like touching a cold snake.
I do feel weird because I just finished reviewing "Love Letter", which
is so pure and emotional, and I came to watch this movie that seems to have a Japanese pornography plot. The synopsis of the film online is like this: The
continuous downpour of June cannot fill the black hole in the city center, and the gray life of Rinko, a working woman over 30, and her workaholic husband Shigehiko are entering a crisis.
An anonymous letter was delivered to Rinko with the words "Your Husband's Secret" on the envelope and a picture of Rinko masturbating inside.
A mysterious phone call ensues. The man on the other end is not blackmailing. He asks Rinko to put on an extremely short miniskirt, buy a masturbator massager, and instructs her to walk through the city during the June rainy season and achieve Her own sexual fantasies... have to applaud the depth and thoughtfulness of some Japanese directors, like Shinya Tsukamoto, the director of this film.
It expresses the "alienation of people" in the city, but it is incisive and vivid, with a so-called "hidden charm" in the title of a Korean film. There are many issues that make people pay attention:
first, can the psychologist save himself?
This issue is rarely mentioned.
Rinko is a psychologist working on the front line of saving lives
. She has solved many people's psychological confusion and mental obstacles. However, in the face of her own physical desires and her inner desire for warm love, she has almost nothing to fight back. Power
- once provoked, it can only last.
So while being manipulated by the photographer and full of shame, she also has the pleasure of being manipulated and a strong desire to continue
- after all, this is a very rare and very complete release.
Is there any possibility for her to save herself in such a situation?
The vindicator may show morality and shame to teach a lesson,
It's a pity that Rinko's moral defenses seem to be vulnerable before desire and love
- what's more, in the premise that there is no betrayal?
When physical freedom and spiritual freedom are not in harmony,
we can see Rinko's irritability and anxiety. In such a state of mind, both
body and spirit seem to atrophy, and the desire for fulfillment almost overwhelms everything.
It seems out of place to say "human alienation" here, but it is probably the original sin of human beings back to the beginning.
This is a normal desire, described by alienation, it may be just the way of seeking and the expression of the film, alienation has appeared.
——And this is also the highlight of "Snake of June". The second is women's yearning and pursuit for their own liberation.
There is a line in the movie trailer: "This was a Japanese revolution in which women won and men lost."
The film denounces men without hesitation and no mercy: almost all of the actors are useless and unapproachable. eye.
(Of course, Japanese men are almost like this)
The photographer who was tortured to death by cancer, Rinko's cold and clean husband...Mother-in-law, swaying, wiggling...
And women, are you free? Did you win? The body is awakened and the spirit is liberated - in the
film, men's dominance and control have been lost, and women have gained the power to dominate themselves and men,
which is an awkward ending for men, just like Rinko and her husband at the end of the movie ML is just as awkward. Finally, there is controversy. Several films by director Shinya Tsukamoto are full of controversy.
This film that participated in the Venice Film Festival is obviously out of the mainstream in terms of performance, let alone in the relatively closed mainland China.
When I first saw it, I really felt that the larger scale was a popular Japanese porn film. Such scenes are quite common.
I have seen a great man analyze a famous H animation "Ghost Work" before, and analyze its process from a psychological point of view——
While making people ashamed, I can't help but sigh for the idea and thinking of this kind of film.
Perhaps, films involving human nature will be somewhat controversial.
Topics such as human nature and desire are already full of controversy, and the controversy is endless. Touching such an icy snake in September feels strange.
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