Man is like a grain of sand in the world

Junior 2022-03-13 08:01:01

"The Shawshank Redemption", this masterpiece that is firmly at the top of the list, I believe everyone has heard of it. And God's work is God's work in part because it is not limited to the theme of the pursuit of hope, but also develops some thought-provoking branches. For example, in the film, the supporting character Lao Bu was released, but he did not hesitate to draw a knife to others in order to return to prison, and even hanged himself after returning to society. In a certain environment for a long time, it is easy for people to identify with people, things, life, self and other aspects in this environment, and then become dependent. This is the explanation of "institutionalization" in the film. It is a pity that as a branch, the film does not interpret this wonderful psychology from hate to love deeply enough. Today's 1964 black-and-white film "The Lady of Sand", which analyzes this psychology in detail, may allow us to understand it more thoroughly. The Japanese are a complex people, sometimes observant, sometimes crazy. But perhaps because of the dark side of Japan, films that expose the darkness of human nature and the cruelty of society came into being. The same is true of this "Sand Girl", which is full of thrilling beauty and endless philosophical thinking. The movie "Sand Girl" is adapted from the novel. The movie scene is set in the boundless and vast desert, and the barren land is like a strange space, where the director shows his talents. Filmed in the 1960s, the storyline is extremely concise - a biologist goes to the desert to collect insects, but is framed by the villagers and trapped in a sand pit by a widow's house, unable to escape. The "Sand Girl", which has a slightly weak script, contains multiple philosophical thoughts, but it is incomparable to other films. The magic that makes this 50-year-old film endure revolves around the three phases of the actor's actions. In the first stage, the male protagonist has not yet seen his own situation and is still in a state of ignorance. The male protagonist is a biologist obsessed with insects. In order to collect materials, he went to the desert alone. In the hot and choking smoke and sand, the male protagonist excitedly clipped a bird corpse into the test tube, not knowing that he would also lose his freedom and fall into a cage. Unconsciously, he picked up his bag and continued to explore. To his surprise, there was actually a small village in front of him. To rehydrate, he quickened his pace. The smiling villagers made him relax his vigilance, but for some reason, the sleepover that the guide said was in a large and deep sand pit, and it took a long ladder to get there. The male protagonist finally went down, and when he turned around, the ladder disappeared. Brushing the dust off his face, he was surprised to find that a simple wooden house was located here. In the house lived a warm and gentle young widow. The widow not only made water and food for the male protagonist, but also wanted to give her a hug. The male protagonist is an honest man, he categorically stopped the seduction of the woman and returned it with courtesy. In the dead of night, the stars are turning. The male protagonist deliberately kept a distance from the widow and asked how everything was going on. Seeing that the other party was silent, the male protagonist talked about himself Interested, the widow smiled, and the atmosphere became lively. In fact, the male protagonist did not think that this place was a place to stay for a long time. His heart was concerned with Tokyo, his family, his office... He was repulsive and disgusted with the status quo. It can be said that he was full of hope at this time, and his appearance was bright and beautiful. So why did the villagers lure the male protagonist they never knew into the sandpit? The reason is simple and sinister - the widow needs a sturdy man to carry on the line. As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters make troublesome people. The second stage is the most thrilling. Witnessing a person giving food and drink at a high place, but taking the sound of rescue as a wind in his ears, the male protagonist suddenly realized that I had become a caged bird. In order to return to his original life, the male protagonist embarked on a difficult road of escape. It was difficult for him to accept the reality that he might be trapped in this ghost place for the rest of his life, and he thought that the widow was with the villagers, so he took his anger out on her. He roughly tied the woman up, gagged her mouth, and ignored her crying. But time passed bit by bit, seeing the widow curled up on the sand pitifully, the male protagonist felt pity and had to let go and even appease her. From the widow's mouth, the male protagonist learned that the sand here is unstable, and if the sand is not cleaned every day, the house will be flooded with quicksand. Widows do not yearn for the outside world, the sandpit here is their unique home. Hearing this, the male protagonist laughed and said, "What's the meaning of such a life? Are you digging sand to live, or to live to dig sand?" These words were very Zen-like and gave the audience a blow. It contains a philosophical question. Does hope breed disappointment in life, or does disappointment breed hope? The dialectical relationship between the two is intriguing. Sighing and sighing, the male protagonist is of course unwilling to be a prisoner. He did everything possible, persistently, and tragically longing to escape. He first tried some stupid methods, climbing, jumping, and persistently throwing sand with a rusty shovel... When the sand couldn't stand the toss and collapsed again and again, he only hit a gray nose, and even the house was almost engulfed . The scorching sun and sand and dust made the male protagonist dark-skinned and worn-out clothes. The vicious obstacles of the villagers and the sharp blows of the sand flow killed the male protagonist's repeated resistance, and also worn away his physical strength and spirit. The male protagonist is no longer the same as before. He was hysterical, violent, fled at dawn, pondered countermeasures at dusk, the only thing that remained unchanged was the struggle in the tragic fate. The white gravel is like the waves of the sea, and the male protagonist is like a drifter in the rough waves, a driftwood who will never let go of hope. The tense music and the flickering photography help us feel this weakness and helplessness. At that time, GPS was not popular, let alone mobile phones. If the male protagonist could not escape, he could only be treated as a missing person. It was something he couldn't even imagine. After racking his brains, he planned an escape plan and decided to The virtual and the snake are secretly implemented. At night, once in a lifetime, the opportunity to look forward to day and night finally appeared. The man who was watching him disappeared, and the wooden barrel that delivered the food lay there with the rope. The male protagonist first waited until the widow fell asleep, and then carefully came to the border of the sand nest. Using his arm strength and the barrel rope, he rolled down and climbed up several times like an ant working hard, finally escaping the claws that tormented him and bound him. However, exhausted, he didn't embrace the freedom for long, and the bright fire and savage-like roars followed one after another. It turned out that the villagers noticed the noise and chased after them collectively. To make matters worse, this desert is coastal, sandy and wet, making the road difficult to walk. The male protagonist was panting heavily and