Let’s say for the sake of argument that you are a deadly samurai—are you allowed to watch samurai movies? Or is that too much like the priest dipping his parts in the holy water?
Let’s say for the sake of argument that you are allowed to watch them—are you allowed to enjoy them? Or does it have to be one of them secret guilty indulgence type things? We all know priests have secrets.
I’m just sayin’, if you are, yourself, a samurai, a movie about you probably pales in comparison to the real deal. It’s almost certainly wildly inaccurate. Probably fails to capture the real essence. And then, if you are samurai, are you allowed to watch movies at all?
It’s an enigma.
You wouldn't expect trained warriors to be sitting around waiting for the next Tom Cruise pic to hit the theaters, but then, wouldn’t you think somebody from the society ought to be keeping tabs on how the samurai are being represented?
I always wanted to be a samurai. Which isn’t to say that I like the movies. I just wanted to take landscaping to a whole new level. They’d know me at Sears as the Great White Blade. I take my lawncare seriously, man.
I’m just kidding. I don’t really.
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