In fact, this film is really not good, but I am willing to give him four stars because it does tell some things. Judging from the whole film, it is actually a broadcast of Japanese folklore because I have dabbled in this subject before, so I am not surprised. Strange about Japanese folklore, I found a common feature is "isolation from the outside world, self-contained ecology". Its research value lies in the removal of the influence of external ideology on the maximum result, and self-constructed "folklore culture" and you will find In this case, folklore is often a cultural community of "nature worship" and "eating lust". This kind of "harmony" between man and nature is extremely scientific from a modern point of view, but the image presents a strange The perverted feeling makes the whole film full of realism and at the same time confusing and frightening. For this kind of horror, I think we should avoid using the vulgar social view of "superstition" and "desire" to explain it. This kind of fear actually comes from human subjectivity itself. The culture is undoubtedly fictional, but it is indeed an effective "superstitious" behavior in the village and the bones on the mountain have proved it all.
The son carried his mother up the mountain and discovered the truth, but he could only explain the world through the contingency of "snow" instead of facing the truth
just because of fear
On the empty bones on the mountain, the son saw the night of the world in the Hegelian sense, that is, the emptiness of subjectivity. At this moment, he realized the fear of being born as a human being. God is already dead, and after death will be true none
"Am I going to die like this in 25 years?"
Turning around and witnessing the scene of "child murdering his father", he awakened the guilt sleeping in his heart. An original "Oedipus complex" made him unwilling to leave the mother-son community
So he went back to find his mother
But the mother has already completed the crossing of the fantasy, and the libido is firmly poured into the world after death
It made him feel incomprehensible and confused
Soon, a snow brought him back to this cultural community
The accidental discovery of the inconsistency was nothing but a collapse of the gravitational field, which soon began to revolve around a small object called "Narayama", showing its effectiveness
For me, the essence and ideology of the whole film are only reflected here, but only the perception of this part can make people feel a grand narrative of life and nature
Four stars for the director's ethical stance
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