In the 1970s, Shohei Imamura filmed and produced many documentaries. In these documentaries, Shohei Imamura’s care for the lower class has not diminished. Instead, he changed a way of expression and even strengthened his objective description of them. . In the face of survival, people in the lower class will have a more tenacious spirit, and this tenacity often makes people feel distressed. For example, works such as "Tracing the Veterans Who Haven't Returned Home" and "The Birth of a Prostitute", these works reflect the lives of some marginal figures. Although they cannot represent Japan in that era, they are an indelible memory in Japanese culture. It is worth mentioning that these documentaries have influenced his later filming perspective, and many of his works have provided a source of creation for his future films. In 1979, Shohei Imamura filmed "The Revenge Is My". The story itself is very close to the personal style of Shohei Imamura. In the movie "Vengeance is Me", the actor Tsun Jinyan, played by Ogataken, presents a pathological life. He constantly deceives others and kills. He gets satisfaction by deceiving and getting pleasure from killing. In the face of death, he still smiled hippiely.
"He sinned, in fact, with a vengeance, it is said that he was insane. It is because of this feeling of resentment that he feels intolerable no matter what he does. Only in the crime he feels fulfilled."
Chuan Jinyan came from a family of fishermen who believed in Catholicism. Because of religious beliefs, his boat was confiscated and his source of income was cut off. In the process of his father's humiliation, Yan Jinyan tried to resist, but was stopped by his father. The change of Yan Jinyan started from this moment. The tall image of his father was disintegrated at this moment, and the glory of his father that had been built disappeared. The father in Yi Jinyan's eyes gradually began to become wretched and rickety. He also hated this society from this moment. Moreover, he hates Japan most.
There is a scene in the film that I remember very deeply. It was the scene of him riding in a jeep with the US military as a translator for the US military. He became the Japanese interpreter of American soldiers with an immigrant attitude. He wore American uniforms and his face was full of glory. This may be the most glorious moment in his short and tragic life. He sat in a jeep with an American soldier and chased a Japanese woman from the country. When this woman was about to be insulted, Sui Jin rescued the woman and despised everything around him with an American-style heroism. Even the woman in front of me. Perhaps it is because the higher the expectations of oneself, the more miserable you are in reality. Although he felt that he had become an American, from the bottom of his heart, he still hated American soldiers, otherwise, he would not go to jail for stealing American military equipment. After being released from prison, Tsui Jin Yan and the Japanese woman Kazuko who had been rescued became husband and wife, and soon they went to prison for fraud. After he was released from prison again, Sui Jinyan began to live in the world he imagined. He imagined that he was a university professor and pretended to be a university professor. He imagined that he was a lawyer and pretended to be a lawyer. His disguise is actually a contempt and mockery of his own image in reality.
He killed the hotel owner.
In the film, the only part that can show love is the relationship between Zhi Jin Yan and the hotel proprietress. When the hotel proprietor knew the identity of the hotel owner, she did not report it, but found a way to live with him. Unfortunately, , And finally died in the hands of Zhi Jinyan. The death of the hotel proprietress can be met. At the beginning, Yan Jinyan met her as a university professor. When his true identity was discovered, then his professor’s identity was revealed. This is a kind of Silent irony. Losing the mask Yan Jinyan was like losing the flesh of the skin. The only thing he could hide was torn down at the time, so he could only let the hotel proprietress die in his hands.
This movie is indeed a very good work. It discovers the murderer’s distorted desire, and this distortion is only due to the humiliation of childhood. In many of Imamura's films, the characters are maverick and uncut. This is also the case. He doesn't seem to care about film aesthetics at all, but spares no effort to pursue the authenticity of the characters. It is reasonable for Yan Jinyan to be sentenced to death. After all, there are so many lives in his hands. However, Yan Jinyan is not hateful, more sympathy, sympathy for the Japanese of that era, sympathy for the feelings that have nowhere to rest, and sympathy for those who were full of gloom in childhood.
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