From beginning to end, I was suppressed by Kitano Takeshi's deliberately cold atmosphere, like a man who was about to drown, unable to lift his head and stretched out of the water to take a breath of free air, just struggling to see the sky light on the water. This depression comes from the desperate life of Yamada, the protagonist of the film. As a retired police officer, his child died unexpectedly and his wife suffered from a terminal illness. In order to treat his wife's illness, he had spent all his savings and owed loan sharks. His partner was injured and paralyzed during an operation, and his wife and daughter left. In order to help his companion who could not get rid of his loneliness, Yamada bought him drawing tools, hoping that he could rediscover the joy of life. To pay off the loan sharks and give his wife a good deathbed, Yamada robs the bank and eventually kills the loan shark gangster. At the seaside, facing the police detective who came after him, he ended his life and his wife's life with a pistol, and got rid of the entanglement of helpless fate...
This is a desperate movie, I don't like this kind of movie, it can't give it at all People hope, only a deep sense of loss. But perhaps it is this morbid beauty that strikes me. There are times when I have some expectations in my heart, that is, there may be a turning point in Yamada's life. For example, his companion finally picked up a paintbrush to paint a warm picture of family reunion in his heart, or he robbed a bank and escaped smoothly. This made a kind of joy rise in my heart. Just like the famous slogan of New Oriental: "Look for hope in despair." However, his companion finally painted a picture called "Suicide". The red paint was splashed on the canvas like blood, and the meaning is self-evident. . Yamada and his wife also chose eternal relief after a brief period of happiness.
I remember in the film a police colleague who knew Yamada muttered to himself: "I don't want to live like his life." Indeed, Yamada's life was bleak and dark, but it was in this despair We saw a resolute man, his body was iron, his heart was firm, but he inadvertently showed the tenderness of the iron man. He sent expensive painting materials in time for his short-sighted companions, and robbed the bank for his wife who was running out of time, ruining his old age. Yamada is silent most of the time in the film. I admire this kind of man. I get bored when I see such a eloquent person, because flashy people can't do anything after all. In the face of the provocation of others, Yamada spoke with his fists without a word, blood splashed in front of the camera, and the ruthlessness and cruelty made the audience feel extremely happy-punishing evil and promoting good is to be so clean and neat. In the snow, he finally broke out and shot all the gangsters who were entangled in it. A bright red bloomed in the white snow. Takeshi Kitano's violent aesthetics are brought to the extreme here, making them pleasing to the eye.
As a man, there is always a lingering heroic plot in my heart. Yamada, who wears sunglasses and has an expressionless face, has undoubtedly become a model of a hero in my eyes, quite a bit like Chow Yun-fat's pony. Although "Hanawa" is not a heroic movie, the temperament of Yamada's tragic hero burns to the apex. I once saw a friend's QQ signature: "If you want to live beautifully, you need a lot of patience. If you don't complain, don't explain, you are absolutely talented." I think this sentence is really appropriate for Yamada. He who never complained or explained, faced the hardships of life coldly, and never bowed his head even in the face of the end. Kitano Takeshi was paralyzed on half of his face due to a car accident, so the right side of his face could not express any expression. This flaw gives him a mysterious and melancholy temperament in this film, which adds a lot to the film.
What amazes me is that in this film soaked in blackness and bleakness, there are still a few touches of joy. On the night when Yamada and his wife were driving, they lit a firework but did not burn for a long time. When Yamada looked around, the firework suddenly shot up into the sky and scared him to the ground; he grilled a small fish and said it was Italian barbecue to make his wife happy; The beach held the kite for the little girl, but Yamada forgot to let go when she started, and the kite's wings broke. These scenes made people laugh out loud, but after laughing, they felt even more sad in their hearts. Takeshi Kitano is not only a master of violent aesthetics, but also a master of sensationalism. He writes mourning with joyous scenes, and this desolation is even more bone-three.
At the end of the film, Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack came to an abrupt end after two dull gunshots, and there were only waves of lonely waves echoing in my ears, and what lingered in my heart was a sense of heaviness. Why is life so desolate? I have the helplessness to cry without tears, but we should not cry. Someone once said: "Why do you cry for part of your life, don't you see that the whole life is full of tears." In the endless years of life, we have to become a man like Yamada, who will smile coldly in the face of hardship, this is the real hero .
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