One of the distinguishing features of modern society is the fast pace, which means that our daily life is exhausted, people rarely stop to think about where they are going, and every time they stop, many times it will become a collection of loss, because as long as they think, they will let themselves fall into a real situation, in which there is a conflict with the fast pace. When sober thinking does not bring about a change in the status quo, thinking is a kind of torture for the status quo.
Today I recommend to you a Japan movie "Bullet Ballet" at the end of the last century, which tells us about the negativity of fast-paced modern life. After dating for ten years, his girlfriend committed suicide by drinking bullets, and the boyfriend of the advertising film director, Hetian, couldn't accept the truth for a while, so he focused his eyes on the people his girlfriend had been in contact with. One day, Wada was drunk and saw a street girl, but he was beaten by the street girl's accomplices without saying a few words. Wada instead focused his attention on eliminating the street girl's accomplices.
After a few twists and turns, Hetian slowly became part of the accomplices, because after he clashed with his accomplices several times, it caused a bigger conflict, but Hetian did not expect that he had slowly made a comeback to another world, in this world, the original calm was gone, and some were just the law of the jungle, and it was very real.
"Bullet Ballet" can attract a lot of people's attention with its sharp editing, but after this attraction quickly disappears, the audience will be confused about what the plot of the film is about. What exactly does it mean for Wada to be lost and being pulled into the water by another world. In fact, we can guess by the social background at the time.
When the millennium is approaching, some people are happy and some are worried, for Asian countries, especially Japan, after the financial crisis of 1997, the whole prosperity began to show, people have an opportunity to think about the problem, that is, what does modern society bring? Is it the sophistication and efficiency that it appears to be? Or is there something else lurking in the back of modern society?
"Bullet Ballet" tries to show this kind of hidden thing behind the prosperity, which requires the audience to think a little, and it is obvious that the protagonist of this film, Wada, is already thinking. Wada is a director of advertising films, and this character can be said to have the same magic as modern society, both of which create a false truth, and this false truth will indeed be believed by more people. Wada's identity is gorgeous in modern society, so gorgeous that Wada himself does not realize this magnificence, but the death of his girlfriend makes Wada start thinking for the first time.
Hetian couldn't accept that his girlfriend committed suicide by drinking bullets, so he wanted this reason to force himself to accept this fact, Hetian felt that the gun was a breakthrough, and it was also an opportunity to trigger his girlfriend to commit suicide by drinking bullets, but when the gun began to really make Hetian realize its power, Hetian also fell into a situation, it seems that at this time he can really understand why his girlfriend committed suicide at that time.
When Wada meets the street girl and her accomplices, this is the moment when he truly realizes that there is more than one side of life, and that the street girl and his accomplices represent the other side of the bustling city, that is, what is behind modernization. In the past, Wada saw a lot of modern superficial things, and as a commercial film director, he was also happy to accept this superficial nothingness. However, when he really saw the truth behind the city, all the dreams he had were shattered.
At the beginning, Hotan was looking for the truth, but slowly, when this search became ethereal, the truth began to appear one after another, which was not the result of Hetian's search, but after he began to really get in touch with the essence of the city, the truth would naturally let Hotan be in it.
Why did his girlfriend die, the reason is very simple, that is, Hetian's world is different from the world his girlfriend sees, when she came out of Hetian's world and really came to the real world, his girlfriend began to think, thinking about what the previous prosperity meant, thinking about what the current reality might represent, and when there was no answer to convince her, Hetian's girlfriend committed suicide.
When Hetian really understood the reason why his girlfriend committed suicide by drinking bullets, he himself was on the verge of collapse, and after experiencing a series of crises in this film, Hetian really understood a three-dimensional modern city, on the one hand, prosperity can isolate all bad things, on the other hand, reality is like a knife deeply inserted into Hetian's heart. At the end of the film, the two people run in different directions and blow a kind of freedom horn in the process of running, which is a choice for Hetian, and there is also an additional choice for the girl standing on the street. No one can answer where they can go, but as long as they run, they don't have to stand still.
Unfortunately, to this day, we still have no way to understand Watan's predicament, and even we can't really stand on the other side of the city to see something. The prosperous is still prosperous, and the lonely may no longer be seen. What is the truth of life? There are not many people who want to stop and think, because once they stop and think, there will be many people who will completely collapse, and people are disgusted with the fast-paced life on the one hand, but they can't stop their steps on the other hand, which may be another kind of prison.
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