What does a typical Japanese look like? Usually follow the rules and obey the promises, keep yourself consistent with the people around you anytime, anywhere, despise the bully and oppress the weak, and worship the strong. He looks polite, but he's cold and distant.
Therefore, many netizens who travel to Japan have a high evaluation of Japan; while many netizens who live in Japan have a poor evaluation of Japan. Because the former only saw Japan's cleanliness, Japanese civilization, and high quality; while the latter saw the perverted nature of Japanese people who were schizophrenic and schizophrenic.
And this movie illustrates this well.
Violence itself is not evil, but under the director's lens language, or in other words, in Japan's mainstream values, violence has become evil. The Japanese inside seem to have only two states, one is cautious or even a little cowardly, and the other is evil, cruel and inhuman. Comparing Showa Japan a few decades ago, we can see a wonderful correspondence. Before those Japanese soldiers were recruited, they were honest and even cowardly Japanese peasants and petty citizens; but when they arrived in China, they became cruel and inhumane beasts.
Violence and evil seem to be contagious under the director's lens, and once you taste it, you are completely immersed in it. However, we all know that the so-called violence or evil are only abstract concepts, not evil gods who can possess the body. It's you who really decides what you do.
The extreme bipolar transformation of the Japanese shows that there is a problem in their culture, and they should not be blamed on violence or mid-life crisis. Usually timid and weak, but when it erupts, it is extremely cruel. This kind of personality can be found anywhere, including China. But the whole nation is full of this kind of personality, probably only Japan.
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