Live vilely and falsely, or die indulgently and vainly

Rubie 2022-04-20 09:01:55

Regarding the director of this film, Takashi Miike, I have always held a daunting attitude. "Visitor Q", "Memoirs of a Ghost Prostitute", "Skin-cut Love", etc. blocked any prayers I tried to get close to. Last night, I found "The Killer Ah Yi" on the forbidden disc recorded by my roommate. In addition, I was in a very unstable mood at the time, and I urgently needed a film to dispel my inexplicable anger, so I simply watched it.
The bloody scenes in the film are wonderful, but far from disgusting and boring, so those who fear Miike's violent aesthetics can rest assured. Asano Tadanobu's Kakihara is a masochist with serious sadistic tendencies, and he constantly teaches others that violence requires emotion. The killer Ah Yi is an ordinary person who is eloquent. When he bursts out with absolute power, it is also the time when he is the most empty, most painful, and most helpless. This kind of power does not matter whether it is just or unjust, it is just helpless and even more helpless. difference. When Kakihara played with others horribly, I had a very subtle feeling, although the elementary school teacher told us that it was wrong to do so, the junior high school teacher told us that it was unloving of life, the high school teacher told us that it was inhumane, the university teacher told us We are violating his right to life by doing this, but the subconscious awareness of abuse and abuse makes me enjoy the cruelty of Kakihara, not to mention that the people who are abused by him are not harmonious members. The awareness of abuse and abuse is hidden in everyone's heart, but the moral prison is getting bigger and bigger with the increase of age, and it is more and more difficult to break through. However, social reality is like a sharp blade, cutting the shackles to shreds and basking the subconscious in the sun, leaving you with only two choices: live a vile, hypocritical life, or die indulgently and in vain. Opening the Pandora's Box of abuse/abuse is destined for you to choose the second path, from one extreme to the other, because it connects with another ultimate proposition about desire. Abuse/masochism is the most direct way to satisfy desire, because it starts in the body and ends in the spirit. The suppressed consciousness of abuse and abuse is the most serious wound in the heart, and daily trivial matters are limited by this. Insulting, slandering, arrogance, cruelty, when you can't bear all this in life, the abusive/masochistic consciousness in your heart is dispelling the depression and pain for you, and it has accumulated as a potentially dangerous force. Once this power is released, it may go out of control and become a habit, a habit of satisfying one's own desires; a weapon, a weapon for hurting the one you love. From the repression that hurts oneself to the indulgence that hurts others, no one will be the beneficiary in this process, and everyone will be the victim.
The desire proposition connected with it is shown in the film. The killer Ah Yi has always had a nightmare. He was bullied by his classmates when he was a teenager, and a girl stepped forward to rescue him and was raped instead. When the girl asked Hajime for help, Hajime didn't dare to take a step closer. What made Hajime as an adult even more unable to lift his head was that when he saw the girl being raped, he felt inexplicably excited, and actually had the desire to rape her. See you in a few years. The girl has become a romantic girl, but Hajime is still talking. The girl told him that the person who most wanted to see her raped at that time was Hajime, so that she could completely despair and die. The stupid Hajime finally had the opportunity to satisfy the desires of his beloved, and naturally he would not let it go, and he came to the truth, the woman said no, she just wanted it. The girl didn't realize the horror of Ah Yi's power explosion, and continued her lustful and abused speeches. She hoped that she would be cut piece by piece by her beloved, so that she could feel the most heartbreaking experience of death. . Hajime satisfied her. Although in this process, the girls tried their best to say no, but it was in vain. It seems that the desires of both sides have been filled, but the result? The girl ended her lush and short life, and Hajime continued to live stupidly and madly. Desires do not need to be satisfied. At the end of the film, Yuanyuan finally meets the killer Hajime, looking forward to a duel that can bring him pleasure. Unexpectedly, Ah Yi's fragile emotional defense line collapsed again, and he was bullied by elementary school student Ah Wu and wept bitterly. After Kakihara pierced his eardrums, he fanciedly fought with Hajime and fell to his death. All I can say is like an advertisement for the efficacy of medicine, this is the result of desire satisfaction.
If you want something, you will lose something. Desire is like this, and love is even more like this, and it is irreversible.

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Ichi the Killer quotes

  • Ichi: Did... you really want me to rape you, Miss Tachibana?

    Karen: Oh, no. I didn't want it from you. I wanted it from anyone. The only thing that can help me now is despair.

  • Kakihara: Damn... Nobody left to kill me.