Who is whose doll?

Maia 2022-01-17 08:02:48

When I first encountered Takeshi Kitano’s movie, I chose "Doll". Doll, this name with a strong sense of fatalism sounds like it, which made me feel sad before I saw it. Kitano's lens language is indeed very unique. The long period of stagnation makes you have to meditate, to be sentimental, and to brew a kind of helplessness and sorrow that cannot be condensed in the air and can not be resolved in the silence of the screen. Fortunately, I watched such a painful movie on a sunny and warm winter afternoon.

Matsumoto might hate his original weakness in front of his parents. He didn't insist on resisting the forced marriage and didn't insist on his most sincere love. People are like this. Only when you lose you can understand what is the most precious, but the most precious Zozeko's sober and healthy body and mind can no longer be exchanged. Like a butterfly whose wings are crushed by a car, life is destined to die. Matsumoto just confessed, he hugged Sagoko tightly and dropped his head deeply, forgive me...I saw the most helpless side of a man. In addition, there is only his empty eyes, facing everyone who laughs at them, facing the sky full of cherry blossoms, facing the bloody maple leaves, facing the vast snow, facing the sky, facing the sea, facing this despair world.

He and her, with a thick red rope tied between their waists, walked, walked, walked. The red rope dragged heavily to the ground, sometimes tripped by a small wooden stake, and sometimes swept over a daisy in full bloom alone. But they don't care, continue to walk like this, walk through every corner of memory, walk through the picturesque scenery of the four seasons, walk through the bit of love between the two of them. Life just flows slowly like this, but the memories of the past have not been recovered a little bit. Their path seems to have blurred the beginning and the end. In such an anxiously slow walk, they also passed by other people's stories. At the beach, they passed by the male fan who pierced his eyes in order to see the idol. This shot appeared twice in the film. How insight the director knows all the creatures in this world, everyone is interpreting their own stories, and at the same time passing through other people's stories. Such a cross of life is truly awe-inspiring. How can people be manipulated by invisible fate like a doll!

The woman who was waiting for her boyfriend idiotically, sitting on the bench in the park for thirty years, always wearing a yellow headscarf, red dress, and a white top, she sits there, holding a two-piece in her hand. Bento, silence becomes a permanent scenery. Thirty years later, the young man she was waiting for had become the eldest brother of the underworld. He had suffered through blood and blood and looked tired and old. Perhaps it was a whim, he wanted to see his young girlfriend. I don’t think anyone can really appreciate his inner feelings when he sees the permanent scenery on the bench! She is still so beautiful and so fresh, maybe only the power of love can support her so long, let her always be full of hope, and wait for his boyfriend with confidence. And he, the boss of the underworld who has experienced so many gang fights and fights, but his inner timidity is exposed. He didn't dare to sit there at first, and after sitting there, he still didn't have the courage to tell her: I am the one you are waiting for. But she said: You are here, maybe I don't have to wait for him anymore. She gave him a lunch box, and the dishes in it were his favorite. He put the scarf around her neck, he smiled, and she also smiled, how many years, how many Saturdays, waited for such happiness, I was moved to tears unsuspectingly by such warmth. Kitano did not forget that there is some warmth in the cruelty. This is the warmest shot I have seen in the whole film. However, happiness is precious because it will not last long. In a blink of an eye, on the way out of the park, the man following the boss took out his gun. Before he was surprised...we didn't hear the gunshots, but saw a piece of withered red maple, drifting away silently with the flowing water. . When the camera switched, we saw his girlfriend's waiting eyes dimmed for a moment.

Look at the crazy fan again. In the crowd, he is such a humble person, with a shameless appearance, working as a small policeman who manages traffic. Ordinary people will also have extraordinary love and experience. Kitano uses his lens to explain the dialectics in life to us. I admire his courage, he is a true fan, and his love for singer Haruna Yamaguchi is pure and shocking. Haruna Yamaguchi, who was disfigured in a car accident, couldn't face herself, and was silent by the beach without seeing anyone. In order to see him, the fans stared at Yamaguchi's photo album, remembered the most beautiful side of her in their minds, and then resolutely picked up the utility knife. He finally fulfilled his wish, "seeing" the goddess in his heart, at the cost of losing the light. In the end, a traffic policeman finally died in a traffic accident. This could not be said to be a maneuver from heaven. Death and death. There was no thrilling crash scene, only a spot of blood that was not clean. In Kitano Takeshi's movie, I experienced the impact of silence.

Matsumoto and Sagoko finally came to the hotel where they were engaged. The lively scene was still in front of them, and Sagoko's hollow eyes finally lit up. She took out the necklace Matsumoto gave her when she was engaged, smiled and looked at Matsumoto with a smile. Matsumoto stared at her for a long time, and for a long time, suddenly he hugged her and hugged her tightly. I knew he would never let go again.

At the end of the film, Matsumoto and Saoko were hung on a branch of a cliff and died. Wearing beautiful kimonos, they melted into the distant mountains, the sky, and the white snow, forming a picture. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful scene of death I have ever seen, and it is breathtakingly beautiful.

Despair, through the endless despair, I still saw a trace of warmth, at least before death, everyone more or less realized their long-cherished wish. This is really a shocking film. Kitano abandoned the Hollywood-style audio-visual impact, but used a hidden and indirect method to narrate the story, which made me feel the power of the film to ask for life. The so-called method of silent victory over sound was used to the extreme by Kitano Takeshi. This is really a movie with everything to the extreme, love to the extreme, beauty to the extreme, sorrow to the extreme, and despair to the extreme.

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Extended Reading
  • Stefan 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    A montage of martyrdom. (2019 Kitano Takeshi Film Festival)

  • Vincent 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    おbendang をつくってまっているから...healed at the same time as heartbroken, warm nonsense in the painting | Seeing Xiujima again, a man who is so good-looking, who can carve such a beautiful Adam's apple? !