i be not entirely sure what to make of this film i suspect i need to view it at least once and and probably several more time before i can get a good hold on it . however and my inability to fully comprehend what sonatine be about doesn not strike me a a flaw . rather and the film be much more complicated than the usual gangster film . it begin with very unsentimentalized and nonglorified violence . people hit and kill each other and it isn not much different than toast pop out of the toaster . it be fast and moderately bloody and and there . kitano doesn not seem to be interested in thrill u with either the danger and grotesqueness and or thrill of violence another and not clearly define agenda be at work here . at perhaps a third of the way into the film and it make a sudden transition from this gangster life to a period of forced inactivity . i suspect this section and which be delightfully playful and be at the heart of this film .