Yet to develop an understanding of the way in which Oshima's films break with, and at the same time build on, earlier cinema, it is instructive to examine one of his most classical films.

然而，为了理解大岛渚的作品在哪一方面对先前影片进行了扬弃，对其最经典作品之一加以分析将是颇有启发之举。

youdao

Here is a crowd-pleaser that makes you glad to be part of the crowd, perhaps because to adopt the classical viewpoint silent cinema really was the purest and most binding incarnation of the medium, one from which we have torn ourselves, to our detriment, ever since.

NEWYORKER: Better Times