Kurosawa's Idiot is a holy fool very differnet from the one you would see in Tarkovsky's Andrei Rbublev for instance toying with the Tartar's horses. The kid brute he meets on the train calls him a newborn lamb when the Idiot cries over a sad marwuee picture of the brute's obejct of affection. "The world's full of wolves. Be careful." Kurosawa cuts to the essential so deftly through the infamous baggy blossoming of characters in the Russian novel that even with abridgment time stops liek a broken vase for us to sit spellbound at the salon fire squad drum roll to death. The best eyes are actually the bellamy's little sister's staring down the brute's beloved in defiance of her lacky brother's sham wedding.
So, is this a fairy tale in which the poor pawn lets the money bundle burn and thereby wins a million? Or is this the anti-fairy tale when the idiot's offer to take in the lost woman is rejected through in the process he learns of his inheritance? Or is it fairy tale again when brute wins the beauty? Dostoevsky was spared the firing squad but clearly lived ever after a haunted man.
So, is this a fairy tale in which the poor pawn lets the money bundle burn and thereby wins a million? Or is this the anti-fairy tale when the idiot's offer to take in the lost woman is rejected through in the process he learns of his inheritance? Or is it fairy tale again when brute wins the beauty? Dostoevsky was spared the firing squad but clearly lived ever after a haunted man.
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