Just in this scene on the picture, Takeshi Kitano captured the national pride of the Japanese in the face of white people in Europe and America.
Although it is violent, the audience must understand that the main premise of this film is a pure gangster film, a pure gangster world, there is no other dimension, only Jianghu logic. Under this logic, whoever has the backbone and kindness will have deterrence and respect.
And the film does not blindly brag about the Japanese, on the contrary, he shows the cruel and unreasonable side of Japanese culture, as well as the dark side of Japanese society. And at a critical moment, he let his brother be a deserter, but let a black man (Danny) accompany him to the end in danger. Although the black people went to the Mafia with him to settle accounts with him to a large extent because their family members were killed, at least the black people knew they would die there and wanted to avenge their family members. This is also a kind of "righteousness" of Jianghu logic. It shows that he has not forgotten to praise others when showing himself.
Takeshi Kitano also showed the ruthless ferocity and sturdyness in the bones of the Japanese, which is terrifying enough to give people a shock. And he managed to show the righteousness of the Japanese through the role he starred in. I believe that when this film is released in Europe and the United States, it must have brought the same feeling to Europeans and Americans: it is both terrible and respectable. Takeshi Kitano also grasped the universality of a person when he showed his national characteristics.
This kind of film is many times better than some films that have been bullied, huddled humbly in bitter scenes, and finally resigned to "convincing people with virtue".
(I have limited opinions, and it involves ethnic issues, and I criticized my own film on matters involving Japanese people. I don’t know if I will be scolded if I see it. Of course I don’t want to brag about Japan. Just based on my own experience in the film What we saw in the film, to discover the excellent place of this film, and think that it is worth learning from our film at the level of film technique and art, that's all.)
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