, watching the half-kneeling of the firing squad, pulling the bolt and aiming, will dye the Christmas sky of Java Island red, and watching the sick and decadent bodies of those pure white captive soldiers about to become Japanese soldiers to kill chickens and show monkeys s method. After the more brutal Auschwitz, the more changes, the memory baptism and sensory castration of the more inhuman Sodom hanging last night, the more dehumanizing Unit 731, this scene is no longer for us. It is shocking, even for the Japanese military officers at the execution site and more living prisoners, "because of my illness, I have no feeling", the meaning of personal life and death to the grand war is really too small, even when shooting with a gun. At the moment when someone comes forward, what is the meaning and value? But, who would have guessed that our Colonel Siles, the former Colonel of the Royal Air Force, would so calmly walk through the horrified prisoners, through the firing range of the firing squad, to the Japanese Captain Yono- —a ardent warrior, voluntarist and pan-Bushido-spirited, came before him, hugged him tightly, kissed each other on the cheek like his closest brother, and expressed it in a famous verse—“I May I come to you with empty hands." The latter (yono) suddenly fainted, and his supposedly firm and ruthless pan-Samurai mood fell apart in an instant. In the kiss between this incredible man, Nagisa Oshima seems to have completed his basic understanding of will/spirit, human/animal, hope/despair, redemption/annihilation, Shinto and Holy Light, determination and hesitation. The balanced transition of the nouns also seems to prove to us that Nagisa Oshima, who is famous for his extremely exaggerated sexual sensual stimulation, announced the completion of a ritual with just a simple kiss between humans.
The 1983 film "merry x'mas Mrs Laulence" seems to be a sign of Oshima's return to humanitarianism. Usually, this shows that an artist is trying to express a more profound and complex view of art and life in a concise way. In other words, in the eyes of an author who bid farewell to formalism, the complicated structure and the extravagant plot seem to have nothing to do with it. It is important, but a concise action, restrained dialogue language can express a meaningful original intention. Yono said to Lawrence, why didn't you kill yourself? We Japanese soldiers will never surrender. Lawrence replied: In the face of war, what's the use of it? In fact, Nagisa Oshima's subtext comment on their dialogue is: the so-called defense of the so-called "military" war fanatics is actually more like an abnormal mutation of some personal heroic ambition "puffed product" It seems that the compromise of personal self-esteem by the proud British royal guards (surrender with arms) seems to more rationally explain the essence of the universal concern of human nature in the West. And Nagisa Oshima, as a Japanese director, this idea is somewhat strange, if Akira Kurosawa used his black and white images to construct an era of samurai with amnesia (the director seems to have been trying to prove that the essence of samurai spirit is strong, decisive, Resoluteness and self-respect are the spiritual pillars of their entire nation, and it is the shining warrior spirit that can reflect the selfishness, greed, cowardice, hesitant humbleness and hopelessness of the inferior people's temperament), then, Oshima In this film, Nagisa once again made a mocking joke with the former, - he seems to be at odds with the high sword that symbolizes the dignity of the samurai, remember those plots:
- the violent hara (Kitano Takeshi) On the night when Silas and Lawrence sang Christmas songs, the soldier suddenly rescued them from being locked up, "oo, father x mas, do you think I look like him?" The cool man of Takeshi Kitano, who is always unsmiling, is actually there The self-proclaimed Santa Claus smiles like a child.
——The extremely narcissistic and sensitive Captain Yono (the version of Long Yi has such a clean face) looked away more than once in front of the captive Colonel Siles, who was half-smiling, until he finally fainted.
——Yono cut off the head of Sirus, who was buried alive, and cut off a small amount of the latter's hair, which symbolized the different roots of the nation.
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However, it's more than just Yono's fainting? More than just "fainted"? I'm afraid, in Java in the winter of 1942, the kiss of Colonel Siles made the yonos see their dead end - hidden under their extremely self-respecting military uniforms is a very humble and cowardly heart, they are exactly They rage day and night because of the fear of failure, and it is precisely because they doubt the connection of all human nature that they resort to the illusory samurai Shinto. and immersion in the sacred is positively related), and in the other direction, from the mere lowercase, the Japanese soldiers who have lost the support of the Shinto are so weak and vulnerable in the smile of Silus . So, where did the gaunt Colonel Siles' courage come from?
On the eve of the kiss (please allow me to use this word that should never have appeared), Siles suddenly and Lawrence mentioned his brother, a baby-faced brother who would never grow up. In his early years, because of his brother's Ashamed of shyness and cowardice, he disdains to be in the company of him, but on the eve of his war, he heard his younger brother's singing, that childish, quiet, indifferent, self-respecting, shining childish light The sound of nature, it is this kind of singing that enables his younger brother to support his basic beliefs and ideals in the face of the humiliation of being forced to undress by his peers. And now, in the darkness of the concentration camp, before the gloomy prospect of a slaughtered end, Colonel Siles thought of his brother, whose spirit lingered on for three days. The optimistic belief from the idyllic ideal is the real motivation for him to calmly move forward to kiss the countless murderer Captain Yono the next day. As for the leader, Nagisa Oshima, I think his more subtle sigh is: For hundreds of years, the samurai who have been deliberately forged by "forging" and "forging" on the Eastern Islands, their so-called invincible man-made beliefs , how can it be against the long and far-reaching "shepherd boy's flute"?
But Nagisa Oshima is still Japanese, and no one can completely abandon the national introspection. So, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence—that's Merry Christmas, Mr. Oshima. So, the indecisive Lawrence (who seems to have some sympathy for the opposing sides - yono and Cyrus) is always trying to persuade both sides, he is the incarnation of Oshima, trying to act as a buffer for both sides, but is powerless to change the outcome predetermined ending.
Yono left sadly, knowing that the rest of his life would be irresistible decadence and decline. On the face of Colonel Siles, who was buried alive in the sand, a blue light reflected. Although it was weak, it was enough to attract the vision of a Java moth (does the moth have vision?), and it stayed for a long time in the Colonel Siles' blue face, Sakamoto's heart-warming music sounded again, Sakamoto (yomo) was silent and cautious, he knew that when the moth flapped its wings again, it would be the real thing that he was knocked down with a bang. time.
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