see you again Takeshi Kitano

Lexie 2022-03-23 09:02:52

At the 1997 Venice Film Festival Awards Ceremony, Takeshi Kitano won the Golden Lion with "Fireworks", and his acceptance speech was "Look, half of my face is smiling!"
Well, objectively speaking, the car accident in 1994 Caused the facial paralysis of Kitano Takeshi's left face; but from an artistic point of view, this is his humorous style, the position of crying and laughing, and the situation where people feel that water and fire are incompatible has created a strange beauty of imperfection.
Know the title of the film: Hana, which means life in Japanese, and Bi, which means death. The same big problem in life, when he appeared again as Takeshi Kitano, gave everyone the opportunity to enjoy the violence and seize the warmth. Although it was cold rice and then fried, it made me feel like my heart was blocked and suddenly let go!
"Fireworks" is full of warmth under the background of violence. The director designed the protagonists who seemed to be supporting roles as usual. I think of "The Doll" (unfortunately I haven't been able to watch it so far), this violence that claims to have never been robbed in the whole play. And Fireworks is much purer.
Xi took the line of hard-line criminal police, but still became extreme under a series of blows and finally went to a dead end (in fact, if you want to come, is it really a dead end). According to netizens: This film depicts the pain and beauty of life, the ease and difficulty of death, and the back-and-forth relationship between life and death. Under the director's camera, the simple and bright gunshots and the aesthetic spraying of blood make you question the fragility of the Japanese underworld again and again, and how easily the Japanese police station was fooled. . . . . .
At the beginning of the release of the domestic "blockbuster" "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", the propagandists have already begun to carry out carpet-style publicity, and the media has expanded every detail of the film infinitely. I'm impressed with the so-called "drama paper" that many of the big names get. In "Fireworks", the actors' language dialogue is extremely stingy, perhaps it is the subtle influence of Kitano Takeshi's machismo. The film always presents a quiet atmosphere, and the heroine's lines are only the repeated "Thank you! "(But I also admire Kishimoto's acting skills) In fact, the final choice of death for the husband and wife was foreshadowed when the two started to travel, but I was very slow. When Joe Hisaishi's 7min-long "thank you,...for everything" sounded at the end of the film until the end of the film, the camera panned to the sea, and at the climax of the music, two gunshots suddenly sounded, one before the other. Afterwards, it was hearty, and in the rolling waves, a heavy stroke came to the end. After the laws of the world, and their luxury and complexity, there is eternal silence. In connection with this, we have also expressed Lu Xun's hope: Hope is irrelevant. This is just like the road on the earth, when many people walk, it also becomes a road. The West couple embarked on a road of no return, although at first I thought it was just a "trip to the snow country" between a very lonely and sad husband, and a stubbornly ill wife who knew everything and seemed so calm on the surface! Before leaving, Xi took off the cigarette in his wife's hand, and the tenderness of the man was fully highlighted, but she still smiled.
Discuss hope with them? Their child died a few years ago.
In addition, the paintings that appear in the film are also very symbolic of Takeshi Kitano. The angel at the beginning of the film also appears in his future "Summer of Kijiro".
Another character in the play, Xi's colleague Tubu, was abandoned by his family after being injured and lives alone by the sea. Said that he and his colleagues were responsible for the injury, while other pressures existed, he calmly robbed the bank with the dignity of a man, and bought painting tools for the local area who had told himself that he had a dream of painting.


Therefore, when we step into the film plot step by step, the director seems to clumsily cut into a series of plants and paintings, which does make the film slow and lengthy. However, this is the unique lyrical method of Bei's films, not without the artistic conception other than the fact that he is a male student of science.
In the world of men, the most lyrical elements are flowers, um, fireworks and the sea. As the title of this film, it takes two. In the music of his partner Joe Hisaishi, I felt everything that happened in front of me, like an old man reminiscing about the past at the seaside. The ups and downs of the music were like waves washing the reefs on the shore, but my heart was desolate in this life. . . . . .
The West couple sat quietly by the seaside, and suddenly the wife said "Thank you for everything" (according to Joe's background melody at this time), and their hearts trembled. What a precious sentence! According to my own understanding, their hopes are displayed in those paintings, or the strings in the hands of the girls flying the kite in front of them - the string of the kite is broken, and nothing can be recovered!
So I suddenly woke up, Kitano Takeshi intends to raise death to the realm of "die" and "to die", of course, they chose the latter. On the other hand, the police colleagues who were chasing Xi at the same time also understood their "death" and promised to give Xi Na the last time.
The taciturn Takeshi Kitano didn't speak much in the film, but it was because of this silence that he returned to "less wordy" and "the sea of ​​tranquility", which is a reference to "That Summer, the Most Peaceful Sea" Takeshi Kitano waved!
"Real life is a single tree that must pass through the other side of the hometown, and life is a magnificent firework crashing into the night sky." (For the above paragraphs, refer to "Film World" Kitano Takeshi, and other related film reviews)


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Extended Reading

Fireworks quotes

  • Horibe: Work is all I've ever known.

  • Yoshitaka Nishi: Next time, I'll kill you.