walked with great effort. He stepped forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot. Seeing that he was about to escape, he stumbled, and his entire lower body fell into the quagmire. The harder he swallowed, the faster he swallowed. Under the pressure of life and death, the male protagonist had to cry out for help, and the villagers swarmed up. What had been a nightmare for a long time now turned into a light. The crowd savagely pulled the male lead out, and then treated him as a trophy, shouting horns, and carrying him back to the bunker. The tears on the male protagonist's face were mixed with dust, and the smelly clothes made it worse, and the pants were attached to the mud, which was unsightly. In the desperate escape and pursuit, we can come into contact with the second philosophy, which is the wrestling between the individual and the group. Undoubtedly, individuals with weak powers are destined to be no match for the huge group, and those who seek independence and try to break away from the group can only be encircled and assimilated in the end. In the face of a group of absolute power, the so-called individual rights are ridiculous. I thought that the light of hope of the male protagonist was extinguished, but the director came back with a cruel flashback. Just when the male protagonist was gradually getting used to the life of shoveling sand, a dozen villagers wearing hideous masks came in the night. They shouted on it, claiming that the two had a relationship in front of everyone, and let the male lead go. The noisy gongs and drums, the dazzling flashlight, and the creepy laughter under the mask, the absurd scenes are creepy. The male protagonist believed it to be true and rushed to the widow. The widow vowed to die, and the two of them fought and rolled on the sand under the strong light. In the end, the villagers didn't like the show and left in a hurry. And the male protagonist's pursuit of freedom is fragmented in front of everyone's eyes, and he also brings insults to the widow. The male protagonist pinned the last glimmer of hope on the shameless villagers, which led to his last efforts doomed to miscarriage. On the other hand, the image of the male protagonist has changed, moving closer to the evil side. From a gentle gentleman to a vicious fanatic, from a victim to a perpetrator. The influence of the environment on people cannot be underestimated. From then on, the male protagonist became ashes, and reconsidered this place that had to be entrusted to his life. The second phase of the day and night madness ends, the cunning villagers step up The control also reduced the supply, so the male protagonist who was on the verge of despair gradually compromised and moved to the third stage. In the third stage, the rhythm changes from intense to gentle, and the male protagonist accepts his fate, disarms, and raises the white flag. He understands that he is powerless to break through the environment, he can only adapt to it. He began to find a little fun and beauty in the harsh sand dunes, and made waves in the boring life. The male protagonist first discovered a water pump that had been buried for many years, which made him ecstatic. As long as he mastered the water storage method, he would be self-sufficient without having to look at his face. He was addicted to research and never tired of it, and gradually forgot his original desire to escape. And getting along day and night, the male protagonist fell in love with the widow for a long time, and psychologically admitted that the two sides were husband and wife. The male protagonist's attitude towards widows changed from disgust to attachment, which is interesting. In extreme cases, men and women have very different powers to tame each other. For example, in the movie "Blind Mountain", Degui's method of suppressing his abducted wife is only violence. This imagery is like a raging flame, burning people's beliefs. In "The Sand Girl", the roles are reversed, and men are forced to marry women. The male protagonist from the city is naturally arrogant, contemptuous, and even bullying to the ignorant widow. And women are just blindly forbearance and obedience, and influence men with weakness. The image of the woman's power in the film is water, which is full of affection, and overcomes rigidity with softness. Unconsciously, the man's ego drowned in the invisible. Seven years later, the wife is finally pregnant with a child, but there are only veterinarians in the village. The villagers happily brought the ladder and helped the woman into the city to give birth. The woman looked back at the male protagonist, and the rich sadness almost overflowed. The male lead's transition from sadness to joy, and the female lead's transition from joy to sadness is meaningful. This time the long ladder was not withdrawn, and the male protagonist stood in front of him without saying a word. How many times of reverie will become a reality, how many years of sadness will come to an end. Just when we breathed a sigh of relief, a shocking scene appeared. The male protagonist turned a blind eye and left, but actually squatted in front of the water pump and wrote records. When the turning point comes, the male protagonist finds a reason to keep himself hypnotized. This is inconceivable at first glance. After careful research, a mysterious philosophical proposition can be drawn - where is the destination of human beings? What exactly is freedom? As soon as he came to the sandpit, the male protagonist wanted to leave without looking back. But many years later, the male protagonist's body and mind have been integrated with the sand sea. Instead, he is afraid of the society he dreamed of at the beginning, and is content to stay in the sand pit where no grass grows. The meaning of his existence is already inseparable from here. To blame in the end, freedom or not is just a matter of changing your heart, values, lifestyle, thinking and emotions... All these changes over time, the cage has become a home. The male protagonist chose to stay in the bunker where he once fled. Should you be happy or sad? People are like a grain of sand in the world, when the wind blows, they disappear, and no one will remember you. in philosophy This is the theory of existentialism. What the male protagonist is desperately trying to get rid of, once it disappears in an instant, he will not feel relieved, but lost, which is psychologically called Stockholm syndrome. Are things that we valued in the first place really immortal? At present, people seem small and helpless. Perhaps it is harder not to be changed by the world than to change the world. Aurally, the soundtrack is extremely confusing and eerie. The rustling of the wind, the beating of drums like a talisman, the roaring human voice of beasts, the crisp strings, the sigh-like piano sound, all kinds of discordant rubbing together, made the male protagonist's voice of despair, human nature. Moan at the end. Visually, the thick black and white images, the skin covered with fine sand, the vast yellow sand, prison sand, phantoms, birds and insects, trapped beasts, are very infectious, and the fear of the unknown swept over. The whole film is called "Insects on Earth". Finally, let's talk about a digression. In the same era and the same theme of sand dredging, Japan produced "Daughter of Sand", and China produced "Tunnel Warfare". While the former mourns and interrogates reality, the latter tries to whitewash and change history. Which is stronger or weaker is self-evident. One sand and one world, the director showed the profound and profound philosophical world in the original work in a movie. Every tiny grain of sand seems to reflect the nothingness of existence.

