The moral breakup of "Extremely Wicked and Immoral", the extreme publicity of violence

Rosemarie 2022-04-01 09:01:19

"Extremely Wicked" may be the darkest and most violent film in director Takeshi Kitano's work. He hasn't made a gangster movie for a few years, and he is obviously itchy to the point where he is completely separated from the other side of Takeshi Kitano.

There is not a trace of warmth and soothing in "Extremely Wicked", there is no main character, there is no important description object, and the female characters are completely ignored. Asshole, there is no description of family and friendship, let alone love. Only intrigue, usurpation, and mutual killing between gangs, under the lure of gold power, the greed in broad daylight seems to be an animal world, human nature is inherently evil, Kitano Takeshi's cruel despair is pure heinous.

Sudden scenes of violence run through the entire scene, with an average of every two minutes to play abruptly, and the taste is so heavy and violent that Miike Takashi will be ashamed when he sees it. If the violence in director Takeshi Kitano’s works before was a little bit of forbearance, then the characters in this film simply don’t say a word, and if they look unhappy, they start fighting. The characters who kill and hurt are more than a coffee table. baskets.

The grinding of the electric drill knives in the mouth for a while, the chopsticks suddenly inserted into the ears, so crisply and directly reminds me of Martin Scorsese.

Takeshi Kitano did not forget to add some black humor. In a burst of arrogant yelling, the people from Chi Yuan's group asked Kimura, who came to apologize, to chop off a finger himself, but gave him a paper cutter, which made Chi Yuan, who was already very embarrassed, cut off a finger. Even more crying. There is also Otomo, played by Takeshi Kitano, who escaped from a nosebleed because of a nosebleed. All these give the extreme images a story and get rid of the suspicion of piling up brutality.

Compared with Hong Kong and Korean gangster films, which have romantic praise and longing for bravery and chivalry, Japanese gangster films tend to be surprisingly cold-hearted. Improper! A thorough questioning of tradition and morality through superficial unbridled violence. The underworld is a mirror of society. Every gang character in "The Wicked and Outlawed" has a class concept in Japanese culture on the surface. The face of bullying and fearing the tough, no one is strong, if you blow someone else's head and turn around, you will be blown away by others. Everyone is a puppet master and a puppet himself, struggling hysterically in this interactive game.

In the first half, the two team leaders, Chi Yuan and Murase, were originally sworn brothers, but they were actually open and secret, and they beat their heads with blood. When Ike Yuan instructed his subordinates to act rough on Murase, the bastard Otomo played by Takeshi Kitano was surprised: Is he your brother? Chi Yuanlai replied angrily: The worship is just a ceremony. Murase also said: I really shouldn't make a brother contract with him.

Including Mr. President, a character who is disrespectful to the old and more restricted in drugs. Seeing the anxiety inside the gang, he also stirs up discord, kills people with knives, and gets rid of one small leader after another. At the beginning, people may still think of him. It was to stabilize the overall situation and get rid of the troubles in my heart, but when the organization was basically dead, I realized that this old thing is actually not trusted by anyone in my heart, and everything is for me, for me, this kind of overbearing, dismantling. The final outcome of the leader of his own pavilion and immorality is also conceivable.

In the second half, the scene turns to Takeshi Kitano, this stern, stern, ruthless character with a paradoxical smile who kills without blinking, squeezed into the forces of all parties and used it as if he was being played billiards. When he cut off his fingers and went to see the chairman When he confessed his guilt, Kato, a close associate of the president, scoffed and scolded: The humble trash should not sit there. Kitano got up from the sofa and knelt beside him, and then Kato sneered again: The old-fashioned finger cutting method is useless. If you look carefully, you will find that the deviation of these two sentences is that the former is the traditional concept of emphasizing the obedience of subordinates, and the latter sentence is the denial of one's own norms.

In the world of rivers and lakes in this film, tradition is only a tool to intimidate and point fingers. It loses any dignity and credibility. When the foundation of maintaining a social system is crossed, the underworld has no words, and it becomes a Wang black.

In the end, all the forces were forced to rush, the fighting escalated, the moral empty shell, and the moral empty shell could not escape the reincarnation of Xia Keshang.

Like Kitano-style violence.

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Extended Reading
  • Francisca 2022-04-05 09:01:07

    Samsung semi-kill game

  • Mckenzie 2022-03-31 09:01:09

    When the black ends, everyone is in danger. Takeshi Kitano used "Extremely Evil and Outrageous" to say goodbye to this Yamaguchi group, which has long been without benevolence and righteousness, just as Du Qifeng used "Underworld" to pay homage to the dead rivers and lakes.

The Outrage quotes

  • Ikemoto: H-h-hold on a minute...

    [panting]

    Ikemoto: I'll reverse the banishment.

    Ôtomo: Huh?

    Ikemoto: I'll reverse the banishment.

    Ôtomo: You banish me, then you reverse it?

    [explodes]

    Ôtomo: How many fucking tongues do you have?

    Ikemoto: Huh?

    Ôtomo: Are you deaf? How many do you have?

    Ikemoto: I've only got one.

    Ôtomo: Only one? *Two* or *three* is more like it, you fucking prick!

    Ikemoto: I'm telling you I've only got one tongue!

    Ôtomo: [a little calmer] Open your mouth.

    [louder]

    Ôtomo: Stick out your tongue!

    Ikemoto: [beat] Huh?

    Ôtomo: [barking] Stick out your tongue!

    [Ikemoto reveals reluctantly a bit of his tongue]

    Ôtomo: MORE!

    [Ikemoto does]

    Ôtomo: STICK IT OUT, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

    [Ikemoto sticks out his entire tongue, then Otomo slams his jaw so violently that Ikemoto chokes on his own tongue; Otomo eventually kills him]

  • Ôtomo: How the fuck can you come to play here just after you banished me ? I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU !

    Ikemoto: W-wait a second...

    [he pants]

    Ikemoto: OZAWA !

    Mizuno: He's gone already, you dipshit.