Takeshi Kitano, the director's name stands out in bright pink against the dark background. He said it was his most violent film to date. But full of sophistication and brilliance. The more so, the more embarrassing it is. The most beautiful things are either charming or cruel.
The film begins with a nearly five-minute long traditional bunraku (Japanese puppet art that combines singing and line recitation). Then the main plot unfolds. The fate of the hero and heroine has been manipulated just like the previous two dolls. The man escaped from the marriage of profit conspiracy, found his girlfriend who had lost his memory, and started a wandering life. They go on and on, from spring to midsummer, from cold autumn to cold winter. The cherry blossoms in the sky turned into dense green fields, and the boundless snow field behind the bright red maple leaves, they kept walking like this. The girl has no memory and no words. The man finally gave up after several attempts. They were always silent and couldn't get out of each other's hearts. The red ropes around their waists tied each other, like a fate that was destined to be inescapable.
The director interspersed the stories of two other branch lines under the plot of the main line. When the underworld leader was old, he remembered the woman beside him when he was not yet in the limelight. She prepared lunch for him every day and waited for him to share it in the park. He owes her a promise. The woods of those days have been completely rejuvenated. The girl of the year is also no longer in beauty. But he was still wearing a red shirt and waiting with two bentos in his hands. He didn't tell her that he was the teenager who left. And decades later, after eating a familiar meal again, he was shot by his enemy.
An ordinary-looking man is madly infatuated with a popular girl idol. That delicate face like white porcelain and a crisp and sweet singing voice. The car accident faded the aura of a girl star, and the left side of her beautiful face has never been shown. But men are hopelessly obsessed. He took one last look at the impeccable photo in the girl's photobook, and stabbed himself in the eye with a sharp knife. Just to make her feel calm when looking for her, without worrying about her ruined face being seen by fans. She was deeply moved and had the first smile since the car accident. They went to the field where the roses were in full bloom, and large clusters of red roses were in full bloom, and they smelled the strong fragrance of flowers. Then the man died on his way back at night.
The characters in the main film are overwhelmed by fate. Happy times in a lifetime are so short and fleeting. Then came the piercing pain. The greatest joy they had ever hoped for in their lives was followed by the cruelest fate. Like fireworks in full bloom, followed by a heavier and boundless darkness. When the heroine finally recalled the past scene on the cold winter night, both of them fell off the cliff. The red rope around his waist pulled and pulled until he died. This is the most cruel scene, and also the most poignant scene. In the early morning, the golden sunlight appeared among the clouds, and the two of them died on the dead branches of the mountains.
I finally realized what the director said was true. There is no mirror image of violence, but it is full of heavy and cruel. When the wheels run over the paper butterfly with folded wings, when the pink ball under the bright moon jumps up and down with the rhythm of the girl blowing, when the utility knife is lifted and blood drips on the beautiful photo of the girl in the photo album , when the bloodstains left on the streets in the early morning were washed away, when the red leaves all over the sky blew down, when the whole story solidified on that dead branch, the men and women fishing and then jumped out of the dolls at the beginning of the film and the two characters at the end of the play. When you feel a silent and huge darkness, every detail is shrouded in that helpless sense of fate.
It can be said that this is a very Japanese film. The picture is exquisite, and the beauty of sadness can be seen everywhere. Worth mentioning is the soundtrack and costumes. The musician Hisaishi, who has collaborated with Hayao Miyazaki and Takeshi Kitano several times, uses the crispness of the piano as the background in many places in the soundtrack, making people always feel that life is fragile. The costumes designed by Yohji Yamamoto, a celebrity in the clothing industry, for the movie are even more gorgeous and bright.
Yi Shu said that there is no plan in life, because there is one thing called destiny.
When everything is controlled by fate, from the beginning, no matter where you go, you are already doomed. Suddenly, there was a strong sense of desolation again.
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