Undoubtedly, "Kikujiro's Summer" is not only Kitano Takeshi's best masterpiece, but also a rare classic in the history of world cinema. Unfortunately, just as it is difficult for people who are addicted to love to accurately express the beauty of love, many viewers can't tell what they are "bewildered" by this movie, so that when the movie ends, there are sad tears in their eyes. , There was a gratifying smile on his face. This kind of grotesque expression is exactly one kind of situation that classic movies should harvest, and it is more convincing than applause.
"Kikujiro, fuck, go ahead." At the end of the film, Uncle Kitano said this cheerfully, I believe many people will be surprised. Why? Everyone thinks Kikujiro is that little boy. How can I think of Mr. Takeda, who is actually played by Uncle Takeda? Kitano, who is known for his humor, seems to make a big joke to the audience here.
In fact, this is not a joke, but the main point of the whole story. Just as the Korean movie "Things Sadder Than Sad" has an A side and a B side, so does the story of Takeshi Kitano. When the audience was so moved with tears and laughter for the A-side "Summer of Masao", Kitano suddenly throws out the B-side of the story: "Takeda's Summer", and tells everyone that the B-side is what he wants to express most. "Things Sader Than Sadness" talked about side A and side B, which seemed procrastinated, while the magical Kitano Takeshi hid side B in side A, which was concise and subtle.
So, what did his B-side say?
Now, let us first give Takeda, that is, Kikujiro, an image positioning, which is very important.
Many people's positioning of Kikujiro is inaccurate, calling him an unscrupulous old rascal, an old villain no matter what is right or wrong, a small city squad who must report to him, the demon king who sees people, and so on. In fact, he is just an out-and-out dumbfounded child: his intelligence is slightly lower than that of ordinary people, his actions are slightly clumsy than ordinary people, he is ignorant, and he always looks like a young child.
The first appearance of Kikujiro was ignored by many viewers. In fact, it was the beginning of the B story and played the role of outline. Kikujiro's wife put on the face of a working mother, bewildered by the three smoking boys. The Kikujiro next to him clasped his head, looking like an idiot. When his wife pulled his sleeves, he suddenly raised his head, smiled and stretched out two fingers, and shook his fingers. The innocent smile and funny behavior did not match his age at all, the image of Erzhezi , It suddenly appeared on the screen. It reminds me of Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump". A-Gump, who is equivalent to Kikujiro’s intelligence, behaves so kind, sincere, friendly, and benevolent, while Kikujiro was mistaken by the audience as an old gangster, old villain, small city squatter, and demon king. Why is this? The
most fundamental reason is A-Gump. He grew up under the warm wings of his mother, but the mentally retarded Kikujiro's mother eloped with someone. Without the love and guidance of his mother, Kikujiro, who had been ravaged by society since he was a child, was unable to make moral judgments and value integration of the complicated and complicated world affairs. Whatever the society gave him, he would reflect to the society. In a sense, the mentally handicapped Kikujiro is like a superficial mirror. All the ugliness he presents are actually the imprints of society on him. In other words, the ugliness on him is the ugliness of this society! Now, how bad he is, how bad he is, in fact, when he grew up a little bit, how many rascals, villains, marketers, and demon kings once treated him. How bad
it is to be too bastard! Although Kikujiro copied the whole set of the city gangsters indigestible, but still can't change the essence of his second stupid, not to mention his horror tattoo with a tiger skin as a banner on his back , Even if it gets tattooed on the face, I'm afraid it won't help. Disregarding the cards from the cards is feasible for a real gangster, because the real hooligans know when to disregard the cards from the cards, but it does not work for a stunner. Because Er Lengzi doesn't play cards according to the cards in everything, and doesn't know how to choose the time. I believe Er Lengzi Kikujiro in real life will be beaten up from time to time.
Some people say that Kikujiro was so cowardly under his wife that he was too weak and lacking the dignity of a man. But in fact, Kikujirou's encounter with his wife was his great blessing. The wife’s mother married three times and naturally also had an unfortunate childhood, but life is so strange. Girls with unfortunate childhoods, when they grow up, some will show stronger and more vigorous motherhood than ordinary women. And many boys who were unlucky in childhood are dull and reckless, like older children who will never mature. God let them unite, it is a kind of guilty compensation for their unfortunate childhood. Under the protection of his wife, Kikujiro must have avoided many troubles in life and regained a feeling similar to maternal love. And a woman who has lost her maternal love since she was a child, when she gives others her maternal love, she also wipes out the regrets from her lonely childhood in her heart a little bit.
This is also the premise for the establishment of "Summer of Kikujirou", otherwise, which woman would inexplicably send her husband to spend a few days with an irrelevant little boy? The
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women said to Masao’s grandma that Kikujiro likes children, then It was the woman who saw the essence of Kikujiro's eldest child. Let an older child take a younger child, of course, there will be a lot of unexpected happiness on the journey. This, perhaps before the departure, the woman had anticipated it.
