"Killer Ah Ichi": A Hypothetical About the Kaneko Family / Vulcan Ji
In any movie there will always be people who are less visible but still important. Nobody pays attention to them. People habitually call these people supporting roles. Everyone has a story. I think. Not to mention the whole family. - Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
gold. A lost police officer. A husband abandoned by his wife. A father who loves his son more or less. A punk who left the police force and joined the underworld to do nothing because of a lost gun; he said: He was a gunman. The reason why I like this movie is because many of the characters in this movie are worth scrutinizing, because the plot settings in this movie are very elegant. As the supporting roles of the Jinzi family, the images of the characters are very completely preserved in this so-called brutal film. Of course, in my opinion, this movie is very warm.
It can be said that everything in this family has gradually changed since the occupation of Jin himself. The shadows behind the plot that are not revealed in the film are what I pay most attention to. Gold turned out to be a policeman. Before he lost his pistol, we could imagine his happy life. Wife, son, meaningful work and loving family life. Of course this is just imagination, imagined with reason. Because he often looks somber, often thinks of the past, leaving his wife and all those things we didn't see. What convinced me of this was his nostalgia for his old way of life and his fond memories. And his wife should be happy too. At least in Japan, civil servants are a very honorable profession, and their wives are also very honorable. Shopping for groceries, husband and child, fashion magazines and boring soap operas. Of course, this is just imagination. And Xiao Wu. The son of a policeman, because he has a glorious father who serves the people, his small life should be enjoyable.
However, everything changed for them when Gold's gun was lost. The strong but narrow national sentiment of the Japanese people and the long-standing Bushido spirit and yearning for perfection make it impossible for them to have the slightest sympathy for those who have made mistakes. This profound background is very completely reflected in the complete and complete change of Jin Zi's family. In terms of national emotions, people are born for the nation and serve the country; in the spirit of Bushido, it is a great shame to lose one's own weapons when the sword is there. It is necessary to have a caesarean section to thank the emperor. All of this is reflected in the movie. It is absolutely impossible for Jin Zi and his family to still live so comfortably. After being fired from the police station, Jin Zi and his family are still discriminated against by society and the people around them. This can be inferred from the words of Xiaowu's classmates when Xiaowu was bullied by his classmates: It's a shame, like a father, like a son, the gun was bought with taxpayer money, we are taxpayers, pay back the money quickly Give us...that's a very intuitive view of children, and children's views of things are inherited from adults, or very intuitively influenced by adults, so we can imagine gold and his wife in that How hard and exhausting life is in a social environment. Or more intuitively, we can see their troubled lives from the constant taunting of the twin brothers towards gold.
This film depicts a very dark social reality in such a small way. This is one of the things that makes this movie very successful.
Let's take a look at Kim's life after he lost his gun. He was expelled from the police station, and a very disgraceful note was written on his personal file. After that, how can he meet his new life with his shameful file.
Finding a job is very necessary. However, he could not find a job. Because of what I said earlier, national sentiment will not allow any company to accept a guilty person who has lost national property, so he is doomed to hit a wall everywhere. This can be supported by the fact that he borrowed money from loan sharks to survive. If a person finds a job, with the self-discipline of a police officer, he will not be reduced to borrow money from loan sharks. In addition to the underworld, there are other places for him. The loan shark forced him to meet the boss of An Sheng. This was shown in the interspersed clips when he rescued Hajime. Boss An Sheng chased away loan sharks for him and asked him to follow the noodles and earn him, which is the basic reason for his loyalty. The underworld gave him the only place he could play, the gunman. Of course, even in the underworld, he is still the kind of person that people look down on, because he has thrown a gun, is a person with a shame that can never be washed away, and he is a newcomer.
Perhaps his wife's departure was because he couldn't accept the strange eyes and sarcasm around him. The son is young and can only stay by his side. And there is a very interesting part of this movie, that is the part where Jin Zi goes crazy torturing Aaron's girlfriend Miao Miao, so I began to wonder if Miao Miao is the wife who left him. Jin Zi in the movie has always been honest and restrained, and he has never seen his complacent appearance. So, since he went crazy and beat Miao Miao, I stubbornly thought that this woman who had become a prostitute was not a man before. The beloved wife. Only a man who has been stimulated to a certain extent can be so mad, that is, his woman betrayed such an innocent self.
If this assumption is true, even if there is not much explanation in the movie, the outline of this family has been so completely displayed in front of our eyes. Gold, lost his gun, lost his honorable career and lived on borrowing money from loan sharks. In the end, he joined the underworld and died under the sword of Aichi. Xiao Wu, who was bullied by his classmates because his father threw a gun, was rescued once by Hajime, but he watched his benefactor kill his father in front of him. Miao Miao, who left because her husband dropped a gun, became a prostitute. Died under the wrath of the husband.
So sad. At the end of the movie is the scene where Uncle hangs himself. Of course, I just deduced from the raincoat that never took off. Below the camera is a completely unfamiliar face. I wonder if that is Xiao Wu who has grown up. He looks vaguely like Hajime. And when I was walking, I was limping. I wondered if it was Hajime who had one foot broken by gold. If Xiao Wu is Ah Yi, or Ah Ji is a crazy demon in Xiao Wu's heart, then what will this movie want to express. If Xiao Wu is Ah Yi, or Ah Yi is Xiao Wu, I am completely convinced by this movie. An indifferent expression on his face. It's the last shot of the movie. Sad, very sad. It doesn't matter if this person is Xiao Wu or not; whether this is Ah Yi or not.
Kane saved Hajime. Uncle also told Ah Yi that that person was Ah Yi's long-lost brother. However, Kaneko still died under Hajime's sword because he shot at Hajime. Because of Hajime's doubts, because of Hajime's anger, he kept crying. I am obsessed with this movie. Because this movie brought me infinite hypotheses and a lot of doubts. Hajime cries loudly when he is angry, feels sexual arousal and excitement when he is crying, kills when he is excited, and ejaculates when he kills. Such Hajime shows all kinds of madness so extreme while he is restrained. In fact, in the final analysis, it is the distorted group psychology of the entire Japanese society. I am obsessed with this movie. And a lot of times I'm obsessed with a lot of unremarkable things in this movie. Jin Zi, Miao Miao and Xiao Wu, such characters are so succinctly alive in this film, this is the wonderfulness of Takashi Miike, and also the wonderfulness of this "Killer Ah Yi". A bit of a tearful feeling.
2007-01-21; Bingxu year Xin Chou month Yimao day. Daxi water stomach.
Note: Links to movie information. ■Title: "Ichi the Killer" ■Foreign title: "Ichi the Killer" ■Director: Takashi Miike ■Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto Asano Tadanobu Omori Minamito ■Genre: Thriller / Drama / Horror / Crime / Comedy ■Duration: 129 min Region: Hong Kong/Japan/Korea Language: Cantonese/English/Japanese Release: Media Blasters Release: September 2001
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