Ghosts and Reality in Landscape Paintings in Ugetsu

Ashleigh 2022-06-08 13:04:16

In the meantime, the classics of film texts lie in the vaguely ethereal and gentle, and a force to talk about the ravages of life and life is brewing.If the Drizzle West Tower is still a mirage, how can one face the world's hardships and loneliness with a calm demeanor?How to save the expansion of ambition and desire and the entanglement of ups and downs by turning the tide?

The anti-war complex is contained in the narrative's waves and clouds. During the war years, when prices were soaring, Genjuro wanted to make a fortune by doing business.

But he was obsessed with the ghostly incarnation of beauty, Wakasa, and his wife in his hometown was assassinated when the soldiers robbed the food.

The origin of human nature is full of all kinds of greed and cunning. A life without rules and regulations has the delusional nature of flying high and bright, which takes away the responsibility and morality of human beings and reduces them to light and a lack of practical direction. Genjuro was exiled in a lonely and fragile state during the days when he disliked his wife and Wakasa as glue, and he had unknowingly immersed his life in the ravages of troubled times.

The cowardice of the world degenerates ordinary people. Can the fairyland-like scene and the fluttering and euphemistic music relieve Genjuro's inherently cowardly heart? Is it essentially a betrayal of oneself to disregard the fate of one's wife and children for the sake of one's freedom and indulgence? Betrayal comes from frivolous lust but also from the distortion of the worldview. Desolate and regretful resentment is the ultimate return of Genjuro.

All cruel things are accepted except storms. Genjuro's wife, Miyagi, did not give up the meaning of being a wife and mother even if she decayed into a ghost. Still remembering the nightmare of accepting her husband, the essence of compassion lies in the simplicity of her folk landscape.

Genjuro's younger brother, Fujibei, wanted to join the military and stand out in the war. He changed from a poor peasant to a bodyguard with ten subordinates, but his wife, Abin, was raped by dozens of soldiers and later turned into a prostitute. There will be disasters in the world to punish Fujibei's evil behavior because of his materialistic spiritual dimension. It destroys his personality and ignores his wife Abin's nature as a woman.

Linked to the sins of romance are the yearning for fame and material fame, which makes his wife, Abin, a boat in depression and hesitation. The ascending escalator destroys the spiritual dimension by convincing people that illusory, fleeting happiness is the essence of the noumenon, causing people's hearts to completely lose their normal state, and pinning the ultimate imagination on illusory freedom.

Abin's bitter complaint goes against the normal state of silent women in the world, expressing the sins of Fujibei directly in the Golan, mocking this absurd and tragic world and human beings' wanton contempt. In his anger, he wiped out the sin at the root of Fujibei's mind and laid out Abin's fierce revenge. The value of raising the eyebrows of the case was traumatized. Like a door of destruction, the curtain rolls on the west wind, the sadness and humiliation of people who are thinner than the yellow flowers are accompanied by the extreme cleanup appeal, and finally, Fujibei gives up his military post to reunite with Abin.

In the desolate scene like a landscape painting, the ghosts and reality in the freehand landscape painting pull people's thoughts to the world of various expressions. Mizoguchi presents ukiyo-e with dazzling blood clots, which is summarized as a woman who belongs to the gentle, kind, respectful, and thrifty. The charm of the words or the majesty of the fierce words punishes the world's destructive self-will and frivolous honor and disgrace orientation.

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Ugetsu quotes

  • Ohama: Success always comes at a price, and we pay in suffering.