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The Japanese film "Rain of Day", released in 2016, is a "bone clear" movie.
The film is 99 minutes long, and when the filming reached the 45th minute, the director made a big reversal of 180 degrees .
Sheng Sheng changed a pure love film into a large-scale crime film.
"Rain of Day" is adapted from the manga of the same name by manga artist Shigeru Furutani, wrapped in the shell of pure love and crime, but actually tells a story of school bullying and distorting human nature.
The film first became powerful in the title, and the title was released in the 45th minute, and the plot style was greatly reversed.
There is a convention in the music industry that the longer the prelude, the more powerful the song, because only if you are confident enough in your own song can you dare to play it that way.
For example, the Eagles' "California Hotel", with a prelude of more than 40 seconds, is regarded as a classic by fans.
For example, Jay Chou's "In the Name of the Father", the prelude is 1 minute and 09 seconds long, which is the highest song he has forced.
There is also a convention in the film circle, the later the title of the film, the more cattle X, such as Jia Zhangke's "Mountains and Rivers of the Past", the title was released in the 40th minute.
This "Day Rain" did not hesitate to let go, and the title of the film was only revealed in the 45th minute.
The director's real purpose is to use the 45-minute title as a watershed, the first 45 minutes of one style, the last 54 minutes of another style, the two styles are mixed together, colliding with a different artistic effect, described in one of Wang Shuo's works, that is, "half seawater, half flame".
Let's start with "half the sea", the first 45 minutes of this film are a pure love film.
Okada and Ando are employees of a cleaning company in Tokyo, Okada is dressed as a dick, and Ando is a bearded man, and the two partners are full of joy.
Ando has a crush on Yuka, a waiter at a coffee shop, and asks Okada for advice.
The two come to the coffee shop and meet Yuka, but things take a turn for the worse.
Okada was originally a light bulb, but Yuka fell in love with her, betraying her and favoring a beautiful woman on the other, and Okada fell into the trouble of happiness.
At the same time, Okada discovers that there is another person in the coffee shop who is eyeing Yumi, and this person is his high school classmate Morita.
Eventually Okada and Yumi fell in love.
The film is full of jokes in the first part.
For example, the strong man Ando mentioned that the crush object was instantly girlish, and the temperament of the Japanese manga characters came out instantly, which looked very funny.
For example, Okada looks like a dick and helps the dead party chase the goddess, but is favored by the goddess, which is also a major feature of Japanese manga to meet the fantasies of teenagers.
For example, after Okada and Yumi fell in love, on the first night of the two, Okada asked his girlfriend, "How many people have you slept with before?" The girlfriend replied shyly, "A dozen." Okada collapsed in an instant, and the audience laughed heartily, which is also a funny plot that often appears in Japanese manga.
I thought that the whole film was a love scene of three men and a woman, but the plot after that took a sharp turn.
We then look at "Half Flame", which is a violent crime film in the last 54 minutes of the film.
Morita's appearance tears all the good to pieces, it turns out that he is not a suitor of beauty, he is just a person with an antisocial personality, he is carrying out his own acts of revenge, and the whole content of his life is: stalking and killing.
The film details several of his killings and is full of black humor.
He sneaks into a couple's house in advance, and when the couple finds out, they try to join forces to subdue him, not wanting the girl to clumsily pit her boyfriend, and the two are killed by Morita.
After committing the crime, he sneaked into a stranger's house, and when the owner returned, he was leisurely eating food at home, and when the master entered the house, he took the knife in his hand and killed the other party.
After that, he buried the body in the courtyard, the police detected the abnormality, went to the door for questioning, he was not in a hurry, and the knife fell in his hand and resulted in the life of the police.
While raping a victim, the victim came on menstrual leave, revealing a sanitary napkin with blood...
In the end, when Morita tries to rape Okada's girlfriend, Okada comes out to stop it, and the weapon in his hand turns out to be a masturbator.
These contents are too absurd and bloody on a large scale, and are very different from the warm style before.
In the end, under Okada's questioning, Morita tells the truth, it turns out that the school bullying has caused others to distort humanity, and he wants to take revenge on the whole society.
The final outcome, of course, is that Morita is brought to justice, but the killing in the whole process is shocking.
The film is over, but a few details of this film make me reminisce for a long time.
The first point is that the director and the audience made a joke.
Just look at the front, you don't know who is the male protagonist of this film, it may be the bearded man who is crazy for love, it may be the cute dick, it may be the pure and lovely girl, no one thinks that the person who spies on everything in the corner is the protagonist of this film.
Even if you think about it, it's hard to figure out what kind of personality this person is, he is taciturn, combing Matt's hairstyle, talking cautiously, you never think that he is the murderer of a serial murder, and the other three almost became his knife ghosts.
The second point is that the director's understanding of sex and crime is very deep.
There is a parallel clip in the second half of the film that is exquisite.
Two pictures, one side killing, the other side of the intimate.
Okada and Yumi intertwine, the two twisted together, intertwined and collided.
Morita is trying to kill a woman, and the two are also twisted together, intertwining and colliding.
In parallel editing, the two sets of images are interspersed with each other, and you can't even tell whether the shots that appear in the picture are showing sex or killing.
The director uses this technique to tell the audience that sex and crime are often twins.
The third point is that the director's interpretation of school bullying is very special.
There are many school bullying films, and the one we are most familiar with is last year's "Young You", which generally shows the insults suffered by the victims.
And "Day Rain" does not directly describe the victim's injury, it is about school bullying like a chronic disease has been torturing the victim, more than a decade later turned an innocent teenager into a dragon, the more cruel Morita's criminal method in the film, the more it proves the depth of the injury he suffered, the film only uses a few flashback clips to retrace the past.
One of the scenes is particularly heartfelt, a group of bullies make Morita take off his pants in the classroom to masturbate, while the cowardly Okada can only watch from the sidelines, this picture is few strokes, but it is extremely impactful, and it is a good explanation of Morita's motivation for revenge on society.
The fourth point is that the director's portrayal of the murderer is very special.
The fierce killer must have inner weaknesses, the director often shoots warm scenes when showing the weaknesses, and the killer will show a warm side when facing his lover, children and mothers, this set has been used badly, such as the recent crime film "Riot Elimination" Wu Yanzu and Chunxia's scenes are the continuation of this routine.
But what amazes me most about "Daytime Rain" is that the director broke through the routine, and he used a very special design when expressing the tenderness of the killer.
Morita killed a lot of people and drove away, the police car chased after him, along the way he drove a car and killed a lot of people, but drove to a street, a puppy appeared in the middle of the road, Morita in order to avoid hitting the puppy, slammed the steering wheel, and finally the car was destroyed.
Seeing this scene, I shot a case of exclamation, a killer in the last moment of life but a puppy with pity, his knee-jerk reaction let his inner goodness all show in front of the audience, other need not repeat, this concise and efficient performance method to kill most crime films, awesome!
In short, "Daytime Rain" is a film full of design sense, it "eats two pieces", fusing funny, pure love, violence, and perversion into one furnace, cooking a unique taste, bringing us a very unique movie viewing experience.
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