kaden” Kurosawa depicts the existential predicament of a homeless father-son family. The obvious – physical pauperization is only part of this family’s impoverishment, but this “obvious part” is a metaphor of pauperization of the human soul. Our culture forgets about the human (including children’s) existentially spiritual needs. Physical poverty of the […]