This was the last movie of Kurosawa on my completing list, and had in it the most of what I expected from him. Following his movies was not about philosophy, story, or the meaning I learn after watching them, but it is about living in MAGIC. Yes, he is a real magician, and all the joy of his movies are about the magical scenes that sharpens your senses, and fixes ones' eyes on the screen.
This movie has the most of this characteristic, though I expected the least from the rating, and the time of the movie. He penetrates deepest in the soul by showing us scenes that we don't have even smallest motive to care for them in the daily life. The facial expressions of the comic, the clouds, the grass, the respect, the attention to kindness (he cares a lot about this), the fairness, and so forth.
He is a magician archetype in the Jungian sense, and his potion makes us good people just by drinking it.
This movie has the most of this characteristic, though I expected the least from the rating, and the time of the movie. He penetrates deepest in the soul by showing us scenes that we don't have even smallest motive to care for them in the daily life. The facial expressions of the comic, the clouds, the grass, the respect, the attention to kindness (he cares a lot about this), the fairness, and so forth.
He is a magician archetype in the Jungian sense, and his potion makes us good people just by drinking it.