[This is not a movie review] The hag under desire

Beulah 2022-03-13 08:01:01

This is not a movie review, it's a personal opinion


Pay attention to these two places

The first one is when the mother-in-law saw her daughter-in-law sleeping with Aba, and she was in a fire. Lying on a tree by himself, the camera also gave a close-up of the tree

Finally became a hag, two people ran across the tree, one left and one right

My personal understanding is that the tree may symbolize the male, and the two females, who approach this issue as opposites. Mother-in-law is conservative, daughter-in-law is open. And the conservative mother-in-law is only for her own interests. Because he wanted Aba to sleep with himself instead of his daughter-in-law.

In the end, under the pressure of survival, the too selfish mother-in-law was destroyed.

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Extended Reading
  • Derick 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Powerful soundtracks and images, Japanese movies of the 60s are really hardcore. Because it is always in a dark environment, and the lighting skills are prominent, I also realized that under the black and white images, the lights can easily form a passage to another world, as if everyone is a cat and everyone has fire eyes.

  • Hipolito 2022-04-23 07:05:20

    In the swaying reeds, there is endless desire, and the devil cannot escape the gates of hell. Kento Shindo's photography is wild, drumming and the use of Noh elements, resisting in depression. As early as "Dead of Love" 14 years...

Onibaba quotes

  • Woman: Want to sleep with me?

    Hachi: [laughs] An old woman like you?

    Woman: Stupid! I'm not old on the inside. Come on. Try me.

  • Kichi's Wife: Isn't it heavy?

    Woman: No. Not very.

    Kichi's Wife: Shall I go along too?

    Woman: No, I'll go by myself.

    Kichi's Wife: But, it'll be night when you return.

    Woman: Once it's dark, it can't get any darker.