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Originally Posted by Burninator
Watching his movies I really appreciate the storytelling. Bandits want to raid the town but they realize the barley crop isn't ready. Instead of raiding the town right then, which would cause it to collapse, they plan to attack later in the season when the crop is harvested. Thus allowing them to raid the town into the future.
The 2016 Magnificent Seven where armed men over take a church burn it down, and kill a bunch of the townspeople for no reason. Hmm I wonder who the bad guys are? The movie is too subtle for me as a brain dead movie goer to figure this out.
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The wonderful thing about the storyline is that it lets you know everyone is hungry, the bandits are stealing food to survive, the villagers are trying to keep their food and survive, the samurai are basically working for food to survive, in a very real sense there are no bad guys, there is little to separate the bandits from the samurai, the villagers horde weapons they have taken robbing wounded and dying samurai on the battlefield, they are all doing what ever they can to get through the winter