Recently, I watched two very interesting movies under the recommendation of my friends, "Funeral" and "Dandelion" directed by Itami XIII. It’s really full of all kinds of interesting movies, and I reopened my eyes and brains when I was depressed by the movie. The fun inside is a bit ironic, the subject matter is spicy, the concept is straightforward, interesting and easy to understand, and there is no lack of imagination. The most important thing is that the creative style is completely unaffected by various existing models and frameworks, so the process of watching is particularly intriguing. Itami XIII uses his own perspective to talk about the ideas he wants to express witty~ If hard To talk about "Dandelion", it can be said that it is an inspirational story of Japanese cowboys who walked the world in good faith and helped a frustrated housewife on the road to the top of ramen, but there are some strange things mixed in between the beginning and the end, many of which are on the main line. In the same scene, the small narrative that explains the transition, seems to have nothing to do with it, and even feels like a nonsense spoof (I also agree with Agatha's view, Stephen Chow definitely found a lot of inspiration through Itami XIII movies), These episodes seem to be abrupt, but they contain the director's deeper means to highlight/clarify the concept. Careful taste is not lacking in bad taste, witty but showing brilliance, and it is really worthy of being called "great wetness"! So I have roughly summarized three concepts, so that the film can be understood more easily. 1. The joy of experience
The man in white (played by Yakusho Koji) who appeared at the beginning and the end of the movie formed a response from the beginning to the end. From his opening remarks, it is obvious that this guy is an extremely enjoyable (B) buddy, arrogantly boring, but Today, it may be Jobs’ good buddies, because these two buddies pay attention to experience. Jobs is playing with the ultimate user experience, while the man in white is playing with physical violence (no expression of crying or laughing), and he enjoys it, the more he enjoys it. The more bliss, I really envy others, ah no, it’s really cruel~ Especially the white-clothed man is still discussing the joy of eating wild boar fat intestines when he is dying. It reminds me that Chen Xiaoqing said that when humans eat fat and fat, they have a lot of brains. Dopamine is secreted, and dopamine is the source of happiness for human beings. Because primitive humans need to store a lot of fat to resist hunger, this primitive experience has accompanied human beings to this day, and today’s desire for food can be described as the primitive meaning of human survival. . The ultimate and ultimate experience of a man in white is the replay of his life before the end of his life. The reason actually comes from the fact that the brain will secrete more endorphin, also called endorphin, when a person is dying. This is an endogenous peptide substance with morphine-like effects produced in the body. It can not only regulate body temperature, respiration and cardiovascular system, but also, like morphine, can make people feel happy and cause various A wonderful or terrible hallucination. These things set the tone at the beginning and the end of the movie. At least I think that life as a painful and tedious journey is an experience that is mixed with the necessary conditions for survival, the realization of desires and the satisfaction of sexual interest. The latter two can be greatly enriched. Even to make up for the important factors of this experience, and through the interest derived from the realization of desire, on the contrary, it will make the experience reach a higher level of demand, thereby obtaining great pleasure and satisfaction. The man in white can be described as an extreme performance in the movie, especially borrowing the body of a woman to taste the food, and the rich and interesting experience of borrowing the ingredients, which really opened my eyes (⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄
Think of it as two people sneaking around with egg yolk in it to have an orgasm, and an old man who has been studying ramen for forty years came up indiscriminately with pork. Hey, it seems a bit resonant. Thinking of this, the old man seems to be a little more extreme (being in the drama for a second, playing role-playing by himself, entering and exiting like no one else...), start the ambiguous interest first, and then hey. It seems that the masters are all playing like this, it is really a set of high-level routines that are ever-changing. Second, the penetration of desire can't be traced back to the source, humans’ need for food is far greater than the need for sex, and it also precedes the status of sex in growth, especially the long shot of the last baby sucking milk in the movie inspired me. As the camera zooms in, the baby indulges in natural enjoyment. Freud called this behavior the lip period. In this period, babies from 0-18 months old mainly experience oral stimulation such as sucking, chewing, swallowing, and biting. Obtaining food and pleasure. The birth of this pleasure is undoubtedly the original inheritance. It is the origin of the original birth of desire. The birth of all the acquired desires of mankind is a kind of satisfaction for seeking pleasure. It is incredible to think about it, little The little baby contains the unity of pleasure, experience and enjoyment at the beginning of sucking! Can we remember this experience? Can you do it again? !
