From this movie, I couldn't help falling in love with the old man born in the 40s, Takeshi Kitano. "Kids Return" was also at a certain sudden moment, and the idea that suddenly popped up in my heart decided that this should be my favorite movie.
The story is actually very simple, the story of a group of teenagers. Xiaoma and Xinzhi are the kind of ignorant and idle bad students we know when we were studying, skipping classes, teasing teachers, smoking and fighting, blackmailing students... After a blackmail incident, Xiaoma Knocked to the ground by an amateur boxer, the competitive pony joins the boxing club for revenge. In the few days that Xinzhi lost the company of the pony, he went through the daily naughty and mischief by himself, but he was always unable to lift himself up. Fortunately, the pony still pulled Xinzhi into the boxing club together. The red and blue CPs ran long distances and practiced boxing together. You chased after each other, and the film seemed to be full of hope for struggle. It's a pity that Takeshi Kitano, the grim and realistic director, satirically allowed Xinzhi to show greater talent in the boxing ring, even enough to invest in a professional career. The over-competitive pony is fighting against the two, unable to accept the reality of failure, and turns around to become the underworld.
Losing the company of his friends again, Xinzhi plans to leave the boxing club, but the president's kind words persuade him to stay. Xinzhi also seems to be slowly getting used to the days of walking alone on the boxing road. The pony on the other side seems to be finding the right direction, and the underworld is also a little successful. When the pony made some achievements, he got on the big run and came to the familiar boxing club to have a good reminiscence with Xinzhi, but the president persuaded him to leave because he was worried that Xinzhi's training would be delayed. Shinji runs out of the house trying to keep the pony...
What a familiar scene, does it remind you of your lofty ambitions when you parted with your friends? However, the movie, like reality, finally turned the two of them to the ground, showing no mercy. The soft-hearted Xinzhi still needs someone who can accompany him. Xiaolin, this decadent and declining senior becomes the person who replaces the pony, and pulls Xinzhi down from the road to the future star at a speed visible to the naked eye. And the pony failed to become the boss as he wished. The young and vigorous he contradicted the president after being killed for the former leader, and finally ended up being beaten and then out of the game - the camera switched in the picture of the two constantly being beaten . At the same time, a teenager who married a female coffee clerk, who is also considered a good boy in the general sense, also had a car accident while working overtime to drive a night shift taxi for life... The tragedy is to destroy the beautiful things for people to see. , Fortunately, Kitano Takeshi is not a person who is obsessed with tragedy. He just recorded the cruel side of reality and showed it to us frankly.
The story is coming to an end here, and the camera is turned to the two people who are performing in the beginning of the film. At this time, the audience is already full, and the applause from time to time also indicates the success of the two; The little yellow hair of the boxing club seems to have become the new darling of the boxing club, and the cheers from the bosses and beauties in the audience seem to herald the tragedy of the next "eagle"; The poor student of the clerk; the male student with the long hair of God who is still expected to look out the window during class. Takeshi Kitano uses the perspective of a third party to record the youth stories of all children. It is hard to say who will not find a character similar to himself in the movie. Those who are familiar, they are like us, either lost or successful , or joy, or failure: pauses, memories, meaningful, long smiles...
Takeshi Kitano mentioned in his self-reported book that "Bad Boy's Sky" is the kind of movie that will be impressive from experience. When making this film, it was like sitting back in a time machine. Having gone through that accident and the next period of being paralyzed in bed is a movie that made Takeshi Kitano re-adjust to society. Many of the scenes in the film adopt the usual factoring method of Takeshi Kitano: to show you a beginning, omit the process, and leave the results. When you first see it, you will feel a little confused. After understanding it, you gradually understand the director's setting Intention: The process scene is left to the audience's rich imagination. In addition, I have to mention Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack, which also adds a lot to the emotional transmission of the film. The main melody "meet again" expresses different emotional colors by changing the rhythm and playing musical instruments. It is worthy of being a master musician, fully demonstrating the unchanging truth of simplifying complexity and less is more.
The last two people in the film ride a bicycle back to school just like they went to school at that time, wandering around the empty playground. This section can be regarded as a warm moment for us after the ruthless beatings of the two people in society.
Pony snuggled up to Xinzhi and asked, "Will there still be bad guys like us?"
- "No way," Shinji replied, and then shouted out "Idiot! Did you study hard?" Instead, the pony became embarrassed.
Meet again gradually sounded, I think, the last scene is a gift from Takeshi Kitano...
- "Pony, are we screwed?"
- "Idiot, it's just the beginning!"
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