Incapable of love
is not Less film critics think that "Crime of Thirst" is the male version of "Confession", but in fact the story of "Crime of Thirst" is more complicated and detailed. Director Nakajima thinks that the violent personality of the hero Fujishima is attractive, but in fact, at the end, you will find that the attraction is not only violence, but the pain of "incompetence in love" under the violent personality.
The former criminal policeman Fujishima and his daughter Kanako have been living apart for a long time. Because of Kanako's disappearance, Fujishima traces Kanako's past life: her grades in school are not high, but she is very popular among her peers. The more Fujishima investigates, the more he discovers the unknown side of Kanako: the face of an angel, the heart of a devil, taking advantage of other people's psychology and weaknesses, Kanako is best at using sweet words to make the people around him fall into hell one by one. Fujishima Yu originally only wanted to know the whereabouts of his daughter, but later found that Kanako had done all the bad things, and decided to find her and kill her.
Of course, Fujishima himself only knows how to express himself with violence. Killing Kanako can actually be understood as a kind of goodwill towards her. Said it was kindness but not love, because in the face of his daughter, Fujishima found that he didn't understand love at all. Especially when Fujishima cried bitterly at the thought of Kanako in the car and let go of the violence, he actually knew that he had absolutely no ability to love. Without the ability to love, there is also no ability to hate, so in the end Fujishima can't do anything.
Adaptations are more attractive
to Director Nakajima. The works have always been adapted from novels, and rarely have their own original stories. He said, "There are already many excellent stories on the market. Rather than creating from scratch, I prefer to shoot some stories that appeal to me." From the first feature film "The Story of My Wife" to the current "Crime of Thirst", it can be seen that Nakajima has always been smooth The rhythm is refreshing, but the theme of the story and the proposition of the discussion are different. Nakajima pointed out that he is afraid of repeating similar subjects: "Whenever someone asks me if I will make another work similar to "The Story of My Wife," I will firmly say no."
"Thirsty" received a great response when it was released in Japan, and the reviews went to extremes, which was completely different from the unanimous praise of the previous work "Confession". Director Nakajima doesn't seem to mind: "To complete a film, half of it comes from the director, and the other half belongs to the audience. It doesn't matter whether people like it or hate it, the important thing is that the audience needs to think about the human nature and feel the love that is close at hand. And hate, that's already good." The most interesting character in a
balanced desire
movie is Kanako. Apart from her split personality, her "existence" has always been in the memories of others because of her disappearance. Understandably, Kanako is a symbol, a symbol of desire. Isn't the desire to be right the one thing that makes people taste the sweetness at the beginning, and then need to pay a lot to pay the bill? The people around Kanako go through the same thing over and over again. Although the original book will describe the characters who fall into desire, as if falling into hell, but Director Nakajima said that desire is something that everyone has, and it cannot be denied or erased, and only a balance can be found.
The soundtrack of
"Crime of Thirst" is very attractive, especially the large number of fighting scenes, which highlight the aesthetics of violence against the background of music. Motion pictures with static music are reminiscent of the classic movie The Godfather. However, director Nakajima was surprised by this statement: "I never thought that Thirst would be related to The Godfather, but because of the fast change of scenes in Thirst, pop songs will be played when the young characters appear, and Fujishima will appear. Sometimes nostalgic songs are played, and attention should be paid to how to unify the musical style.”
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