Jealousy leads to misfortune, people who make mistakes because of jealousy are stupid; wisdom creates reason, and people who forgive because of wisdom are smart; simple-even like an eel, not knowing what love and hate are, but living naturally, that is a realm Up. ... What we need is not to persuade ourselves not to be jealous, let alone to forgive, but... but to accept everything that nature gives us like animals...
However, we are born as human beings-this is our greatest misfortune. Yamashita's wife is not opposed to living like an animal, so she can mate with other men at will, and she doesn't seem to have any moral responsibility (making love is an animal's instinct). This, let alone the mountain can't stand it, I can't stand it either, I don't think the old monk who married a beautiful daughter-in-law can stand it either. The difference is whether we will kill people. Yamashita was as irrational as an animal, but he also accepted the eight-year prison sentence in his heart, so he went to the police station to surrender with a little tune. The question is: should we live like animals? To what extent does reason bring benefits to our lives?
Perhaps that eel is the incarnation of his wife. Yamashita loves his wife. The reason why he likes eels is because he loves his wife. And the reason why he likes eels more after eight years in jail, he said, is because eels can listen to him and he doesn’t have to listen to them (after all, this is a kind of tyranny, just like many of us now have pets. In fact, it stems from our loss of control over others. In reality, there are too few things we can control, so we turn to control animals.) He regards this as the loyalty of the eel, but he cannot make his wife look like an eel. Loyal, he lost control of her, and this loss of control, more of it, came from his jealousy. So, does he really like eels? Or does he really love his wife? We say that he only loves his wife's loyalty.
He didn't know that eels could be disloyal to eels. And when he truly understood this from the fertilization process of female eels, he was truly free. However, our director still did not tell us: to what extent should we live like animals? The director said: Good question, the meaning of the movie lies in asking itself!
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