They are the gods who cry when they see the folly of men

Rating: 9/10 (29 April 2010)

Days pass, years pass and the centuries, human society still does not understand anything about existence. All we need is to learn to live in brotherhood with each other, but, in principle, from the rulers themselves given the damn example of the opposite: there is competition, rivals will be usurped, is invaded and destroyed. With this, governments are the worst enemy of social justice, and they share the ideological backwardness is so impoverishing humanity. If they disappeared the absurd desire for power, would be so easy to live in brotherhood! Would be enough for anybody accumulate, the land was for everyone and that food and housing, were guaranteed to every human being.
But so far in sight that beautiful day of light and understanding that would bring happiness to each and every one of the men! Therefore, I join the cry kurosawan one of the characters in this brilliant version of "King Lear", has made the Japanese master, "is the gods who weep. We are killing ourselves, over and over again from the beginning of time. They can not save us from ourselves. Men prefer sorrow to joy and suffering to peace... and celebrate death".
Someone very naive, he thought there in the seventeenth century, that the barbarism of "King Lear" was a thing of the past, and since then, adapted the play a happy ending that was sustained for several years... even when others concluded that even man, lacked sufficient clarity to learn to live in peace and that the steep roads of the work, were still drawn for many men today.
"RAN" means chaos and is the most obvious and painful example of the human blind has been maintained for centuries. The men are killed by the external power is envied by material possessions, self-destruct by law of compensation, and ignorant of all history, they repeat and repeat the same process annihilating to infinity.
A very personal version and sobering, a lucid and illuminating adaptation of a work which, by its importance, remains over the centuries. William Shakespeare will always be irreplaceable in the literature, and "Emperor" Akira Kurosawa, will remain eternal in the dignity of film art.
A film worthy of the highest praise.