Who do you think of when you think of the "aesthetics of violence"? If it were me, the first would be Wu Yusen in Hong Kong, and if you want to say abroad, it would be Quentin in the United States, and Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano in Japan. Of course, today we do not talk about violence, but what I want to recommend to you is also a warm movie "Kikujiro's Summer" made by Takeshi Kitano, who is known for his violent aesthetics.
The movie "Kikujiro's Summer" was released on June 5, 1999. The story line of the film is very simple, the little boy is a man who has lost his father since childhood and lives with his mother-in-law. And the mother herself never met, the mother-in-law told to work in another city. Summer vacation is coming, friends are hanging out with their families, and the mother-in-law is working, for Zhengnan, the rest of the holiday is only boring and lonely.
By chance, I found my mother's address in the photo. So Masao decided to find his mother, who lived in the seaside city of Toyohashi. After the neighbor's aunt found out, due to the long distance, worried about the danger of zhengnan, she gave her husband 50,000 yen and asked her husband to accompany Zhengnan, and since then, a journey of stumbling and laughing between uncle and Xiaozheng has begun.
The idle uncle did not immediately get on the road after getting the money, but pulled the man to gamble on the bicycle, and lost almost all the money on his body after some operation, and the two had to take a hitchhiker to the destination.
On the way, they meet a lewd bald man, a "well-meaningd" lobby manager, an enthusiastic couple, a "poet" who travels across the country, and a stupid duo of the rampage. The whole story does not seem to have a climactic part, but the director tells it and makes people fall into it, unconsciously trapped in one witty and funny and warm little story after another.
Outside the hotel, the uncle took the image of justice, violently saved Zhengnan, turned his head and wondered what the lewd man wanted to do, ran back to experience it, and after learning about the situation, he snatched the lewd man's wallet.
When I got to the hotel, I forced my way to the pool, and for the sake of face, I swam strongly, and almost drowned.
In order to show sympathy, the uncle drew a big flower face for Zhengnan, and just after getting the couple's consent, the uncle came out from the other side and immediately got into the car, which was extremely funny. Before leaving, in order to vent his anger, he smashed the window glass of the driver of the big car with a stone like a child.
On the grass, couples performed shows for Zhengnan, throwing oranges and mechanical dances, and also gave Zhengnan school bags with angel wings. Originally, the picture was quite warm, and as a result, the four big words "Standing into the Prohibition" appeared far away from the camera, and it turned out that they were playing in a grass that was not entered.
Similar to the above shot, there is also an encounter with the "poet", the uncle bent down and pondered to let go of the car on the side of the road, and asked Zhengnan to find the nail, as a result, the camera pulled away, and the owner of the car was at the rear of the car.
At the old bus stop, the uncle secretly replaced the guard's rice ball with oranges, and after the people left, handed it to the two in the south, indicating that he was an adult, could survive hunger, originally wanted to establish the image of a glorious elder, and turned his head to borrow urine to run outside the station to enjoy the rest of the rice ball alone, in order to pick up the dropped rice ball, he did not expect to fall into the pit.
In order to stop the car, the uncle not only pretended to be blind; he also put nails on the road, originally wanting to let others take them for a ride in the name of tying tires to help, but the matter was overdone and directly stuck in the ditch. This should also be regarded as the old baby who touched the porcelain world.
This film a website score of 8.8 points, if only funny humor components, it is not enough to watch, let us quiet down and start thinking, is after the little boy met his mother, on the way back, we found that the original annoying, middle-aged and depressed man under the appearance, there is also a delicate gentleness and kindness.
Zhengnan was full of joy and looked forward to seeing his mother, but saw that his mother and others had formed a new family. Seeing hope and disappointment, Zhengnan bowed his head sadly. He understood that he had been abandoned.
And the uncle also changed the normal, without the nerves and recklessness of the past, comforted Zhengnan, and then snatched away two bells (angel bells) of the stupid and cute tribe, and gave it to Zhengnan, lying that his mother had moved away, and this was left to him by his mother.
The two walked back in frustration, running a few steps south to keep up with the uncle, and took the uncle's hand. Perhaps, from this time on, Zhengnan really accepted the uncle in front of him.
In the evening, the two came to the night market, the uncle cheated to break the rules of the market, was beaten, and later returned to Zhengnan with injuries, lying that he had accidentally fallen down the stairs. Zhengnan looked at the uncle, did not make a sound, silently went to the pharmacy to buy medicine for the uncle, and wiped him. The uncle first replied to him "thank you", then "I'm sorry". Thank you for healing my wounds, I'm sorry, I'm such a big person who still needs you to take care of.
I think from this time on, the identities of the two people have changed, before it was the journey of the uncle to accompany the little boy, and now it is the little boy to accompany the uncle's camping. Poets who like to write novels, stupid and cute gangsters and bald guys, everyone gets together and plays under the pretext of children, even more actively than children, which is also to make up for their childhood.
Everyone continued to play, fishing "fish", dancing, aliens, swinging ropes, naked 13 wooden people, knocking watermelons, Xiao Zhengnan's mood also gradually came out of the game with several uncles, and his face was also cheerful.
And Zhengnan's encounter also reminded the uncle of his mother, and let the fat guy take him to the nursing home, where he saw the lonely mother, and the two did not recognize each other and did not say a word. The uncle turned and left, this time he let the fat guy ride back by himself, and he hiked back to the campground. It is worth mentioning that at this time, the soundtrack of the film, "Mother", really complements each other.
With the end of the summer, several people have separated, the two finally returned to Asakusa, the uncle promised to continue to help Zhengnan to find his mother next time, Zhengnan was very happy, when they were separated, Zhengnan asked the uncle what his name was, and the uncle laughed and scolded "Kikujiro, fuck, roll it." When I first watched this film, I was really shocked when I saw this, and I always thought that Kikujiro was a little boy, but I didn't expect it to be an uncle. I didn't expect that I spent two hours with this old leper for a summer. Unexpectedly, in the days that followed, I spent one "two hours" after another to spend his summer.
"Kikujiro's Summer" is the most autobiographical and warmest work in Kitano Takeshi's creative process, Kitano Takeshi's childhood is like the south in the play, he has never had a happy and beautiful childhood, inspired by his father (Kitano Takeshi's father is named Kikujiro), the image is compared with Kikujiro in the play, it is more than enough, rude, rude, rude, dirty words, alcoholism, domestic violence, such an environment also shapes Kitano Takeshi's absurd and uninhibited character.
Kitano Takeshi was most impressed by a trip to the beach when his father took him as a child. Since then, the sea and blue have filled most of Kitano's films. It's not so much Kikujiro's journey as it is a letter of reconciliation from Takeshi Kitano to his parents. As for why it is a reconciliation book, interested friends can check out the story of Takeshi Shimokino and his mother Saki.
This film is saved on my computer and mobile phone at the same time, I have seen it no less than ten times, of course, there are other movies, here is not the table. I also wrote down hundreds of words of afterthought, but in the end I threw it away. Just because I saw the phrase on the Internet, "This is a movie that will produce hallucinations after watching it, and any description that spares no effort will fall into mediocrity." I also use this sentence to describe this film, the emotions in it really have to be seen in person to slowly feel. Believe me, watching this movie will not disappoint you. Especially for parents who have children at home, we may really need to reflect on whether we have imposed our own values and expectations on our children, so that they can prematurely lose the joy of childhood, and for children, perhaps it is more meaningful to accompany and have a complete childhood than to have achievements.