watching this film, I already knew a little about his style and some of its plots. Before watching, I asked myself if I could accept what was going to be presented in front of me. In the end, I feel that the world is like this. It is full of more things that we have never thought about or seen. What we see is only the tip of his iceberg. Why can't I face his reality? So, I watched it late at night. When some scenes appeared, I still instinctively lowered my head and turned down the sound of the headphones, because through the sound I could imagine how far the "cutting" was going, and how painful the characters were, these would appear even if I didn't look at the picture. in my head. So I believe that I still have a beautiful feeling for this world, and some things I really can't bear psychologically. Even knowing that some corners of the world may be playing such a fact at the moment. After watching it for a few days, I found that I could be regarded as accepting this kind of vision in the process of watching, but what made me unacceptable was the memory this film brought me, and I couldn't even face the recollection of its fragments. Every time I think about it, I feel the same physical and mental pain as the tortured person in the film.
Background, Japan, Society
This is not as I expected it to be a film about a character, not about a different killer. For killers, their difference should be the return of human nature, and even the commercial influence of the movie should involve some of them being emotional and then betraying the killer profession-maybe they were moved to wash their hands from now on, maybe they killed their relatives and killed him the most in the past. Respectful boss... However, this film is not at all like that. The Japanese never cease to amaze me, their insight, their creativity, their arrogance, their tenacity, their ambition to throw everything and make everything again.
The film first shows not a person, but a level of a society, showing some people in this world that we can't think of, how they live, their joy, their sorrow, and what they have done. , what they're doing, what they're going to do, what they want, what they hate... These constitute "their understanding of the world" in our eyes, and also our understanding of them in front of the screen.
At least nearly twenty minutes after the start of the film, our protagonist has yet to show his face, and what we know best is a group. Their way of doing things, their way of doing things, their living conditions: violence, abuse, self-mutilation, sickness, blood, internal organs, heads, cut tongues, hearts, arms, iron sticks, wooden sticks, boiling oil, hooks... But everything regarded as normal by them.
Whether it is abuse, self-abuse, or asking to be abused (SM), whether it is to mutilate others or ask others to do violence, it gives people a feeling that even the body can be teased, and people who do not love have achieved omnipotence in their souls. The extreme of acceptance, even after adding a kind of infatuation, can be said to have reached a level that can not only be passively endured, but also actively pursued.
After the film presents these in a large amount of space, we still don't know what kind of killer Hajime is, what kind of person, until after the frontal killing, I suddenly realized - a room at the beginning of the film is full of internal organs, blood, The appalling scene is what this poor, innocent and cowardly person is called! Then I know, he must have a more exciting reason to be a killer, and this film is not about his killing, not to present a bloody, adrenaline-stimulating picture to the audience as a selling point, but to reveal the killer The reason for becoming a perverted murderer should be the purpose of the film. Therefore, I think this is more of a psychological film, a film that satirizes the society, that is: the most terrifying thing is not these inhuman killers themselves, but the reasons that turn them into or force them into killers, those people , the society that can accommodate this kind of thing.
Ah Yi - a sad and extreme tool Ah Yi
is a tool, a tool that makes Yuan Gengdu "excited" for the cruelty of murder. The reason why he is said to be a tool is that his motives for killing are stimulated and guided by others, and he is in a passive teaching and planning by others. Become what he is now under the stimulation of others, and then do other people's things for himself. If he is a sharp blade now, he was deliberately sharpened by someone else from a piece of dull iron. And the grinding tools turned out to be nothing. This is also what caused him to be pitiful and pathetic. Is it so easy for the human soul to be swayed by others? I think it starts with asking how deep and far the hatred is in a person's heart when his dignity is trampled on.
But at the same time, Hajime was not without a mind and without self-awareness. His killings were purposeful before they were executed, an inspired hatred. And his slaughter stems from dignity (killing everyone in the world who tramples others) and more from desire (extreme violence or sexuality) and the latter more. Because when he answered the question raised by **, we know that after watching Tachibana who saved him being insulted, he thought more than saving her and punishing those villains. Instead, he also wanted to participate in it and violated the people who saved him. Humans are such complex and contradictory animals. Even so, the instinctive reaction of human nature is not the sin of stupid Hajime. Relatively speaking, Hajime should be regarded as a more real human animal, because he does not hide himself like an animal. desire. Ordinary people will have the same physiological reactions as him in the same situation, but unlike Hajime, other people know to be a high-sounding and virtuous person, so they will set up in their minds various morals of human society. Think outside the box, they think but don't say they think, but they really think in their minds. Ah Yi is a little more simple, so he speaks out for everyone, so he is condemned in his heart again. He is insecure, unhappy, inferior, autistic, and wants to redeem himself, even others, and society. Thinking of it this way, Hajime seems to be more noble than the average person—all thoughts are formed in his mind, just the difference between speaking and not speaking, one should bear without shame, and the other is still a noble person with peace of mind.
