[This is not a movie review] The hag under desire

Beulah 2022-03-13 08:01:01

This is not a movie review, it's a personal opinion


Pay attention to these two places

The first one is when the mother-in-law saw her daughter-in-law sleeping with Aba, and she was in a fire. Lying on a tree by himself, the camera also gave a close-up of the tree

Finally became a hag, two people ran across the tree, one left and one right

My personal understanding is that the tree may symbolize the male, and the two females, who approach this issue as opposites. Mother-in-law is conservative, daughter-in-law is open. And the conservative mother-in-law is only for her own interests. Because he wanted Aba to sleep with himself instead of his daughter-in-law.

In the end, under the pressure of survival, the too selfish mother-in-law was destroyed.

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  • Tremaine 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    The Japanese New Wave is also a treasure trove. The atmosphere created by this movie is too weird. Want to give 10 stars. ps: Since then, there has been a shadow on the reeds...

  • Christina 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    The mother-in-law was worried that her daughter-in-law would not support herself, and that after the daughter-in-law lost her husband, she was empty and lonely and had to go out to find a man. The only magical thing was the mask. The mother-in-law's selfish heart was used by some kind of spirituality of the mask, and finally she became a cocoon. All stories are human nature. The mother-in-law is for food, the daughter-in-law is for the sex, and the sex is also.

Onibaba quotes

  • Kichi's Wife: Isn't it heavy?

    Woman: No. Not very.

    Kichi's Wife: Shall I go along too?

    Woman: No, I'll go by myself.

    Kichi's Wife: But, it'll be night when you return.

    Woman: Once it's dark, it can't get any darker.

  • Woman: It's punishment from Buddha.

    Hachi: There is no Buddha.