Loneliness is the last infectious disease left by mankind in the 21st century

Drew 2022-03-18 08:01:01

I'm thinking about two questions

1. Does the ghost exist?

2. Are humans afraid of being alone?

【Room】

Four stacks and a half is the last pure land of this era, even if it turns the otaku into a ghost. Chunjiang, who was watching the surveillance video, confronted the audience watching the movie. She embraced a void, but claimed that she was no longer lonely, just like you and me watching the movie.

A person prints out the A4 paper of the confined space and sticks it with red tape. This sense of ritual symbolizes that the living room has become an alienated space, which is dark and airtight, eternal death or quickly swallowed Tokyo like the plague , who would have thought that the beginning of the end times is in the room/monitoring?

【connect】

Everyone wants to save the other, just like Ryosuke took Chunjiang to escape late at night, Michi watched friends turn to ashes, and people are always building connections, but in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's eyes, it doesn't mean anything or change anything, he can What you do is always miss and witness, witness the death of others, and become others.

The occlusion of curtains and windows suggests that they are in different spaces from each other, the "help" phone is the doorbell of death, and the shadow is similar to the concept of mourning.

In general, I like it. There is no genre film element. The modernity of 2001 still exists today, and the two questions I asked at the beginning have no answers.

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Extended Reading
  • Bettie 2022-03-18 08:01:01

    "If you get too close, you will die, if you are too far, you will come close." The isolation and isolation between people and the barrenness and indifference of the soul are what Kurosawa-san has always wanted to express. It seems like a rebirth; the space itself has a sense of devouring and voyeurism, and it is creepy enough to use light and video tape media to squeeze/build a concrete ghost/spirit.

  • Bettye 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    This movie has the scariest scene I've ever seen in my life

Pulse quotes

  • Boss: Words said in friendship with the best of intentions always wind up hurting your friends and then you wind up getting hurt. Is friendship always that way? If that's so, what's left? If I were you, who needs friends like that? A courageous choice in itself.

  • Ryosuke Kawashima: [reading a book about phantoms] "Everyone dies, therefore there's no logical reason for ghosts not to exist. How many ghosts have existed since prehistoric times?"