The movie is filled with a lot of bloody cruel scenes, and it is a pleasure. But such unreasonable violence is not without reason. Under the interpretation of different movie roles, motifs such as homosexuality, SM, and psychological shadows have surfaced.
The poster character of "Achi the Killer" is Gakihara (Asano Tadanobu). Anyone who has never watched a movie will think that Gakihara is the killer Aichi. This is like Kitano Takeshi’s "Summer of Kikujirou", when the audience watched the movie, they realized that Kikujirou was not a child, but the rogue Kitano himself. This operation naturally played a small game with the audience, but it played a role in weakening the specific protagonist in "Hitman Yi". For example, in the plot of the movie, the roles and portrayal strength of the characters are actually comparable. Let every character in the movie assume the role of the protagonist. Under such a setting, each character can show their abnormal behaviors as much as possible, and jointly push the story to a climax and to extremes. Among them, Yuanyuan acted especially crazy, and even chose to die in self-illusion. This is the movie. The most typical comment.
Violence is a cloak, and abnormal psychological problems are the core, so what is more worthy of attention is the "contagiousness" of such abnormal psychology. In addition to abnormal people such as Yuanyuan, Ayi, and Ashu, there are also people with normal mentalities, such as Sabu and Xiaowu. But under such a bloody storm, normal people will either become victims of violence like gold, or become abnormal like Xiaowu. Of course, speaking of Xiao Wu’s end, my understanding of the ending is that Xiao Wu is not dead (Yakihara’s illusion), but to become another killer of Uncle's (Uncle’s smile), and become even more brutal, even Ah. Uncle also died at his hands. Of course, this ending is too open, and it can be considered a flaw in the movie.
Therefore, under the lens of Miike, the movie is full of ubiquitous violence. Flashback clips are the origin of violence, reality clips are hotbeds of violence, and there are unexplainable violence like Uncle Uncle. In the endless violence, the normal people in the movie can't find a safe living space, and can only sink slowly in the whirlpool of crazy violence. This gloomy, dark, depressed, and invisible sense of apocalypse is far more frantic and turbulent than violence on paper, which is why I like this movie.
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