Takeshi Kitano rarely has such a fresh movie. After watching it, I felt that the tears were worth it. I didn't feel cheated. Unlike some movies, which can only be temporarily moved by audiovisual. Notice how the loneliness of the boy Masao is shown at the beginning of the film, so slow motion, with brisk music, a boy running on the city streets... Then, the various bad behavior of Kitano Takeshi's Kijiro and How his implicit kindness is manifested. Kitano used a lot of details to depict such a character from the front and side. While the character of Kijiro has become flesh and blood, the performances of the various people who have contact with them are grotesque, some are normal, and some even look touching, especially the last two kind-hearted riders and one traveling around the country. The poor writers, they sit up and play for a child, and finally, in the starry sky, their images appear in the child's mind, they are all so cute. I think it's a dialectic of what's missing and what's perfect. In Kitano's films, there are no perfect people, no morally perfect heroes or absolute innocence (which is clearly different from Hollywood movies), but there are people who are missing. Together they become a fairy tale.
At the end of the film, Masao asked the name of "Mr." for the first time, and he said, "Kijiro, fuck, get out!" Then Masao ran away with a schoolbag with angel wings and disappeared into the city. It's been a really nice summer...
kudos to Takeshi Kitano.
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