Author/Special New Film Critic of the "Sealed Review" column County Hao
What a cool bunch of old men!
Takeshi Kitano 71, Toshiyuki Nishida 71, Nanaki Omori 46, Masanobu Taki 51, MatsuShige 55, Ryo Osugi 67 (died on February 21, 2018), Shiumi Mitsu province 70.
The average age of the main actors in "Extremely Evil 3" is 62.
Their appearance, such as The Flower Ling's evaluation of kitano's takeshi's style of conduct, is full of "rotten taste", but it is this group of corrupt people who, in the gentle and sticky verbal negotiations, overturn the bloody storm of the underworld Shura Field between the palms of their hands.
It's a very healthy crime movie. The opening is light and quiet, a faction of fishing leisure, in fact, the ordinary life is hooked into the gunfire and blood smoke, the story gradually deepens, except for a few impulsive characters, most of the characters are not hurried, such as the park uncle sprinkled red goji berries, but the goji berries fell into a cup of spicy whiskey.
This is Kitano Takeshi's unique style.
Calm, freehand, loyal, calm.
The title of the film is "Extremely Evil Non-Tao", or dismantled in "Japanese Extreme Dao", which is a violent criminal organization or person, and the complete evil is not the ultimate path, so it can be seen that in addition to evil, there is something else that supports the extreme path. This thing certainly cannot be good.
The frequent appearance of titles such as "Wakakato" and "Wakado" in the film is also unique to Japan. For example, in the Japanese underworld Yamaguchi group, there are many titles such as "group leader" and "brother", and "waka head" means "godhead", which is equivalent to "less boss". Nishida has a lot of behavior, but he is extremely fierce. And the "if the crowd", that is, the members of the organization, the bottom of the underworld.
All the storms in "Extremely Evil Non-Dao 3" begin with the death of a crowd, which is called the so-called one-shot and moves the whole body.
The coldness and coolness of filmmaker Takeshi Kitano are all reflected in the film's accurate portrayal of Japanese culture.
One session at a time
いちごいちえ。 This is one of the Japanese tea ceremonies. It refers to the person who performs the tea ceremony, who deeply cherishes the heart of "rare side, the world should cherish", and sincerely treats every tea drinking guest. And the tea ceremony environment is the same for the tea performer, the same once in a lifetime, only this time.
A tea party in the desert
The simple tea shed, standing in a bustling city or a mountain wilderness, two people in the shed, sipping and tasting, after which the two no longer see, this decisive impermanence, in fact, exists between us and any stranger's daily life, but it is captured by the Japanese tea ceremony and amplified by exquisite meditation techniques, and now, "one period and one meeting" is quietly hidden in Kitano Takeshi's "Extremely Evil Non-Tao: The Final Chapter".
Finally, that is, completely over, Kitano Takeshi "withdrew the tea shed here" in the splash of blood plasma with a determined and affectionate shot. This affection is not dedicated to anyone, but is put into morality. The whole movie is the process of brewing tea leaves at once. In the hot and cruel way of the underworld, the old years have gradually stretched back to the green, and the film has greatly reduced the bloody gun battlefield, perhaps as Kitano Takeshi said, Nishida Toshiyuki and other people are in poor health, and they are no longer allowed to have too many fierce battle scenes, but it is this moderation that promotes the film by reality, showing a kind of tea-like indifference.
Kitano practiced the brewed "pain" in Hemingway's "Iceberg Theory". The machine gun swept through the entire hualing congregation, which was the most intense boiling water tumbling, but immediately, the camera switched to the dialogue between Wakamino and the entourage, the night was quiet, the clouds were light and the wind was light, and the headlights were dim, and it seemed that the bloody storm had never happened.
The "black fragrance" overflowing from the tea is the temperament of Kitano Takeshi's films.
But in this episode, the focus is not on the intersection with evil, but on the meeting with the characters in the film and with the big friend played by Takeshi Kitano. Otomo sets up a "tea shed" with endless gunfire in the underworld and meets with President Zhang, Nishino Wakato, Tokyo Criminal Police, and others, and through these meetings, he completes his spiritual rendezvous with himself and with morality.
In "Extremely Evil And Not Tao: The Final Chapter", what we see is tea tasting, which is a once-in-a-lifetime fate, and the intensity of brewing, only occasionally appears a star and a half, and disappears into the aroma of tea.
The sopranos are freehand
This "final chapter" is like Tai Chi.
In "Zhuangzi", there is a solution, too, that is, great, pole, refers to the end, the material pole is the source of change, so Taiji is the source of change, and the "I Ching And The Dictionary of TheOry" also says that "one yin and one yang is the Tao", which is the law of contradiction, and the extreme way seems to be the fusion and collision of change and contradiction.
Of course, this is a bit of a strong understanding, after all, Chinese culture and Japanese culture are very different, but the two belong to the East, in fact, in the deep structure of culture, there is no lack of common origin. Bringing together the powerful inner strength through soothing and soft movements, or the essence of Tai Chi, kitano takeshi's old men practice Kitano Takeshi's "lazy and powerful" plays with their superb performances.
In the first half of the movie, Kitano Takeshi appeared very little, which made people doubt his starring identity, but this is just one of the temperaments of the movie "Taoguang Yang Obscure", in the second half, Kitano Takehito did not say much, and what was emitted was the amazing strength after the first half of freehand. And Nishino, played by Toshiyuki Nishida, also relies on the iconic action of touching his lower lip when he speaks, and exerts kitano's casual kung fu to the fullest, like a brush stroke.
