death generation

Monica 2022-03-18 08:01:01

1. Such logic: people can't live, they can choose to die, but they don't know that they will be better than or better after death, so they have to live forever, "hope now is eternity" (the philosophy of suicide is in this world. and the other shore, so suicide is the only philosophy). There is no sense of involvement or presence in "this moment". When such a state becomes the norm, people become ghosts. "I won't die, I can only live alone like this (living as a ghost)" [Around 1.14, when the living "Shunzi" becomes a shadow on the wall, it is not the process of a living person dying, but a living person The process of living as a ghost. The understanding of "death" here is that death is not just a momentary physical fact. ]. 2. There must be a space where ghosts live. There are too many ghosts and they are exiled to the human world. But precisely because of this, "ghosts do not kill, because then the ghosts will continue to increase, on the contrary, they will make people immortal, silently closing people in the end of loneliness". 3. Between people turning into ghosts, there is a state of "escape", "Let's go, take me to a distant place." [Deleuze, strong line, flexible line, escape line]. 4. "Contemporary" is a moment when you suddenly perceive "danger". Theology Religion - Psychological Science - Social Science - Ideology. 5. Shadows of lonely people, vague wandering souls, black shadows resembling ghosts moving in libraries and game halls, looking for atoms of distance in the dynamic, and the "secret factory" that will never be lacking in black-directed movies , these images are very successful, isn't this what Benjamin called a "prostitute", holding a turtle in the city, his eyes wandering. [The sound effects of the black director reached their peak in "Serenity", and the image was the peak in "Circuit". "Sacred Rule" is the absolute pinnacle]. 6. It is "generation" rather than evolution. The mechanism of generation is contagion, which is also prominent in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's "X Sacred Rule". 7. From watching Battle Royale 20 years ago to watching the circuit today, Japanese movies...

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  • Kaya 2022-03-24 09:03:51

    In the first hour, you can feel terror because of the boring plot, and in the next hour, you gradually have a soul, but you don't feel terror at all. Does this prove that nothingness, unknown, and emptiness are the source of terror? After the film ends, the final freeze frame gradually shrinks, forming a "hui" character with the black background plate of the large frame. The "hui" consists of two closed square frames. The small two square frames just illustrate the endless loneliness, and the title "Circuit" is really subtle.

  • Etha 2022-04-23 07:05:30

    It seems that Kurosawa has a high talent for film, but his talent for storytelling is mediocre? Talk about loneliness or something, but it is the bond between the world that forms the circuit. This movie made me realize that horror as the subject matter of the story is generally relatively thin. And the narrative routine of the story is really very Cthulhu~

Pulse quotes

  • Toshio Yabe: I saw a face.

    Michi Kudo: What?

    Toshio Yabe: A really horrible face. I've never seen anything like it.

    Michi Kudo: What are you saying? What did you see?

    Toshio Yabe: The Forbidden Room.

    Michi Kudo: The Forbidden Room? What's that? Is that the room with the red tape?

    Toshio Yabe: Don't you dare go in there!

  • 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.