Youth is an illusion

Mae 2022-01-21 08:03:07

Compared with Kitano Takeshi's famous "Summer of Kikujiro", "Zatoichi" and "Big Brother", this is a relatively early movie, and it is also before the Golden Lion Award of "Fireworks". I started watching movies that felt boring, maybe this is his style too. Two guys who talked about cross talk started, followed by two bad students who didn’t work in school, and a precocious student. The whole movie basically revolves around five of them. There are more scenes of Xinzhi, thin, perplexed and at a loss. Following A Sheng skipping classes, blackmailing students, sitting in a drink shop, watching adult videos, he unscrupulously consumed his youth, and then went to learn boxing with A Sheng, and when A Sheng quit, he felt boring. Like his life leader, he just led him to the boxing gym and came here, and he just happened to be "lucky" to meet a new leader like Xiaolin in his confusion, so that he could go on in a path. Halfway down the road, Xinzhi fully interpreted the confusion of youth. From him, I can more or less see my own shadow. It seems that I have the same experience. (Digression: Masanobu Ando plays the role of Shinji. He plays Tanaka Ryuichi in "Mei Lanfang". He is absolutely handsome.) Besides, Asheng, who looks rebellious and rebellious, seems to have no patience for everything. As the first "good teacher and helpful friend" of Xinzhi, he also didn't take a good path. The failure of Xinzhi seems to be attributed to Kobayashi's instigation, but Asheng took his own path. A Sheng interprets the rebellion of youth. There is also a precocious boy who fell in love with the coffee shop Sachiko, it should be a pure love, and they finally came together, but the ending is very tragic, the boy should be fatigued driving a taxi except for the car accident, which seems to be against the Japanese social background at that time A kind of portrayal of it. Finally, there are two boys who talk about cross talk. It seems that they are the only ones who came along smoothly. They went from loving cross talk and rehearsing hard after class to performing in a theater full of people. The film began with their successful performance, and then with They successfully ended the performance. What does Takeshi Kitano have been inexplicably expressing in this way? Is it youthful to take every step quickly? I think it's a sentence from the boxing gym president in the film "If you want to be a professional boxer, you better know how to control your life". If we want to grow up, we must control ourselves, but did we really control ourselves? In the film, the only two cross talk lovers finally succeeded. Are the same things happening now? The people who are usually inconspicuous in the class are now amazing, but the characters who were so silly in the past have disappeared. . Perhaps youth is an illusion. It is like a pile of carbon. If it is good, it will be a diamond, or maybe it will be graphite.

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