Masterpiece? close enough.

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2019)

It's without a doubt and more than anything, what makes a certain movie loved and praised between the crowds is how relatable it is, and not to bat an eye on history, we are all relatable with all forms of history, after all, we are but the product of it ancient accumulation.
"The Last Samurai" follows the story of an American war veteran during the 1870s, a slayer of the red Indians that are still haunted by the nightmares of what he's come to regret doing, for his hands to kill u
countless innocent native inhabitants with only sculpted the alcoholic that he's become, hiding behind a fake career as a public entertainer.
It was probably out of his mind to predict that he's return back to the battlefield, only this time around crossing almost crossing half of the hemisphere to train the Japanese army on modern warfare.
The poor soul gets captured during his first offensive move there by the Samurai, a tribe he' never heard about, a new type of barbarians he said, the like of which he was already well acquainted of killing.
To his surprise, it was that barbarian who he and his friends at the army labeled that showed him the right way and helped him get over his nightmares as he started learning the way of the sword and managed to conceal his old sense of what it meant to be a warrior.
"The Last Samurai" was more than a warring state between the traditional side of Japan and the wanna-be-modern side of it, it was a journey of self-redemption that ended up affecting the ties of that war on a larger scale by the hands of a man that never feared death, but sometimes wished for it.
The historical setting of the movie isn't 100% accurate with some tweaks to help carry on the emotion you'd expect from a movie, with a bit cliché tropes here and there but it was all just to enhance the experience and make it closer for even non-Japanese to get all of those references they throw at you.