actually not very suitable for such a topic. Before "Double-faced Takeshi Kitano", Takeshi Kitano has 11 works. The silent "That Summer, The Sea of Tranquility" is warm and brisk. In "Kijiro's Summer", he has not only filmed the extremely beautiful "Doll", but also the "Rhapsody" of the vulgar and the vulgar.
If you have seen and liked all the works of Takeshi Kitano, you will not be surprised by the appearance of "Two Sided Takeshi Kitano", and you will even be delighted. That's right, it's still this middle-aged man with a blinking eyelid. From "Big Brother" to "Doll" to "Zatoichi", his creative style has changed again and again.
"Take Kitano's Eight and a Half Parts" refers more to the director's own trivial reflections on his films. Fortunately, Takeshi Kitano did not fall into the signs of exhaustion of inspiration, nor did he show personal confusion. Even "Double-faced Takeshi Kitano" appeared in the 2005 Venice Film Festival by surprise, and was favored by a group of connoisseurs and reporters, but in the end he achieved nothing. Takeshi Kitano has always been the guest of honor in Venice. To be exact, for the past ten years, Venice has witnessed Takeshi Kitano's maturity step by step, and it has also given Takeshi Kitano too much applause and honor.
2. Self-examination
Acheng said that he admired Takeshi Kitano's courage to analyze his character in "Double-Face Kitano Takeshi", but "Double-Face Kitano Takeshi" appeared in people's sight, and the accompanying evaluation was more unpredictable. It is fine to say that Kitano Takeshi is arrogant or introspective, but this still cannot eliminate the obscurity of the film.
In all honesty, Kitano Takeshi's previous films have never been associated with the word obscure, and at best it has been described as a bit dull. The "double-sided" here does not mean that he is both an actor and a director, capable of expressing beauty and hiding violence, but Takeshi Kitano, who appears as two identities in the film, on the one hand plays the famous director and actor Takeshi Kitano in reality , on the other side is a little person who is trapped in a gray life and yearns for the idol director Takeshi Kitano - "Take Kitano". I don't dare to abuse the word "deconstruction", so "Double-faced Takeshi Kitano" is more like a self-examination of Takeshi Kitano's equal parts.
"Two Sided Takeshi Kitano" is not boring. In the film, there are "Sonata"-style scene reproductions, "Rhapsody"-style black humor, and thumping Kitano-style gunfights, from actors to themes, from bridges Section to content, from moving the mirror to framing. As for the flashback scenes inserted during the development of the story, there is a suspicion of "flashback" outside of familiarity. More precisely - this technique has affected the general viewing habits of many audiences. The fixed shots and moving long shots of the seaside meditation near the end are quite impressive.
3. Everything about Takeshi Kitano
Compared with the tap dance, percussion, and group dance of the previous "Zatoichi", Takeshi Kitano added more music, dance and other elements to the film. Little boy disguised as kabuki, fat man performing manly talent, eccentric black man, absurd dreams, stage, constellation. "Double-sided Takeshi Kitano" is more like a melting pot, in which many elements related to Takeshi Kitano's films are put into one place without careful selection, which is inevitably a little cumbersome.
The noodle shop, mahjong table, and interview room appear alternately several times before and after. As the cashier of the supermarket, "Take Kitano" always appears in these fixed places. This is probably an interesting paragraph in the film, with various characters and humorous dialogues, Weird and strange encounters, the same paragraphs.
It is worth mentioning that the supporting characters who appeared in different images on different occasions and came back to life in the film: Terashima Shin and Osugi Ren, Wannian's followers in Kitano Takeshi's film. Terashima Shin, who has a cruel face, looks funny, and the faithful Osugi Ren plays the manager of Kitano Takeshi in "Double-sided Kitano Takeshi", and the other side is "Kitano Takeshi" Mayu, a Taxi driver. The supporting roles in the film all have different identities, which make the film fall into an inexhaustible tightness and tie them together. Kotomi Kyono plays the girlfriend of Takeshi Kitano, and the interview examiner played by Kishimoto Kishimoto has dual identities in the film; the underworld members who appear in different appearances are Takeshi Kitano's sidekick in the movie, and he is also Takeshi Kitano's friend May, who is also an actor who came to participate in the interview. They are still the boss and apprentice of the villain in the noodle shop. The bizarre and funny in "Double-sided Takeshi Kitano" contains whimsical absurdity. At the end of the film, Takeshi Kitano, who is an idol, and "Take Kitano" in life are already indistinguishable from reality. The tight layered structure makes the story more playful. , but the ending made fun of the audience and made people confused.
4. The possibility of ending
As a small person, "Take Kitano" yearns for the scenery of his idol Takeshi Kitano, and decides to try to become an actor but suffers successive setbacks. After accidentally obtaining a firearm, he embarked on a never-ending road to death - like the protagonist in Takeshi Kitano's film, he destroyed everything with bad intentions and brought a young woman to the beach. Near death he dragged his bruised body into the car - it was all just his imagination. When I returned to the point of my imagination, the cashier "Take Kitano" was thinking about it, and met a gangster who fled in panic - at this time, the film suddenly cut back to the shooting scene, which was a rare performance experience for "Take Kitano".
At this time in the film, there is a scene where two characters meet and overlap, and the identity of "Take Kitano" is suspicious. What is even more staggering is the emptiness behind the 360-degree rotating camera. "Take Kitano" with flowers in his arms returned to a certain position in the previous story. His story was stagnant and did not develop, and "Take Kitano" returned again. A previous starting point (don't question my ability to express myself)..., this Kitano-style carnival made "Kitano Takeshi" sober, and his break-up behavior was bluntly dragged to Kitano Takeshi lying down. Recumbent tattoo scene. This makes the ending of "Two-sided Takeshi Kitano" contain more than two possibilities. You can't tell whether it is Takeshi Kitano's self-splitting or a conscious carnival as "Takeshi Kitano" - this is more like the panic that the director is powerless to end. , the beginning and end of the echoes are therefore messy.
5. Appearance of symbols The
other two important symbols in the film are flowers and clowns. A brightly colored caterpillar appeared on the white petals several times. The flowers were dedicated to the idol Takeshi Kitano, and the flowers also appeared in the hands of "Take Kitano". It's just that he still hasn't forgotten his clown-like identity, no matter how bright a caterpillar is, it's still a caterpillar. Ugly and beautiful, the day of becoming a butterfly is far away. Is the clown sarcasm or purely as a symbol? It's like we can't speculate whether "To Mr Clown" is a well-meaning joke or an unreasonable contempt.
One yearning, two endings.
6. Unknown anxiety
It's a bit of a pity that "Two Sided Takeshi Kitano" lacks the thrill of being in one go, or that this is just the double life that Takeshi Kitano is trying to express. The lives of the two protagonists are inextricably intertwined with each other, revealing a certain anxiety of Kitano Takeshi. It's more like a wind vane that keeps spinning, it doesn't indicate it, but it makes you can't tell the wind direction.
When the protagonist of Takeshi Kitano's films is in trouble, he seeks a home by the sea. No matter how dull and tasteless the film is, and it is described as insane - hearing OFFICE KITANO's Sound Logo, and seeing a silent man in sunglasses watching ball exercises on the beach by the sea, it still does not detract from Kitano's film. favorite.
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