Seven Samurai and The Importance of Being Earnest

In our last filmic review, we discussed the transcendent efforts of the late Akira Kurosawa to distinguish the intricacies of human fallibility in his seminal crime drama, Rashomon. Dissecting the film’s flurry of diverse character perspectives in order to explore the unreliability of human nature and how, as a prideful species, we conceal aspects of truth that might tarnish our self-perceived notions of grandeur and/or dignity. This week, however, we’re moving on to another of Kurosawa’s masterpieces, the highly-acclaimed and epochal action film, Seven Samurai (1954).