Compared with films such as "Kiujiro's Summer", "Fireworks", and "That Summer, the Peaceful Sea", "Doll" is really not Kitano Takeshi's superior work, and the story progresses quite depressingly and slowly, which leads to many People have a feeling that they can't stand it.
With red ropes tied around their waists, they walked through the blooming cherry blossoms, through the summer forest, through the red-leafed forest, through the winter snow, the picture was as beautiful as stillness. Nature has great beauty without words. Feelings are so deep that there are no words.
In fact, the story would have been better if their past had been described better, or the final outburst had been more intense. So compared to this main line, the other two branch lines are more intense and desperate.
One is a gangster and a woman in red who has been waiting for him for decades. "Every Saturday, I will prepare lunch and wait for you here." Over the years, the boss has never gone back to see it. There is a person who has been waiting for him. What kind of feeling he felt when he saw her at the moment, this kind of beauty and emotion cannot be described in words. He never told him that he was the boyfriend she had been waiting for. Just, start a new beautiful. She said, I am not waiting for him, because I am waiting for you. He smiled and put the scarf around her neck, and she smiled too, as beautiful as poetry. But... in the end, he couldn't escape the arrangement of fate, or the claws of the tour guide. He died and was shot, just like the position he once exchanged for blood, it was some kind of fate, pay the debt... Seeing his bodyguard was amazed With his eyes, he saw the murderer follow him all the way and took out the gun from his arms, and saw that he turned his head to see the murderer, but he couldn't avoid it, couldn't escape, everything was so natural, like a leaf falling. This is how life ends.
The director didn't film how the boss fell and how he struggled, only a leaf fell, only she was still waiting, surrounded by her scarf, only the people who needed him guessed that he might not be at home. What are these? Just a life gone. It seems sudden, but in fact, the director has already planted a lot of seeds, many possibilities, life is fragile, and the sudden passing away may have long been written early in the movement of destiny. There is no eternity, no beginning and end, the next moment may be the end.
Another story comes even more desperate and crazy. A fan's almost insane love for a singer. The singer was disfigured in a car accident and refused to see anyone until the ordinary little traffic policeman blinded himself with a utility knife in order to see her. Because he has kept the most beautiful her in his heart, his eyes are useless. She took him to see the roses, or to feel the roses. It was so fragrant. They were silent to each other. Two people who were once far apart were so close at this moment, thinking that everything could be a good beginning, but it turned out to be a good end. He died, there is no specific description of how he died, but the scene of washing the blood stains is repeatedly depicted. The blood is as red as a rose, and it will be wiped clean in the end. People are just passers-by in this world, coming and going in a hurry.
In the end, the heroine finally remembered the hero, she took out the necklace he gave her, laughed first, then cried, he hugged her tightly and never parted again. Even in the end, they were hung from the branches in the mountains, and the red rope around their waists was hung from the treetops, and the red rope was holding them at both ends. Maybe this is the case.
The picture is as beautiful as ever, the story seems hopeless, but it makes people feel a little bit of warmth, after all, it has been there, after all, it died at the most beautiful moment, the beauty stops here, the ultimate beauty, the ultimate love, the ultimate despair and hope .
I like his lens language, there are many long shots, the protagonist walks from one side of the picture to the other side, and then disappears into the picture, there is an unresolved sadness that permeates the whole picture, making people unable to breathe.
I liked that doll scene very much. The gorgeous costumes seemed to be a very beautiful picture, but the old man's deep singing voice filled with a strange atmosphere. I used to be very afraid of puppets, because they are invisible. What we are afraid of is also its heart. We are not sure whether it really has no heart or feelings. What we see is its eternally single expression, neither happiness nor sadness, which is the deepest despair.
Takeshi Kitano's films are full of violence, despair and beauty.
He gave people the best memories, hidden feelings, and conveyed them with an infinitely suppressed picture. Just like a butterfly, it has been gorgeous, but it also passes quickly, staying in the most beautiful second, forever fixed.
2012.5.18 Wuhan 1 am
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