The third part of the Abe public house trilogy of Hiroshi Kawahara, the disfigured male protagonist Okuyama got a face of someone else with the help of a doctor, and then began to completely break away from the original role under his new identity, trying to never be He tried to return, and seduced his wife with revenge. After being exposed by his wife, the plot took a sharp turn. Okuyama began to have an out-of-control greed for his identity, and deliberately sexually assaulted women one after another, and finally killed the doctor. This is a superficial story structure, and the deeper concept in the film is reflected in the dialogue between the doctor and his wife. From a psychological point of view, the doctor's expression is that the mask is destroying people's morality and is controlling the male protagonist. It is not the male protagonist who is controlling the mask. Under this mask, the existence of the identity of others enables him to gain a new life in the original desperate, sensitive and irritating situation, and at the same time, he is not trapped in the social relationship of the original character and is in an identityless state. At the same time, it also reveals the ugly side of human nature without the shackles of law and morality, thus losing self-recognition and social role, and will inevitably lead to a stranger that will collapse and run out of control, and this kind of freedom is lonely. And in terms of social psychology, when his wife exposed him, she said, "In love, we all try to take on each other's masks. So, I think we should try to put on masks." The wife once said that ancient women have lost their faces. To be noble, it is the same reason that makeup is required nowadays. Under the mask of alienation, there is a kind of self-identification different from that of the male protagonist. Further thinking, what kind of "mask" identity should I use to face others and myself? How should the real self be? And in the whole social framework, is it the "faceless person" who wears the same mask in the last shot of the film? Freedom is loneliness! In terms of directing techniques, the application of super close-up shots and blurred shots through glass is very directorial. Several branches, such as the mentally retarded woman's seeing through and the disfigured woman's throwing into the sea, the former is a hypocritical satire of the male protagonist's "beauty of others", while the latter is self-denial without a mask, and the film uses symbols and metaphors. All of them have very philosophical thinking, and the sense of picture and the performance of the male protagonist have a precise and model-style classic portrayal.
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