Gorgeous and grotesque wife-killing march

Newell 2022-04-11 09:01:08

"Wife Killing" is a classic of advertising elite cooperation. Screenwriter Takuya Taku is the leading advertising planner in Japan. He has handled dozens of advertisements in the past few years. The awards he has won in advertising include TCC Award, ADC Award, ACC Award, New York Film Festival Gold Award/Silver Award, and also won The youngest ad producer ever. Director Guankou has also been active in the advertising industry. He directed the advertisement "Running Girl" for WOWOW Company, which has won numerous awards in China and a silver award at the Cannes International Advertising Awards. Now the director's advertisements have always enjoyed high popularity.
At the beginning of the film, Tadanobu Asano is killing and destroying traces, dragging the body of his wife Reika Hashimoto to the depths of the forest for burial, burying it, smoking, driving, and going home. He found that his wife was still sitting at home waiting for him.
The scenes in the film are particularly fascinating to me. Every interior scene is gorgeous, colorful, and full of grotesque imaginations: for example, Asano's home, as soon as the door opens, it seems to enter a different space, the exaggerated murals on the walls, the strong tones in the bedroom, and the sumptuous meals on the kitchen table. Points are a feast of color. Another example is the advertisement design of the room where Koizumi and the magician Hiroshi Abe have sex. The mural is an element of the forest rabbit, which is so gorgeous that it cannot be added. Even Mr. Kobayashi, who turned into a bird in the end, has a brightly colored oil painting in his home. The interior of the car of the thief trio, and the fixed color costumes when the three appeared on the scene are all tributes to the colors. It can be said that the whole play is any sway of the palette, which makes the eyes of the color blind light up, and lays a reasonable scene for the grotesqueness of the plot.
Every shot of Asano takes the killing of his wife as a small pause. Every time he kills his wife, the wife can be resurrected, change into a different dress, and even become stronger, and come to take revenge: the wife after being dismembered can use her arm as her arm after resurrection. Weapons to fire; the wife who was burned to death by fire can spit out flames after being resurrected, and the husband who has repeatedly failed to kill his wife has to go to the killer duo to relieve his troubles.
Until Christmas came, his wife and Asano reconciled after hiding in Christmas stockings. This time, the husband discovered his love for his wife, but unfortunately the killer duo came to the door again and killed his wife again. The wife knelt on the floor of the corridor, her back was full of weapons, watching her husband running towards her, her lips parted lightly, as if saying BYE. After that, really died. The husband was very distressed and guarded his wife's body. After confirming that she could not be resurrected, he ran to the killer's office and committed suicide.
Based on this film, the screenwriter and director are both advertisers, so Kyoko Koizumi, who is engaged in advertising design, is set up in the play, an advertiser who can always inspire advertising whimsy no matter where he is. When inspiration comes, he will His eyes blinked, and he immediately took out the tape recorder to record his thoughts. The movie also followed Koizumi's commercial scene in time.
The screenwriter Takuta Tada is playing Mr. Kobayashi who thinks he is a bird in the play. At the end of the film, he soars in the sky. I wonder if this is his own inner desire?

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    Kazama - Advertising Company President: [He looks shocked] What?

    Kazama - Advertising Company President: The bathroom light is out?