Story: A different biographical film, anti-traditional, records Mishima’s spiritual world through four chapters, and through artistic treatment, Mishima’s actions and writing are divided and mixed together again, reflecting a three-dimensional Mishima Yukio. This is not an objective biographical film. Instead, it gives Mishima a legendary, narcissistic, talented, unique and unified atmosphere in Mishima's life through fuzzy division. Mishima's 35 novels, 25 plays, and 200 short stories make up Mishima's inner world. He, as a writer, is faithful to writing. Writing took him out of the chaos of adolescence and released his inferiority complex and strong hormones. Mishima’s adolescence was a soft stammering boy, and he had a natural awe of girls and beauty, so that he appeared shy and introverted in front of the girls, and lost his masculinity. Later, this recognition of beauty, in the awful adolescence and The virgin desire becomes a devastating aesthetic perception. The destruction of the beautiful Kinkakuji will release the freedom of Mishima. But he has been trying his best to separate words and actions, which seems to be his lifelong proposition. In his adolescence, he always believed that words take precedence over body. I really like the description of the contradiction in the film, such as dreaming of fighting on the battlefield, but coughing up blood during the physical examination. The so-called body is real, which is probably the case. He contradicted why he hadn't been enlisted in the army, but in fact he was afraid, just like his cowardice when he was a child. The description of Mishima's creative process is also really interesting: I bring everything into my consciousness for extraction, and I keep calculating until I sit down and write. This section took place after the Kinkakuji Temple was burned. And that beautiful mirror scene brought out Mishima, who was gay, and his thorough-hearted tendency to commit suicide at the best time. Next is Mishima's exploration of physical health and sexual orientation. Such a stage condensed his life as a mask of different actors, SM, helping his mother to repay the loan, and beautifying and beautiful life stage. Because of the actor, mother, and the process of replacing actors in the play, this gorgeous stage of his life has become illusory and real. What is the ultimate of a writer? Is it the end of talent? It is still a kind of twisting of writers and behaviors. Writers are always caught in fraud, and behaviors often cannot be faked, and they can often shape the real Mishima. At that time, he needed to face the fact that he could not die at the most beautiful age at the age of 40, so he began to turn to the fusion of pen and sword. Mishima can really die for faith. This is also a transition from a writer to an activist. But behind this blood-sprayed suicide, people will think of Mishima, a mask-loving, deceptive, weak and cowardly man, can really commit suicide for his faith? Compared to the nasty hiding behind the text, that Is the last kidnapped and caesarean section an easy return calculation? There is no answer... But this is where Yukio Mishima's contradiction twists. Isn't his contradictory twists the literary nourishment and his fascinating part?
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