"An unhappy middle-aged man does not want to see an unhappy child. It is because he thinks of his unhappy Childhood, or is it because of what?" At
first, many people thought that the dull, introverted and lonely boy was Kikujiro, but at the end, Uncle Kitano smiled and said, "It’s Kikujiro! Fuck, let’s go!" Everyone suddenly realized. Understand why the title is called "Summer of Kikujiro".
I have been searching for this DVD for a long time and have not been able to find it. A few days ago, a friend brought me back from Nanjing, and finally I didn’t have to listen to the original OST stream all day Harazi.
This work is very similar to the main propositions of "A Thousand Miles of Walking Alone": family affection, search, and affection between people. The latter is slow and unhurried, but it is hurriedly and deliberately than the former. To be more unforgettable.
With Hisaishi let’s warm and brisk music, the journey of an uncle and a boy was staged. Although I was fully prepared to be impressed before, I was inevitably brought into that with sunshine during the filming process. , Sunflowers, burdock leaves and cornfield taste summer.
At first glance, Uncle Kitano's muddle-headed and utterly nagging ruffian, in addition to bringing us helpless laughter, it also reflects the sentiments of all kinds of people encountered along the way: perverted gays, innocent and kind hotel attendants, and personalities. Different but the same passionate lovers, wandering poets traveling the country, underworld thugs who collect protection fees, and disgusting-faced speeders... The world is not completely pure, but because of this it is beautiful.
Unlearning, doing nothing, bullying and fearing hardships, caressing about things, being small-spirited, avenging revenge, and taking advantage of others... Kikujiro is such a middle-aged uncle who can be seen everywhere, because he lost money in gambling, he had to take a ride to Tokyo on foot. Obviously I don’t have a background but I want to get a ridiculous tattoo. I don’t know how to swim but I love to pose. When someone refuses to take a ride, I secretly smash the glass of the car to revenge, steal other people’s food, put nails on the road to stop the car, and go to the temple fair. Shang was beaten by someone to take advantage of the petty advantage...
And it is such a ridiculous and poor uncle who never made any regrets during the journey, just to help the little boy realize his dream of seeing his mother.
Many people praised the experience of the two being left at the abandoned bus station for two days and two nights, but no one wanted to stop downloading them. They said that it showed Kitano's always suppressed sense of loneliness and alienation. This It is also the center of the film where it officially unfolds.
The climax of the film appeared after they worked so hard to find the place where their mother lived, only to find that her mother had remarried and had a new happy family, a family where a little boy could not get involved at all.
Tugushi dealt with this situation in the "Waste Chai League": "Oh, my mother is not here, she may have gone a long way, let's continue to look for it! Definitely, we will find it! "
Uncle Kitano, in order to comfort the little boy, almost deceived an angel's bell by threatening methods, saying that it was left to him by his mother before he moved away. As long as he rang the bell, the angel would appear to protect him. Masamune rang the bell, but the angel did not appear, but the boy did not give up. He kept shaking. The angel's bell symbolized hope.
The film does not end there, the little boy's journey to find his mother comes to an end, and the big boy's journey begins again. What touched me most about the whole film was not the scene where Uncle Kitano was beaten by someone because he was kidnapped at a temple fair and lied to Masao and said he fell down the stairs, but he suddenly ran to the nursing home to look for his mother. He took a long look through the glass window and then left. The look behind the glass window for less than a second, simple, pure, sincere, persistent... is such a look, which quickly surpassed the tall figure of Takakura Ken in my mind.
As a road film, the scenery in the film is impeccable, from frogs on reeds in the water, caterpillars eating vegetable leaves, to the blue sea, twinkling stars, the cicadas screaming in the grass, and the green mountains full of eyes. All kinds of people encountered on the road, this is a summer style painting in the eyes of a child. Not knowing whether it was to compensate the little boy or to compensate for his childhood, Kikujiro and three other men: Mr. Goodman, Fatty, Bald, four marginal people who were also abandoned by society, began to play unscrupulously with the little boy.
"It's just a group of boring and lonely adults who used the children as an excuse to play on their own." Kitano himself explained this.
With the blue sky above your head and the clear river beside you, Mr. Octopus, Mr. Alien and Big Indian Brother, together played "One Two Three, Wooden Man" under the shining of the Big Dipper.
The boy smiled and smiled happily, he spent an unforgettable summer. Kikujiro also smiled, smiling very happily, he also spent an unforgettable summer.
The angel's wings trembled and trembled, and the little boy ran to the house step by step, stepping on the relaxing music and the sunshine of the road.
"There is hope. Takeshi Kitano used the Big Dipper in the sky, the bell of the angel, the crazy green, and the brisk pace of the ending Masao. Kikujiro gradually expressed his kindness and a content smile to express himself. kind of life hope.
go finish the road, can not see the head of the journey, the end will return to the starting point, but this summer's journey, the two "boys," and begins to start, go home. "
After reading After "Riding a Thousand Miles Alone", as soon as I left the cinema, I immediately forgot the simplicity and deepness that I had deliberately done, including the scenery of Lijiang. After watching the DVD of "Kikujiro Summer" at home, it took me a long time. Immersed in the summer sun, forgetting that the cold wind was lingering outside the window. This is the gap in infectious power.
"Is Kikujiro the name of your father?
——Yes. It seems that he has never spoken to him during his lifetime. But now in retrospect, he is really a bit lonely. This time the theme of the movie is a bit like the feeling of filial piety to the grave. It's also considered as offering. (Take Kitano)"
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