The story takes place in those days when the days were always blue and the days always passed too slowly. Xiaoma and Xinzhi are students of a third-rate high school. Xiaoma is domineering and domineering, while Xinzhi is taciturn. They are the problem students in the eyes of teachers. Or lie on the rooftop and watch the big white clouds flow over your head, so as to pass the time when you can't see the end of loneliness. They attacked teachers, frightened hard-working students, and set up coffee shops by extorting little money from their classmates. This is their daily life portrayal.
On one occasion, the pony was crushed by a boxer. He was determined to take revenge, so he went to the boxing gym to learn boxing, and his best friend Xinzhi also followed him into the same boxing gym. The seemingly weak Xinzhi's aptitude obviously surpassed Xiaoma, which made Xiaoma very uncomfortable. In order to prove himself, he left Xinzhi, joined the underworld, and was appreciated by his elder brother.
Silent Xinzhi became more self-contained and began to live alone. He devoted all his energy to the boxing ring and began to win some small competitions. At this time, Kobayashi, an elderly but unsuccessful boxer, became Xinzhi's "good teacher and friend". He taught Xinzhi foul boxing, encouraged him to overeat, and taught him to take drugs to lose weight. It didn't take long for the much-anticipated rookie fighter to become a hopeless knockout.
Pony is full of fantasies about the underworld life in the movie. He thinks that the underworld is a place where he can realize his romantic ideals, but life returns him mercilessly. After Tangkou's eldest brother was assassinated, Xiaoma, despite the opposition of the gang boss, clamored for revenge for his eldest brother, but was beaten and expelled from the gang.
Two or three years later, Xiaoma and Xinzhi meet again. Xinzhi came out of the cart, and Xiaoma happened to pass by, and the two former friends bumped into each other by chance. Xiaoma asked, "Are you still practicing boxing?" Xinzhi shook his head and asked, "What about you?" Xiaoma laughed and shook his head. They went back to the former campus. Xinzhi rode a bicycle with a pony, and skillfully walked around the empty playground freely, as if time had not passed. After a period of twists and turns, everything went back to the past.
Xiaoma and Xinzhi approached an unexpected result step by step, and in the end, nothing was achieved, and they returned to the starting point when they were young. What is the dream of youth? In Kitano Takeshi's eyes, it was just a dazzling fireworks that bloomed in loneliness, then disappeared and returned to darkness.
On the bicycle, the pony asked sadly, "Xinzhi, are we finished?" Xinzhi said, "Nonsense, we have only just begun!" The fresh and refreshing music sounded, accompanied by rhythmic drum beats, The story ends here. After all, Takeshi Kitano left us with a bright tail.
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