The whole film focuses on a paradox of human nature: Only with power can you become a tyrant and live the life you want; correspondingly, with power, you will inadvertently hurt others and suffer your conscience.
Or in other words, the powerful is the "father."
The theme of "father" runs vaguely throughout the film. On Murata's side, father is a symbol of tyranny or domination. The shadow of domestic violence in his childhood has always remained deep in his heart, inspiring his hatred, aggressiveness, cruelty, and arrogance all the time, so he is almost a strong, hypocritical, always using and calculating people throughout the movie. Image of a tyrant. His behavior has almost always been influenced by his father-he was almost preaching to the weak Sheben family from beginning to end, especially when he dismembered the corpse several times. A copy of his kind of education.
In contrast to Murata, the society represents the other side of his father: responsibility and protection. On this side, Yuan Ziwen didn't express it so directly, but I think that the weak image of the social media that runs through most of the movies is by no means purely for the exchange of roles with Murata, as most film critics believe. The society should be the kind side, love life (loving family and astronomy), and hope that the family is safe. However, his personality defect made him unable to make the family happy and harmonious. Even so, he always cared about his family from beginning to end and was at the mercy of Murata (or the evil side, including himself later).
The significance of this is to understand the last series of actions of the society. Many people think that when Murata died, his and Shamoto’s roles were swapped-Shamoto became the "father" and Murata became the original "son". This point seems to be corroborated by the words "Don’t fight my father, I will be good" before Murata’s death, as well as the “I’m the new Murata” mentioned by the company, but I’m more inclined to At that moment, evil and violence prevailed in the society. After leaving Aiko alone to mutilate her husband, the Shamoto who returned home seems to be a combination of the previous Shamoto and Murata, or the Shamoto whose violent side was inspired.
He is still the society. What he thought about was still a good life for a family of three, but this time he was tougher, not only tough, but also extremely rough. However, in his heart, he is not a person with a distorted personality like Murata, he is still the kind and poor person who loves astronomy. Therefore, he still didn't feel happy after showing off his lewdness at home. So he called the police to end everything, or save everything. He killed his lustful beloved son who had fallen to him, and sat in a chair outside the cabin in a daze, perhaps wondering if life could go back to the past. At this time, his wife Taeko came to him. The two looking at each other seemed to forgive each other's infidelity or cruelty, and returned to the state of the first date. However, the dagger in Shamoto's hand was accidentally inserted into Taeko's. On his body (from the perspective of Sheben's wandering beyond the sky, it can't be intentional), the world that Sheben was dreaming of collapsed, and the protection and responsibility he represented was also irreparably lost at this moment. Under such a collision between extreme good and extreme evil, Shamoto can no longer bear the pain caused by this contradiction. He can only give his daughter the last lesson of being a "father", and then he ends up by himself.
It can be said that the last social book is the most perfect "father". Compared with the old society, whose kindness far overwhelms evil thoughts and is so weak, and Murata whose desire to rule far exceeds conscience (from Murata's confession about childhood and the mumbling before death, we can see the conscience of his heart), from Sheben was a good father with both dominance and conscience when he called the police. When all the dust settled and we thought we would have a happy ending, Taeko's last hope was broken by the sound of being stabbed by a dagger, which also caused Shamoto's unbearable pain. In the end, Photon beat and scolded his father's body after his father killed himself, which made the audience feel a deep sense of powerlessness-such a perfect "father" failed to protect his lover or obtain a daughter in the end. The recognition of "evil" has even become a communicator of "evil".
In the final analysis, the root of all problems is still "power." There are many movies, literature and even historical facts related to the film "Power is Dad". For example, Quentin's "Pulp Fiction" about "the gun is the master", such as Mario Puzo's "The Godfather", Corleone said that the cultivation of power is to make the family happy. In the era of the Japanese Warring States period when the morality of "Katami" (sons kill Laozi, officials kill the monarch) was often downplayed, Guan Oda Nobunaga (known as the overlord of the "Sixth Demon King", known for his brutality in the late period) and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Faith) The longest successor, unified Japan, and ended the Warring States Period) There are simply too many people called Dad, and even the official position of Toyotomi Hideyoshi has the meaning of "Imperial Emperor".
There is also a big curious case in Japan at the end of the 20th century related to this (of course, this play is also adapted from another real perverted case).
Kitakyushu Imprisoned Homicide Case: http://www.jnocnews.jp/news/show.aspx?id=9191
It is worth noting that the principal culprit in this case defended himself like this: "I am not going to abuse them. I want to create a Father’s authority is to establish an order for living together. What he is engaged in is a kind of “order-type electrification education.”
If you read that link, you will find that reality is always more perverted than art. From this perspective, Yuanziwen is actually cruel and perverted enough, but the human heart is much deeper than this.
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