A distinct and unusual style and
form of narration- editing pervades in the film. Mute or slow motion violence
punctures the screen while narrating a fragmentary plot about a sincere cop
whose wife is going to die soon due to cancer. He got loan money from notorious
Japanese criminal syndicate ‘Yakuza’ and the goons keep on messing his life
with threats. Meanwhile a mid age colleague cop gets shot on job and now his
life on wheelchair is drawing surreal drawings…some beautiful…some suicidal!
What is the most beautiful about
this otherwise ordinary film is the way director and actor Takeshi Kitano used
the form to say something so ordinary in extraordinary
way on the screen. Rarely do we see the combination of violence and visual aesthetics
runs hand in hand like poetry on screen. Those creative surrealistic paintings
that his colleague cop made are absolutely treat to your eyes. The real artist
behind them is none other than Kitano himself who made most of them when he was
on hospital bed as paralytic patient for short term after meeting a severe
accident. The soothing and emotive background score is another evocative part
of the film and Kitano made us feel the sublime joy and melancholy of husband
and wife in their wandering moments of togetherness in the lap of nature, far
away from madding crowd! The end is something so dark and yet so graceful; this
happens rare in cinema.
So far my most impressive Kitano
film.
Ratings-7/10
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