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Ainohshi Blue Flame (2003)
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Performed by Yukio Ninagawa
Writers: Yukio Kanagawa / Yusuke Takashi / Takuya Miyawa
Starring: Kazuya Ninomiya / Aya Matsuura / Apricot Suzuki / Umeaki Nakamura
Genre: Drama / Romance / Crime
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Screening Date: 2003-03-15 (Japan)
Runtime: 116 minutes
Also known as: Seventeen Years Old Total Crime / The Blue Light
Qing, which is represented in Japanese as blue, is blue, and blue sky, perhaps this is a melancholy color that belongs only to Japan.
The outer flame of the flame is blue, it looks cold and calm, it is indeed the hottest part, and it can quickly heat the reagent but also has the most hurtful destructive power. The quiet and introverted 17-year-old Xiuyi is a lonely and swaying blue flame. Not all teenagers are 17-year-olds are vigorous and carefree, and some people's 17-year-olds are wrapped in sadness, pain, jealousy, hatred, and accumulate enthusiasm, simplicity, kindness, and thoughts to play a sad song belonging to this age.
Shuichi Kushimori, a high school teenager, rides a road race car that ordinary people use to go to school, sweating on the highway, with a childish face, playing the protagonist of his short life at the age of 17. Because of the early death of his father and the early death of his mother to a scoundrel, family reasons make him seem a little strange and lonely, although playing at school, participating in clubs, and stealing nude paintings of the female classmates next door are no different from any teenager, but after returning home, he went into a garage-converted room, occasionally curled up in a square fish tank, and his melancholy eyes reflected his helplessness and loneliness, and probably no one really wanted to know him.
So much so that after the murder was later revealed, after Shuichi asked the police officer in charge of the case, Hideshi Yamamoto, why he bought a road race car that was as bad as his own, Yamamoto said, "I want to know more about you", and he was stunned for a few seconds.
Shuichi's desire to protect his family is reflected in the angry look in his stepfather's eyes when he sees him, in his arguments with his mother, in the laughter he fights with his sister, and in the baseball bat he wields when his stepfather hugs his sister. He had no purpose, he just wanted to protect his most precious thing at this time— his family.
Maybe there's a better way, but the strings run into walls. The mother in the film wants to stop talking, and Shuichi's way of resorting to the law encounters her ambiguity, and all the contradictions seem to be on the verge of erupting and exceeding the boy's patience, so he has to eliminate the sudden threats in his life and commit extreme acts.
He found drugs that made people unconscious like drunkenness from underground websites, and stumbled upon a way to kill people with electric currents, so he decided to design a perfect murder. When the sweaty Xiuyi got all the preparatory work in place, he held the switch button in his hand, but did not touch it immediately, but there was a momentary pause, and this pause appeared quite wonderfully, just like the bow that was pulled full but did not fire immediately, which not only explained Xiuyi's feelings at this moment, but also lengthened the viewing expectations. Just when the audience has a premonition that it will happen at any time, it has suddenly been put into practice, and the stepfather is drooling and his whole body is spasming, and he looks at everything calmly and fearfully.
Detective Yamamoto, who is in charge of handling the case, is suspicious, but the autopsy report proves that Tsone died of natural causes of death, and Shuichi is very excited that he can restore the family to a peaceful life. The camera returned to him, and Shuichi, who was lying on the bed, was not afraid of guilt, and he laughed.
However, his secret is discovered by his bad teenage friend Takuya, who extorts money from him. Shuichi is forced to commit another crime, and Noriko tries to help him, but he gets deeper and deeper, step by step into the abyss...
Here's the end of a passage from the original
"After being released from prison, my life will also encounter various unfavorable situations." However, for Shuichi, he was willing to accept this punishment. Even if the reason for the killing is sufficient, and two lives are taken, they will have to carry this cross for the rest of their lives.
But.......
Shuichi shook his head. ”
The wind blew on his cheeks, and the fence separating the road and the waterfront skimmed swiftly past his eyes.
