How do you go from buried up to your neck in snow with your hands tied behind your back and a knife in your mouth to free in no more than a couple minutes?
Any theories? (They did totally gloss over this, right? I'm not crazy?)
Great movie anyway. :)
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I thought that was weird too. While I was watching that scene, I was thinking "so, now you have a knife in your mouth. How does that help?" I guess it's one of those forgivable "hey, it's just a movie" kinda minute goofs or flaws you get from asian movies of the era. Not really a big deal, but it does kinda bother me. I guess if he had more wiggle room, it's possible for him to cut the rope with the knife. But he'd have had to be really flexible and the knife would have had to be longer and the rope would have had to be tied higher up on his body. hahaha I donno.
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I got all excited thinking they were gonna show some elaborate escape with the knife and then the next thing we see he's jumping out of a tree, like it was obvious he could escape just because he had a knife.
The only thing I can imagine is if he threw the knife, with his mouth, over his head, with precision aim so it came straight down behind him with enough force that it went through the snow and he caught it in his hand, at which point, by and by I figure he can cut himself free if he could do all that. :p
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I like this film but it does have some serious logic gaps:
a) the scene you just mentioned with Nakadai escaping his bonds in the snow pit.
b) "Taken By the Gods" hottie chick found a body in her house (her father?) when she returned to the village, yet she claims later that there was not a trace of any one to be found. Did she repress that memory or something? That can't be the explanation, though, since the voice-over narration also claims that no bodies were found. What's up with that?
c) At the end, why does the brother-in-law (Tatewaki, I think his name was) fall for the rather obvious trap Nakadai sets for him when he sticks his sword into the packed snow? Wouldn't an experienced warrior assume he was being lured in?
Taken in isolation, none of these issues are too serious...but they do start to add up.
c) At the end, why does the brother-in-law (Tatewaki, I think his name was)fall for the rather obvious trap Nakadai sets for him when he sticks his sword into the packed snow? Wouldn't an experienced warrior assume he was being lured in?
Since his plan to get the gold for the domain's debts had now failed, in Tatewaki's own eyes he himself had also failed. As things were changing in Japan ("It's a funeral for us samurai", paraphrasing), one way out was an honorable death in battle.
Only I didn't get the impression Tatewaki was trying to lose the fight. Why would he bother warming his hands with the torch if he didn't care whether or not he won the fight?