A movie with extremely restrained expressions that strongly internalizes emotions. Yes, no expression is not no emotion but passion and direct heart attack. This gave me great comfort.
Recessive, this is an educational film for individualism. Individualism is an anti-authoritative carnival with individual freedom as the main body. In the film, when his past disappears completely, theoretically he has unprecedented freedom and can abandon the object as much as possible. However, on the contrary, he urgently needs the object to define himself and make himself complete again, because his subjective world disappears in the memory as total nothingness.
Recently, I made a digression when I was studying Mishima. Mishima committed suicide because of the widespread nihilism that resulted from the overthrow of authority (the emperor) in Japanese society after the war. Why do you say that? Because in the last sentence of his swan song, the five evils of heaven and man, he wrote like this
[This is an unsurprisingly quiet and bright garden. The cicada sounds like counting rosary beads occupy the entire courtyard. There is nothing in this courtyard. Bendo feels that he has come to a place where neither memory nor anything exists]
Back in the film, he completed his reconstruction. This is a great comfort to the viewer, and the viewer reconstructs himself along with the character. The vitality that keeps groaning in the dark, and the emotions that appear strong and firm because of almost no expression, are really full of power.
To be defined and wrapped is what the lonely individual needs. Those universal feelings made me feel that I was suspected that I was a Finn in my previous life... and the music, psychedelic and energetic. This kind of collision caused by the strong contrast with the character's behavior is simply heartbreaking.
Life is full of hope, although we don’t know what this hope is.
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