I very much agree with the views of Gao Zan film review: a large part of the reason for the killing of the male protagonist is because of his own incompetence.
Because of his incompetence in sex, on the one hand, he is extremely sensitive to the gazes of others, and he is afraid of the gaze of others on him. His urge to kill. The act of cutting off the breasts of women you like and making them into wallets is an insult to femininity and a complete denial of your own sexual impulses. All his pursuits are rooted in a lie, so his justification for his evildoing is so weak.
However, the director didn't make him just stop at the point of a pure perverted murderer. At the end of the film, he walked into the house built by his victim and followed the guide to hell. It is fantastic that heaven and hell are so close together, as if there is only a thin layer of glass - perhaps to punish those who are in hell and never reach heaven. Then, the male protagonist looks to heaven, and then is where the whole movie really starts to shock me. Heaven is neither luxurious nor detached from the world, but a vast grassy field where he used to run when he was young, with rice grains in between. of farmers are busy farming. Then suddenly he remembered the faces of countless women who had died at his hands, and for the first time he shed tears and felt remorse after witnessing the beginning of his life. The violence at this moment has been sublimated through art: the dark house made of corpses is like a mother's womb, and the process of building it is just a retrospective to the beginning of life for a person who can't find any belonging .
However, it all ended when he learned that he would never get out of hell. Originally longing to find his origin, he found that all his previous efforts to this end were all wrong, and it only made him farther and farther away from his own purpose. He didn't want to accept such an ending, so he wanted to get out of hell, but he just fell into the flames and was burned to ashes by the raging fire of karma.
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