This is my first time seeing a Akira Kurosawa film and I was told not to watch this as my first film since it is a very slow and Abstract type of film. but being one of many benighted people on Akira Kurosawa films, I wanted to be enlightened.
There was an earlier film version of this story made in 1961 by director Agasi Babayan, but I could not find it anywhere so I had no choice but to watch this version.
It is a very simplistic and Bland story involving a very ancillary type of camaraderie between Dersu Uzala and Vladimir Arseniev.
The conundrum of this film is that it is very slow but then again that may have been the intentions of the director to make it the crux of the story.
It seems to me that this director is very cryptic in his way of directing. I do want to watch more of his films to get a full opinion of him and want to see if he truly is a dogmatic type of director that he was accused of, . I mean he must have been in a real dark place of depression for him to try and commit suicide just because one of his films didn't do good. I don't want to judge the man because of just that, I need to see all his work and then have an opinion.
I truly want to see all of his work and I do not want to believe that he was very overrated and most of his fans have had a Idolatrous addiction to his so-called masterpieces. I want to remain prudent until I see all of his work and I believe is my requisite so that I can and then convey and justify my opinion. and be sublimed by this directors work.
Review of Dersu Uzala
