#There is a summer called Kikujiro's Summer#"Kikujiro's Summer" is Takeshi Kitano's best masterpiece and a rare classic in the history of world cinema.
This "movie about childhood, movie about growing up, movie about summer." "In Kitano Takeshi's muddy nightmares, the gods and gods are nagging, and the various human conditions encountered along the way: perverted guys, innocent and kind hotel attendants, lovers with different personalities but equally enthusiastic, wandering poets who travel around the country, gangsters who collect protection fees, and disgusting and kind-faced flying car people, slowly spread out in a paragraph of cold humor, so that when the movie ends, there are sad tears in the eyes, but a happy smile blooms on the face. This kind of laughter with tears is a more convincing experience than applause.
At first, I thought that the introverted and lonely little boy was Kikujiro, but then at the end, Uncle Kitano laughed and said, "It's Kikujiro!" Fuck, let's go! It suddenly dawned on me that this summer was a story about a middle-aged uncle who was still a big child in his heart.
Here, too, the entire film is sublimated, from a childhood adventure to a self-healing film for every adult.
Don't learn no skills, do nothing, bully the soft and fear the hard, be preoccupied, have a small amount of gas, love revenge, love to take advantage of small... Kikujiro is such a middle-aged uncle who can be seen everywhere, because he lost money in gambling and had to take a ride on foot to Tokyo, obviously had no background but wanted to get a ridiculous tattoo, obviously could not swim but loved to pretend, was refused to take a ride on the car and secretly smashed the glass of the car to retaliate, stole other people's food, put nails on the road in order to stop the car, and was beaten at the temple fair in order to take advantage of the small bargain and almost play ...
And it is such a ridiculous and poor uncle, but in the journey of thousands of miles, he has never complained of regret, just to help the little boy realize a dream of seeing his mother.
After they worked hard to find a place where their mother lived, Kikujiro was wandering in the strange doorway, unable to bear to come forward, facing the new home of the male mother, Kikujiro must have remembered a lot of the past. In the past years that could not be looked back, he may have also found his mother who eloped with someone, perhaps he had seen a scene that he was extremely reluctant to see, perhaps he had been pushed and shoved by a new family, scolded and grinned, and because of this, simple actions would still be palpitated for his uncle Kikujiro, who had become an adult, and would still have palpitations and wander at the door that did not dare to ask.
Sure enough, history repeats itself. Masao's mother already has a perfect and harmonious new home, Masao has become an extra person, kikujiro can only take the little boy away.
The little boy whimpered, tears on his face; The uncle's face was numb, and tears were in his heart. When the sea breeze blew, the reluctant uncle wanted to return to question the woman, but he gave up, perhaps the childhood trauma he had experienced told him that he could not get the answer he wanted by questioning. In the end, he only snatched an angel bell on the side of the road as a helpless prop to soothe the little boy's wounded heart. "Mother left you, just shake the angel bell, and your mother will appear." Of course, you can't see your mother by this wind chime, but Uncle Kikujiro protects the little boy's soul in this way, which makes people cry.
The whole film does not end with the little boy's journey to find his mother, and the uncle's journey to heal his childhood is the climax of the whole film.
In Hisaishi's crisp and light piano, from the frogs on the reeds in the water, the caterpillars eating vegetable leaves, to the azure sea, the twinkling starry sky, the sound of grass and cicadas, the green of the mountains, a childhood summer style painting, in Kikujiro and three other men: Mr. Good Man, Fat Guy, Skinhead Guy, four marginal people who are also abandoned by society, are shown in the unscrupulous play with the little boy.
"It's just a group of bored and lonely adults who use children as an excuse to play by themselves." Kitano explained it himself.
In the middle of the game, there is an intriguing plot, which is also the most touching and unexpected scene in the whole film: the wild childlike heart reminds Kikujiro of his mother, and suddenly finds that it may not be difficult to forgive her, so he decides to visit his mother in a nursing home, but when he arrives at the nursing home, Kikujiro finds that it is so difficult to meet simply. The nostalgia is more timid, and I dare not ask the people who come. Across the wind and smoke years, mother and son are like a wide body of water, and it is impossible to sit down face to face and talk on their knees.
He could only go around the outside of the house, through the hazy glass, quietly look at his mother who was a little lonely and looked a little demented, and the resentment, grievance, and attachment in his eyes were full of all the hardships and regrets of an adult.
Sound insulation, wind insulation, both hazy and clear, close at hand, and far away in the sky, both like unbreakable, but also like a touch of glass, is the sum of many things and emotions in the years. Perhaps he had forgiven his mother, but half a life's wound would take time to heal.
We finally understand why the rogue uncle has been insisting on promising to take the little boy to find his mother. It is not so much that the little boy is looking for his mother, but rather that the uncle is looking for the happiness and innocence that he lost in childhood.
Just like the beginning of man, everyone is as pure as a flower, but after experiencing the wind and rain of the world, every adult is scarred by many sores.
Whose childhood did not have regrets? Tracing back to the original family we grew up in, although we are not necessarily like little boys and uncles without parents to take care of, but most of our parents also grew up from their own mutilated childhood, they also suffered from such and such dark wounds, with such and such defects. Their distorted humanity and mundane intellect do not understand exactly how to raise us, or even inadvertently hurt us.
However, we should be responsible for our future destiny as adults, we can have memories and reflections, but more importantly, we must learn to heal the wounds we have suffered, let ourselves regain a free childhood memory, and find a return to the purity of the heart! Cultivate a beautiful character and harvest a sweet destiny!