Post by Capo on Apr 1, 2007 23:55:58 GMT
3-4x juugatsu
Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano 1990 Japan
A gentle gas station attendant punches a bullying gangster, and decides to buy a gun to stand up for himself.
Kitano's unique style, of mixing deadpan, dry humour with even more deadpan, dry violence, is at its funniest here, using lowly characters who don't speak very much - and when they do they just bullshit - and an unusual narrative technique, of explaining things purely by means of visuals and editing, to great effect. Kitano himself plays a minor but memorable role as a casually bi-sexual, mysoginistic and vicious gangster. Very witty, very nonchalant, very fun.
Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano 1990 Japan
A gentle gas station attendant punches a bullying gangster, and decides to buy a gun to stand up for himself.
Kitano's unique style, of mixing deadpan, dry humour with even more deadpan, dry violence, is at its funniest here, using lowly characters who don't speak very much - and when they do they just bullshit - and an unusual narrative technique, of explaining things purely by means of visuals and editing, to great effect. Kitano himself plays a minor but memorable role as a casually bi-sexual, mysoginistic and vicious gangster. Very witty, very nonchalant, very fun.