After the details were omitted, the film unfolded in front of my eyes like this: After
reading the book, the killer "Ghost Dog" who taught himself Bushido annihilated the target, picked up the book of the witness girl and went home to read it. He killed again, and it happened that she was sitting next to the victim watching cartoons, so he told the killer to return the book to her.
On a sunny afternoon, when the ghost dog was eating ice in the park, the little black girl sitting with him shared various science fiction and pornographic novels that were not suitable for children. Feeling that New York women have a strange reading taste, the killer lent her the Bushido training guide.
The old Italian gangster once saved the ghost dog's life by chance, and since then the ghost dog has been doing things like a teacher, listening to his drive to assassinate everywhere. But the opponent came to the door and asked the master to hand over the ghost dog to die, and the master betrayed him in a hurry. So the ghost dog went all the way to kill, leaving only the master's life.
Ghost Dog can't talk on the phone, so he only communicates with Master Fei Ge Chuan. The old neighbors were building boats on the roof. Although they could not transport them to the ground, they still worked hard every day to repair them. Immigrant blacks thought it was too difficult to learn English, so they could only speak French.
Everyone has their own unspeakable stubbornness that only they understand. The characters all love reading, probably because humans have no common language at all, so they have to read quietly.
Cartoonized killing, idealistic bushido teaching, collaged into a brand-new chivalrous poem. The introspection of the Doomsday Warrior is actually shown by the camera looking at the black dog in the dark alley, which is unexpectedly sharp and direct. In the soul-stirring black music, the protagonist goes his own way, fulfilling the persistence and tragicness of his beliefs.
For the outline of this story, probably all download sites can be found. However, the "Lone Killer" type of films has always been my favorite, and it should be related to my own psychological experience of fantasizing about being exceptional and skilled in my teenage years. Note that most of the "lone killers" are at the junction of good and evil. Maverick, whereabouts uncertain.
Chapters of the Japanese Bushido writings are quoted in large paragraphs and frequently, and Guigo's principles of thought and conduct are derived directly from the teachings of Bushido. In addition, Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "Rashomon" is a book that he and several people in the play love to read (the words of the first-person event narrator in the book are still the most convincing of the ghost dog). My beloved director, Jim Jarmusch, was clearly inspired by the spirit of Bushido and set out to recreate the ancient "Bushido" ideal that was thought to no longer exist in its form today.
Cartoons, there are more than a dozen scenes where people in the play are watching cartoons, and the viewers are still gang bosses - do you think that all TV shows are "cartoonized" for prostitution and thievery? And this cartoon is also full of violent tendencies. Or did cartoons help to shape the virtuality of the film?
A gangster woman, like Quentin Tarantino's Uma Thurman character in "Dangerous People," also has an elusive opacity. Is this a role framework to harmonize male unity? Or related to that woman in Rashomon.
Obvious violence and cult of guns.
Jim Jarmusch has carried out a one-sided grafting of the Japanese "Bushido" spirit for the "Lone Killer" story that people like to read for a long time. The difference is that the killer is black, with a very unique character shape and a convincing killer image, which is different from the French Luc Besson's "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" is similar: the killer establishes a friendly relationship with the little girl; the hired killer is killed by a lone killer due to injustice; the killer's outstanding personality; the killer's Death, the girl will inherit his heroic spirit...
Ghost dog killer, youth is no longer, stubbornness is still there. Jim Jarmusch stubbornly unfolds his luxurious and brilliant childhood fantasies.
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