Like many Japanese cartoons I saw when I was a child, Kitano's movie is humorous, witty, and has Kitano's bitterness and warmth. More than once, Kitano stood alone and blankly in the camera, as if looking at you with no expression on his face. Faced with life, he likes that.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether Kikujiro is a little boy or Takeshi Kitano. In the end, Kitano still looked at the back of Zheng Nan trotting all the way in that lonely and blank posture, but no one could understand this man's heart. At that moment, did Kikujiro see himself in the back of the little boy Masao? I saw my childhood. I saw my own growth. I saw all kinds of indifference and loneliness received by the same eager life in this world.
Fat guy, bald guy, Mr. Nice Guy, Kikujiro, four stubborn men who are strange to ordinary people accompany Masao to camp in the countryside, Kitano's cold wit and humor are enjoyed in the various games of the four men and the little boy show. I almost laughed. After laughing, it's even more sad. Don't you think that these four men and one child are all life abandoned by this society?
For us who are accustomed to the unchanging life, traveling, thinking about it is a kind of romance. However, the road ahead is long, full of unknowns, full of bumps, and full of adventures. Full of expectations and full of disappointment. Full of joy, but also full of bitterness. Travel is to seek, to escape, to run away, and it also means to be out of the original life. If you feel lonely, then the most suitable state for you is to travel.
Kitano is sometimes desperate. He longed to see a shred of vitality in life. At that time, the little boy Zhengnan looked up at the starry sky in the summer night, saw the Milky Way, and saw the Big Dipper. The twinkling starry sky in the summer night is a vast, magical and beautiful face. It's like facing the unknown life of each of us. Full of amazement, full of anticipation. But he can only do nothing and let his fate dictate. We don't want to live up to the beautiful summer night starry sky, and we don't want to live up to our own fleeting lives. Therefore, there will be all kinds of struggles and efforts in life. In this way, looking back, because of the traces of various struggles and efforts, beautiful, therefore more beautiful, vast, therefore more vast. Our life itself, will become the world's greatest magic and extraordinary.
And what is summer? Summer is like the most energetic stage of life. Summer is like the vast starry sky in summer night. Just like we face our life itself. Full of unknowns and uncertainties. Although Zheng Nan was a little boy, he still felt the sensitivity of life itself. He didn't want to live up to his summer. Once summer is likened to our own life, who will live up to that summer in our life?
I like that brisk piano, vaguely mixed with crisp ringtones. That summer, there was plenty of sunshine and the dark green color I liked. The little boy is trotting all the way. He is carrying an angel schoolbag with a pair of white angel wings on the outside of the schoolbag. In this way, he started his summer vacation, the summer of his life. Find mom. Find love. Find dreams. It's been a summer full of dark green allures and beautiful experiences.
And in the end, mom doesn't belong to me. Love doesn't belong to you either. Kitano saw the loneliness in the child's inner world, and the traces of struggle and hard work. He respects this loneliness. Every life goes through such a stage in its own growth process. Kijiro and the little boy Masao also encountered the inevitable loneliness in their lives. They were abandoned on the silent long road in the countryside. Growth is ultimately just a matter of one's own. There is no external force that can control us, and there is no external force that can help us.
I like this kind of life breaking down on a silent long road. I think this is the most exciting and touching scene in the movie. An abandoned bus stop. doesn't work. Without anyone's assistance. It's not that there are no passing vehicles, but no one is willing to take them for a ride. Still doesn't work. Kitano made life not only lonely, but also cold. In this summer with plenty of sunshine, there are lush and vibrant dark green plants around, but in such vitality, people repeatedly touch despair. A man and a child, so blind and desperate. alone. Lonely after still lonely.
Kijiro didn't know how to comfort the little boy Masao. Because he himself suffered the same loneliness. As a man, he also faced that summer in his life. One life and another life, at this time, are like one tree and another tree in the field, no matter the sun and rain, they are only enduring alone. No one can walk into someone's lonely heart, and no one can change someone's lonely destiny. At this time, the travel brought, turned out to be boundless melancholy.
At this time, the movie is not only a movie about childhood, but also a movie about growing up, a movie about summer.
Kitano likes to express the imagery of fireworks. The moment when the fireworks burst out, is beautiful and gorgeous. And the fireworks are gone, the lonely is more lonely, the lonely is more lonely. All that remains on the ground are the remains of fireworks confetti. Kitano likes to express the appearance of the sea. I like to face the lonely individual facing the blue, boundless ocean or starry sky, and the boundless deep summer green. The size of the latter further highlights the loneliness of the former and the frailty of life.
But Kitano still has hope. Life is endless, struggle and effort are endless. Hope for life is like that angel's bell, still flying in Zhengnan's dream. If it is hidden, if it is there or not. Like god help. This is the tenacity of life. Growth, although painful, is an inevitable process. The ending of growth is the traces of inner struggles and efforts, and the past.
Love is where love begins, and dreams are when dreams start.
I especially like the feeling of the old and the young walking on the road!
The music for the film was produced by the famous musician Joe Hisaishi himself. Music director Joe Hisaishi produced a "highly transparent" soul music that moved you and me, bringing the warm mood of this film to the highest point.
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