Strong love, a rare experimental movie that made me cry after watching it

Cullen 2022-04-11 09:01:08

This movie is definitely a rare dark comedy among the few Japanese movies I have seen. The film consists of several stories, and the seemingly unrelated stories are closely linked.
Whether it’s the psychoanalytic dream of a male pig’s feet, or the bird that his father turned into, or Reika Hashimoto’s immortality, each symbol has a deep meaning behind it, and everyone is burdened with something different.
What impresses me the most is Reika Hashimoto's strong love for her husband, leaving her with nowhere to run, so much so that she had to choose to kill her wife to save her own life. The brutal killing methods again and again made his wife more difficult to deal with each time he was resurrected, and even the professional killer he hired could not kill his wife completely.
After the wife was resurrected, she also expressed her love for her husband in a stronger way. Until the last time, the wife dressed up as if she was resurrected like Christmas Eve, and everything was different. The change from strong controlling love to light love to a happy smile to my husband at the end of my death made me start to reflect on how to get along with the people I love.

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