>>1900054Quite simply, I would have liked it a lot more if it wasn't so long. It felt like it was wasting my time instead of trying to get me to appreciate the taiga, and I say that with taiga being my favorite environment.
Maybe there was technical limitations at play with filming in the locations, or maybe they just picked crappy locations for most of it, but I would say the focus of each scene was wrong for trying to appreciate the /out/ content. It depicted the taiga as a harsh, ugly, unpleasant, swampy, windy, cold, shitty place to be.
It seems more to me like it was trying to focus on brotherhood with /out/bros than the actual /out/. The only scenes where the length felt warranted were the ones around the campfire. The hunting scenes felt especially padded, where the padding was the actors just taking forever to do anything at all. Everything else (including the "tense" ones like the grass cutting and the long-ass river scene) simply felt like they went on for far too long. I'll give you that the grass scene was probably intentionally long to try and convey the exhaustion but there really should have been more payoff to that scene. And there was really no excuse for the river scene.
I don't know if all of Kurosawa's movies are like this, but it's a miss for me.
