2020 Rewatch

Bailee 2022-09-28 23:16:41

After re-watching, I am more determined that this is a work that can be famous in film history (an inappropriate metaphor: Sonoko Wen Xie's version of "Happy Lazzaro"). Write down your thoughts after reading this:

1. Formal belief is just hypocrisy. All hypocrisy in the film will eventually be destroyed. Desire destroys everything and regenerates everything. Perversion is the savior of all people.

2. The greatest role is the stepmother Kaoru. Yoko describes her with the title "Love の む き だ し", which is the only time the title appears in the entire film's lines.

3. Gu Chi is the godmother of the male protagonist, baptized him in the rainy night (deliberately picked up the broken hair on his forehead and recited his name), and prepared a "miracle" for him.

4. Yoko's first monologue "As long as men are beaten by me", the holy and violent Mary is the only real lesbian in this film (the only two men I like are Cobain and Jesus hahaha).

5. Yoko shouted 1 Corinthians with Bei Qikuang at the seaside, in which there is the famous "Still in the mirror" passage. Exposure of Love—God is Love. The pattern from questioning religion to finding the answer in this film makes people suspect that Sonoko Wen was influenced by Bergman...

6.2017 "Her Royal Highness Princess in Prison" Hikaru Mandao style pays tribute to "Love Exposure" Zuo Suli.

7. The theme song of this film is the only album released in the 21st century among the top 30 top 100 albums of the 50 years selected by "music magazine". (where my love for him started).

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Extended Reading

Love Exposure quotes

  • : I kept forcing sins out of myself like this. It felt like squeezing out the last bit of toothpaste.

  • Tetsu: Have you sinned?

    : [internally] I have to remember! The blue sky... Grass by the river... An insect on a leaf... Flowers in the wind... I can't think of any sins!

    : Today...

    : [internally] I've got one!

    : I went in a café with a wet umbrella and... I splashed water all over the place.

    Tetsu: and then?

    : And... maybe I sprayed water on the customers and made a bit of a disturbance.

    Tetsu: It was indeed quite obnoxious. Anything else?