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Extended Reading
  • Webster 2022-03-20 09:03:07

    Whether people work to live or live to work. Human existence is reflected in social relations or in the self itself. The freedom of man is unrestrained from the outside or his own willful gallop. The sand pit constructs a completely different social relationship, and the sand presents the existence of an external person. The relationship between men and women, men and villagers, and sand villages has changed from confrontation to identification, from rejection to dependence. The radio became the only thing connected to the outside world. The ending is not surprising.

  • Carrie 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    If Tarkovsky's film poems are a drop of water reflecting the whole world, then Hiroshi Kawara's Sand Girl has brought camels to the dry and dry desert.

Woman in the Dunes quotes

  • Entomologist Niki Jumpei: The certificates we use to make certain of one another: contracts, licenses, ID cards, permits, deeds, certifications, registrations, carry permits, union cards, testimonials, bills, IOUs, temporary permits, letters of consent, income statements, certificates of custody, even proof of pedigree. Is that all of them? Have I forgotten any? Men and women are slaves to their fear of being cheated. In turn they dream up new certificates to prove their innocence. No one can say where it will end. They seem endless.

  • Entomologist Niki Jumpei: Shall I - brush off the sand?

    Woman: But, aren't all the city girls prettier than me?

    Entomologist Niki Jumpei: Nonsense! Give me the cloth.