Ladybug confusedly fights The Wolf, who accidentally kills himself with a deflected knife throw. The Wolf mistakenly believes Ladybug to be one of her killers. Ladybug discreetly steals the briefcase, but on his way off the train, is attacked by another assassin, codenamed "The Wolf", who recognizes Ladybug from his wedding, where his wife was killed. Also on the train are two British assassin brothers codenamed "Lemon" and "Tangerine", who just rescued a man ("The Son") from kidnappers and are taking him and the briefcase to his father, a Russian-born Yakuza crime lord called "The White Death".ĭuring the trip, The Son is killed by poisoning. Ladybug is reluctant, as his recent string of bad luck during his jobs resulted in accidental deaths. Meanwhile, guided by his handler Maria Beetle, assassin "Ladybug" is assigned to retrieve a briefcase full of cash from the same train, replacing a sick colleague, Carver. Yuichi Kimura, "The Father", boards a bullet train in Tokyo in search of the attacker of his son Wataru. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $239 million worldwide on a production budget of around $85.9–90 million. Bullet Train premiered in Paris on July 18, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 5, 2022, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Principal photography began in Los Angeles in November 2020 and wrapped up in March 2021. The film also features an ensemble supporting cast including Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A. It is based on the 2010 novel Maria Beetle (titled Bullet Train in the UK and US editions), written by Kōtarō Isaka and translated by Sam Malissa, the second novel in Isaka's Hitman trilogy, of which the first novel was previously adapted as the 2015 Japanese film Grasshopper. It can perhaps be never understood in its totality the jigsaw puzzle of our humanity needing an eternity of compassion to be made whole.Bullet Train is a 2022 American action comedy film starring Brad Pitt as an assassin who must battle fellow killers while riding a bullet train. But what did happen in that camp is subjective to her memory and the facts may have been even more dreadful than we see. A film like no other it should never disappear or be inaccessible. As I said the film is complete and many will disagree but it is my firm opinion. Unbearable to watch we bear it as she must do for the rest of her life. There is even a love story to be recalled her prisoner's lover who she encourages to see the woman she is protecting, and there too her pain at not being loved herself is paramount to her. Aleksandra Slaska in this role is above criticism, so well does she attain authenticity. She sees it all and as if looking through her stills of self confession to her appalled husband we too see the narrative move like a film usually moves. The people seen going to their deaths the patting of the guard dog's head by a child as she makes her way to annihilation and the man who casually throws an arm back into a truck full of the dead. This is conveyed as narrative and she spares herself nothing. Her horror at herself is shown quite clearly in two of the stills that accompany this part of the film, and the further past is both tortured and alive in her head. Seeing it again in 2021 the early 1960's is well past, and like old photographs the mystery of what really happened when a former bodyguard sees the woman she has both perhaps helped, and yet sadistically so, is well conveyed. For me thanks to those who were dedicated enough to make a completion they have one hundred per cent achieved it. I have no idea what the final result would have been if Munk had lived and ' completed ' this masterpiece.
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