The film is set against the background of the emergence of the two emperors in the north and south due to wars during the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Japan, and with very few characters on the stage, it shows the tragic situation in the chaotic world that the world is more than hell. A pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law made a living by robbing deserters and buying and selling weapons in exchange for food. One day, the soldiers of the mother-in-law and son escaped and returned to inform the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law that the other had died in battle. Faced with the strength of this man, both the widowed mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were willing to entrust them. Naturally, the young daughter-in-law gained more nourishment. The jealous mother-in-law tried to scare her daughter-in-law with the ghost mask she had stolen, but she didn't expect her. The ghost mask really belongs to the evil ghost.
The mother-in-law was reluctant to give her body to the old man selling food, but she showed her breasts and seduced after the deserter appeared. When she saw that he didn't take the bait, she immediately threatened him with malicious words.
The general that my mother-in-law met said that she was too handsome, so she put on a ghost face in order to deter the military. It seems that the Lanling King of China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties was very famous in Japan. It is said that there is also a Japanese royal treasure "Lanling King Mask" based on this. . The ghost mask in the film is a Japanese ghost and beast Prajna mask, which is said to be transformed by a woman's jealousy. This kind of mask appears in the film, and the meaning is also seen from small to big: people have no ghost face, but they have to take the initiative to become ghosts, so as to witness the inhumanity of war; women are jealous of ghosts and harm others, and even the evil face cannot be taken off. It does make sense.
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are talking, there are often crossbars in the middle. It can be seen that the two have a deep grudge, and the deserter is in the same camp as the daughter-in-law as soon as they appear, which also paved the way for the later mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to turn against each other.
But as a horror film with such a long history, the director should not simply tell the story of a sinister mother-in-law who is punished for her own crimes. On the contrary, this story is full of elements such as darkness, depravity, murder, fantasy, horror, etc., and from various characters In his mouth, he discovered the tragic situation of the troubled people in the world, and the brutal behavior of several bankrupt peasants to make a fortune in war highlights the extremely evil instinct of human nature in extreme environments. The ending of the film is especially interesting. When the daughter-in-law helped her mother-in-law remove the ghost mask from her face, the mother-in-law begged for mercy and the pain was unbearable. The devil must give in.
The light on the mother-in-law's face after she lied in the dark made the mother-in-law look like a monster
Films from such a long period of time are superior in both photography and narrative, and the classical thriller of the soundtrack is a hundred times better than the harsh or sudden sound effects of today. What he did clearly was the act of killing people and stealing goods, but the story happened in an endless reed field. Whether it was the intertwined body or the sneak attack of swords, spears, swords and halberds, it can be calm, simple and violent and increase people's adrenaline. In a world that has abandoned moral principles, food and sex have become the only maddening goals for people. They neither miss the past nor have time to think about the future. They can only recklessly walk through the reeds higher than the human head and copulate like beasts. After the climax, he happily inserted the sword into the chest of the deserter who was eager to go home, and competed for the last available asset in the troubled world.
The bored deserters make a wish at the corpse-throwing cave, and the human beings who have completely restored their animal nature are stupid and look like primitive people with incomplete evolution. It seems that their crimes are just like sacrifices in the cave. It seems that all sins are the reasonable sacrifice of witchcraft.
The deep hole in the film is both the source of desire and the abyss of sin. Nameless warriors are thrown and superimposed on the bones. It seems that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can wash away their sins without seeing the bones. Cheating is going to hell. Satiety is the foundation of life, and the guilt from enjoying sex is already the bottom line of human morality. The bottomless cave is like a woman's genitals. In order to enjoy sex, her mother-in-law was jealous and provoked a ghost. In the end, the nightmare came true and was abandoned by her daughter-in-law.
The darkness formed by the whole reed is not like a cave that devours cheating men and women. They become slaves of sexual desire at the bottom of the cave, and have rough sex in the double torment of body and mind.
The mother-in-law, who saw the two cheating on her, hugged a rough old tree and masturbated in pain. Compared with the two, she fell into a deeper darkness, and her jealousy had completely devoured her.
From the first corpse left by the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, they have actually been thrown into this dark cave, and their souls will always suffer from hunger and thirst. body and mind. Ghost masks are not evil ghosts, they are the demons and ghosts who walk the world.
The woman who threatens the hag is no longer a person, but an evil ghost in human skin.
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