Many of these experiences have changed after human beings entered the world. In the process of extension, desires were blocked and split by many things. Eventually, human beings lose their natural attributes as free people (pu gong ying), and need external stimulation to regain them. Plastic or retrieve the search for the origin. (It suddenly occurred to me that when I watched the program recently, there are only two instincts for animals to see blood, one is fear, and the other is involuntary excitement. The little girl who is a harem has not received too much baptism, as I am not surprised that the free man was enlightened by X). It seems difficult to reach that level now, but it's not impossible. It's not as simple as irony to show this in two consecutive films of Itami XIII. 3. The sense of ritual. Regarding the culture of the Japanese nation, I have to talk about the old-fashioned topic, that is, the Japanese nation pays attention to learning, whether it is lack of resources or lack of creativity, Japan was the first to admire our civilization and learn, and enter the modern age to respect Western civilization and learn, forming A set of unique inheritance methods was used to transform valuable experience into a set of efficient execution and inheritance methods, but because it was too simple and convenient, over time, later generations formed a superficial style, simply learning without thinking Innovation was lost. Many customs in Japan evolved after the Tang Dynasty. To this day, there is nothing new, but a puzzling sense of ritual remains. This kind of ritual method is actually created by humans in order to allow more people to reach a higher level of wisdom (and also a shortcut), but too many mechanical and complex steps and lack of genuine teaching and inheritance make this wisdom lose its profound meaning. , That's why everything looks pretentious. What is a ceremony anyway? Anthropologist Victor Turner explained rituals with liminality, the etymology of this word means "threshold" (threshold). In Turner's discussion, ritual means the transitional phase and intermediate state of a person's transformation from one state to another. In order to transform, in order to prepare us to enter another kind of space, time and role.
The process of eating noodles by the ramen experts at the opening is very ceremonial. Facing ramen is a sacred attitude, and the relationship with ramen seems to have reached the value of identity of existentialism = v =0 (people who don’t understand look like It depends on pretentiousness or exaggeration), while Ken Watanabe’s role is obviously just to eat ramen (anxiously drinking soup and noodles), so the learning attitude for the elderly to eat noodles can only stay on the surface and learn hard. In fact, you can't enter a higher state when you enter the state of mind, especially imitating the old man who drank three consecutive soups and ate a piece of pork (too superficial but also very happy). Itami XIII captures the current audience's half-knowledge of the origin of things, and only looks at the lively mentality. Some serious events full of ceremonies give birth to a different kind of fun. Combining modernity and tradition, it is also ironic. Many things from "Funeral" to "Dandelion" are derived from the careful existence of life. When we don't pay attention to them, after a long time, we feel strange to them. When we are strange, we never treat them sincerely. We also lost our acquaintance, and we were full of ridicule if we couldn't connect with each other. Back to the main line, the whole process of learning ramen to the last few times everyone walked into the "temple" of the store together, staring at the appearance of holding bowls of noodles and drinking soup together, like a hero Juyi (haha, I almost broke the bowl after drinking. ), until the opening of the store, this kind of ritual performance that can no longer be a ritual is almost like making up for Dandelion (played by Nobuko Miyamoto)'s desire, touch, senses, and the experience of pursuing higher levels of value.
Dandelion, as a woman who has lost her husband and lives hard, is a miserable image. In this state of long-term lack of her partner and insatisfaction, she must have lost some endocrine stimulation. Acting) Inspired by the male charm of 1V5, it undoubtedly arouses a certain inner desire. Two consecutive rainy nights are definitely the director's actual intention (as for why rainy nights can arouse sexual desire, I really can't make up, wait for the answer).
