After watching all three Kurosawa movies; Stray Dog, Yojimbo and Ran, I can safely say that I despise subtitled movies. It makes everything way more complicated. My uncle is deaf so whenever he watches TV he always has to read subtitles. I think I would go crazy. After watching all three movies it really made me appreciate the use of narration; tone of voice, and dialogue. A key scene that I remember the most in Stray Dog was definitely the last scene in the movie when they are fighting and there's a bunch of close-ups on flowers and the very end when they lay next to each other crying. I thought it was a very odd scene but i liked how Kurosawa uses symbolism. Another scene that stook out was the Black Market scene where he is running forever chasing the thief all over the place. It really stood out to me because it was abnormally long. I think Kurosawa had this scene be extra long because it's the most important scene- that introduces the conflict. The whole movie is based on trying to find the thief who stole his gun and getting it back. A common theme I found throughout all movies is that I think Kurosawa is really fascinated by war. In stray dog it's a different kind of war than the other too, but he uses it as good vs. evil- the detectives vs the thieves. Kurosawa uses many different cool cinematic techniques but one that stood out to me and that I thought was very different was the pressed-angle-look where he makes characters look a lot closer than they actually are. I didn't really like all three movies, but it was something new and a change of pace to the movies that I watch.
