Completely different from the styles of leading Japanese horror film directors Hideo Nakata, Takashi Shimizu and others, this classic work by Kiyoshi Kurosawa also seems to have elements of horror and horror, but it is more inclined to analyze the darkest side of human nature, which seems to be A corner rarely touched. Just as the director claimed to the outside world, the film was inspired by "Seven Deadly Sins", but the irrational criminal motives and the depiction of brutal violence in the film showed a more calm and everyday description. Directors tend to eschew violent, head-to-head presentations, often through long still shots rather than sensory close-ups.

What I am most interested in is the young man with amnesia of unknown origin. Every time he plays, he asks people the nonsensical question of "who are you". Then after many repeated appearances, I vaguely realize that this is not a setting that is aimless. As a "human", one's own behavior is always regulated by many different social roles, and these roles often bear certain social responsibilities and moral norms. Through the young man's "hypnotherapy", the director gradually got rid of the heavy "shackles" on their bodies and gradually revealed the most primitive "nature".

And this point is the most criticized. Is there only the most cruel and violent side in human nature? The chilling ending at the end of the film seems to confirm this implicitly. Therefore, showing violence and crime is not the most frightening and terrifying, the most terrifying is often the unfathomable human nature.

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Zion 2022-03-24 09:03:26

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Aniyah 2022-03-20 09:02:42

#重看# The soul is out of the body, the sound effects are too good, with the barren scene, the sense of space is full, and the weird and weird desolate atmosphere created by layers of terrifying ripples on the psychological level, Kurosawa Kiyoshi externalizes this kind The distortion of expressing the emptiness of the inner spirit has reached its peak in this film; becoming a part of the abyss and the inheritor of the "messenger" is not only the active choice of the individual, but also the interlocking social chain.
Julie 2022-03-25 09:01:19

Good is good, unfortunately the director/camera and the perpetrator are on the side, so it's not a mystery, it's just a conspiracy.