Kikujiro, who has been tumbling around in the world for many years, did not see his essence clearly. He promised to take Zhengnan to travel, not because he likes Zhengnan, but because he can get fifty thousand yen, and there are still a few days without management or land to collect.
It was the subsequent swimming, boating, fishing and other activities that brought Er Lengzi and the little boy closer. Then there are the games of men and women in love that are going crazy with joy, which really brings Kikujiro back to his childhood. We know that adult men and women are easy to be brought back to the original happiness of life by passion. Only in this way, women will dazzle the three oranges with joy, and men will show the robot dolls vividly. .
Many people are fascinated by Kitano Takeshi's small props: the sunflowers on the backpack, the potato leaves on the top of the head, the clinking angel bells, and the green plants in the field, and the blurred summer breeze. Noisy waves. Many people may have overlooked the scene where Kikujiro brought Xiao Masao to see his mother. That scene is actually very exciting, simple and timeless.
We might as well imagine how Er Lengzi took the boy to find his mother?
It's straightforward. "Oh, it's as beautiful as the photo! Masamune, we finally found your mother!" "I can tell you, bringing your son here, I have suffered a lot and spent a lot of money, you have to say anything. Make up for it? Oh, this is your husband? At first glance, he is rich!"...
Kikujiro had been wandering at the door of a strange house, and couldn't bear to step forward. Why? Because at that moment, he had completely changed from a pseudo-rogue, a second-struck boy, to a big boy at a loss. Facing Zhengnan's mother's new home, he must have remembered a lot of the past. In the past unbearable years, has he ever found his mother who eloped with someone? Has he ever seen a scene that he would never want to see? Has he ever been excluded by a new family, pushed, shoved, and cursed? In this way, simple actions will become so difficult for the big boy who has lingering fears.
Sure enough, history repeats itself again. Zheng Nan's mother has a perfect and harmonious new home, Zheng Nan has become a superfluous person, and the older boy can only take the little boy away sadly. The little boy was sobbing with tears on his face; the older boy was numb with tears in his heart. When the sea breeze blew, the unwilling big boy wanted to return to question the woman, but he gave up. We have reason to believe that the reason for giving up still comes from his childhood life experience. In the end, he only snatched an angel bell on the side of the road as a helpless prop to soothe the little boy's injured soul. "Mom left it to you. Just shake the angel bell and mom will appear." Of course, you can't meet your mother with this wind chime, but this prop will surely become the best nutrient for the little boy to grow up alone in the future.
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Has anyone noticed that dragonfly resting on a blade of grass?
It is not only a representative of the beautiful and light things in the country, but in this film, it also has an important symbolic meaning, symbolizing our colorful childhood.
According to secular logic, this trip is destined to be a sad return. But in the eyes of compound-eyed dragonfly, a car on the way back can also have thousands of ways to return. In other words, it is not only maternal love that embeds our broken hearts, but also many other things. Therefore, when Mr. Goodman came to camp for this unfortunate little boy, Uncle Kikujiro gladly accepted it.
At this time, listening to Hisaishi's crisp and light piano sound, people can't help but think of the song that I often hum in childhood: The bird leads the way, the wind blows us, we come to the garden like spring , Came to the grass...
a prodigal son, a stunned son, and two second-rate sons. At this time, they are like spring flowers. In the name of soothing the injured heart of the little boy, they collectively set off towards a happy childhood. At first they had some fun. Cautious, but the more you play, the more presumptuous, the more you play, the more brilliant you are, the more you play, the more you can’t find North, so that you will eventually replace the protagonist of the little boy game, and call yourself "One, two, three, wooden people!" Not so much camping activities are four An adult man is perfecting the incomplete childhood of a little boy. Rather, it is the little boy who gave the four adult men the chance to return to their respective youthful childhoods.
In the middle of the game, there is an intriguing plot, that is, Kikujiro decides to visit the mother of the Otomachi nursing home. It is the childlike innocence that reminds Kikujiro of his mother, and suddenly realizes that forgiving her may not be difficult? But when he came to the nursing home, Kikujiro was only It is so difficult to find a simple meeting. The feeling of being close to the hometown is even more timid, and dare not ask anyone. The old mother is no longer the fragrant and charming mother of Zheng Nan, and he is no longer the innocent little Zheng Nan. Across the turbulent years, the mother and son are like separated by a wide area of water, unable to sit face to face and talk to each other.
He could only walk around the house, through the hazy glass, quietly glance at his mother who looked a little lonely and looked a little demented. Obviously, it was the clear glass that coated the visit with a protective color. Otherwise, why should the embarrassed mother face the old son who has been abandoned by him for many years? And what does the aggrieved son say to the old mother?
