Influenced by some friends in his early years, I began to like the mysterious works directed by Takita Kiichiro, so I have seen almost all his films with video materials. So when the ambassador learned that he was going to make the film Poison last year, he had been paying attention to the dynamics of the film. However, just as the film was about to be fully released, the earthquake came so suddenly. Unfortunately, director Takita also disappeared in the tsunami triggered by the earthquake, and his whereabouts are still unknown. I'm very sorry about that. Last week, I found the complete image of this film from my friends, and finally I can enjoy the last film directed by Takita.
Ruoya and Long are also twin brothers and sisters abandoned by their parents. They grew up in an orphanage in a remote town in Japan and were bullied and oppressed. In order to ensure that my brother can live a normal life, if my sister doesn't have the opportunity to spoil her family and go shopping with her friends like other girls of the same age, she can only work as a dancer in the bar in the town, drink with guests and lead a decadent, absurd and difficult life. Later, if she wanted her brother to live a good life, she sold medicine for a big boss who didn't know who it was under the introduction of a frequent bar, and began a twisted and unknown road. At the same time, my younger brother Long seems to live healthily under the care of his sister, but he hates himself every day. It pains him to watch his sister come home drunk and disheveled every day, crying silently behind his back. Finally, after leaving a book, he embarked on a journey to Tokyo. He wants to get his sister out of such a painful life by his own efforts. If the dragon is sad after he leaves, he hopes his brother can start his life again in a foreign land. She didn't want her brother to know the secret of drug trafficking. Without knowing it, she went further and further on the road of drug trafficking. Although she doesn't know the identity of the ultimate boss yet, she has become a well-known cadre in the organization. Finally, because of his outstanding performance in bringing down the biggest rival organization for the organization, he is about to get a personal meeting with the ultimate boss. Just then, a bad news came, if I was told that my younger brother Long also died of an overdose. The news almost reached her. Her life in Tokyo only came from a letter from her brother in January, but his brother never mentioned drug abuse in his letter. If you are also in pain, you are also puzzled about the death of your brother. Just before the shock passed, she began to receive strange letters frequently. Everything seems to point to her brother's death and the absurd and decadent life of her brother and sister. What happened before the dragon died? What is the source of this letter? She is getting more and more confused about the ins and outs of this matter. Under if's crazy assumption and search, family, underworld, police and even herself surfaced one by one, completely subverting and reorganizing the world she once thought. A brand-new world mixed with cruelty, tenderness, lust, death, madness and absurdity began to appear in front of her eyes. With the constant release of the truth, her life seemed to be threatened. ...
Like other films written by director Takita, Qiu Zi Suzuki and Kuruma Fujikura, the writers still tell a strange and confusing story from the perspective of gray figures at the bottom of society. There is no doubt that the bottom groups of society are the most affected people in the world. No one knows the cruelty of life better than them, and the gray characters are undoubtedly some of the most ambiguous people in society, because the fog hanging over them makes them better reflect the least known side of human nature. Both the director and the screenwriter are clearly aware of this. Therefore, in Ruoye, we see the huge price that needs to be paid for the growth of the people at the bottom of society. The pain she suffered is the high-intensity concentration and refinement of the oppression that everyone has to endure in order to survive in modern society. As a drug dealer, she showed us the living conditions, experiences and spiritual world of some unknown people in society. The brilliance of the characters is a highlight of this film, but it is the director's consistent strength. The biggest breakthrough of this film is its two unique narrative perspectives. Due to the earthquake and the disappearance of the director, many films are incomplete, and most of the widely circulated versions are just stories told by my sister from her own perspective. The story told by my brother Long Ye is one of the complete versions of this film. Therefore, at the beginning of this story, it is a close-up of the younger brother Long being hacked to death and lying in a pool of blood, and then the film enters the life description of the two brothers and sisters when they were young. In the full version, it not only reveals the cause of her death from the perspective of her sister Ruoye, but also subtly intersperses her little life in Tokyo. The two main lines develop at the same time and gradually converge into a complete truth that seems to be truth.
It turned out that Dragon didn't realize his dream in Tokyo either. He was so unfamiliar with the reality that he was trapped by the local music group as soon as he entered Tokyo and was forced to become a cowherd to serve men or women who came to the red light district for fun. When he is alone, he always looks at the direction of his hometown or holds a photo of his favorite girl in Huang's hometown and misses it silently. Disillusionment of ideals, cruelty of reality, endless humiliation and torture, the dragon also learned to take drugs. Later, he was hacked to death for not paying the drug money.
Maybe many people think this is the end, but the director didn't end there. On the contrary, he seems to inadvertently and strangely treat the conversation between Ruo and his ultimate boss, police and neighbors, and in this indirect way, he reveals to readers that things are not so simple. The collusion between officials and bandits, the gang struggle, the deep affection between witnesses and brothers and sisters, whether true or not, the picture repeats the process of being hacked to death with an upgraded lens again, and the details are not easy to be noticed. There is also a strange smile on the mouth after my sister explained my brother's so-called cause of death like everyone else. Later, my sister seemed to get rid of her lover, but the last photo was fixed on Ruoyi's face with a strange expression and hung in her apartment a month later.
Weird, scary and depressing are the main themes of this film. The director told us in this maverick way that everyone has an unknown side, either dark or extreme. What you see and hear is far from the truth of a person and a thing, and what is hidden in the ambiguous light and shadow is the truth that everyone thinks. When the fog clears, must it be the real truth? Many things have happened, and what we are trying to find is not necessarily the truth, but it can make people take it for granted that this is the truth. The dark side will only make people get what it wants you to see, and you will never see the real truth. In the end, you thought you saw the truth, but in fact, what is the truth and what is a lie is as hazy as it was at the beginning. You still know nothing and can't say it. In the end, it is still a mystery.
It is said that there is another version of this film. At the end of that version, if it is still hanging at home, a figure like Long Ye in the crowd disappears into the street. Anyway, Director Long Ye is really a legendary director. His film and his life are as confusing as this film, which makes people unable to see the truth clearly. It seems that his life is to live for movies until his death.