The metaphor between the story of ghost prostitutes and the reality of foreigners

Watson 2022-10-03 21:02:12

After watching "Memoirs of a Ghost Prostitute", I just want to swear, KAO~ Takashi Miike, you pervert! (Although I have already practiced it after watching "Love to the Skin" many years ago)

Unlike the standard Japanese horror films shot by Hideo Nakata and Takashi Shimizu, Takashi Miike's horror films have never been full horror films. In "Memoirs of a Ghost Prostitute", the detailed description of the process of piercing the gums and fingernails with needles, the swollen and white corpse, the brains full of hands... Weird ideas, distorted characters, naked sensory shocks, breakthroughs in human beings The plots of the moral bottom line all reflect the director's outrageous bad taste. Children's shoes who can endure cult movies may wish to challenge it. Do you want to order beef brains or bean curd flowers when you eat in the future = =

I was a little confused when I just finished watching the movie, but I slowly speculate and seem to understand:

First of all, ghost prostitutes do not exist , he represents the twisted soul of a foreigner.

In the ghost prostitute's original story, the father who had lung disease committed suicide in order not to drag his family down. Alluding to the death of Yang Lao's sister. Whether in the story or in reality, ghost prostitutes and foreigners try to cover up all the truth and deny that the death of their loved ones is related to them; in

the second story, ghost prostitutes finally admit that they killed their father, allusions to reality - in fact It was the foreigner who killed his sister. Ghost prostitutes still make up stories to tell foreigners: the father killed his father because he tortured his mother and raped himself. For the death of his father, the ghost prostitute found a seemingly forgivable reason, implying that the foreigner has repeatedly denied his sins and covered up ulterior motives.
In addition, the ghost prostitute also admitted that she was the murderer who killed the lover KOMOMO that the foreigner had been looking for. Because she likes KOMOMO, and she is guilty, "going to hell in the future", so she has to kill KOMOMO who is close to her, so that KOMOMO can go to heaven - this hint is very important, because later the foreigners killed KOMOMO for this reason ;

In the following story, the ghost prostitute revealed another truth, the ghost prostitute is a freak born of incest between brothers and sisters; it alludes to the relationship between the foreigner and his sister - incest, not to be forgiven; in reality, the foreigner forced Having sex with his sister and brutally killing her;

As the truth digs deeper, the ghost prostitute's face becomes more and more hideous, which means that the foreigner's psychology is getting more and more distorted. , Under the contradiction and fear, he raised the gun and shot at his lover KOMOMO who was "purer than a baby".

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