The poorer you are, the poorer you are, and the poorer you are. People are like animals without restraint. This reminds me of the incident in Fengxian. If I don't interfere, it will end like this sooner or later. Why are all the boys killed and not the girls? Because this labor force is enough to cultivate the poor land in my family. The number of women in the small mountain village has already begun to be scarce, so baby girls can be sold for money.
There are many scenes of animals in the film, which often contain some kind of metaphor, such as mating mantises, molting snakes, mating snakes, owls, frogs, and snakes eating mice. I think this is alluding to human instincts.
Because the whole village is so poor, they fear nature and supernatural power, so they fabricated the mountain god. Obviously, after going up the mountain, the male protagonist has understood that there is no mountain god, this is just an excuse for the population in the village to pay for the unrestrained sexual behavior. But when he returned to the mountain village, he, like all the old men who had gone up the mountain, chose to remain silent. What's the use of speaking out? No food to eat is still no food to eat.
In addition, the group psychology is also very terrifying, and it obviously acts on Aling Po. Sons who kill their fathers can also be forgiven, because this is the order of the mountain god. The villagers also buried the Yuwu family alive, just because they have been stealing for generations. Generations steal because times are poor, generations are poor because times have a bunch of kids. In such a poor situation, there is no such thing as morality.
Too bad, poverty is a bottomless pit. Besides, in this film, a village is still poor, let alone any breakthroughs.
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