Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel, The Idiot, from Eclipse Series 7: Postwar Kurosawa, was the follow up to the internationally acclaimed Rashomon. It is an unusual film one that reportedly edited down from 4 and a half hours to 166 minutes. That’s still quite a chore for me, I watched it in intervals, but I have to say that there are some amazing sequences and a compelling story of love, desire and will in winter wilds of Hokkaido. I have read in his autobiography that he was a huge fan of Dostoyevsky. However, I can’t report on how closely it follows, the book however it has been said that he follows the story quite closely. I have only tackled Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Notes From the Underground back in my ambitious undergraduate days. Although, I must say this inspires me to pick up The Idiot at some point.
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