It is always like this, people with faith laugh at ordinary people for not pursuing no principles, while ordinary people who pursue freedom feel that those who have faith live too tired to be flexible.
When I was a child, I didn't know why Japanese people liked to kill themselves by cutting their stomachs, but later learned that this is called the spirit of Bushido, and they are willing to give up their lives for the faith in their hearts.
The movie I'm going to talk to you about today is related to the spirit of Bushido, but it's not a Japanese movie.
It is a gangster film played by the Oscar-winning black film emperor, and its name is "Ghost Dog Killer"!
When I first saw the title, I mistakenly thought it was a suspense thriller, but after careful understanding, I found that it was actually a gangster movie, and the ghost dog was an elegant killer, no ghost!
The film has been released since 1999, which is a very old movie.
In Douban, it scored 7.5 points, which is also a good rating in gangster films.
The film's director, Jim Jarmusch, is also a talented man, who has directed many works and has been nominated for the Palme d'Or many times, and has also won awards such as Gotham Films.
This "Ghost Dog Killer", the director himself was nominated for the Palme d'Or, it is a pity to say, except for the short film "Coffee and Cigarettes", it has always been only nominated, but it has not been directly obtained.
And the killer of the film, Forrest Whitaker, is not small, and there are many nominated and awarded works.
What really makes the audience boil is that in 2007, with a "Last Dictatorship", he won the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Actor, which is also deserved.
Although he did not get any honors in the role of the ghost dog, the charm of this role is still very worth talking to everyone, and the following will simply take you to see the plot.
Ghost Dog is a gangster killer living in New Jersey, although he is a black man, he is very fond of the Japanese spirit of Bushido, and he also takes loyalty as his life creed.
It is because he likes the spirit of Bushido, so after being saved by the gang boss from the gangsters, he decided to work for the gang boss without pay and became a professional killer.
This is ten years!
The ghost dog does not smile, dwells in simplicity, home out of the sky, home out of height. He often practiced his katana on the rooftop by himself, and incorporated the drawing method into the action of drawing a gun. He still feeds the pigeons and lives a very simple life, like the killer Leon in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold".
It is worth mentioning that his contact with his boss did not rely on telegrams or telephones, but used the oldest way in China before - flying pigeons to pass books!
This killer is also a little bit too funny, but it's really cool ~ ·
He treats the boss as a relative, as long as the boss tells him to do something, he is diligent and sincere to complete, even if it is to kill, he is never soft, the means are called a clean and neat, well, a little cruel.
Of course, like Leon, the ghost dog can't have anything to bind to himself because he is also a killer, so they don't have friends, so they are actually very lonely inside.
He would sometimes go to the park to buy ice cream and chat with French speakers, even if they were talking to each other, chickens and ducks, but he also found it interesting.
This is a black killer who likes Japanese culture very much, and he not only likes the spirit of Bushido, but also likes to exchange his experiences with others about reading Rashomon.
However, if you just help the boss to kill people, it is fine, but the boss is not so good at all, maybe he just saved him by chance, but he chose to be his leader because of his loyalty.
What awaits him? It is not the brotherhood of the jianghu, but the boss's throwing pot, in the eyes of the boss, he is just a pawn and a victim who can be sacrificed at a critical time.
So what should the ghost dog decide in the face of the boss's sacrifice to himself?
Killing the former savior is against one's conscience and morality, but if you don't kill, can you still save your life? But this goes against the spirit of Bushido that he believes in.
Many viewers said the killer was cool, and the whole movie was seen as a cool one from start to finish.
Maybe its plot is not particularly brilliant, but the fight inside is really quite exciting, sashimi hand-to-hand combat, gangster movies should have, it has it!
Some viewers said they didn't watch enough? Some people found that in 2009, the director of the film re-directed a movie called "The Limits of Control", which can be regarded as a sequel to the film.
"Limit" makes up for some of the audience's doubts about the killer of the ghost dog, but the second part seems to be a bit overdone, and the audience rating is not high.
However, both films let the audience see the director's obsession with the spirit of Bushido, and let the audience like the killer even more, and even feel that a cool word is no longer enough to describe the character.
Audiences who like to fight gangster movies, you can find your own to see Oh, the ending is waiting for you to reveal, the audience who has seen it, I believe they will like the ghost dog, a bit of a sullen killer!