At the end of the day, the film is talking about persistence, doing it because of persistence, and it can't be stopped, just like a hanging line doll, and in the end, I can't control myself. This is also the explanation of the lyrics that Bunraku sang at the beginning of the film and made the audience bewildered. At a certain stage, people will probably have an awakening of self-consciousness, which brings confidence to people; and the film shows the feeling of the next stage, and begins to doubt whether people can control themselves, what they do or say about themselves. Whether you decide to do something is really yours. When a person (like the three male and female protagonists in the film) thinks that he has decided his own behavior and is obsessed with his own decision, is he really still free? Persistence itself is far beyond human control.
The narrative technique of creating a dreamy effect in "Double-sided Takeshi Kitano" has been initially used in this film - directly switching shots in various time and space without prompting, as if the person who controls the hanging wire is the one past self. The overlapping narration of the three stories is also used just right, especially when several pairs of protagonists pass by or walk side by side, they don't seem to pay attention to each other, suggesting that they themselves are addicted to the state of fantasy due to their persistence. I think the film's most prominent narrative strength is a photo-narrative: the film consists of delicate, comparatively static scenes that seem to be focused or magnified, with the spaces between them completely blank. This is a narrative method that focuses heavily on perceptual feelings, especially when telling about the past, it seems to be the memory of the protagonist, and only some static pictures are vivid in my mind, they represent a feeling of the past.
The picture of this movie is terrible, and it is probably a small attempt by Takeshi Kitano in this regard. But his attitude towards violence is not as different as some people say; his attitude towards violence has always been absolutely admired before "Two Sided Takeshi Kitano". The three pairs of men and women in "The Doll" are not really happy even at the end. Needless to say, men and women with belts, the men in the bento men and women never dared to admit who they were, and the women were still thinking about the man who liked them. What to eat, and the man of the blind man and woman ended up entertaining himself with the harmonica. So the violence in this movie is nothing like what some people say is a beautiful abrupt end. It didn't come to an abrupt end. There is no beauty at all. From the moment their attachment began, they had "already been enslaved and became souls of pain", and they would only sink deeper and deeper. Kitano believed that the only solution was the violence of death. Because since it is you who enslaves yourself and controls the hanging wire, you can only end your doll destiny by ending yourself.
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