The full set of "Infinite Residents" has 30 volumes. If it is to be adapted into a two-hour movie, the original content and characters will need to be cut a lot. In addition, when Miike Shishi was interviewed by overseas media, he indicated that he was only against Wanji and Rin. The heroes and heroines are interested and did not spend too much time studying other characters. No wonder the original book fans were dissatisfied with the selection and omission of various characters and plots in the film, and even became one of the focal points of local bad reviews; and Kimura's image collapsed since the disbandment of SMAP , Every move has been criticized by public opinion. During the film's release, negative news such as "box office failure" and "myth has passed" were flooded. Internet searches in Japanese or Chinese were all negative.
But the interesting thing is that since the film was released at the Cannes Film Festival, European and American film critics such as "SCREEN DAILY" and "the guardian" have praised "Infinite Living". The latter is even called the Japanese version of "Logan". "The film is also scheduled to be released in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries in November. Except that European and American audiences have a preference for the bloody and violent aesthetics of Miike Toshishi, or when the colored glasses named "Kimura Takuya" are removed, the film can receive a more fair evaluation.
Atonement with the immortality The
original work of "Infinite Residents" has a strange world view of the samurai world-self-repairing "blood fairy insects", strange costumes that are different from the traditional Edo period, strange weapons and gunpowder coexist, etc. Although the violent aesthetics of Miike Shishi’s "Broken Hands and Feet" and "Flying Plasma" made the movie fail to fully present the values of the original work, the movie can still closely follow the theme of the story-(ten thousand times) Atonement and (awe-inspiring) revenge.
Different from the perception of ordinary viewers, the "immortal body" of Wanzi is not invincible in the world, but just a talisman that cannot be killed. The first half of the film’s first half of life is presented in black and white colors-as a "tongxin" (similar to a modern policeman), he was unwilling to behave like a beast and killed his boss and colleagues. Manslaughter his brother-in-law made his sister go crazy, and finally led her to run away but eventually led to her being hunted down. In the end, after beheading a hundred people, he almost died. When the eight hundred bhikshuni planted "Blood Fairy Insects" on him, the picture gradually turned into color at this time, and he was reborn as an "immortal body" ten thousand times, but he was carrying a hundred lives and the regret of missing his sister's life. Guilt.
Therefore, when he meets Rin who looks exactly like his sister, his goal in life is to help her get revenge. Her only life goal. But when Dang Lin knew that her grandfather had expelled Tianjin's grandfather from the teacher's door by dirty means, she was lost. What is the meaning of the revenge that she has insisted on? Due to the limited length of the movie, it is a pity that Lin and Tianjin’s struggle with hatred and "destiny" cannot be described in depth.
In the "journey of revenge" that resembles a game level, Wan Ji turned into the killer guardian of "Léon: The Professional", accompanied by Lin's revenge, and also made the walking dead heavy. Pick up the goal in life-treat and guard Rin like a sister. When Rin wanted to call himself "brother" (お兄さん), Wan Ci corrected it to "brother (お兄さま)" (my sister called him). This miss and love for the dead sister runs through the whole movie. However, his love for Rin's guardianship is more than courtesy, and he has no complaints when he breaks his hands and feet. It makes people think of Kimura's other TV series "Ando Robot" that was ridiculed by the media as "Prudence."
Journey of Revenge
As Miike said, "Only focus on the male and female protagonists," the focus of the "Living in the Unlimited" movie is on Wanji and Rin, especially the former. Whether or not he agrees with "Takuya Kimura can only play himself", the thousands of times he often broke his hands and feet and were bruised and bruised in the play really reminded him of the fact that he was frustrated by the dissolution of SMAP and his national image. Will the handsome and handsome "National Mutuo" catch customers more for the general audience? But as long as he has been baptized by "Andou Robot" and "Miyamoto Musashi" in recent years, he will never be unfamiliar with him who was so brutal and bruised himself during the killing. To a certain extent, he is also two works tens of thousands of times. Continuation, even though the Japanese public has a general reputation, it has not hindered him from becoming one of the key works of his acting career.
As for the film upstart Sugika, she plays Rin Kazumachi Asano (Sister Wanji). The latter is short but lovable. The former has the aura of a heroine, and his partner Kimura reveals "This murder is not too cold." Even though she has too young teeth, she lacks the feminine charm of the original novel, so that the "uncle loli match" does not show too much pink air, but on the whole, the two are very good.
Although in order to meet the public’s expectation for the "Arch of the Stars", many well-known supporting characters in the original work were sacrificed, such as Bailin (Chiaki Kuriyama), Pseudoichi (High One in the North Dynasty), and Iwakensui (Yamazaki Nu). On the set board, there are killing scenes of the black mackerel (Kazuki Kitamura) and the spit-god group (Tanaka Mizuho), which are just like walking through the horse and looking at the flowers, and they disappear when they are degraded; even the biggest villain Tianjin Yingjiu (Fushi Cangtai) and the female sword in the movie Shiyi Tachibana Makie (Toda Erika)'s emotional description is also slightly insufficient.
Fortunately, the actors have broken through the restrictions with their roles and personal temperaments. For example, the lonely and arrogant leader discovered the "dark" side of Fu Shi, Toda's long legs and perseverance temperament created a different Maki-e; in addition, the immortal Xian Ma Yong Sora (Ichikawa Sea Lao Zang) and the murderous Shiliang (Ichihara Hayato) are also brutal and have their own styles. Even if they are suspected of being wasted, they are still the characters encountered in the revenge journey of Wanji and Rin. People are pleasing to the eye.
It is recommended that audiences who enter the venue should not only understand the names and relationships of the characters in the original, but also put aside the image of Takuya Kimura’s past national idols so that they can feel the charm of Wanji, who is "immortal" but weak in combat. .
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