After a thousand years, he might be another Odyssey

Stephania 2022-04-19 09:02:44

When writing a diary today, I wrote this sentence: Many people who like to write are very incompetent people in reality.
After writing this sentence, I feel a little sad.
It turns out that I am a very incompetent person in reality.
After admitting my incompetence, I was relieved.
It's a comfortable feeling, and it's a feeling I've been waiting for for a long time.
But I know that I am not reconciled, otherwise I would not be so upset after watching Imamura Shohei's "Vengeance Is Me". . .
When I was in school, I used to have this dream, dreaming that I had killed someone, and then I started to run away desperately - but the police always caught me, they shot me, and I would wake up in a cold sweat from the dream. woke up.
For the past two years, I've still had this dream, but the difference is that now I won't just run away, I'll be fighting wits with the police.
Sometimes I also grab the cops' guns and shoot the cops who try to get me.
Then I got away completely and the police couldn't catch me again.
That feeling of freedom and the vast sea and sky is really cool. . .
I think Gu Jinyan in "Vengeance Is Me" just wants to pursue such a feeling, running freely like a wild beast. . .
After watching "Vengeance Is Me", I am really puzzled, is this Gu Jinyan the murderer in the eyes of Shohei Imamura, or the hero who is against the system in his eyes?
I think the answer should be the latter, because this is clearly a modern epic.
Gu Jinyan, the most heinous murderer in the eyes of the world, is clearly a hero who used violence against the system.
In this world, there are too many people who despise the system with words, but Gu Jinyan in the film defies the system with actions.
A thousand years later, he might be another Odyssey. . .

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  • Michele 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    It didn't have as much impact on me as the Narayama set test. To be honest, I didn't really understand it. I couldn't understand why Yan killed the mother and daughter who took him in at the end. ps: It takes courage to watch this movie, 140 minutes is not so easy

  • Daija 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    I was shocked when I saw the part where my daughter-in-law and father-in-law were doing a cowardly affair. Because I saw this movie when I was in junior high school, but I have been trying to find the original version since then to satisfy my hormones. Now it seems that I can still smell the lust of the flesh, and the philosophical thoughts under the flesh are hitting the G-spot of the soul from time to time.

Vengeance Is Mine quotes

  • Shizuo Enokizu: You can only kill those who never harmed you.