loved Mishima's book for a long time. I remember when I was in Ningbo, working hard, I went to collect debts for the company. When I took the bus, I took Mishima's book, "The Five Decays of Heaven and Man" from "The Sea of Abundance". It was a bit difficult to read, and the content was boring. give up. I remember that the sea in the book echoes the sea, dams, and lighthouses in reality, and that warm memory is still in my heart. When I left Ningbo, among the three books borrowed from the library, the book of Mishima was kept on his bookshelf.
It was not until many years later that he received "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" from Shanghai Translation Publishing House, which seemed to be more attractive to his writing. That kind of multi-dimensional perspective and aesthetic point of view made my heart fascinated, especially as his initial creation, which contains great metaphors-for those who are new to the literary world, his approach has been influenced by too many European writers, but It has to be said that it is a very risky project.
The name of the disc I bought was "The Biography of Mishima Yukio". Although I had bought "Beauty and Violence" from Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House before, I only read the beginning, but I didn't finish it. The bloody cesarean beheading has taken me by surprise. I was vaguely aware of the deaths of writers when I was young, and gradually became clear about their deaths when I grew up, and I realized it after I understood the causes and consequences. Mishima's death existed long before I was born, but it was only when I grew up that I felt its "reality" up close for the first time.
In addition to the film, an interview with the production team and an interview with Mishima's life are also included. It is incredible to see the slightly proud and fluent English of the writer I like. The image retained his figure, just as he defies the belief that time wants to perpetuate his body, I saw him clearly across time and space. Different from the shyness of adolescence, he is strong and confident who is passionate about fitness.
At first, I thought the disc I bought was a documentary about reminiscing about Mishima's life, but it was a movie-it was a disappointment or a surprise to me that I couldn't tell. The film led several members of the "Shield Society" to the general's residence to implement the plan-the purpose seems very clear, that is, to support the emperor and overthrow the current government. His behavior is indeed an extreme right-wing militarist. It is hard to imagine such a thought. The writers who are deeply influenced by the West admire the Bushido culture so much and are obsessed with caesarean section and red paper. The whole film takes Mishima's last day before his death as a vertical line that runs through the beginning and the end, inserting some fragments of him from small to large horizontally, and presented in black and white images, which contrasts the loneliness, paleness and monotony of the personal spiritual world. He was taken away from his mother by his grandmother since he was a child, and he was disciplined strictly, giving him a noble and lonely childhood. The neurotic grandmother's training not only cultivated the elegance of his chest, but also made him develop a unique aesthetic. Concept. He read a large collection of books and was attracted by the magnificent male body in the picture of Sebastian's martyrdom. At the age of 12, he created the "Forest in Blooming Flowers" that amazed adults. The two women mentioned in the film, grandmother and mother, are nothing more than emphasizing the factors that formed the character during his growth. This has a lot to do with his later extreme obsession with male bodies. He is always a keen follower of beauty. In "Golden Pavilion", beauty exists as a metaphor of architecture, and beauty is to let Characters have defects and sense of crisis. The film extracts four novels as interspersed, which makes the film's narrative form more full and expressive. Director Schrader is a good partner of Martin Sikoses. He has always been a screenwriter and director. He has shown great interest in Mishima's suicidal behavior. Both the narrative linear recording technique and the strong expressionism of the stage form are used to highlight the artistry of the works, which really makes people shine, and they also have a general understanding of the style of Mishima's early, middle and late works. I look forward to seeing the presentation of the novel "Forbidden Color", but unfortunately I didn't see it. It is said that the director had this intention, but Mishima's widow refused. Mishima, as a popular writer and representative of right-wing supporters in Japan, many people rejected his homosexual behavior and did not recognize it-this is also an important reason why the film was boycotted at the Tokyo Film Festival at that time.
The director emphasized death, so he took the day of death as a clue. The content of the work is presented in the nature of the stage, with rich colors and exquisite lighting and shadow arrangement to win. The "Golden Pavilion" is a wooden model, the wooden floor that can be seen as a reflection of the people has become a pond, and the peaks and emerald green and green lotus have completely become the paintings on the set. "House of Mirrors" uses Ukiyo-e screens as partitions. The prison iron bars and the blood-colored setting sun in "Running Horse" resemble the setting of a Broadway stage. Although "Confessions of a Mask" is not explicitly presented, it uses black and white images. That is, it reflects personal growth experience. In fact, this autobiographical novel originally reflects Mishima himself. The director does not make explicit statements and deliberately eliminates artistic techniques, but uses the words in the book to speak for Mishima. This blurring of boundaries does not know whether it is a "cunning" move. Mishima, who was influenced by militarism, had always wanted to die on the battlefield since his youth, but deliberately pretended to be sick during the physical examination. Many years later, most of his boyhood friends died in battle, but he lived and lived. His depression and the distress of being unable to serve the country deeply troubled him. The heart toward death is like a sunflower, screaming fiercely under the call of the sun flag. Mishima's final "rebellion" and planning to amend the constitution are exactly like his "Running Horse", the difference is that he could not complete as described in the book, seeing the rising sun before Yumu. In the film footage, interviews with his former friends showed that people did not express too much sadness about his death, because they had heard clues from his previous words and regarded his death as an art form. Performance. This makes me feel a strange feeling that "death" is the ultimate point of life. Most people are terrified of death, but Mishima can regard it as part of his creation.
The whole film is divided into four parts, namely "Beauty", "Art Activities", "Action", "The Unity of Pen and Sword", let's just talk about this last part. The coexistence of "elegance" and "cruel" in the human nature of the Japanese people is well known. Although Mishima Yukio's creation is not completely inspired by Kawabata Yasunari, it has its unique structure and architectural aesthetic characteristics, but the overall Still beautiful, but the characters created each have their own human flaws, even ugly and hypocritical. His last suicide did prove the fusion of "pen" and "sword", but it was a bit absurd after all. A modern literati who pursued ancient culture died under his sword and used an extreme way to apologize to the emperor. Imagine how absurd it is for a person to be sure to die and to carefully plan the beauty of death. This has to be related to his pursuit of perfect character.
Just like in "Golden Pavilion", "beauty" becomes a burden that suppresses freedom. When war cannot destroy it, it has to be destroyed by man. This huge metaphor was like a spell descending on Mishima. The actor Ogataken is far from Mishima in appearance, but he captures some characteristics, such as his sensitivity, vulnerability, and arrogance, which are quite similar to the appearance of several young actors when he was young. Although there are many works interspersed in the film, and there are different actors playing the leading actor, their souls are all Mishima. The body is beautiful, but the soul is weeping blood.
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