The director did not explain a way out for this darkness; or there is, it depends on how you interpret the ocean in the desert at the end of the film...
View more about Woman in the Dunes reviews
The dilemma of modern man
Mercedes 2022-03-24 09:03:48
The whole film is set in a constructed sand village. The hero has never returned to Tokyo, but the story is about modern people living in a big city and living according to a set route. Because the male protagonist was trapped in the house of the girl of sand and forced to become a member of the village, the living environment changed, and the male protagonist began to resist; but he failed to escape and found some fun in life (such as using siphon phenomenon to get water), which made him re-examine his new life. The result of the scrutiny seems to me hopeless, and it coincides with the words of the heroine who has never seen the world: this is not different from Tokyo. The same hard work in exchange for social resources, the same marriage and children, desire and siege; even the same two people talking and laughing but could not understand each other at all (this clip is very similar to waiting for Godot); and what he pursues The so-called ideal of , is even more ridiculous here. Poor modern man, couldn't even be trapped in a worse place!
The director did not explain a way out for this darkness; or there is, it depends on how you interpret the ocean in the desert at the end of the film...
The director did not explain a way out for this darkness; or there is, it depends on how you interpret the ocean in the desert at the end of the film...
Extended Reading
-
Florian 2022-04-21 09:03:46
Photography is excellent. Movement is slow. The tone is comfortable. I don't understand the others, and I don't understand why they need to dig sand.
-
Mallory 2022-03-19 09:01:11
The allegorical drama with rich meaning, the struggle between male/culture and female/nature, the Eden complex, the Stockholm complex, the dialectical struggle between freedom and limitation, infinity and limitation, individual and society...
Top cast
-
Entomologist Niki Jumpei: They don't care about you. People only care about themselves. Here we are, ruthlessly exploited, yet happily wagging our tails. Before you know it, they'll abandon us here.
-
Entomologist Niki Jumpei: The sand? What good it that? It's the source of all your troubles.