The cruel reality and violent aesthetic master under the lens - Takeshi Kitano

Joanny 2022-08-21 12:33:06

I don't want to use a title similar to "Bad Boy's Sky", whether it is Japanese, Korean or European and American movies, I hope you don't use the title to experience the movie, the Chinese title is just a way for domestic translators to lust, that's all. Brother Yang recommended me to watch this movie. Think about yourself, think about others. Takeshi Kitano's shots are always so arrogant and violent. After pulling out a layer of skin from reality, the blood is presented in front of you. This is what it is, and you have to accept it. What it is, it will be anything. I said before that this is the autobiography of Takeshi Kitano, so let’s start with Takeshi Kitano. When he was young, he was the fourth eldest in the family. Because one of his older brothers died, he became the third eldest. He studied in a senior high school, but he yearned for freedom in his bones, and he was not restrained, and he gradually became an idle person who spent his days and wandering around every day. Wandering around in the cluttered district of Shinjuku full of pornography, drugs, gangs, and smuggling immigrants. He is proficient in arithmetic and drawing, studied boxing for a period of time, and loves cross talk. He himself also entered the entertainment industry step by step by talking about cross talk, and established his status today. I worked as a waiter in a nightclub, and among my colleagues came a serial murderer who shocked Japan. His youth can be said to be very corrupt. This also precisely reflects the two protagonists of this film, who are gangsters and practicing boxing once became their life goals. However, since you have established a goal, why not restrain your behavior and slowly work your way up? Ask them as well as us. At this time, the title of the movie gave an explanation: kids. Yes, it is kids. They are always children. Physical growth does not mean mental maturity. Their thoughts are still like children. Unable to resist temptation, rebellion, and believing that loyalty and friendship are everything. But what about society? What about reality? That is, when your boxing talent is manifested, there will be a "good friend" around you who takes you to smoke, drink, and take medicine. When you are in the underworld, you have no calm temperament, and you are just beaten up, giving you an arm and letting you Get out of the underworld forever, no matter where you are at the time. The movie didn't show how they changed after all this, because the title says "kids return". Let's take a look at the fusion of Kitano's experience and the film. The two protagonists are actually very, very failed in terms of movies. I even think that these two things have no meaning to live at all, thinking that in the words of parents educating children, they don't understand shit. Much like the young Takeshi Kitano. Mixing society, bullying classmates, collecting protection fees, boxing, entering the underworld, burning the teacher's car, in the category of students, all bad things are done. The two of them represent Takeshi Kitano's youthful stage, the main stage he wanted to depict. In the movie, the three attendants of the two eldest brothers, just like when Kitano Takeshi was a waiter, humiliated, acted for the tiger, and pretended to be a tiger. Totally no ego, no thoughts, no self-esteem. The kind and cowardly boy, the girl from the coffee shop that he pursued wholeheartedly, succeeded in his pursuit and became a weighman and a clerk. After layoffs, he rented out to make a living. Fatigue driving, car crashes and busy people. As for Takeshi Kitano, he worked as a salesman who performed on-the-spot performances and sold snacks for his livelihood, worked as a dismantler of the Diandiandi building, and worked as a barman in a club. Loading and unloading at the terminal at Haneda Airport, Kitano works with Kenji Nakagami, a regular customer who drinks tea at a jazz bar. After that, he worked as a taxi driver at Nippon Kotsu Waseda Sales Office for half a year and then retired to work part-time at a gas station in front of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. That boy in the movie ends, though. . . . . Two comedians. From performing at school, to going to Osaka, from listening to them with only one or two Alzheimer's, to becoming a nationally famous performer. Never give up, never compromise. For ordinary people, to put it bluntly, one road goes to the dark. But this is also the effort of Kitano Takeshi, who has come to his senses later, to stand in this position. He also came here. There are no winners and no losers in the movie, it's just a reflection of reality. RETURN. . . . . It's never too late to wake up, just return The kind and cowardly boy, the girl from the coffee shop that he pursued wholeheartedly, succeeded in his pursuit and became a weighman and a clerk. After layoffs, he rented out to make a living. Fatigue driving, car crashes and busy people. As for Takeshi Kitano, he worked as a salesman who performed on-the-spot performances and sold snacks for his livelihood, worked as a dismantler of the Diandiandi building, and worked as a barman in a club. Loading and unloading at the terminal at Haneda Airport, Kitano works with Kenji Nakagami, a regular customer who drinks tea at a jazz bar. After that, he worked as a taxi driver at Nippon Kotsu Waseda Sales Office for half a year and then retired to work part-time at a gas station in front of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. That boy in the movie ends, though. . . . . Two comedians. From performing at school, to going to Osaka, from listening to them with only one or two Alzheimer's, to becoming a nationally famous performer. Never give up, never compromise. For ordinary people, to put it bluntly, one road goes to the dark. But this is also the effort of Kitano Takeshi, who has come to his senses later, to stand in this position. He also came here. There are no winners and no losers in the movie, it's just a reflection of reality. RETURN. . . . . It's never too late to wake up, just return The kind and cowardly boy, the girl from the coffee shop that he pursued wholeheartedly, succeeded in his pursuit and became a weighman and a clerk. After layoffs, he rented out to make a living. Fatigue driving, car crashes and busy people. As for Takeshi Kitano, he worked as a salesman who performed on-the-spot performances and sold snacks for his livelihood, worked as a dismantler of the Diandiandi building, and worked as a barman in a club. Loading and unloading at the terminal at Haneda Airport, Kitano works with Kenji Nakagami, a regular customer who drinks tea at a jazz bar. After that, he worked as a taxi driver at Nippon Kotsu Waseda Sales Office for half a year and then retired to work part-time at a gas station in front of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. That boy in the movie ends, though. . . . . Two comedians. From performing at school, to going to Osaka, from listening to them with only one or two Alzheimer's, to becoming a nationally famous performer. Never give up, never compromise. For ordinary people, to put it bluntly, one road goes to the dark. But this is also the effort of Kitano Takeshi, who has come to his senses later, to stand in this position. He also came here. There are no winners and no losers in the movie, it's just a reflection of reality. RETURN. . . . . It's never too late to wake up, just return

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Kids Return quotes

  • Shinji: Masaru, do you think we're already finished?

    Masaru: Hell no. We haven't even started.