/lit/ - Literature

ofc when you *do* have to kill bandits or whoever, do it like this.

this movie is must-watch for me. just says it all. the villagers need the samurai, and then dispose of them afterwards. it can't be any other way. the samurai can't take it out of their hides afterwards, b/c if they did they wouldn't be samurai. the relationship between the ronin & the bandits is subtle but it's there, and perhaps parallels the relationship between the philosopher & the sophist. except - and this is where it gets interesting, perhaps - *the village is not a polis.* it doesn't have a Law, it only has people. it will only have people.

Seven Samurai is sort of like a marginally more cheerful version of Blood Meridian, in a sense. all of the violence and cruelty is there. except this time it's not that it's pointless and insane. it's that one aspect of it is inseparable from the other. it's not that the Bad Guys never die, it's that the Good Guys never live. just as fucking teeth-grindingly frustrating, but true, in the end.

>reads weeb philosophy once