Honestly, my film instructor showed this film during class.
I had prior knowledge about Beat, but I =wasn't a true fan.
Hands down, this was a damn entertaining film.
This is how you do comedy. I love his static shots. His minimal use of music. I love the slap-stick nature of the characters. Everything about this movie was absurd, and damn it, that's OK in my book!
This is Kitano's most funny film. It has a sick and sometimes disgusting humour throughout all of its (even most violent) scenes which is never pointless, exactly because he does not use humour in a manipulative way. This kind of "innocent" deadpan humour runs throughout "Sonatine" as well, only there it is combined with a feeling of loss and melancholia, foreshadowing "Hana-bi".
I also think David Lynch or Stanley Kubrick are great (underrated) comedians, but people seem to miss even the point in Kitano's work, who is a known stand-up comedian, and tend to describe him as an "artsy" depicter of violence. I think the Coen-Brothers would envy Kitano for "boiling point".
I know this is his second film as a director. But I prefer his first film Violent Cop. Its bleak and unpredictable. Kikujiro is way funnier than Boiling Point. The poster deceived me, Kitano just played a homo* yakuza role, he appeared in 1/3 of the film. And the horse-liked face guy waste my time.
This is Kitano's most funny film. It has a sick and sometimes disgusting humour throughout
true :) (well Kikujiro was funny too and i'm sure others had their moments but yeah IMDB should definetely add a comedy tag as well. Sure it has action and drama elements as well.
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