Kitano’s masterpieces, the innocence in "That Summer, Quiet Sea", the fate in "Fireworks", the childishness in "Summer of Kikujiro", and the coldness in "Bad Boy's Sky". If you understand "Sonata", you can actually understand Takeshi Kitano. In the lens of "Sonata", Takeshi Kitano thoroughly points out the nihilistic nature of the gang, endless vengeance and vengeance, revenge and vengeance is just a futile endless loop, and this endless loop will often consume your life within. Friends can't be trusted, lovers can't stay, even the little bit of innocence and childishness left over from beach games has been brutally obliterated. There is no end to chasing and evading. In the end, I can only shoot myself sadly to get out of this cycle of compassion, and use my own death to give the person I care about a chance to get rid of the eternal reincarnation. The processing of the last 20 minutes of the film is extremely wonderful. In my limited experience of reviewing gunfights, I have not matched it. It has once again confirmed that compared to Miyazaki, Takeshi Kitano is the right way to open Hisaishi. The music continued to speed up with the montage of jumping and cutting, and came to an abrupt end when Kitano took his own life. After a short silence, the camera cuts to the long-sighted woman standing in front of the wooden house. She is looking forward to her, but the person she doesn't know the beloved has already used her life to save her. At this time, the music broke out again, and a small piece of sonata that kept looping directly pushed the film's strong sense of fate to its climax. The sea breeze is blowing, the fireworks continue to rise and gradually cool down, and those gangster stories that only remain in people's memory, like this fireworks, disappear into the endless darkness after a brief period of time. Facing the eternal fate of survival, how many people have the courage to break this sonata?
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