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disordered Rage is a fib told two times : first as grim existential thriller , then as slapstick funniness as Takeshi Kitano ’s artistic statement
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break Rageis the newest movie from Japanese directorTakeshi Kitano … or is it?Kitano is best known in the West for his melancholy and dark gangster motion picture likeSonatine , Hanabi , and the recentOutragetrilogy , and more attentive arthouse fare likeA Scene at the Sea , Kids Return , andDolls . In Japan , he ’s seen as a comedian and ubiquitous medium soma who started out in stand - up clowning , then slapstick sketch clowning , game show hosting , frequent guest on talk shows , cartridge holder and newspaper publisher columnist , and puma . He has persuasion about all of this , andBroken Rageis his reflexion of those cerebration . And it ’s not as somber or high - minded as you expect . It ’s funny and gleefully silly .
A Story Told Twice., The First Time is Tragedy; the Second is Comedy
Broken Rageis , at first , the character of somber and austere gangster hitman story Kitano is best known for on the outside circuit . He star as Mouse , an senesce gunslinger who takes assignments from a secret node he never met . Mouse carries out his job with inhuman efficiency until the attestor turn him in . He cut a softwood with the equally ruthless bull to infiltrate a Yakuza drug operation and betray its bosses . The half - hour tale is directed with the expected austere detachment Kitano frames and edit his movies that hint at the existential emptiness of his mob part , though the detachment is often on the verge of deadpan drollery . So far , so Kitano . Then the switch hit .
The 2nd half ofBroken Rageis the exact same news report as Mouse , the Hitman , but this meter played and directed as a dense slapstick comedy . Like really dumb . Really , really , really speechless . It ’s the same story with the same scenes , but every one of them is now reconfigured into Benny Hill - levels of slapstick knockabout comedy , then it escalates into Monty Python levels of utter insanity . Mouse is no longer a ruthlessly efficient stone killer but a hapless , nervous ( for salutary reason ) schlub who ca n’t take the air five steps without trip over something and hurting himself . He ’s completely incompetent in a world of surreal insaneness . Even the stoical cops who nab him ( Nao Moriand Shogun’sTadanobu Asano ) are now gleefully creepy goofballs . The Yakuza mobster Mouse is sent to infiltrate are silly sod who endlessly pettifog with him , each other , and anyone in the room at the drop of a lid over the pettiest thing . It ’s no wonder Kitano bill himself in the cast as " Beat " Takeshi , the nickname he was famous for as a comic since the eighties while his director billing is his full name of Takeshi Kitano . In retelling the same story as a Mad clip - trend spoof , he ’s just present his own thought outgrowth , that every serious story can be really dumb when you decide to make it that way . There ’s no clearer affirmation of intent than that .
Broken Rageseems to be a simple goof and exercise in ego - parody that only a manager as singular as Kitano would intend of . It does n’t call for complexity , but it has layers of significance . It ’s a meditation on storytelling and music genre and how a sense of humor and a sense of irreverence can all turn the same story into a dissimilar beast . It ’s also Kitano ’s personal artistic declaration , that he ’s both the serious arthouse directorandthe goofball comedian that determine his calling . There ’s no substantial binary program , he seems to be saying . Like it or not , he ’s doing what he wants , how he want , and when he want , and at just 67 minutes , he does n’t outstay his welcome . The best comic knows to leave the audience athirst for more , and he ends it exactly when he knows he should . Broken Rageis also his way of life of enjoin even an artist ’s personal financial statement can and should be wacky fun . " I ’m both serious and very silly , " he seems to be allege . " Deal with it . "
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