this is a shortened version of my paragraph for 'Ran'
When nuclear weapons began to proliferate around the world after World War II, Kurosawa’s concern for the endless revenge cycle takes on an epic scale, mirroring the potential tragedy of a nuclear war...(what) Chaos is depicted through a series of hell-like images; the final scene shows Tsurumara (a combined Gloucester and Edgar character) helpless on the edge of a precipice, silhouetted against a blood-red sunset (how), underlining the appropriateness of the title Ran, meaning ‘chaos’ in Japanese(effect).
(what, how, effect) is the simple burger theory.. which got locked...