Nishino speaks slowly, his tone is smooth, his fingers touch his lips, and the frequency is more leisurely than his speech, between the superimposed soothing, his surface image is completely harmless, but between the words, it is a sharp conspiracy, which is intimidating. The more "tai chi" place is that almost every character in it retains a little bit of innocence. Even if nishino is as fierce as Nishino, when Otomo washed the flowers in blood, he believed that Otomo had come for the "airborne president" Nomura, and the shooting was just reckless, but in fact, Otomo did not have any misunderstanding about this bloodbath. The subtle misalignment of understanding in between creates a hidden tension in the film.
If a crime film only focuses on "appearance" such as gunfights and explosions, ninety-nine percent of it is stupid, but if the "appearance" is completely hidden, it will also hurt its genre characteristics, so even if it is excellent such as "Infernal Affairs" and "New World", it will make "violence" strongly penetrate between the images, and it is indeed rare to sincerely dilute violence like "Extremely Evil: The Final Chapter".
The first real gunshot, the smoke of the gunfire, has been transferred, this is not kitano force has not been caught, but the pen edge of the freehand grass.
Pole rules
Film is a fanciful art, but the rules that lurk in it can accurately shape this art. Techniques such as costumes, lighting, composition, and editing have their own rules, but what is more fascinating in movies is often the drama and spiritual rules embodied in the plot and characters.
In Martin Macdonald (director and screenwriter of "Three Billboards"), "The Killer Has No Holidays", and South Korea's Luo Xican's "Live Casually", the rules are no longer used as a cultural detail, but become the core and motif of the entire film, thus bringing fresh and intense charm to the film.
The killer broke the rules, the police stuck to the rules, and the sincere dialectic between destruction and perseverance made both films overflow with a precious innocence. This is the film's romantic reflection on "being born as a social person". Takeshi Kitano also injects this kind of thinking into this "Final Chapter".
Whether it is the president, the head, or the crowd, its concise, blank-leaved behavior must be driven by the corresponding rules of the heart, Otomo here, or morality, Nishino here, or "the able to prevail", Nomura here, or power, Lee here, or loyalty, criminal police here, or justice.
On the official poster of the movie, various characters are noisy and noisy, seemingly chaotic, but in fact, the needle and thread that weaves them into the picture of Shura is exactly the belief-like rule of Japanese underworld culture.
It is said that when the Japanese underworld organized a group fight, they saw that the two sides were about to meet, but they had to stand on both sides of the road and wait for the red light. It is also said that some people have asked the Japanese: What would happen if the Japanese underworld met the underworld of other countries? The person replied: Will call the police.
These anecdotes may prove that the Japanese underworld respects the rules of social conventions, and in kitano Takeshi's modern Shura world, the infiltration and looming of this respect is like the needle between guns and blood, the so-called extreme evil is not the Tao, and the things that support the extreme path are neither total evil nor good, that is the rule.
Ripples of the President
Although "Extremely Evil Non-Dao 3" has a quiet taste, the characters in it are all three-dimensional. Kitano Takeshi Ōtomo and Nishida Toshiyuki Nishino needless to say, and the most underworld Samad among them is the Korean agent Chairman Jang.
Chairman Zhang, played by Kaneda Shinan, is in the underworld, but his distracting thoughts stop, and he forgives and kills, and everyone is calm. Also in the face of the gang's pursuit, The president of the Hanabishi Association, Nomura, rolled urine and angrily rebuked the car window for failing to prevent bullets, while Chairman Zhang, with a cold face and a cold face, did not move, and his image was like the dark black suit on his body, with a calm like a devouring. Chairman Zhang is a place of meditation with the underworld, where all actions are harmonious and harmonious, and meditation is maintained.
Finally, he instructed Li to take the order of Ōtomo, and his sense of existence was close to no self, and he really had the realm of cultivating immortals and attaining the Tao. He has very few lines, and every sentence is devoid of emotion and Zen. For example, Hanada prepared 30 million (yen, about 1.75 million yuan) to apologize to Chairman Zhang, who first did not say a word, and then asked Li to take out the same 30 million, and let Hanada take 60 million and leave.
Nishino reminds Hanada that Chairman Zhang needs sixty million yuan, but obviously, money destroys health care, which is not what President Zhang intended at all. The second time, Hanada prepared another 100 million, Nishino said all the good words, Chairman Zhang did not pay attention, but with Lee to explain the Korean hotel business, after the processing, let Lee take back the last time out of the thirty million. Nishino looked up to himself, but he was overthrown by President Zhang under the "Buddha's hand".
Whether facing the underworld, criminal police, or Otomo, Chairman Zhang is a deep sea, and no matter how big the heavy object falls, for the entire calm sea, it will only stir up a ripple that will disappear immediately.
Open to the tillers
It is the final chapter, between the guns and the fire, everything will end, kitano Takeshi's extreme years will also come to an end, but the curtain comes down, who can get a good death, who is lost in blood, just like the wonderful soundtrack of the movie that is careful and concentrated, into the director Kitano Takeshi's "big sound, the elephant is invisible".
There was only one person, with his hands stained with blood, and he drank bullets, and in this extremely evil path, he drove to the ground.
Who this person is, you have your own answers.
Having written all this, is this "Extremely Evil: The Final Chapter" perfect?
No. It has at least one indisputable drawback, namely:
I can't tell the difference between Koreans and Japanese!
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