In the late 19th century, at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule, the killing group established in order to resist the reformers and maintain local security in Kyoto - the new election group (may be similar to the Jinyiwei), in order to regulate these The armed forces selected from the three religions and nine streams in various places were formulated by the new election group. With the strict team rules - "the law in the game", anyone who violates it will be made to apologize. Under the strict taboos, there are still many swordsmen who come to apply for the recruitment.
In 1865, the Shinsengumi was powerful, and two swordsmen were recruited this year: Sozaburo Ghana and Hyozo Tashiro. Ghana, who has superb swordsmanship and peerless beauty, enters this fighting group composed of men, and the air is filled with ambiguous, love, and masculine style, which is obviously contrary to Bushido's strict self-discipline spirit, but in strictness. In the Xinxuan group with strict regulations, the way of male sex seems to be tolerated, and the result of such laxity is that there is infighting within the group for the sake of male sex.
The first to be attracted was Tashiro who came in at the same time, followed by the captain Yuzawa. Even the leader of the group, Kondo Isamu, Hijikata Toshizo, Okita Soji, etc., also took special care of the beautiful boy.
Tashiro's open and naked pursuit of Ghana is so desperate that he loves him to the point of death; from such an ugly Yuzawa's mouth, he can say a poetic sentence like "I want to listen to the birdsong in the morning with you", which makes him jealous. Crazy; Garner was crowned as a monster by Hijikata's three crowns. His eyes were blurred and seductive, and he was ambiguous to anyone. He seduced and provoked without any scruples. In the environment, enjoy the thrill of being infatuated and mastering the fate of others. His arrival provided an outlet for people's desires, and people's lust, jealousy, jealousy, and slaughter followed. Under his stirring, the torrent of desires challenged the strict laws. Desire overcomes taboo, and completes the dissolution and rebellion of the imperial law and Bushido spirit.
Oshima Nagisa's film "Godfado" shows the severity of team rules and regulations from the very beginning. The word "God" is the highest honorific name for Fado, and Gogodo is actually an insurmountable rule and taboo. Laws are formulated by people to restrain people's instinctive desires, but the existence of the new law is so strict that it is almost pedantic and almost dehumanizing. The reason for the infighting in the group is that it seems that the team members have an admiration for the beautiful boy. In fact, even if it is not an erotic entanglement, as long as it is a group of careerists, there will inevitably be discord due to the expansion of people's desires. Nagisa Oshima only showed the men's desires from jealousy and gradually turned against their goals through masculine sex.
In the film, who is Ghana's love? His relationship with Tashiro has never been denied, and he was half-assed with Yuzawa, and even actively seduced with Yamazaki, but the leader of the Shinsengumi group, Okita, seems to be an outlier. The bloody storm caused by desire came to an abrupt end under the sword of Okita. But Okita used the story of the "Chrysanthemum Alliance" to make Hijikata show three hallucinations, so that Hijikata finally realized: "It's not that Okita is obsessed with Ghana, but Ghana is obsessed with Okita...". Did he, who maintains the spirit of Bushido, also love Garner? Nagisa Oshima's films did not show it, nor did the original novel, but the spirit of the samurai in Japan since ancient times extended the loyal belief of Bushido, "The ultimate in love is secret love. After meeting each other, the value of love will begin to decline. Lifelong Secrecy is the essence of love."
Okita is undoubtedly the representative of maintaining the law in the film. He understands that the group of this law cannot allow people like Garner to overstep and override. In the confrontation between taboo and desire, since taboo and law cannot restrain desire, only by cutting off desire can the taboo be preserved. and statutes.
At the end of the film, a cherry blossom tree in full bloom is cut off by the earthwork.
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