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tom.slacker.rodeo · @tom.slacker.rodeo@bridge.neodb.net

Rated Boiling Point 7/10

This is a strange movie, made even stranger if you are unfamiliar with Takeshi Kitano's career, like I was. I had to read up on this film in order to make more sense of it. Kitano, previous to his directing career, was known in Japan as a stand up comic and a TV personality. Even after directing his first movie, Violent Cop, people were still not quite ready to take him seriously. This film is him grappling with his transition from comic to action movie director. Once you realize this, some things about the film gain much more relevance, like the way the main character's development is spurred on by violence, and the use of butterfly imagery and the eggs hint at metamorphosis. Even the final scene, which suggests that it all could have just been imagined, speaks to the process of film making itself. Much more interesting with this perspective, but I do think that film kind of suffers on its own with out it.

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Published 2021-11-18 00:00 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere