When the cherry blossoms flew, I was alone.
With a feeling that it was difficult to press, the cocoon stood alone.
When the color of the young leaves blooms, the mind begins to churn.
I lost everything and flowed to you.
There was only the surrounding group of trees, staring at each other.
At the same time, it tells us that life does not stay in a certain period of time.
When the color of the dead leaves is rendered, the time spent around you becomes love.
I only wish to surround our trees and guard my wish.
To be able to face us again and gently sprinkle the fallen leaves.
Soon the season will take us and drift to other places.
The only thing I can be sure of is that we can embrace the present moment quietly.
- Mika Nakajima, "When the Cherry Blossoms Fly"
The 1994 car accident (another way to say it was a suicide attempt) left Takeshi Kitano hovering before he died, as a result of the filming of "Hanabi".
Looking back on that desperate situation of life and death, Kitano Takeshi commented on himself: "The car accident made me realize that fate is not something that your own power can influence, no matter what kind of fate is waiting for you in front, you can only accept it silently." I didn't want to say anything beautiful—like 'be ready to die anytime and anywhere,' but I just had the kind of indifferent mood that I could die at any time. ”
The protagonist of the film, Xi, is a policeman who combines coldness and warmth, the child dies early, and his beloved wife with leukemia is declared ineffective by the hospital and returns home to spend the last stage of her life.
Two friends and colleagues who were born into death, He Du and Tanaka, were out on a mission, when He Du was shot and left half disabled, and was ruthlessly abandoned by his wife and children; Tanaka was killed by the killer's gun, leaving his widow to live a difficult life.
Silently accepting the impermanence of life, Xi silently borrowed triad loan sharks in order to burden and take care of his crippled family and poor colleagues, and then took risks in order to repay the loans and robbed the bank. In the end, he decided to take his sick wife and embarked on a life journey that could not be turned back.
What is impressive is that the film's portrayal of the character of Xi is full of contrasts, and it is precisely because of this contrast that we have more calm examination and equal treatment of the setbacks and encounters that come with life, and the presentation of complex human nature in different karmic meetings.
As a professional criminal policeman, Xi is taciturn, athletic, fierce, fist-wielding to remember blood, shooting will be hit to the point, even the chopsticks in his hand, the stones on the ground can be picked up by him into a hurtful weapon, the members of the underworld who hunted them down fell to the ground and splattered blood; but when he returned home, he immediately became a warm and generous mr. Good, eating cakes and fighting tangram puzzles with his wife; on the way to escape, he clumsily lit fireworks for his wife; rushed to save his wife who fell into a snow pit; his wife reversed his car and pressed his hand that hung snow chains. He also just threw it off and said it hurt; when he took a photo with his wife, he was blocked by a passing car, and that look made his wife laugh...
The heavy and oppressive journey of escape, suddenly the warm pulse of the scene, composing the glory of sexual and spiritual love, suddenly being swept by the blood shadow of the gun forest, spilling out the pride of righteousness, but which one is not the scenery along the way of the long life?
The character of Xi also reminds me of the Thousand Hands Guanyin, who holds a sword, axe, hammer, and a sharp blade weapon, combining the courage of killing and determination and the great compassion of charity and charity, with a fierce tiger in mind, a fine sniff of roses, and a pure heart.
At the end of the film, the police chase West. West and his old colleague exchanged glances, seemingly giving each other a signal, allowing him to complete the final freedom of his life.
The curtain of life is about to fall, Xi returns to his wife, and the two snuggle up to each other on the vast blue seashore, quietly looking at the other world.
Suddenly there was a young girl, running around with a kite, but how could not fly, so Xi helped carry the kite, the girl pulled the rope to start running, the kite was torn, in my opinion, this seems to be another metaphor, the kite needs to be tied by a thin rope, swaying up against the wind, but the broken kite, just like this imperfect stage of life, even if how hard to pull the rope, facing the sea breeze, running hard, can not fly back to the blue sky, will eventually be abandoned and forgotten forever.
To the end of life, face the mutilation, return to silence, the bitterness and sorrow, happiness and happiness that have been experienced in life are just floating waves and bubbles in the vast ocean, instantaneously born and extinguished, unable to grasp.
Nishi's colleague He Du actually shows an experience of Takeshi Kitano himself after the accident. He Du was disabled and betrayed by his wife and children, and he lost the courage to survive alone, but Xi mailed him a set of oil painting tools and berets, encouraging him to send love to landscape and nature and open up new dimensions of life.
In the process of painting creation, He Du also transcends his own inner difficulties and confusion layer by layer. His paintings, from the strange strangeness of the heads of hundreds of beasts and flowers, slowly evolved into reflections on the life of the universe, and finally splashed ink with red, abandoning the knots of self-destruction and the search for the meaning of life.
At that moment, he transcended the human life and death phase of harmony and happiness, and together with Xiyi, who chose to shoot himself and leave the world, he performed the great freedom of no chance of great compassion and great compassion.
This transcendent state of mind in the face of death actually runs through the theme of the entire film "Hanabi". "Hanabi" is called "HANA-BI" in Japanese, "HANA" means flower, "BI" means fire, and HANA-BI also has the meaning of shooting, which symbolizes the brilliant splendor of a summer flower, but it is a fragile and lonely life, and a frame of eternal mirror that returns to silence at any time.
Life is like a spark in the night sky, short but so gorgeous. Maybe this is the background of life conveyed by "Hanabi".
The sorrow and pity for impermanence in Japanese culture are revealed through the fusion of residual snow, falling flowers and seemingly nothing, which is known as the true essence of "material mourning beauty". It is not judged by reason and reason, but by intuition and by heart, and only with the heart can we feel the beauty of material sorrow.
"Material grief is not innate pessimism, but to find the context of things, see the reincarnation of all things, can not grasp the change, can not grasp the moment, it is better to let go, peace of mind to appreciate." 」
"A fragile mind does not dare to gaze at beauty because he knows that all beauty will fade; a strong mind dares to face sorrow because he knows that all sorrow will fade away." I think this is perhaps the best explanation for "material grief".
