find my maria
——On "Exposure of Love"
"Exposure of Love" is the work of the Japanese ghost poet and director Wen Ziwen. Under the shell of giggling farce, it presents us with complex and diverse family relationships and religious ideas.
The actor in the film, Yu, lost his mother when he was very young, and his father was a devout Christian priest who was devoted to religion. And when his father's lover left, he became irritable, and instead vented this emotion on Yuu, forcing him to repent every day. And this also makes Yuu pursue a real crime for the love of her father. On this road, he met many good friends and also met her Maria.
In order to present multiple characters and multiple story lines, the director cleverly uses the perspectives of different people to present them chapter by chapter. This is not only a rich and full account of the characters, but also a reflection on different aspects and differences. It also seems that each character is the epitome of some group. Yu's father is a middle-aged man who is stubborn and old-fashioned but longs to be loved, and when he meets a woman who is brave enough to talk about love, he becomes resolute, and he even chooses to abandon his duties and live with her. This is an extremely defiant and ironic thing. And the relationship between a priest and his son compared with Yoko and her father, a priest, is like a severe criticism of religion.
The same film uses a nonsensical absurd comedy approach to explain a grand theme. Don't be bored by telling a joke, this is not only a discussion of religion, but also a deep understanding of patriarchal society, female power, and deformed families. Yuu wanted to find his Maria, and he was surrounded by women all the time, and he went to find it premeditatedly. But they happened to meet in a fight. But the girl Yoko hates men very much and regards men as his enemies. Perhaps because she was harassed by her father, this resistance also symbolized her various breakthroughs under patriarchal repression. And Xun represents another kind of human right. I want to depend on a man, and rely on a man to marry myself to feel secure. What he represents is also another female value.
The use of religious props and music undoubtedly repeatedly emphasizes behaviors related to ignorance and extreme reliance on religious beliefs. The prayers before meals and the provocative actions of his stepmother Xun held the cross but kept killing. All kinds of absurd and powerful images are showing us that religious people are always hypocritical. As the godfather, he began to shake his beliefs, morbid family relationships, deformed various kinds of love accompanied by religious music a little bit of dissection. The same repentance and forgiveness sections were set up, and he still did the same job as his father. The two sublimations of the theme are formed by the director's meticulous plot stacking up one after another.
In the end, people may feel pain and suffering, and the audience can't stand Yuu being misunderstood, excluded and abandoned. But at the same time, is it also reflecting the in-depth discussion of cults and religions, and what kind of family relationship.
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