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Gerhard 2022-04-20 09:02:19

Binding red thread. doll.
Matsumoto left the wedding scene to pick up the girl.
She tried to kill herself for him and took too many pills.
Alive, but insane.
There are broken things, butterflies, toys everywhere.
Since then, the girl Gongtian can use all her energy to concentrate on one thing.
Matsumoto can't save her, so she can only take her, pamper her, and go to other places to bring her back.

Yet the red line is indestructible.
They go forward with the same steps and gestures, tirelessly, day and night
through the lives and feelings of others.

A woman who has been waiting for decades.
Wearing the same clothes at noon every Saturday and waiting for a prepared lunch
without recognizing what a lover will look like decades later.

A man who stabbed his eyes out for his idol.
In this way, you can not see her disfigured face, only love, no harm.

But they were all dead, and the red spread at an alarming rate.
They won't come again, they'll fall back into another wait.
The feeling of happiness seems to be a dream in the end.
It's time for the maple leaves to be buried in the snow.
Matsumoto and Gongtian, they only involve each other and destroy each other.


We have only such love.

Takeshi Kitano creates hallucinations unique to island nations,
prompting us to overthink our long walks without dialogue.
Gongtian laughed and cried, and then Matsumoto also cried, holding her tightly.
Their tears even wet the words on my paper.
What did she remember, and how much she remembered.
Finally, they rushed into the snow in the dark night, and the flames were ruthlessly trampled out.
There is no sound in the whole world.

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Extended Reading
  • Darion 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    The beautiful scenery is entwined around the lovers. It seems beautiful but cannot escape the final death. The old man Kitano always takes fate as the object of ridicule.

  • Kaya 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    In the gorgeous and somewhat ghostly atmosphere, I found this to be a persistent story. If you are used to watching Chinese movies, then watching it is like a dream. Maybe there is something lacking in reality, and Takeshi Kitano likes to weave dreams. The first half was a bit stagnant, and then it was smooth. The two people who were held by the red rope could feel the warmth of the embrace even though they had no expressions. An old lover from decades ago was waiting for him at the old place with a lunch box. Literary films, watching too much is absolutely useless, and not watching at all is more harmful.