South Korean violence master Park Chan-wook said that the most scarce quality of films in this era is a film that can face the boredom, cruelty and ugliness of the world, but can finally find a ray of light in the darkness.
Therefore, in his films, no matter how the characters and stories are bottomed out and tragic, when the dust falls, we can always pick up the ashes and find the rare metal called hope.
But Takeshi Kitano , a master of Japanese violent aesthetics, is just the opposite. His films always give people hope, but after watching the whole film, only to find that there is no way to go, no way to retreat, the characters are stuck in the center, and there is no basis for advancing and retreating, and they are just "standing to die" or "hiding to die". ".
From Takashi Miike, Shinji Fukasaku, to Takeshi Kitano, Japan's "chrysanthemum and sword"-style violent aesthetics, in a bizarre way of coexistence of elegance and explosion, makes fans feel an alternative metamorphosis aesthetic.
The gushing exaggerated blood and the quiet and pure flowers have found a balanced coexistence space in Japanese movies. The small and fresh soft light and the bloody and brutal dark elements provide Japanese movies with rare pictures and plot tensions in the world.
In 2010, Kitano Takeshi came up with the gangster type film "Extremely Wicked" (also known as all the villains) that once again proved himself.
After experiencing the peak of "Zatoichi", Kitano Takeshi was once scolded by all walks of life, and Jiang Langcai's doubts came one after another, and it was endless.
The stubborn Takeshi Kitano decided to make the most difficult gangster-type film to prove himself. In the film, there is a sufficiently shocking violent scene. In order to apologize, the eldest brother and friend, played by Takeshi Kitano, prepared to cut his fingers as an "apology". The long close-up of more than ten seconds made the audience feel the pain of bone erosion.
After the film was released, some people asked, the days of "cutting fingers" are long gone, why would you continue to present this tradition in modern gangster films?
Takeshi Kitano replied that in the past it was "cutting the finger", but now it is paying in cash. In fact, the principle is the same, but the method has been changed. I just want to prove that the tradition of gangster movies is still strong, and the movies will never be outdated.
In other words, Kitano believes that he will not be eliminated by the times. "Cut your fingers" is his stubborn expression of reality in the film.
After the release of "Extremely Wicked", it triggered a fierce social routine, and the evaluation showed two polarities, and it was nominated for the best picture in Cannes. Moreover, the film was shot in a series of three films in one go, and the online scores were all above 7 points. The film brings together three generations of powerful Japanese actors, old, middle and young, to show fans the tip of the iceberg of Japanese gangster organizations in an extremely violent way.
"Extremely Wicked" has a large and a small, from the society to the individual, from the collective to the individual, the two levels intersect to express the modern gang organization that completely loses its morality and only aims at money interests. The film, also known as "All the Evil", can be said to be quite accurate. In the film, there is no so-called distinction between good and evil . , Only the real villain can retreat, the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind.
The story begins with a funeral and ends with the annihilation of the entire organization; the film begins with a conflict of interests and ends with a redistribution of rights. The story revolves around a group of violent people, with interests as the center, and the plot of the black eats the black and the black eats the black as the plot, which allows us to see the beast world without faith.
Under the pressure of the boss, Chi Yuan, the second-level leader, began to have a bad relationship with his classmate and brother Murase. While appeasing his brother, he was just playing on the scene, but he secretly guarded Chen Cang, and really began to annex his brother's property.
To this end, he sends his powerful thug Otomo (played by Takeshi Kitano) to do the dirty work. Under the coercion, Murase handed over all his business, just to save his life. But according to the meaning of the boss, we must cut the weeds and eradicate the roots.
Kwanai also hinted at Otomo that he could take Chi Yuan's place. The Great Friends Group is full of talented people, most of whom are loyal and righteous, and their group's casino business is also smooth.
But just in the calm, the greedy boss Guan Nei hinted that Chi Yuan's old subordinates would eliminate the Dayou Group so that he could control the new casino business. After a bloody storm, Dayou watched as the growing team was completely wiped out within a few days, and the death was tragic. Surrendered to the police, he was not spared when he entered the prison, and died in humiliation within the high walls that no one cared about.
After intrigue, deceit from top to bottom, constant strife, and after the big purge, the second-in-command Kato turned out to be the final winner. He bribed the police and subdued the finances of the Dayou Group. He hid behind the boss and completed the entire organization, from top to bottom. The next one is beneficial to his big exchange blood.
Once it will become eternal, I don't know who will become Kato's second-in-command, the grave digger? In a modern organization that is completely self-interest-oriented, without the spiritual restraint of loyalty, betrayal is like a child's play, and great changes can be created easily.
In "Extremely Wicked", we see the complete loss of tradition. Although the gang organization established in the spirit of Bushido, although it seems to have a deep and strict hierarchy, it loses the reins of awe and respect, and gives its subordinates to run away with power and money. space.
Taking advantage of each other and killing people with knives is the method that the boss believes in. He believes that the mind can overcome violence; while the big friend uses force to suppress everything. All lost to the calculation.
Violence is a means, and the mind is a way of making a living. The two need to be combined, and a little shame and forbearance must be added to finally become a big thing. Another surprising aspect of "The Wicked" is its utterly ferocious violence in a calm .
Not only the blunt knives cut the fingers, but also the unrestrained punching and addition, and even the women are not soft at all. In the film, exaggerated violence and indifferent character expressions are often used as editing contrasts, highlighting the habit of violence in society. Moreover, the violence in "Extremely Wicked" is the kind of sudden force under restraint, which often presents shockingly large-scale scenes without warning.
For example, Dayou killed Chi Yuan by asking him to stick out his tongue. He suddenly hit Chi Yuan on the chin, asking him to ask for his tongue, and then shot him in the head.
There is also the part of the big cleaning that can be described as cold to the end. The second-in-command of the Dayou group, after having no lifeless love with a beautiful woman, was put on a hood, and the car broke off and died.
This kind of cold violence makes "Extreme Evil" see no way out and no hope.
Takeshi Kitano's "Extremely Wicked" is like a probe that penetrates from social reality to the very end of the characters' psychological nerves. It not only has the precision of social analysis, but also receives the chaotic and dark passwords in people's hearts.
Otomo thinks he is a weapon to destroy the darkness, but he is just a tamed beast forced by fate into the jungle. In order to survive, he must awaken his wildness, but these are just useless struggles, the whole movie shows this cruel The world used him, rounded him up, and he resisted a process of indifference that was ultimately slaughtered.
"Extremely Wicked" is an extremely violent film, a film that will bring pain, and what is even more frightening is that it sends a pitch black, after people watch it, it is like a lightning strike.
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