86/100, Mishima’s Caesarean suicide is an important case and event in the history of literature and even the history of human spirit. The unremitting desire for the supreme spiritual and physical unity full of strength and incomparably harmonious beauty is fully demonstrated by the film , I didn’t expect that some moments (the launch of the Shield Club "Spiritual Devotion to the Pure Army" and the final surreal subjective shots of flying a plane and the Self-Defense Force speech suicide) would be touched by the desire for purity and intensity. I remembered It turned out to be extremely serious, with great hatred and spurn and contempt for this era, and it is more similar to some feelings nowadays. Suddenly can understand more perceptually the green teaching and the warming of various extreme right thoughts. In the absence of spirit, people are isolated, atomized, and eating cultural and industrial consumer goods like garbage, and have to be numb and sinking, and the modern age is highly alienated by capitalism. In society, in this kind of hopeless society that has reached its logical extreme to some extent, the loss of nothingness and sense of meaning makes it easy for people to find a strong spiritual grasper, rather than living like garbage. , Perhaps in the examples of Mishima and some green sect detonators, they appreciate death and destruction more than this walking dead life. This path is the easiest to incite most people, and the worship of death summons the strength of life.
But there is no doubt that this approach under the call of total logic is dangerous. We need another alternative, which is to re-understand life, instead of easily slipping into the duality of "life-death", "life." It is not given, but needs to be created. This road is not easy to popularize, but it is the real right way, the only possibility that can be sustained.
There is no doubt that Mishima fulfilled his survival creed and aesthetics by suicide, but the pursuit of the ultimate aestheticism of harmony and unity is also an extremely dangerous escape. It is true that facing the Japan that has been domesticated by capital is just like facing the human civilization that is pervasively eroded by capital. The beauty born of spiritual beauty, the unity of the knife and the pen, and the harmony between the entanglement of the spirit and the flesh will certainly make the viewer feel Shocked, but also because its movement is too violent, the speed is too fast, and it serves an abstract unity, it inevitably slides to tragedy. People can only sigh and sigh. Spinoza, Deleuze...
Btw, the film’s aesthetics and soundtrack are truly amazing, respect Philip Glass! Every time it is memorable.
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