Bernardo Bertolucci.

A well-known Italian director and the chairman of the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

In today's world film industry, he is definitely synonymous with top directors.

In fact, as far as this year's jury is concerned, everyone actually knows it well.

It's just up to him.

It's not that the other members of the jury are not good, but there is a certain gap with him in all aspects. The key is that this year's jury has achieved a certain balance.

There are Soviet writers and filmmakers, there are Indian female directors, there are...

This time we formed a group, the whole thing was zzzq.

But it doesn't matter. In fact, as far as the Cannes Film Festival is concerned, the chairman of the jury has very powerful authority.

Some people have a good temper, so they just need everyone to give their opinions, while some people have a bad temper, and they just do whatever they want.

Bertolucci will obviously be the latter. His reputation and strength in movies allow him to cover the sky with one hand.

Fortunately, Bertolucci is not the kind of person to act recklessly. He decided to watch every movie that was shortlisted for the main competition.

Just watch it carefully, and then... In this way, even if you take over the power, no one will say anything.

In fact, he had a rough judgment before.

"Wild at Heart" is a road movie starring Nicolas Cage. Although I haven't seen it yet, Bertolucci has almost determined that this movie should win the Palme d'Or!

Why so sure?

Quite simply, this movie is not just about its name, but its content is also very, very groundbreaking.

The imagination is unbridled, wild and wild.

Bertolucci likes this kind of movies very much. He himself is a director who likes to break the rules, and his movies have always been like this.

"Last Tango in Paris", the film that made him famous around the world, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar, but it also sent him to a prison cell by the Italian government and deprived him of his citizenship rights for five years.

The reason is that there are scenes of 'tongxing' in the movie, but in fact, he did more than just that.

The ‘sex’ scenes in the movie are actually all real, including Marlon Brando raping the heroine.

And when "The Last Emperor" won nine Oscars, not many people paid attention to the above.

In short, this great director has a lot of controversies despite his great reputation.

Bertolucci himself knew that this was what he was doing, so he never watched the movies he had made.

Now, the jury president is watching this movie called "This Killer Is Not So Cold".

Originally, he had a routine attitude.

In Asian movies, it seems that only Akira Kurosawa is the real master.

Bertolucci really thought so, but when he saw the first shot of the movie, he frowned slightly.

It's an interesting technique to only shoot a quarter of the character's face.

Moreover, through the reflection of the sunglasses on the character's face, the body language of the character opposite is given. These methods...

Well, this young man named Takeshi Iwata is indeed extraordinary.

But, even so, until Bertolucci finished watching Leon the Killer, one man mysteriously killed all the boss's men, and finally appeared in the dark and delivered a phone.

Seeing this, the world-renowned director just thought that this movie was pretty good.

However, the great director also wanted to complain, why would a Japanese killer be called 'Leon'? With a French name, although I have heard that Japanese people yearn for France, but... forget it, a killer, this is a

Code name.

Not bad, just not bad.

Until, the next scene appears.

Leon, who was wearing a black woolen coat and sunglasses and carrying a suitcase, took the subway home after completing the cleaning work.

He was the only one on the subway.

What the camera shows is Leon's back.

Just a back view.

Interestingly, there were not many passengers on the subway, but there was an old lady on the left.

The old lady was dozing off.

But even so, Leon didn't sit down, he just stood there, motionless.

This shot captured Bertolucci instantly.

First there was loneliness, then there was insecurity, and then...he didn't even have his own name.

In short, there are too many things that can be seen from this lens.

At this moment, the famous director's original contempt was much lessened, and his brows were furrowed even more.

He was thinking about one thing. This movie is called "This Killer Isn't Too Cold". So, surely it won't just be about killers killing people, right?

Soon, the movie verified his guess.

Another quarter of a face appeared.

The European-style iron handrails seemed to have turned into green grass. She seemed to be an elf hiding in the grass, with a little timidity and strong rebellion.

Wait a moment.

What's the music here?

Why does it feel like being transported to a magical world?

That's right, when Shinobu, the master, appeared, Hisaishi Joe provided a very interesting and magical music.

Why is it so matched?

Bertolucci quickly thought of the answer.

A lonely killer in the city, he met an elf that seemed to exist in a fantasy world... No, no.

Judging from the way this little girl smokes, she is clearly a little devil.

The great director laughed. He didn't expect that a movie from the East would give him such a weird feeling.

So...

Oh, and when I looked further, it turned out that this was not the first time the two of them had met.

That's right, they look like neighbors.

Will the two of them have a wonderful love?

When this idea came up, Bertolucci even thought it was a bit bold.

From the outside, there is a huge gap between Leon and Dazi, at least in terms of age.

If there is love between them, then... "Lolita", he couldn't help but think of this movie.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the word loli comes from this movie, in fact, this movie is a very, very uncomfortable movie.

The male protagonist is so miserable, and the female protagonist is actually a green tea bitch, and she's just as superficial as she is.

Of course, what Bertolucci is thinking of now is the 1962 version, which is the work of film master Stanley Kubrick.

Thinking about it this way, is Takeshi Iwata paying homage to Kubrick?

Or, is it just plain special XP?

Bellutucci wasn't sure, but the film had piqued his interest.

The movie is very tightly paced.

Just after Leon and Dazi exchanged a few words, a guy with a sinister face appeared.

what is his name?

Kato?

This surname seems to be quite common in Japan. Is this guy a policeman?

Bertolucci had many questions and he did not know much about the situation in Japan.

What the Japanese police were like, he could only compare it to the police in Italy and the United States.

First of all, Bertolucci served in prison, and this experience was definitely an unforgettable period in his life.

Compared to the United States, the prisons in many European countries really show no regard for human rights.

The cell was very small, dark and damp, and the daily food was only a piece of bread, a bowl of soup, or a potato.

Eating, drinking and having diarrhea, the first two have been solved, but what about the latter two?

There is only one bucket, and this bucket is not cleaned every day, maybe ten days and a half.

So, all kinds of imaginable things, and so on... Bertolucci didn't want to recall that paragraph, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but want to vomit.
To be continued...