Not a film review, just a short review
Imamura Shohei is really a master of describing maggots. Rather than looking at the "woman" as a pure object of desire that exists only in male sexual fantasies (even if there is one in reality), I am more willing to look at Imamura's lens with sorrow and helplessness. Stupid, dirty, weak and depraved women. Not only because they are more real to some extent, but also because the next step "down the stairs" tragically under the threat of the situation requires great emotional restraint, and embracing the name of the future amidst ridicule and discussion is not at all. The evil or death in the future also requires extreme hysteria. Under the tremendous pressure from everywhere, they have no choice but to make the choice to fall downward. Their destruction has actually become a kind of accusation: why we must be so, why we are accused by them of being a beggar but still become a tool to vent our desires. And, if you start from the point of view of a cowardly male protagonist who is ruthlessly pretending to be a cowardly actor, the question will become, why I always kill people I don't hate, why I can't feel any pleasure, (why I have no courage to kill my father). The bones that do not want to leave are nailed to a certain space like the fixed gaze of an old woman. They are constantly asking questions about the so-called normality of the so-called law of human nature: I used to be such an ordinary girl with dreams, but now You were a pimp/You were a father who stubbornly delayed the army's aggressiveness by beatings, but now you have become a cunning old man who has a leg with my wife. This is your "normal"! What is called "normal"!
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