The film is directed and acted by Takeshi Kitano, and it is also the first work directed by Takeshi Kitano that I have seen. It is quite autobiographical. The whole film is full of a humorous and warm image style. It mainly tells a series of funny and warm stories that the little boy "Zhenan" and his uncle next door "Kiujiro" experienced during the summer vacation to find "mother". In the end, the two healed each other's childhood.
The whole film is filled with the fresh air of summer, and it is easy to remind people of the summer of their childhood. Although the journey is full of humor, the core of comedy is often tragedy. Just like in the film, "Zhengnan" found his mother after setbacks, but found that she had already remarried and had a new and beautiful family and abandoned him, leaving him alone and Grandma depends on each other. Although "Kiujiro" seems unreasonable, irritable, and arrogant, and achieves nothing, he also has irreconcilable contradictions with his mother and an unfortunate childhood. One of them used "childhood to heal a lifetime" and gained relief and joy this summer; the other "healed childhood with a lifetime", gradually opened their hearts and gave them understanding and tenderness. Both of them got better in the end!
The reason why I love this movie is because with the movie I returned to the happiest time of my childhood little by little. It is as plain as a documentary, and under the lens full of life, that small village, the little boy at home alone, seems to be me. The beautiful scenery and the joyful plot are combined with each other, plus the lively and interesting soundtrack that comes to mind at the most suitable time, turning the childhood memories deep in the bottom of the heart little by little.
The earliest memory I can remember is that I lived in the countryside of my grandmother's house. I probably played in spring, summer, autumn, and winter cats in the house... In spring, I was running around in the mountains and fields, and then I was scolded by my grandmother; summer, summer, cicadas, People are broken, and the clear river is topped with big lotus leaves, which attracts me to swim under the lotus leaves to enjoy the shade. Playing together, the little friends who ran all over the mountains and fields, caught frogs in the fields, fed their own ducks, and the little crab that was accidentally found under the stone, somehow never brought them home. All day, running home tired from playing, there is always a big cut watermelon on the old wooden table? The residual well water can always make it extremely cold, and sitting at the table smiling at my grandma... Autumn sticks Playing with cocklebur, it will be cold in winter, I probably only sleep at home with the cat! Sure enough, summer is my favorite, and every time I think of it, I am happy.
But when does childhood end?
Probably as I grew up, I moved out of the country and went to a kindergarten in the city. The number of times I went back to see my grandmother became less and less, but what I still remember is that my grandmother is getting more and more difficult to hold my hand every year. .
Later, my grandmother was also taken to the city. My childhood, that small village, gradually became the past buried under the sea. Rarely remembered, never mentioned, in fact, because I was afraid that I would not be able to resonate with others, and my childhood playmates have long since disappeared. Until I met this movie, it happened to hit the softest, happiest, most carefree childhood in my heart. Summer is my favorite season!
Although life has regrets, childhood is still beautiful. Childhood is the happiest thing in your life when you think about it a little bit! Another summer is coming
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