I think there should be no more chilling love movie ending than "The City That Never Sleeps", right? At the end of "The City That Never Sleeps", the desperate Kenichi pulled the trigger, the bullet passed through Natsumi's body and took away the intimacy The residual temperature. He finally personally killed the desperate lover who had plagued him with bad luck, and at the same time killed his last lingering hope.
On the long covered bridge, Kenichi stood holding the dead Xia Mei for a long time, and the night sky finally fell with the bright white snow that Xia Mei had hoped for. This belated, deadly snow will finally complete the two centuries of orphans. Buried.
Just like the name of the movie, the whole story of "The City That Never Sleeps" takes place within three days of sleepless Kabukicho in Japan. For three days, a gang storm entwined the fate of the protagonist Liu Jianyi and the foreign Xia Mei.
Kenichi used Natsumi as his trump card. Natsumi betrayed her man to join Kenichi. Kenichi also realized that with such a woman, she was in her calculations
z4 The war orphans of China and Japan. His cleverness allowed him to survive in the mud pool of the gang again and again relying on the malice of others, but his lack of identity could not solve his bone loneliness, so he was fragile and sensitive.
So when his sensitive subconscious foreseeed the coming of a strange woman of the same birth and the same cleverness, he could not suppress his inner desire to meet this bizarre woman.
If Kenichi didn’t leave at first because of his curiosity about Natsumi, then he was still unwilling to escape when the catastrophe was approaching. It was because of his uncontrollable enthusiasm
because in that long desperate night, Natsumi was the flash of light. The light of hope, only with a duel with her can he verify the existence of love, break the long-lasting nightmare, and fill his inner loneliness, otherwise he will always be a bat flying aimlessly in the dark night.
The ultimate weapon in their duel is love. Natsumi wants to take advantage of Kenichi under the guise of love, and Kenichi will do the trick, pretending to fall in love to convince Natsumi.
Of course, we can say that the various deceptions and temptations in the film are their own strategies, but they all project their desire for love between them, but they are too mutilated and bruised, and their fragility cannot bear. The bet on love, they are just ants in the rivers and lakes, and they may be swallowed by powerful waves at any time.
So, whoever really believes the other party in the end will aim at himself.
As you know, Natsumi or Xiaolian finally pointed the gun at Kenichi. And Kenichi only gave her an empty gun at the beginning.
Jianyi's last hope for love was dashed, and he finally became the real "Natsumi", continuing to fly like a bat in the dark night. Although the
movie sounded like "there are only two kinds of people in the world, deceitful and deceived." Such a defining line, but in fact the feelings of Kenichi and Natsumi in the film are actually ambiguous. In other words, while the creator is narrating this dark world, he himself has hope for true love, although the handling of the movie's ending is still pessimistic, that is, the movie "killed" both of them. We are familiar with
, but this is not what often appears in Stephen Chow movie emotional core?
The movie is adapted from the novel "The City That Never Sleeps" by the famous Japanese crime novelist Chi Xing Zhou, and it is also one of the screenwriters of the film. As the idol of Chi Xing Zhou who expresses his admiration under the pseudonym, such novels appear. It's no surprise.
In addition to the intriguing love theme, "The City That Never Sleeps" has been seen a lot: every frame is so handsome to his bones that the extremely lonely Takeshi Kaneshiro, sexy and sultry femme fatale and dark and humid neon streets constitute a superb image, the three kingdoms pattern. The battle of conspiracy, the gangster empire where Hong Kong and Japanese dramas are gathered and deduced... It is a masterpiece of high appreciation and artistic accomplishment. (Writing: Fifty Meters Dark Blue)
