Takeshi Kitano wrote, directed and acted in this movie whose original title is "HANA-BI". HANA is the Japanese flower, and BI is the fire. This film uses beautiful flowers and burning fire to symbolize love and violence, to embody the theme of life and death. Kitano Takeshi plays a cold-faced, taciturn, middle-aged criminal police officer Nishi Jiajing, who has just lost a child and his wife is also suffering from leukemia. And his long-time partner and partner Horibe has a seemingly happy family. The story unfolds on the main line of Nishi, and Horibe’s experience is an explanation and hint of Nishi’s fate.
In order to hunt down a suspect, Hori was shot and paralyzed his lower limbs, and his family left him for this reason. During the round up of the suspect, Xihe's colleague witnessed another death and injury. He believed that his mistake caused all this. Therefore, four more shots will be given to the dead criminals and resign for this reason. For the sake of friends and family, the former criminal police borrowed loan sharks from the gang, healed his lover, provided help to his colleagues’ widows, and bought Hori the brushes and hats he wanted but couldn’t afford (Hori once mentioned them on a wheelchair by the sea. I want to paint to relieve my sorrow), just to let the world-weary Hori live meaningfully. This put Xi himself in a dilemma. But in the face of debt collection by the gang, he never bowed his knees, always defending his dignity with violence.
In the end, Xi used the money from an elegant and domineering bank robbery to pay off the debt, and made the last trip with his wife. In order not to disturb the travel, he even solved the gang bosses who came for money alone. The two beings who have been silent and dependent on each other, like the fireworks set off for her on the way, bloom in full bloom on the last road. But just like Horibe's paintings, the bloody words "Self-Determination" appeared on the snow-white ground. The shocking shock was Nishi's destiny, cruel and fierce. Next to the beautiful sea that was deep blue but tossed freely, the two watched calmly and calmly as a young girl was trying in vain and joy to fly a kite that could never fly. Behind them were two police officers who came to arrest Xi, Xi’s old days. colleague. The camera was zoomed out, and only two sudden gunshots and the girl's dazed face were left in the empty and elegant music of Nine Stones.
The lens used ten years ago is still full of personality nowadays. Although many techniques such as scene switching have been abused now, "Fireworks" has no sense of craftsmanship at all. He presents an incomplete and broken plot, but clearly tells a complete and introverted story. Kitano's face injured in a motorcycle accident in 1995 made the corners of Nishi's eyes in the film always twitched nervously, cold and unspoken, but full of indescribable strength, a kind of almost extinct man's temperament. There is also the flower-shaped anthropomorphic painting painted by Takeshi Kitano himself through the camera through Horibe, which has played a nearly perfect enrichment and adjustment to the film's picture, super stunning imagination.
My favorite is that trip. Facing a death that is unspoken and imminent, to say goodbye is a dull and sad past. Xi's wife has a childlike innocent and beautiful smile, although her face is almost pale in sorrow. But Kitano was unwilling to let his life fade away, so he arranged a lot of related scenes of children who have the meaning of life inheritance. For example, the baby carriage, the little shoes, the child who appears on the drawing paper from time to time, Xi ringing the bell to the child, and the girl who flew the kite last. And those warm pictures in the travel are the flower of life, the fire of life, although short but extremely gorgeous.
That is fireworks, that is the most beautiful despair.
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