Only the ocean has not changed at all, still intently guarding me.
It's almost time to reach Cape Inamura.
Shuichi took a deep breath.
I am like the wind crossing the sea, and now I have finally reached the final stop of the journey. After making this decision, it was difficult for even my feet to begin to soften. But support yourself to succeed
The will to continue the purpose is the blue flame that shines in the brain.
...... Not a self-explanatory suicide, but somewhere between a suicide and an unexpected situation.
After crossing the top of the slope of the road, riding down the slope, the bike accelerates in a huff.
The traffic flow that had been blocked has been relieved slightly, and the car has begun to move smoothly.
Enter the lane on the left from the shoulder of the road and look for oncoming cars.
It's a big truck, and it's approaching in an instant.
Xiu Yi stepped on the pedal with all his strength, closed his eyes tightly, and turned his hand sharply to the right. ”
Sad, really sad.
Japanese movies of Youth Story rarely depict the light and sunny youth time, but more of the gloom and sorrow behind the sun, and the Japanese film style seems to sit in front of you and tell you all this. Clean pictures, the use of light and shadow, and the projection of metaphors implicitly reveal the heart of youth.
Shunji Iwai, who specializes in this genre, has a good taste and is also a school of his own. Different from Iwai's aesthetic and cruel interpretation, the famous Japanese theater director Yukio Kuagawa, who has been away from the screen for many years, has made this film adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Yusuke Takashi, full of a slight taste of reverse flight. Shuichi's actor, Ninomiya Kazumi, was also personally chosen by him, and Ninomiya Kazuya (nino-san) acting is self-contained and naturally revealed. At that time, he was a member of the daishi idol group Arashi, but the director saw that he was introverted and melancholy behind the singing and dancing. As a teenager in the circle, playing a high school student at the age of 20 does not violate the sense of harmony (he is still 34 years old and still 17 years old), which is just right.
In an interview later in the film's release, director Yukio Akikawa looks at Nino like a son and says his favorite shot is When Shuichi sits alone on the evening dam, hunched over. (I also like this shot the most, it is very real, I feel that sitting there is not only the teenager Xiuyi but also Nino himself, fans who understand Nino should know why they say that)
Love is sacred, it should be based on the happiness of the other party, and if there is pain, it should be kept to yourself.
So in order not to involve his mother and sister, Shuichi decided to die alone. Noriko, who loves Shuichi, listens to his tapes:
Something I like
sport utility vehicle
Ride on a buggy to see the world
Mom cooked the dish, Haruka's angry face
The bad painting of the gate, the joke of Theagawa
Nude sketch of Noriko, DreamIng Dog, Bourbon Whiskey Haber 101
Faye Wong singing Chinese song, Zidane's possession, Kusturica's film, Tom Weitz's song
Roasted charred bacon, donuts without holes, shaved ice without headaches
Eggs laid by turtles, cicadas that don't make noise, colorful pandas, bottomless pockets
Painless needles, toothbrush bristles that can no longer be used
The green light that never turns red
The final BGM is to choose the old song "The Post War Dream" by the veteran band Pink Floyd as the inner annotation and catharsis of Xiuyi in the film, which seems very appropriate. At the end of the film, on the highway, Xiuyi is still riding a bicycle, still white and fluttering, and the sea and blue sky are still blue in the distance, but he is no longer a resentful and urgent expression, but instead he is determined and calm, and he decisively rides towards the oncoming truck... At this time, the words about his favorite things sounded outside, and the song of pink floyd also came from afar, as if to tell Xiuyi's yearning for detachment from bondage, and then shouted out the repression forced by reality.
At the beginning and end of the film, the teenager lies naked in the fish tank, fiddling with his fingers alone.
Then get up and slowly put on your clothes and turn off the lights one by one
(Loved this shot that goes to the sun)
I'll take a few more pieces of bootlegs
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