Takeshi Kitano's films will arrange for the protagonist to decline from a strong to an indifference (even inexplicably irrelevant), and then "naturally" to a dead ending (without any fanatical emotions/religions/ideals, only pure The return of "to die" "um"). That's the heart of Bushido: Loyalty and brotherhood just happen to carry them, not the essence. The history of Japan is also like this, from the fall of Bushido (the muskete and technology of the West have nothing to do with people themselves, so they bring about inexplicable failures without real reasons) to the failure of Japan in World War II, and then to cherry blossoms for no reason. wither. Acknowledging this irrationality is the biggest difference between life and death between the East and the West (no good and evil, no heaven and hell, no ideals), which is also in line with samsara and impermanence (the truth of suffering). So the real protagonist of many Japanese movies is not the person on the screen, but the consciousness/alaya consciousness in that reincarnation. Yukio Mishima said in "Kinkakuji" that "beauty is destruction", the destruction here is like the violence in Bushido movies, it is the embodiment of reincarnation. So why is reincarnation beautiful? Because he is purposelessness (Kant's beauty), he is eternity. Christianity believes that man can only obtain eternity through God, but Easterners do not. The Chinese show that "we" (alaya consciousness) has attained eternity in samsara through birth (causal origin) and the Japanese through death (destiny).
Going back to Takeshi Kitano's films, whether it's "Hana" or "Big Brother", there are always two characters that complement each other: those who escaped and those who didn't. Those who escape see through the fate of not escaping, but they cannot escape from themselves. Bai Lai and the boss in "Big Brother", Harada and the boss. I've always believed that every character in any play speaks of one person: here too.
PS: Bai Lai is a very interesting character. The inexplicable decline of Bushido may be because more and more people believe in Bushido. The boss understands this, so he said that you have done a little too much.
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