It's been a long time since I saw a movie that can truly shock the soul, until I saw this "Sonata", which of course is also a long time! Kitano, once heard of this name, was still in "Love Apartment" when Mika pretended to be the director of Yoyo's manager Chen Taizhu, and Guan Gu, who played Kitano's subordinate next to him, pretended to be cold and convulsed half of his face by the way. The ruthless Takeshi Kitano, the expressionless movie character, is a true interpreter of "violent aesthetics" compared to the familiar Wu Yusen's "The True Colors of Heroes" series. "Sonata", with a gentle name, is a gangster movie. It is about the little boss Murakawa played by Kitano Takeshi who can't bear the calculations and struggles of the social society, and gradually retreats. But at this time, his boss Beijima sent him to Okinawa to deal with another emerging power, the Anan group, and Murakawa decided to retire after finishing the vote. But in Okinawa, they were in an ambush, and most of the brothers they took were wiped out. Finally, Murakawa fled to a beach with a few younger brothers. They lived a short, undisturbed, paradise life here, and they also played seemingly joyful games, but there was an ominous atmosphere rising here, which reflected their happy faces at the time. superior. Slowly Murakawa realized that his fiasco was actually a joint calculation between his boss, Kitajima and Anan, so he decided to take revenge. Finally, after successfully eradicating the enemy who framed them, he aimed a gun at his head on the way back. The whole film is filled with despair, especially during their happy time at the beach. You see everyone laughing, but you clearly feel that their smile is not a real happy smile, but the end. The group carnival before coming. This is one of the most iconic images in the whole movie. His smile at that time seemed to herald his end. His ending was almost without warning on the way back from the successful revenge, but the previous plot hinted everywhere that he took out the gun and pulled the trigger at his head. The crackling gunfire echoed on the other side of the wind-swept path, passing by the ears of the beautiful woman who was waiting for him to return. The bullet seemed to have shot through the screen again, hitting my heart, making it bang, and it couldn't be calm for a long time. As I said at the beginning, it's been a long time since I felt that shocked my soul. The character's long-term fixation, silence and instantaneous, intuitive display of violence are the characteristics of Kitano Takeshi's movies. It is this characteristic that truly explains why violence is aesthetics, because it has reached the height of art of interpretation. The essence of art is the concrete presentation of people's subconscious emotions and thoughts, that is, art is in harmony with human nature. This characteristic of Kitano Takeshi's movies is like a state of a person after a hard life—indifferent and too lazy to speak. Some people say that Kitano Wu’s film belongs to Taoism, quiet and retreat. The plot of this film is indeed somewhat similar to the plot of Liu Zhengfeng’s golden basin washing hands in "Swordsman", which promotes the spirit of Taoism, but is completely slaughtered by Zuo Leng Zen. similar. The rivers and lakes do not divide national boundaries, and there are rivers and lakes in human places. What's more, Japan has been influenced by Chinese culture for a long time, and its identification with the rivers and lakes is no different from ours. The rivers and lakes are not able to retreat if they want to retreat, they are involuntary, and there are others, everyone has no choice but to destroy the other party, or is preparing to destroy the other party. This may be the fate of the people of the rivers and lakes, even if the death is very ritual, it is also the naked truth, the general law of that society.
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