Kitano Takeshi
If you like watching Japanese movies, then you must have heard this name. He has always played a murderer, a gangster, a criminal, and a swordsman on the movie screen. People have deeply imprinted on the image of Kitano Takeshi: violent, bloody, ruthless, full of ill -will, that expressionless face, but It seems to always make people fall back subconsciously.
However, if you think about him after watching "Kiujiro's Summer", you will come to your mind: naughty, childish, fun, rogue, hooligan , and finally, it seems that you can taste some ironic tastes. I drank all these, and what came to my heart was the warmth and warmth that lasted a whole summer .
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"Kiujiro's Summer", which is full of crime and murder directed by Takeshi Kitano before, shows the dark and cruel style of human nature. It seems to be reborn and presents us another Takeshi Kitano.
The character in the play is a dumb little boy, Zhengnan. His father died very early, and his mother ran away from home when he was not yet sensible. Such a childhood made him destined to be unable to have the same cheerful and lively smile as those ordinary children. He always looks preoccupied, and at a young age, it seems that there is nothing in life worthy of his happiness.
But when he saw that his friend was able to go out for a family outing happily, the first thought came to him: I want to find my mother.
The boy's experience seems to reflect Kitano Takeshi himself. He has witnessed domestic violence since he was a child. He has an extremely jerk father. He always beats and kicks his mother when he comes home drunk in the middle of the night. At that time, Kitano Takeshi could only stay in the corner of the next room, and his body trembled with a scolding coming from the next door.
This kind of experience has allowed Kitano Takeshi to more deeply construct the role of a child in an unfortunate family. The dull eyes and the sad face that does not belong to the child's expression are also his childhood self.
Another character in the movie, Kikujiro, is an incompetent man who has nothing and accomplishes nothing at the age of thirty. The name Kijiro is the same name as Kitano's father, Kitano Kijiro. In reality, his father is arrogant and unreasonable at home. He doesn't dare to say a word when he meets a big brother who is stronger than himself. However, he always beats Kitano's mother. with violence.
However, Kijiro in the movie does not seem to completely reflect Kitano Takeshi's father in childhood. On the contrary, we can often see in the movie that Kijiro faced the humble but determined boy who wanted to find his mother. The boy, always at the last moment when his anger erupted, seemed to be touched by something, finally sighed and continued to lead him on the road.
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In the second half of the film, I saw that Zheng Nan's mother already had her own life and family, with a happy face, as if she had forgotten that she had an abandoned son. This segment in the film is the essence of creating two characters, Kijiro and Masao. Kikujiro, who always gives the impression of being arrogant and rogue, at this moment, the audience subconsciously thinks that he will tear up the beauty and happiness just like before, with disobedience and anger, with a positive man, as if this is in line with our mood, To relieve the hatred in the heart.
However, Kikujiro just said to the child
"It must be a mistake, your mother has long since moved."
Then leave with the child. We believe that at that moment, in addition to our heartache, we also suddenly felt the first pity for this Kikujiro who was always like a big urchin.
The reason why Kikujiro didn't go into a fight with Masao's mother was because he was abandoned by his mother like this little boy, missed his mother, tried to find his mother, and the same Yes, the loss after seeing that my mother already had a life of her own. He understands that what Zheng Nan needs now is not someone to stand up for him and teach that indifferent and irresponsible mother well, that is not what he wants to see.
I think in Kijiro's childhood, he also faced the fact that he had been abandoned by his mother. For so many years, he had to accept this kind of life. He had hoped that someone would tell him that that was not his mother, so that he could have a hope instead of passively accepting this cruel reality.
So he took Masao and left quickly and said to him, "It must be a mistake, your mother has already moved away." From this moment, Kijiro was no longer the lazy, incompetent and arrogant person in the eyes of the audience.
For Masao who had the same experience as him, Kijiro chose to construct a lie for him, and it was also the kindness in his heart that made him choose to let Masao still have hope in his heart, instead of understanding the reality like himself.
After that, the various games, jokes, and stories that Kikujiro made for Masao were just to make this little boy temporarily forget the pain in his scarred life. And this is also what he once expected after being injured.
In the movie, after witnessing this, Kijiro went to a nursing home that he already knew for the first time in a free afternoon to visit a mother who might not even know him.
When looking at the woman with dementia through the glass, the emotions that Kijiro has had in his heart these years, doubts, sadness, anger, grief, self-blame, puzzled, complaining, inferiority, hatred, pity, pain, self-deprecation, relief , countless The emotions accumulated in his heart, at this moment, seemed to have all dissipated. At that moment, he seemed to be back when he was a child, like a man, with a lot of worries.
Afterwards, Kijiro and Masao, and the motorcycle racers, ronin, and perverts they met on the road , just such a group of strange people, accompany Masao, over and over again, playing different games until the end of the summer .
We didn't know until the last moment that the Kikujiro in the movie's title was actually the name of the uncle.
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Seeing this, what exactly is acting in this "Summer of Kijiro", which is completely different from the previous film reviews of Takeshi Kitano?
In the summer of Kijiro, everyone I met, there were perverts who liked underwear, gangsters with yellow hair and sequined clothes, and motorcyclists riding motorcycles. All these people, they did not seem to be kind people. And Kikujiro is a complete rogue.
However, Takeshi Kitano uses such a film to tell us that even such people will have a tender place in their hearts, they will repeat those funny actions for the sake of a child's dream, and they are willing to let go of their dignity and face, but just be an octopus or alien that makes him happy.
And Kikujiro, no matter how much we see his bad habits, he is actually the gentlest person in the whole drama. The ruffians and bad habits in him were actually all brought to him by the people around him when he was growing up. However, it is such a person who has grown up suffering, but is willing to take a child and spend a whole happy summer with him.
"When you have witnessed the cruelty in this world, you can still make gentle choices. This is true kindness."
This sentence seems to be talking about Kijiro himself.
He was also talking about Takeshi Kitano himself.
In this film, Kitano Takeshi once said that he made forgiveness for his childhood misfortune, just like the relief after Kijiro finally visited his mother for the first time. Making this movie is also Kitano Takeshi's reconciliation for his childhood misfortune.
"The lucky people are healed by childhood all their lives. The unfortunate people are healed by childhood all their lives."
I think Kikujiro must have been thinking about that child when he came home with a smile at the end of the summer.
"I hope this summer can be a childhood that can heal him."
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