Youth seems to always be linked to ideals. "Bad Boy's Sky" tells the story of two bad boys and their classmates, who embarked on their own life paths after graduation, witnessed the cruelty of society and achieved different endings. Takeshi Kitano is in this story. In the film, the symbolic characters tell the audience a cruel youth story through grim shots.
Shot language is an important means of expressing the theme of the film. In the past youth films, the director would use a large number of moving shots and small scenes to express the inner state of the characters, drive the emotions of the audience, and make the audience feel the expression of the inner love or friendship of the characters, but in the sky of bad boys, Kitano Wu took the opposite approach and used a lot of fixed shots and panoramic views in the film, showing the audience the original appearance of life without elaboration through a calm and restrained perspective, allowing the audience to experience and feel that kind of youthful life. breath. This is a masterpiece that should be independent of other youth movies. What he describes is not a beautiful youth, but a cruel youth that is lost and helpless for a few people.
In the sky of bad boys, the characters are used as symbolic existences, in order to bring the audience a greater sense of identity. The main line of the bad boy's sky is about a young and vigorous pony and a new ambition with no assertiveness, but as a semi-group movie that shows youth, Kitano Takeshi also shows a shy and cowardly good boy, a man who strives to chase his dreams. The duo and others. These are the epitome of the audience's youth, and in this film everyone can find their own shadow from these characters. And the little gangster who finally became a rookie in the boxing world seems to represent the reincarnation of youth. Takeshi Kitano always cruelly and calmly brings stories to people without any concealment, but in his indifferent appearance hides a very rich emotional heart. At the end, Xinzhi and Xiaoma returned to the campus like the beginning of the film, and Xiaoma asked Xinzhi in the car: Do you think we are over? Shinji replied that we haven't started yet. This also reflects Kitano Takeshi's humanistic care through the characters, giving people a glimmer of hope in the face of disappointment and even despair ahead.
Youth is always a cycle. Generations of people experience confusion in youth, but they work silently in the confusion, and finally embark on their own path. The film does not have the usual style of Japanese movies, conveying a sense of decadence and despair. Instead, it reveals to people a positive value and life feeling through the life-threatening efforts of the characters. The English name of the movie "kids return" literally translates to the return of children, and the free translation is more like the heart of a child that has never been lost. "Bad Boy's Sky" may be Kitano Takeshi's love letter to his childhood innocence that he never lost.
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