Sound insulation and wind, both hazy and clear, near and far away The horizon, which is both unbreakable and broken at the touch of glass, is the sum of many things and emotions over the years. The warm visit became sad, and the calm-looking Kiujiro was emotionally turbulent again, and the past and the past turned over the river and the sea rushed at him, making him almost never want to return to the camping site with Mr. Heavy; it will be a long time after letting him return. Leaning on the motorcycle, let your thoughts fly freely without saying a word.
My mother forgives, but the half-life wound has not healed during this visit. It will take time.
The four dreams of Zheng Nan are also wonderful parts that cannot be ignored.
Thoughts on the day and dreams at night are vividly expressed in this film. What is a dream? A dream is the tailoring hand of the soul. The complicated world is to use dreams to forge our personality, tailor our hearts, and the overlapping dreams are finally the most essential background color of each of our hearts. Whether our life ends in tragedy or comedy depends on how many cold dreams and warm dreams we have in our life.
From this point of view, Xiao Zhengnan’s trip has been considered a lot of gains. Starting from dreaming of a few beautiful prostitutes constantly teasing him with words, Xiao Zhengnan later had three dreams: First, he dreamed that helpless himself and his cold mother were being constantly harassed by perverted bald guys, and then It was the dream of two ghosts and gods chattering like owl birds from a high tree, and finally dreamed that he and the four men would repeat the game more magically and artistically.
The meaning of dreams is complicated. Despite the complexity, we can still find that Xiaozheng was frightened by the pervert who pulled his underwear, burned by the tattoo on the back of Kikujiro, wronged by his indifferent mother, and feared by the darkness of the night. At the same time, I have been warmed and poetic by the game of Mu Ren. We can even see that he was gently touched by the awakened sexual consciousness, and he was so evil.
We cannot judge what impact this trip will have on Xiao Zhengnan's humanity, but it is clear that this impact will follow him for the rest of his life. Perhaps after many years, something that Zheng Nan suddenly did, tracing the root, will be related to a certain detail of this trip.
We really hope that all the things that Xiaozheng encounters during his journey are beautiful and warm. But in fact, how is this possible? Er Lengzi Kikujiro's understanding of the world is not even a half-knowledge. How did he know that he would take Xiaozheng to avoid those "wicked ways" in the world, and let him "listen to and see no evil"? What's more, he himself is a character who is not afraid of doing things.
At the beginning of man, maybe everyone is as pure and beautiful as a flower, but after experiencing the wind and rain of the world, all of us have become crooked melons and jujubes, always stinging other people's nerves in this way, abruptly. Somewhere in the world.
Now, we finally understand why we laughed in tears after watching "Kikujiro's Summer".
We laughed with relief because the little boy not only brought Kikujirou into his childhood, but also brought us all in. To be honest, whose childhood has no regrets? Although most people are not fatherless and motherless like a boy, our father is not a prophetic heavenly father, and our mother is not a merciful Virgin. They also grew up ignorantly from their incomplete childhood. They are like the prodigal poet, Er Leng Zi Kikujiro, Er Liu Zi heavyweight and Bald head, who have suffered such and other dark injuries, and have such and other defects. Their distorted human nature and ordinary intelligence, and they don’t know how to raise us, is the best state, so that we can have a willful childhood, and can keep our soul pure forever! Only then can we refine our beauty. The character, harvest our sweet destiny!
In a sense, we and all the creatures on the lonely earth are children without father and mother. Now, let us return to our distant childhood with the boy in the summer. Although childhood regrets are hard to make up, at least while watching "Summer of Kikujiro", we have already touched the most familiar taste of childhood.
Washed by Takeshi Kitano's warm salt water, the deep and shallow numb scars on our body suddenly recovered the clear pain of the past. At this time, sentimental tears will come down naturally.
In fact, there are reasons why we shed tears. The game of the four men and Xiaozheng finally became the game of everyone in and outside the drama, but due to the lack of women, our game seems so rough, clumsy, funny and nondescript. The joy is like the fireworks in the night sky. Say disappear and disappear. We seem to be overwhelmed with joy, but the elegant, thin, and angel-like beautiful mother of Zheng Nan is always dangling in our hearts, and she has become the mother of everyone. If she is here, even if she doesn't do anything, just watch warmly from the side, our game will never be as ridiculous and rough as it is now! Elegant and loving mother, she has such magical powers. She is the origin of all beautiful things. She can smooth out the rough potholes in our human nature and soothe the unavoidable regrets in our lives!
Therefore, at the end of the film, Kikujiro will say to Masao: Next time I will take you Go to mother.
Even if we can't find a mother in reality, we have to find a spiritual mother to replace it in our minds. Only in that way can Xiao Zheng Nan's journey be truly perfect; only in that way, Xiao Zheng Nan who has experienced a series of violations and bans will not grow up like us. Only that, the drama The smiles of outsiders in the drama will not resemble the cheerful waves on the sea, and the deep blue sadness is hidden below.
Who is willing to be the most beautiful and caring mother in our mind?
I thank her on behalf of the world.
Author: Xie Zongyu
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