It is actually not difficult to destroy a person, as long as this person is far behind the times, even if he has the ability to reach the sky, he will eventually rise and fall in the sea of the times. Ruthlessly stripping away the era that belonged to him, and then letting him re-enter a strange place as an awkward machine, so that this person began to rise and fall. It can be seen that a person cannot compete with the times in which he lives.
The film "Death of the Beast" recommended to you today tells such a story. A young man who once achieved the ultimate in the field of war correspondents, because he lived in an unpopular era, was finally abandoned by the whole society. After the young man quit the newspaper where he worked, his life was in dire straits. As a whole person, he was out of step with Japanese society at the time, so he began to plan to do something "big". Coincidentally, another young man who was eager to try it also joined the ranks, and a great robbery that caused a sensation in Japan was born.
"Death of the Beast" seems to tell us a simple story, in fact, such a story itself is not simple, the reason is that the participants in the story do not have the opportunity to adapt to this era, and as a person abandoned by the times, he himself takes revenge on the times in an extreme way It seems to be successful in the film, but in reality it is an alternative frustration.
Why is this so, and we can see what the actual situation was like in Japan at that time? In the eighties of the twentieth century, Japan was forced to sign the Plaza Accord, after which the Japanese economy began to slump and steadily fell into the "lost twenty years", but in reality there is no way to avoid it. This is the insurmountable reality of the war correspondent Ida in this film. As for Date, he could play some roles in the movie to vent his frustrations, but in real Japan, they can't do anything.
If we look at Date before he or she was, we can make a connection to the fact that Japan's economy took off after the war. The postwar Japanese economy was boosted by the United States' involvement in the Korean War. As a result of the U.S. entry into the war, the United States had to move all the production lines of its military heavy industry to Japan, and Japan was revitalized industrially. In this way, Japan quickly completed its post-war economic reconstruction. Even after the end of the Korean War, Japan did not suffer any economic decline as a result of the U.S. withdrawal, but rather extended that momentum for decades.
In the seventies of the twentieth century, the Japanese economy reached its peak, and after the United States, the second largest economy in the world was Japan, and for such a country, this glory can be described as soaring. Just like Ida in this film, in the field of war correspondents, Ida has achieved the extreme, and even because of his courage to fight, he once filmed too many classic ** materials, and then what? That's the key, it's the key to this film, and it's the key to the changes in Japanese society as a whole.
At a time when the whole of Japan was still immersed in buying the whole of New York and even the whole of the United States with a single move, a pair of invisible hands had begun to loom over the heads of the Japanese. As Japan's top boss, the United States did not allow Japan to become so big, so in the 80s of the 20 th century, Japan was forced to sign the Plaza Agreement with the United States. Because it touched the ceiling.
At the same time, the whole of Japanese society began to decline as a whole, because economic growth was no longer there, and after a brief period of rapid development, Japan fell into a long recession, and in the end, even if it could not swallow this breath, Japan still had no way to fight.
And in this film, Ida, who can't swallow this breath, begins to fight against the whole society, and he constantly plans one robbery after another, not for the desire for money, but for the test of his ability. When Date finally decides to kill the woman she likes, a ruthless killer is born, a killer who has no desires is born, and a killer who is unwilling to be driven by others is born, and Date dies.
Date seems to have experienced a brilliant experience of returning to the top by any means, but this splendor is nothing more than an elegy for the times. He still finally ushered in a tragic ending, and this ending alone cannot change the overall trend. Japan's devastation in the aftermath of the Plaza Accords finally justified Date's seemingly thrilling actions. Even if it is thrilling on the surface, it is actually of little use.
The distorted elegy of the times can only be sung in a distorted form. Even if Date fulfilled her long-cherished wish, then what? This is a story without a then, because no one can go against the times, and no one can go against the times. Date seems to have fulfilled his expectations, but the end that greeted him was already predestined, and his actions were just a buffer for himself for many years, and this buffer could not change the ending of the story.
For Ida, it is still possible to vent through this irrational behavior, but in fact, for real Japanese society, this kind of male is castrated to a certain extent, and it is completely castrated. Even if they are willing to show their male side, the decadence of the whole society will infect this male one by one, and in the end, they usher in a kind of shrinking femininity, and the blood can only be boiled out of their own imagination, because there is no longer echo in reality. Perhaps this is another kind of sadness.
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