When I saw Takeshi Kitano himself appearing in the lead role again, my first reaction was that the director himself is not very good at acting, and his facial expressions are so limited, why do he always have to express himself.
But when I looked back, I saw Kikujiro's image of a middle-aged man who was so withdrawn, strange, rough, but soft-hearted a little bit plump up, and my appetite was lifted. The expression of the child is actually quite limited, but you still think it is suitable for him to play such a dull and sensitive child.
The first half of the drama is a road movie, and you hitchhike and eat and drink all the way. Of course, when you have good luck to reach your destination, you can't help being hit by a car, beaten, and left to the side.
Taking the children to see his remarried mother is a turning point in the plot. How to make children happy? Like a child, Kikujiro actually suffered from the pain and loneliness of being separated from his mother thousands of miles away from his mother. The writers who traveled around Japan in RVs, the chubby and bald people from the speeding party that I met on the road before, gathered together, and Kijiro instructed a group of people how to play with the children like a director. You can't help but imagine that Takeshi Kitano had a similar look and behavior when he was talking to the actors on the set.
Kitano Takeshi's explanation is that a group of boring and lonely adults just played with their children by playing with them.
Human beings have the nature of playing games, but too many normal people restrain their playfulness too much, and they are prudent in the world every day. Those idlers in society, those marginalized people who are out of place, have a space and scale to live freely regardless of the passage of time.
The passages of those traditional Japanese song and dance dramas are simply cadenza movements, which are so unexpected and eye-catching. He is really not only a director, but also a performance artist.
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