The Ballad of Narayama Comments

Burdette 2023-03-06 10:57:28

A little speechless, I don't know what to say, in such a living environment, it is difficult to blame their choice, just never abandon the old...

Gerhard 2023-02-22 06:47:21

Oriental, surprising, shadowy, just the right classical beauty, three-dimensional presentation of strange writing. Many scenes seem to smell some odors, satisfying the narrow, ancient and rough imagination of East Asian...

Johnathan 2023-02-14 01:12:20

After watching the beginning and end of the film class, I went back to the dormitory and read it from the hard drive. It feels like this maggot-like human being is slowly multiplying forward in selfishness and hardship, like ice melting in spring. The vitality of sexual intercourse and the abandonment of human life, the peace in front of the family's death, and the silence under the earth, cruelty comes as naturally as eating and drinking. In Changping's eyes, Ozu's reunion and tranquility are...

Damian 2023-01-11 22:32:07

⒈ Live for the sake of life, sex for the sake of sex, die for the sake of death, ..., and eye-opening; This is the look and feel of "Man and Nature"; ⒊Po A Ling broke her front teeth and Chen Ping's toenails were bleeding out, which was the scene that shocked me most; Breathtaking, and...

Otto 2023-01-11 08:01:40

Whether rich or poor, ignorant or noble, life still needs to be converted to nature in its most primitive form. At the time of the white head, arranging the funeral of the children and grandchildren, and then staggering toward death, this is not only motherhood, but also the highest form of life praise. Imamura likes to use animal metaphors throughout, every...

Gerhard 2023-01-08 12:45:46

Shohei Imamura is really an expert in anthropology and folklore. From the case of Narayama, we can see a very metaphysical dimension of worship and superstition. The elderly are sent to Narayama and given the name of worshipping the gods. Behind it is that the village's agriculture can't afford the old, no longer productive mouths; and the reason why snow is more fortunate and more religious is probably because the ice and snow allow the elderly to end their painful lives faster. In the last...

Jasen 2022-12-07 14:34:02

Thank you to the person next to the last row of the 9.17 Yingjia Festival who handed me a...

Deshaun 2022-12-06 04:17:09

Does the rat eating the frozen snake correspond to the crow eating the corpse of the old man, it snows on Mt. Nara, and the freezing of the corpse means the end of the mother's life. The realism of a mountain village....

Cecile 2022-12-03 15:10:18

Imamura is terrifying. In such a movie, a trace of warmth has been drowned and disappeared. The people depicted in the film are people and not people. Primitive and insolent desires do not even see the emotion of contempt. Perhaps the reason for the lack of productivity is the savagery of the group, or perhaps, even if human beings obtain a survival group with superior productivity, a new form of savagery will emerge. In the final analysis, we cannot escape from that unseen primal...

Jada 2022-12-02 00:06:39

The animal nature of human beings can only be revealed without civilization, and the repeated appearance of animal montages as a visual motif also illustrates this point—humans are no different from other animals. For human existence, life, desire and belief have always been the ultimate propositions. In the absence of law and morality, sex is no longer an expression of inferiority. Instead, it seems to have returned to the worship of female reproduction in the mother society, a symbol of...