The most popular Japanese writer in China is Haruki Murakami, and Haruki Murakami's most revered teacher is Kobo Abe. This film, adapted from "The Girl of Sand", one of Abe's urban disappearance trilogy, seeks the existence value in an unimaginable captivity life, conscious of the sand, with countless close-ups of sand seas and human skin covered. Sha's close-up emphasizes the pervasiveness of a certain system, and is a very high-quality adaptation that is faithful to the original. The texture is like the texture of the sand, the waves are like the ripples of the sand, the consciousness is like the unintentional of the sand, and there is a world of sand wherever you escape.
"As long as the wind is blowing, the river is flowing, and the sea waves are churning, the sand will grow out of the soil and spread like a living thing, wherever the terrain is. It literally invades and devours the surface..." In Abe's original novel, the invasion of sand and the compromise of villagers form an interesting phenomenon of hunter and prey chasing each other, while the male protagonist chases new insect species The same is true of the beauty of the jungle and the cruelty of natural evolution. The sand at this time can be understood as: the land is the foundation of human existence, and it is a metaphor for the society in which human beings live in groups. Sand, as a derivative, is like various systems and concepts formed in the development of society. Tough compliance gradually solidifies the way of life of people in a region and inherits it.
At the beginning of the film, the beauty of quicksand is almost obsessed. The monotony under this black and white image gives the desert a mystery of softness and rigidity. Such a beauty of destruction that is incompatible with the prosperous society is a resort in the hearts of a few people. In the desert, the hero can taste the pleasure of loneliness freely, and the wind stretches the texture of the sand, making it give the illusion of the sea, just as people feel broad-minded when they see the sea, and the power of the sand sea makes people more attractive Surrender, its vastness and loneliness are closer to people's hearts. "He depicted the flow of sand in his mind," said Abe's public office, "sometimes even seized by an illusion: his own body seemed to start to flow." Corresponding to this is a lonely boat on the beach, The quicksand chewed up the bottom of the boat, and the male protagonist was lying on the sand of the boat, enjoying the joy of being outside of civilized society. Checks, IOUs, diplomas, temporary residence permits, membership cards, custody certificates, even family trees, what's the use? Maybe I forgot to prove something and was forced to use some new evidence to prove my innocence... There seems to be no end. "It seems that after the world is civilized, people can only prove their existence by being materialized, and once they seriously think about these paper constraints, it will only make people laugh and chill. The most ridiculous thing is that after the hero was trapped in the sand cave, these debris made his once philosophical brain yearn for it. It was his passport to a civilized society, another kind of free will and scope of activities. manifestation.
The male protagonist came to look for insects. The dilapidated hut under the sand cliff was a good place to nourish the insects. He longed to gain status and fame in addition to reducing unnecessary social activities, but from the moment he stepped into the hut under the sand cliff, he became an insect. Nameless and surviving in quicksand, relying on physical strength and wisdom, and when he turned into an insect under the sand cliff, the hero finally left a mark in civilized society forever: a missing person. His name will always remain in a certain file, and will be flipped and read by people of different ages and times with different purposes from time to time. The social system of maintaining law and order and guaranteeing development is a cage for the expression of individual personality and generosity after the deprivation of freedom.
The male protagonist tries to become his own god, throwing himself in this desert world, and finding weaker creatures to prove his worth in human society. He freely chose to come to this world, and the villagers of the desert village freely chose to force him to stay in the sand cave under the sand cliff. In essence, the choice of the villagers is very similar to some unwritten rules in society, stipulating that people who did not come to the world voluntarily can do what is allowed within the scope of what is allowed. Men in the civilized world need to find some kind of value in the desert. To survive in the desert, it is best to rely on a village. The villagers clear the sand to keep the village. The residents of the village need women to scoop the sand, and women need the help of foreign men to live together. , foreign men need the help of the villagers to escape, and the villagers have to imprison the foreign men to clear the sand in order to keep the village. This cycle is like the devil's triangle in Sartre's "Interval", which proves that others are hell .
"This servile, completely defenseless sacrificial pose," the original text describes the woman in the sand cave. In the movie, this expression is more direct: ready apology, always ready dedication, no complaining sand, lifeless smile, she is completely the embodiment of ordinary life, using sex and food to make a once It can be regarded as a vigorous, ideal and purposeful heart polished into a boulder under Xerxesse's hands, only rolling up and down, not rolling and being rolled. She is the enemy of sand cave, the savior of the village, the slave of all the villagers, and the warden of her own prison. Freedom and will are better than gasping and swallowing. attractive. She repeatedly mentioned that everything in the big city caused men's rage, and she could see her yearning for urban civilization and her inferiority complex, but these were not enough to make her have the courage to change her imprisoned status quo. Everyday life wiped out all her fantasies, like once she stepped into a quicksand, she would never want to come out alive again.
The quality of life at the bottom of the sand cave depends entirely on the attitude of the prisoners. Those who are serious about clearing the sand can regularly provide living rations, while those who try to resist will run out of water and food. The existence of sand replaced the ubiquitous Big Brother in Orwell's writings, replacing rigid fences and guards with flexible mental oppression. It seemed that the way out was just ahead but could not be touched, and eventually fell into a place that he once suspected and even hated. A type of person who lived comfortably until death in this small-scale conventional life. The surrounding environment or colleagues and even close lovers are all gray existences, like uncolored original space black hole photos, there are endless swirls of sand everywhere.
Men tried to be free by imprisoning women, sexual relations, deception, enslavement, etc., and even escaped for a while. The joy of freedom was far from the fear of falling into quicksand after getting lost, and after being sent back to the sand cave, His spirit and sense of rights disappeared like a blown balloon. In just three months, he went from resentment to cooperation, from cooperation to acceptance, and turned into a grain of sand in this sea of sand, an ordinary sand-clearing man in the village, a life partner of a strange woman; he turned into extreme distrust of the government, It turned into a ridiculous code for the identification of the modern system, into a barbarian in peace and order, into a meaning in a meaningless life.
"Labor is a basis for people to endure the time to escape when they have no future." Clear sand, which is meaningless but seems to have great responsibility, busy work that has no passion but seems to be related to survival, and has no ideas but seems to implement goals. The net captures, to deny oneself to prove the value of living. The existence of such a one-way ticket is really scary.
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