Comments on: Boiling Point (1990) Review https://cityonfire.com/boiling-point-1990/ Asian Cinema and Martial Arts News, Reviews and Blu-ray & DVD Release Dates Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Mighty Peking Man https://cityonfire.com/boiling-point-1990/#comment-9968 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:28:44 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=6851#comment-9968 In reply to Ray.

Hi Ray!

Dude, it has been soooo long since I’ve seen this movie (over 11 years!), but I’d like to re-visit it again. Sounds like you really know what you’re talking about. Thanks for posting!

]]> By: Ray https://cityonfire.com/boiling-point-1990/#comment-9957 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:02:48 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=6851#comment-9957 If all you can say about the ending is that it ‘fucking blows’ and is a ‘cliche’ you haven’t got the point of the movie or Kitano’s technique at all. Did you even notice that the only two times scenes are edited in out of linear sequence is when Uehara flashes forward when thinking about killing the mob boss, and at the ending, which goes back to the baseball game? Did you notice how Kitano carefully crafts parallels between Masaki Uehara (Masaki mistakingly asking the male waiter out at the beginning and Uehara’s homosexuality, for one.) The ending of the movie was not a mere twist, but an ambiguous and open-ended shot which brought the theme of masculine identity full circle. You to think beyond the mechanics of narrative to really get what Kitano was trying to do.

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