What does Yuan Ziwen want to express?
People in alienated family relationships have their own perversions. The perverted person who does the self-righteous salvation will only get nothing in the end. Before I died, I saw the middle finger that the world had erected for you - a monument erected for a speck of dust on a small planet in the vast universe, I just realized how small my existence was, how ridiculous my struggles were, and I realized it by myself. Pain after life - only pain is real, and life insights are just self-glory used to lick wounds.
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The bloodthirsty Murata can't sleep at night because his father beat him and his mother ignored him;
The beloved son, who never refuses to come, just repeats his defection and devotion to the sovereign over and over again;
Taeko, who was forbearing at home, was released only in the rough sex of stranger Murata;
By suppressing her stepmother and ignoring her father, Mitsuko expressed her anger at the third party who intervened in the family and her contempt for her incompetent father. After his father committed suicide in front of him, he couldn't help laughing at being freed;
The cowardly and forbidding Shinsuke became violent under Murata's teaching. He angrily took what he had lost before - dignity, only to find that this was not a children's game where a child plays a house and wins by grabbing a toy car, daughter The sneer was still the same, but the wife just changed from dissatisfaction to confusion mixed with panic.
Sono Ziwen's film techniques
Straightforward expression with surrealism with just the right amount of metaphor. In fact, there are many unreasonable things in the film, but I am more inclined to think that Sono Ziwen doesn't care about rationality or that he doesn't need to be so logical. The character in the film is not the protagonist of the film, but serves the concept he constructed - Yuan Ziwen is not a meticulous director, his way of thinking is probably to grasp the overall framework and give up polishing the details.
The biggest metaphor in the film is that there are many statues of the Virgin Mary in the dismembered site—a holy god and filthy deeds, so this is a defilement of the gods, and in disguise Sono Ziwen scoffs at religion.
To be honest, if the bloody and violent scenes were removed, this movie would have been unwatchable. Sono Ziwen is to use bloody corpses, naked sex, intense verbal and physical conflicts, and the joyful soundtrack to put boulders on the calm water and create a turbulent wave. Madness is the main theme of his film, remove it. These fragments are tantamount to draining his soul.
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