When walking through the park, I suddenly remembered an old movie, "Hanawa" by Takeshi Kitano.
(1) The strange thing about Hua Zhongsheng
is that, looking back many years later, the first image that emerged was actually a police detective as a sub-line - Horibe.
During one arrest, Horibe, who promised to go home with his daughter, was beaten with a broken leg by the gangster. During the hospitalization, his wife left him with her daughter.
Living alone in a nursing home by the sea, and rocking a wheelchair to the beach every day, Horibe, who finally had a lot of time, felt extremely lonely and even wanted to commit suicide.
When chatting with his friend and former colleague Kei Nishi, played by Takeshi Kitano, Horibe said that his mother suggested him to paint, but he couldn't afford the tools for painting. With the sea breeze blowing, Horibe muttered to himself that maybe it was time to wear a beret.
Horibe by the sea
After Nishikai easily robs the bank, he buys a full set of painting equipment and a beret and sends it to Horibe.
Horibe looked at the plethora of painting tools, and finally, with the encouragement and support of Nishi Jia Jingmu, brought painting tools and a beret to the beach, but in the end, he couldn't draw anything.
Depressed, Horibe shook his wheelchair and went back. He passed the flower shop and saw sunflowers, orchids, lilies, and calla lilies in full bloom. When he stared at the flowers, these flowers were deformed in Horibe's eyes and merged with the images of various animals.
Horibe, who found inspiration, drew a set of bizarre flower-headed beast-shaped paintings, combining the gentleness, elegance, and tranquility of flowers with the ferocity, brutality, and agility of animals in an unprecedented manner.
Sphinx
These bizarre paintings appear in the film in various close-up shots. The wonderful combination, simple composition, and bright and clean color scheme show bright, eerie, crazy and sentimental colors in Hisaishi's slightly melancholy soundtrack.
An elegant woman in a kimono headed by a lily, a cute girl in a yellow orchid skirt, and a family of three watching under the layers of fireworks, all of them are his feelings for those who were once ignored by him and now abandoned. Missing and yearning for the family.
At the same time, when he painted the back of a man and a knife under the cherry tree, when he painted the word "self-determination" with blood-red oil paint, the despair and pain in his heart were vented, and he was finally able to survive in reality. .
Flowers have the meaning of life in Japanese. Horibe in the film finally got a new life in the artistic creation of flowers. He still has to be accompanied by a wheelchair and endure loneliness, but he can finally accept all this, in reality survived.
man and knife under the cherry tree
(2) Death
in fire Fire, which means death in Japanese, Horibe's friend, Kei Nishi, chose the road of fire without hesitation.
He left the job after he caught the gangster who beat the disabled Horibe, and later took care of his terminally ill wife on loan sharks, subsidizing the wife of Horibe and another colleague who died in the arrest, everything seems equally heavy And despairing.
In the end, he decided to rebel against it all with fiery violence. He planned an elegant and humorous robbery, and after paying off the loan shark, he sent the money to Horibe, his colleague's wife, and used the rest of the money to take his wife on a final trip.
This man, who was violent and brutal in the face of gangsters and loan sharks, had moving humor and innocence when facing his wife.
Lily and Leopard
Buy her cakes, play cards with her, show her Mount Fuji, visit temples, light fireworks for her, and in the final journey, the two of them enjoy pure happiness like children.
But all this beauty is set against the background of mortal decision, just like the gorgeous fireworks, the beauty is always fleeting.
The former colleague soon found Xi Jiajing who was staying at the seaside. He hoped to stay with his wife for a few minutes. Due to the mental decline of the illness, his wife, who enjoyed his care like a child, suddenly woke up and greeted him with tears. Say thank you.
At the end of the film, he takes his wife's head towards him, and the scene turns to the sea, followed by two gunshots.
family watching fireworks
(3) Is Kitano Takeshi's choice
to live with forbearance or to die happily? Faced with such two unsatisfactory options, Kitano Takeshi in reality gave a third choice and lived happily.
In fact, all the paintings in the film were drawn by Takeshi Kitano. At that time, after surviving a car accident, he was forced to suspend work for several months. During the recovery period, all activities were canceled, and there was absolutely nothing to do. Kitano, who was so bored, decided to pass the time by painting.
Disdainful of simply painting flowers, he decided to paint flowers and animals together on a whim, thus creating this series of bizarre and charming works.
It is refreshing to combine seemingly unrelated flowers and animals to create a brand-new image, which not only has the characteristics of flowers and animals, but also brews the posture of new species.
Lily in Kimono
This forced pause has also become a turning point in Kitano Takeshi's life. He, who had always been suicidal before, rethought life and death through this film.
The world is a stage. Actors lose their lingering interest in order to enjoy the beating of life, and theatergoers lose the excitement of "being in the real world" in order to savor the image of life. Being able to get in and being able to get out, "getting in the middle" and "beyond the image", it is difficult to balance the situation.
——Zhu Guangqian's "Watching and Acting"
On the stage of life, actors often have fire-like enthusiasm, pay attention to personal practice, and jump into the torrent of life; audiences have a flower-like calmness, emphasizing contemplation Meditate, like Confucius, sighing "the dead are like sufu".
Zhu Lao thinks that it is difficult to balance the two, but today, it may not be the case.
Flower and fire, life and death, softness and rigidity, yin and yang, viewing and acting are not incompatible. of possibilities are present.
cat with taro eyes
In the movie, he plays Kei Nishi, who has both a gentle, humorous and innocent side, as well as a fierce, violent and cruel side; Horibe, who was able to surmount his own difficulties and regain his life through painting, was he who lived a willful life at the expense of death. Xi Jiajing is also him; he is both an "immersive" actor and a "transcendental" director.
In life, he is not only a well-known Japanese comedian named "Paizi Wu", who plans all kinds of strange programs to be funny and amused, and is also a world-class director who expresses his thoughts on the diversity of life in movies. At the same time, he is also shy The painter who paints freely like a game, but has repeatedly rejected other people's proposals to hold art exhibitions.
This is how he combines various seemingly contradictory qualities, follows the footsteps of life, is crazy, sees his own madness, and knows how to use his own madness to live happily and happily.
last snuggle
The yellow leaves are scattered, and the branches are exposed and sparse.
Staying at home at night and revisiting old movies will give you a sense of cohesion.
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