What was Hajime's motivation before the murder? If it is simply to act for the heavens and to destroy the sense of justice of the wicked, then why does he become so excited before every action, and at the same time, so excited that his reproductive organs will react? And the murder method is extremely cruel? I think this is the aftermath of Hajime's "experience" of the Tachibana incident. That time, witnessing the violence of others caused Hajime's sexual impulse, and since then the violence has been associated with sex, so that when Hajime has the idea of killing, he will have a sexual association, and when the physiological reaction is the strongest, it is murder. When the impulse is most intense. If it is said that in the ancient Chinese novel "Water Margin", Wu Song beat the tiger with a few drinks, then Ah Yi killed it with a few "sex". He was furious and agitated, and as a weak and pitiful character who was humiliated by the whole society, he accomplished a massacre that would sigh even the most murderous. He was legended by them, adored, and desired by the most perverted masochist. But he was not conscious of his "ability" from beginning to end. Maybe he didn't see the value of his "ability" and its significance to others, because this "ability" was meaningless to him, he was just a regular The bullied weak, and the "skill" only occasionally "handles" the problem in the most extreme way, but it is not a tool to solve the problem. He doesn't love tools, he just loves himself. Yes, he is also like a savior, he asks the weak, the weak like him, whatever they want. As long as he can satisfy them with every move, why not do it? So "I'll beat you for him" "I'll kill him for you" "I know, let me cut you into pieces" Aichi is really compassionate, so he doesn't make any choices, but the starting point seems to be Nothing wrong with that. He would cry when he was done killing people, would reflect on "they didn't bully me" would take off his clothes in utter disgust, would run away to thank his children's eyes.
Is Haji's "acting the way for the heavens" and "sympathy for the heavens and others" his nobleness? Is it the reason why he deserves sympathy and forgiveness as an incomplete person? No, I don't think so. From another perspective, I see him from the beginning to the end, whether he is being used or a spiritual victim, what he has never surpassed is that he does everything for himself, in order to satisfy his selfish desires, so from beginning to end He is also the most selfish. He takes advantage of the achievements of others, and cruelly retaliates with the appearance of being hurt by the world, including those who are not guilty of death. The most cruel thing is that he still enjoys it, sending himself the most vulgar desire in it. He was more hateful than pitiful, and in the end he was pathetic. But at the end of the film, he was the only protagonist who survived, and even his "master" was hanged from a tree. If it is the greatest sadness that even life cannot be preserved, then who is sad in the film? "Sad" is so powerful against Hajime, but seems so powerless against this ending. So, what's the point of being used sadly on Hajime?
Hajime's heart is too "simple", so simple that people don't know whether it is white without lines or black with lines. After all this is over, or while it continues, he can still live calmly without the condemnation of his conscience. No one can kill him, and no one will believe that he is an extremely cruel killer. Because of his inner self-pity, he will not I am ashamed of what I have done, because in his opinion, he is not wrong, everything that happened was forced. The intersection of compassion and selfishness lies in his deep-seated self-pity—he only loves himself. He pitied himself, so all other life could be the price.
So what is he doing all this for? Psychological needs (sexual desire), safety needs (get rid of bullies, protect yourself), love and belonging (nature and fantasy), respect needs (he will cry (self-pity) and then resist when others provoke him, but in extreme ways change). However, according to Maslow's theory of needs, Ayi has no self-actualization needs, at least the film does not show it, and we have no way of seeing it. The bully was terrified of him, but he was not proud of it at all, and even women admired him, but he did not perceive any of these, and he did not consciously kill to achieve his own reputation. I think this may be because young people in a society have no purpose and hope in life. They were just brought into this uninteresting world and lived, just lived, pushed by life day after day, not knowing what they wanted. Thus, their self-actualization needs are equivalent to the satisfaction of their primary desires—identical to physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging needs, and esteem needs. So these frame up all his spiritual world, which is equivalent to his life. I suddenly felt the great significance of Maslow's theory of five needs, which I have never thought about, to be represented as a pyramid-shaped structure. If a parallel structure like Haji's equal sign is drawn, then how terrible human beings will be. There will be no hope for this society.
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