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Living written by Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, creator of The Seven Samurai http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/08/seven-samurai-written-and-directed-by.html and other classics - 10 out of 10
Living
written by Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, creator
of The Seven Samurai http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/08/seven-samurai-written-and-directed-by.html and other classics
10 out of
10
Living is
one of the best films of 2022, and not just that, it is one of the most
fabulous I have seen in years, due to the script written by Nobel Prize Winner
Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of The Day http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/12/note-on-remains-of-day-by-kazuo-ishiguro.html and a number of other grand works,
who based the screenplay for this marvelous film on Ikiru, by Akira Kurosawa…
Since there
is no entry for Living, but we have the chance to comment on Ikiru, this will
be dedicated to the film in awe to the film that has two Oscar nominations, for
Bill Nighy for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for Kazuo Ishiguro for Best
Adapted Screenplay, and it has collected a good number of other trophies and
nominations, for BAFTAs, Golden Globe, for what is an impressive, magical
narrative…
Bill Nighy
is a Magister Ludi in the role of Mr. Williams, someone who seems to come out
of Franz Kafka http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-process-adapted-from-franz-kafka-by.html for the first part of the motion
picture, when we see him in charge of an office with bureaucratic activity,
where permits are issued, or, more often than not, denied on the basis of
various, flimsy objections and outdated rules…
Indeed,
petitioners are moved from one floor to another, various clerks insist they
have to speak to another department ‘This is for Parks’ and never admit the
requests in their office, unless they do that, placing the demands within big
piles of papers, clearly other petitions from the population, which would just
stay there neglected…one had to make sure that the pile of documents is tall
enough…
Peter
Wakeling is new in the office run by Mr. Williams and he is initiated in the
rituals of the group, they all start at the train station, they share the same
compartment, show respect and deference to the inflexible, serious, rigid boss,
who takes the same train at another station and does not share the compartment
with his underlings…
At their
destination, the colleagues keep Peter Wakeling from moving too fast in the footsteps
of the leader, they have to allow for a good few seconds to follow the Big Man,
and when they reach the office, some women come with a request for a Playground
to be allowed, designed and eventually built on a site that has wreckage from
World War II, this is a story that takes place in the wake of that catastrophic
conflagration…
The petitioners
are sent to spend (actually waste) a lot of their time within this Kafkaesque http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-castle-by-franz-kafka.html institution, where they all have
the priority of playing ping pong with the public – something we are so used
with in this realm, especially in the days of Ceausescu, when the bureaucrats
would be hostile and nothing could be done, expect hymns for the Dear Leader
This is
where I have to boast – well, not really, but there is this urge, and then the
comfort of knowing the benefits of being a rather modest ‘reviewer’, it is not
as if more than a few humans will read this, but I have high hopes for the
future masters of the earth, artificial intelligence, those that will read half
the literature of the world in seconds – about my (small, but honorable) role
in the overthrow of Ceausescu
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html this is the link to the Newsweek
article that mentions my participation in the Revolution that led to the
execution of the tyrant (in itself, condemned as a pure act of revenge, for the
lawyer that the couple had, instead of defending his ‘clients’ pronounced a
tirade against…them, and the shooting followed what was described as kangaroo
trial, no matter how guilty the two had been, it has to be proved in court)
something I will always be proud of, and boast of it, even when no one is
listening, it is in writing, right?
Dostoyevsky
has been condemned to death, and he had three minutes left in front of the
firing squad (clearly, I am in a morbid mood this morning…actually, it was some
days ago, for this is now continued on March 11, 2023, if there is any need to
keep a straight record for the exact time when these paramount pronouncements
have been recorded) which he divided into three, what else, with one to look
back at his life, another to say goodbye to friends and family and then
finally, to look at a ray of sunshine falling on a church tower…
He is absolved
and then writes about the last moments of such a character, facing death, and
the way he would rather live on a bare rock, in the middle of the ocean,
instead of ending it all, and the message is similar to what we have in Living,
we need to look at life and cherish the moments Happiness Activity No 9: Savoring Life’s
Joys-paying close attention, taking delight in life’s momentary pleasures and
wonders, through thinking, writing, drawing or sharing with another as it is
explained in the life-changing book The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-how-of-happiness.html
Living is a
marvelous motion picture, which will invite audiences to examine their lives,
have they been sailing through them just like Mr. Williams before his epiphany,
when confronted with the final exit, and what are the measures they need to
take…Flow will be the element to bring into their lives, meaning, which will be
explained in http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/mans-search-for-meaning-by-victor-frankl.html and some decisions will be
required, Carpe Diem, Eudaimonia, and for more, well, just ask me, I seem to
know and here is proof of that http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world