The Void Illusion of the White Ghost - A Note on Kanto Shindo's "Haunted"

Amparo 2022-03-13 08:01:01


The reeds spread to the sky and sea, as if the world was turned upside down. There are narrow, there are whispers, there is harshness.
During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Japan, wars continued and people were displaced. A mother-in-law and daughter-in-law live in the grassy plains, hunting and killing stragglers and stripping their armor for food.
One night, the young soldier Ba returned from the battlefield, told his mother-in-law that her son had died, and stayed to live with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Ba kept teasing his daughter-in-law, and finally one night, the daughter-in-law desperately ran to Ba's place of residence, and the two were tangled together in a mess.
To welcome the attitude of rejection, the reeds by the river floated by themselves. Once the desire at the beginning begins, it is like a surging river flowing eastward. The land is old, and I sing the west wind withered green trees.
The mother-in-law was afraid that her daughter-in-law would leave her. When he was at a loss, he encountered a samurai wearing a ghost mask and claiming to have a beautiful face. At the moment when the mother-in-law jumped over the "purgatory" where the graves were piled up, the samurai fell into this Avici hell, and never recovered.
Purgatory of fire, purgatory of fury, purgatory of sinners.
The moment when the mother-in-law's body sank to the bottom of the pit where the skeletons were piled up, it was like a void illusion of a white ghost. Pulling off the mask on the warrior's face, it was not an unusually handsome face, but a dirty and blood-stained face. After collecting the warrior's shirt and other things, the mother-in-law left the "purgatory" space.
After killing the samurai, the mother-in-law wears a mask and haunts the weeds, hoping to pretend to be a ghost to scare off her daughter-in-law, but she fails in the end. The lustful laughter was endless, and he searched his stomach.
But what is even more terrifying is that the mother-in-law is wearing a cursed mask, which is stuck and can't be removed.
The reason why the mother-in-law prevented her daughter-in-law from interacting with Ba was not because of her virginity consideration for her dead son, but because she hated that the daughter-in-law was young and strong, and she was exhausted and did not invite Ba to see her.
Everyone has desires, stubbornness, deep love and hatred, and scattered breaths and joys and sorrows. When people want to deny and stifle their desires, it is the moment when they become ghosts and cannot be redeemed.
Survival is at a disadvantage, and both hands are stained with the blood of the life of the compatriots. Is it possible to still apply a cruel blade by analogy?
Time is the catalyst of desire, the tide of thought is invading, the undercurrent is surging, and the Ukiyo-e of the wolf rushing and rushing has no moral and ethical value to fall back on. Is it possible to find another way to find an excuse for the entanglement of its own sorrows and joys?
The sea of ​​desire to break through and stop rising, the desire to cover up the original state of human nature, turn the lonely and lonely into a more free and easy time, and the universal truth lies in the boundless praise of human nature.
When people take killing their own kind as the great joy of life, they must make their own wisdom deeply imprisoned, and the obsession and lingering obsession lie in the morality of gauntlet, which is more ferocious than beasts.
The Hongyi who rested on the tsunami stone disappeared without a trace, the bloody killings ended in a dusty bun, the human ideal of righteousness was ridiculed and ridiculed but erratic, and the deep and sincere was destroyed in the nightmarish grotesque. middle.
In a naked protozoan kingdom, killing and being killed, in an instant, decides the sharp-blade punishment of honoring and humiliating the world. The mother-in-law eventually became a blood-stained miser and fell into the purgatory trap of her daughter-in-law and died.
It seems to be a fable, a complex fable that the jade flames rise and thousands of horses smash together.

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  • Kacie 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    In 1988's "Red Sorghum", the naked sexual impulse in the sorghum field; in 2012's "White Deer Plain", the wind blows the wheat waves and the incestuousness; the original is not as good as 1964's "Haunted", the bottom of human nature in the reeds. Greed and desire. Really cool!

  • Burnice 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    Three and a half. I noticed a subsection: In addition to directing and editing, Kanto Shindo also worked with Hiroshi Matsumoto as an artist, while Kiyoshi Kuroda has been involved in photography, and Lin Guang is involved in music. The team lasted for 20 films for 18 years, and continued for 15 years after Kuroda handed over the baton to Miyake Yoshiyuki in 1979; until 2011, Lin Guang and the 100-year-old Xindou died at the same time the year after the filming of his posthumous works. , the team never disbanded. For filmmakers, this is truly a luxury bliss.

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