Love is a fleeting illusion
I saw it in a second-run theater in Tennoji when I was in my early twenties. There were no cell phones or internet, and I spent my free time wandering around the city. There were people smoking in the cinema, and there were often empty beer cans on the floor. It was shown on film, so the picture quality was poor. The environment was terrible.
The main character is a police officer who is involved in corruption, has a young mistress, and loves his wife, but she is starting to lose interest in him.
He is a completely useless man, easily succumbing to the seduction of the female mafia boss who is "Spider Woman" when she tries to capture him, but the young Gary Oldman plays the man's sweetness and kindness very well.
He lost everything because of his own weakness, changed his name, ran a cafe in the countryside, and now that he's grown old, he barely lives a hopeless life, but he still dreams of the day his wife will return.
I cried for a moment at the end of the film when his wife visits him. She was a vision he had. It was precisely because of the terrible circumstances that the heartbreaking love they shared was so dazzling.
I was in Osaka and I thought that if I ever found a boyfriend, I'd get married right away and never be able to do anything, and I also thought that I'd never be able to find someone I could truly love.
I currently live near Tennoji, where I saw this movie, and sometimes I find myself waiting for my girlfriend to come home from work.
So that love doesn't become an illusion.
