The price of growth

Humberto 2022-01-21 08:03:07

It was still the familiar cold tone of Takeshi Kitano, sometimes still and sometimes jumping. I think it would be too literary to describe "Kids Return" with words like "Cruel Story of Youth", but the conflict between the lush years and the adult world, youthfulness and coldness, is like the beauty of the setting sun. Compared with "Hanahuo", this is not Kitano Takeshi's label-style violent aesthetics; compared with "Summer of Kikujirou", it will not bring a little warmth and warmth for all ages. But it has a kind of strange magic power that makes people sigh after watching, sinking into deep memories.

Xiaoma and Xinzhi are bad boys in everyone's eyes. They skipped classes to ride bicycles on the playground; played pranks on the roof; blackmailed honest students; burned the teacher’s new car; went to the adult theater as adults...maybe just the teachers every time "Why don’t you suspend school?" and In the infinite confusion and melancholy that day is flat and repeated days.
They accidentally joined the boxing club. The untalented pony quickly gave up boxing and joined the underworld as a younger brother, hoping to be the eldest brother in his eyes step by step. But he doesn’t know anything about the indifference and cruelty of the adult world. He was beaten by gang fights... The extremely talented Xinzhi gradually revealed his talents. He has no love for boxing, only facing the pale youth. A challenge. But he doesn't know anything about the complexity and hypocrisy of the adult world. He easily lavishly squanders his talent... Remember when Xinzhi asked Xiao Ma when we could meet again? Xiao Ma said, "Wait when I become a big brother, and when you become a champion." Now that he thinks about it, he feels a little bit disappointed. On the way Xiaoma took Xinzhi to the boxing club for the first time, a red and a basket of sportswear jumped vigorously. Hisaishi made the master's main theme gradually agile, everything seemed to be so beautiful. Even if it is impossible to predict how rugged the road ahead will be.
Kitano's deadly lens language made me feel helpless. They are really bad boys with "venomous hearts and full of evil spirits". Do you have to use your fists and violence to solve everything? They, including classmates, teachers, and staff, are all passives and victims imprisoned under the class system. Who doesn't want to live a good life, who has never had a dream. When my youthful years are intertwined in the twisted, painful confusion in the adult world. You either choose to be assimilated and gradually smooth out all the edges and corners of existence or non-existence with the waves, or you choose to resist, but you don't have any hot or cold weapons to break the wall, only this pair of meat fists.
That is 10 years later, the postman Xinzhi reunited with the vagrant pony. Xinzhi's once beautiful face only had fortitude, and Xiao Ma had been ruthlessly baptized by years, and they still achieved nothing. Xiao Ma still sits in the back seat of the Xinzhi bicycle and returns to the old school. Xinzhi asked Xiaoma, are we finished? Xiao Ma said, idiot, we haven't started yet... the end of the film.
Is the real life willing to compromise, succumbing to fate? Or does it follow a fixed pattern of birth, old age, sickness and death? Have you ever fought? I have fought, but it was intentional and powerless.


Hisaishi let the master’s soundtrack, it is impossible to find a reason not to recommend it.
All sentimentality can be hidden in the rhythm of sadness or joy. The soundtrack masters of the East cannot find a second person.
Music is the soul that controls the movie. I have never been in the past. I believe that Hisaishi has allowed the master to perfectly explain time and time again
whether it is for directors Miyazaki Hayao, Kitano Takeshi, Jiang Wen, Xu Anhua
or for some mainland TV dramas and variety show soundtrack pirates...

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Kids Return quotes

  • Shinji: Masaru, do you think we're already finished?

    Masaru: Hell no. We haven't even started.