Akira Kurosawa made a lot of good films, some of which I once watched, but his rather famous film “Live” for some reason did not reach his hands, although many times I was going to. The film is based on the story of L. Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”. Some time ago, a film by British director Oliver Hermanus with the same name "Living"
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Akira Kurosawa made a lot of good films, some of which I once watched, but his rather famous film “Live” for some reason did not reach his hands, although many times I was going to. The film is based on the story of L. Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”. Some time ago, a film by British director Oliver Hermanus with the same name "Living" / Living, 2022, with Bill Nai (correctly - Nai) in the title role, which turned out to be a remake of Kurosawa's film, which is directly stated in the subtitles there, and as a screenwriter there is not anyone, but Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, in principle, the idea to shoot this film with Nai in the title role belongs to Ishiguro himself - he is an ethnic Japanese, who has lived since childhood in England, he can be sure enough to convey to the European viewer. A very elderly British official, Williams, learns that he is terminally ill, and the doctor gives him only a few months to live. He is a very private man, living with his son and his wife, his own wife died some time ago. He seems to want to share this with his son, but he does not dare, so at first he does not come up with anything better than to stock up on a large amount of sleeping pills and commit suicide, going to a small seaside town for this. There, he accidentally meets a local writer suffering from insomnia, about which he complains to the owner of the cafe, then Williams decides to give him his pills and he suddenly tells him about his trouble. They spend a couple of days in local drinking and entertainment establishments, then he returns home, but can not bring himself back to work. Some time passes, during which he manages to make friends with a girl who recently worked for him, he is attracted to her optimistic nature, this he now badly lacks. But someone saw them together and now gossip creeps, people only think of one thing. And then one day he gets inspired, he recalls the once-delayed application of three women who asked to set up a playground on the site of a bomb funnel (the case takes place in the early 50s), he returns to work and makes every effort to implement this idea. Finally, it happens and Williams dies. At first, his former colleagues even swear that they will continue his work with the same dedication, but alas, everything returns to normal. I liked the film, it is so leisurely, although the hero is running out of time, but even in these conditions he does not fuss, but just shows more perseverance where before he would have spent time, the actors were filmed good, especially, of course, Bill Nighy. And maybe it's a good thing I didn't see the original, I didn't have to compare it.
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