The reason for knowing this drama is completely coincidental; during the release of "Hall's Moving Castle", it swept the whole of Japan; the music supervisor Hisaishi did not disappoint the fans, and made a lot of use of three-time music to promote the castle and let Hall The prince led Sophie across the city briskly; during this period, someone enthusiastically introduced the works of the great master Joe Hisaishi, so by coincidence, he came to know the song "summer".
What got me hooked was the lighthearted tune in the beginning. The plucking skills of stringed instruments (I don’t know if it is right) stirred my heart. Under the guidance of wind instruments, piano accompaniment was added. The octave brought the atmosphere to a climax. Exuberant, graceful dance performance, with the notes rising and falling, it is like spending a pleasant summer vacation, and finally approaching a gentle melody, which seems to represent the end of the summer vacation, but it will not disappoint, but save. Looking forward to the mood, looking forward to another happy holiday coming soon.
When I first listened to this piece, I thought it was a cartoon soundtrack; it's not hard to imagine that when I knew it was a live performance, it gave me a lot of shock; and when I found out that the protagonist was "Take Kitano", I was immediately shocked. Can't associate this music with the fierce teacher who played "Battle Royale"! I borrowed this film just to see what kind of "protected" masterpiece this old man can come up with!
"Drama"
summer vacation is here. Zhengnan's friends all went out to play with their parents. In the huge campus, there is only one lonely figure.
Following his grandmother, Zheng Nan has no father, and his mother works outside, but Zheng Nan has never seen her.
One day, the postman brought a box of packages, and Zheng Nan curiously opened it and found that it was a photo of his childhood with his mother. He rummaged and found the mailing address. After picking up some slack, he set out resolutely, bent on finding his biological mother.
What can an eight-year-old child do? The kind aunt asked her husband to take Zheng Nan to visit his mother. The husband and wife have a lot of backgrounds, and the other two are hooligans. The husband is a rambunctious little gangster, and the wife can be said to be a big sister, but she has a preference for the male. So the wife gave her husband a fee to help the little boy fulfill his wish.
Idleness is not a false name. Race horses go first! The little boy's casual guess got him a sum of money; if there is one, there will be two, let's rush it the next day!
lost. all.
If you don't have money you have to go. After exerting the power of cheating, eating and drinking, he finally reached his destination. The rogue uncle jokingly said that my mother is quite beautiful, then after I marry her, you will call me father. The little boy finally smiled.
All expectations were completely shattered when the woman opened the door. There are more men and children beside the woman. Zheng Nan was stunned for a while, then turned back and walked. The hooligan is also stupid, how to comfort this little boy?
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The inconsistency between appearance and performance is a great joke. To see a big man with thick eyebrows, showing a very weak appearance, is staggering. The most interesting thing is Takeshi Kitano. As a hooligan, he still acts silly, which is very funny. According to the age at the time, the nearly fifty-year-old old man was still willing to play children's games, dressed himself up in a nonsensical manner, and also behaved very seriously, and his style did not match, and he would laugh after watching it. impulse.
Costumes are also fun. The monsters and ghosts in the little boy's nightmare are the strange uncle and the duo who dance strangely in real life. An octopus, an alien, or a grotesque figure in a dream, it's hilarious.
Takeshi Kitano uses his good black humor. Although the protective films are full of curse words or a little violent and bloody scenes, through symbolic and simplified methods, the violent actions are transformed into funny sparring pictures, even changing. became the touching part.
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I always feel that the plots of Chinese films I have seen are similar, although I have not seen many films.
Which aspect do you mean? The dialogue is concise and there are many quiet scenes. Without background music, there is no word to the two people watching. On the one hand, it is embarrassing and on the other hand, it is true.
I often use the long-range method, and I can't see in front of the screen what tricks the characters shrunk almost are doing. Maybe this is the part I'm not used to!
The little boy who plays the right man has an unfortunate face, often bowing his head, and although his sluggish appearance is not annoying, it is not a pleasing face. Takeshi Kitano mentioned that although there are too many castings that are cuter than this kid, they are tiresome, so I chose the one who is the least like today's kid. (Note)
The scenes of the Japanese countryside were shot in the movie, and the scenery was not deliberately beautified, but presented in the most realistic situation. Farmland and wasteland cannot be seen in ordinary movies; the scene after returning to the city is obviously similar to the whole scene. The journey is a stark contrast.
In the movie, the whole journey is shown in the diary of a child. Although it describes the story of the man looking for his mother, the story of the other person is also going on simultaneously. Who is the other? Well, it couldn't be more obvious.
Part of this film is Kitano Takeshi's real inner world, and it is also his first parent-child drama. In all fairness, without the company of music, this movie is very likely to become a hypnotic film; if you taste it carefully, it can be regarded as a meaningful sketch movie.
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