Although Dandelion is attracted by Kurang's male charm, it is forced by social morality and naturally tortuously manifested in the teaching relationship between the two. She invigorated herself to learn the growing process of ramen, which is in line with the director's business interests, and also in line with the real livelihood needs of a widow in the script. On the second rainy night of the film, Kuro tells his own life experience, which can also explain that his help to Dandelion mother and child stems from his lack of responsibility in the family, but when people watch it, it is mixed with ambiguity, which is inconsistent with the director. The large number of sexual cues arranged in the film has a certain relationship. I think it is to provide a potential inner connection. For example, the black man was beaten, and when he woke up, Dandelion touched his chest (they were peeped). The keyhole point of view (she is a voyeur) makes people want to be crooked (*////▽////*), so people who watch this film can think of the term food sex, It's amazing! A large number of voyeuristic perspectives and ambiguous actions undoubtedly reflect the director's bad taste, no, they all reflect the director's profound skills. Going far, this means that Dandelion gave birth to new desires because of the appearance of Kuro. Afterwards, Black Lang’s training on dandelion showed that it was completely superficial, which is in line with the first step of the learning ritual-to learn the image first. It is Kuro who uses his impression and captures what a ramen shop should have). Then the director received an order from a group of business executives. This place is quite funny. I don’t understand each other but plagiarize each other for the sake of face. Seeing that younger generations who are more advanced than me are so proficient in eating out, I can’t help sitting on my ears with red face, haha, ironic and spicy. It also extended the main line, and immediately after the transition, teaching everyone to learn the etiquette of eating spaghetti, it even more demonstrated the rigorous ritual, foreigners do not eat this set, the key is to show that the food is irresistible to humans, because I I think that if a noodle is delicious, then it must make the sound of eating noodles, just like the Japanese proud of their ramen. Only when they eat clean noodles and others can devour them, can they show that their noodles are good. This is a kind of self-confidence that is hidden in the bones of the Japanese people, and living and studying is a kind of suppression of inner desire, so immediately after that, there is a picture of men in white indulging and eating, like slaps on the face.
Immediately afterwards, Kurang took Dandelion to watch various noodle shops, and completely completed Dandelion’s image addition to what a ramen shop should have (this is an attitude form). Only then did Dandelion dream of provoking a famous ramen shop. Due to the appearance of Kuro Lang, she has the confidence to face life, but because the soup is not good (not good for taste), she still needs to hire a teacher. It’s only here that Dandelion’s entire enlightenment about taste is opened. For this description Itami thirteen immediately uses white-clothed men to seek primitive oysters and seafood, sea women’s enlightenment, and toothache men who have toothaches and can’t help but continue to eat trains that are compatible with high-speed trains. It’s wonderful that children’s unknown desires for ice cream can be used to express some of the uncontrollable desires in the exploration of taste.
With the participation of various partners, Dandelion gradually began to enjoy the whole process of exploring experience, and at the same time, it also satisfies the inner desire to burst out. After many attempts, the ritual copy finally realizes the essence of it. In the end, the unity of experience is truly realized. In the second half of the three episodes outside the main line, I boldly imagined that: the old lady pinching food can correspond to the tactile memory of ramen, the disguised professor also corresponds to the meaning of dandelion deceiving the secret recipe of ramen and the fashion packaging, and finally the reflection reflects the housewife. The last meal of the family is a comparison of unforgettable moments (including the learning process, the process of dating Kurorang, and all the experiences). Finally, after passing the final test, it also ushered in the dying moment of the man in white, which undoubtedly corresponds to the arrival of Dandelion's final food lesson. The end of a ritual is like a new life, helping our dandelion walk into another space, time and role, returning to the original purity, and everything back to a free state that should be pursued. Everyone brushed their clothes and hid deeply. And the name (disperses like a dandelion). Finally built into a dream ramen shop, Dandelion
PS: Remember to apologize to Pork, and see you soon~ PPS: Finally, I still want to thank Mrs. Li Juice for his careful layout and proofreading to make the article full of vitality. It is a great honor to be able to help. I’m even a little embarrassed to post~ At the same time, I must not forget the encouragement and help from Teacher Agatha. The affirmation of our friends is the driving force for us to continue to love watching movies~ I hope you who like movies can pay more attention to Li Juice The teacher’s personal public account has the movie list we shared~ and the movie thinking about the three-person life journey, thank you.
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