The first time I watched "Wolf" was a long time ago, and at that time, I was already infected by the extremely depressing atmosphere of the film and couldn't extricate myself. Touching this film again is because the teacher made us think about such a question: who is holding whose hand?
In my opinion, the point of this question is not who is the active party in the action of "holding", but the active party after holding hands - whether to let the other party bring him back to the light, or to go into hell with the other party. If it is only from the action of "holding", then the first person to hold hands is the heroine Amamiya Kei with a certain purpose and plan. Judging from the specific details in the film, the generation of the two people's emotions is largely due to Amamiya Kei's initiative: giving the hero Fu Yigui a fairy tale book, making a phone call and taking the initiative to date, and even the two of them "desperate" to the amusement park When she was on the rooftop, she also took the initiative to touch the ambush and proposed to fly away together. Therefore, from the perspective of love, it is undoubtedly the heroine who boldly holds hands with the male protagonist, and wants to use the power of emotion to make each other free and happy.
However, this film is far more than the simple and cliché of "love and kill each other". The multi-clue narrative makes the whole film contain a lot of surging and rich thinking about human nature, human living conditions, and the relationship between human beings and groups. These elements focus on the male protagonist's self-selection contradiction and the fairy tales that run through the film. We can analyze it in combination with specific fragments in the film.
First of all, human nature is the theme that has been repeatedly emphasized in the film, and it is also the point of Fu Yigui's self-contradiction. If a man is domesticated as a beast, does his nature become like a beast? As we can see from Vol, the answer is no. Although he is bloodthirsty like a beast and kills like numbness, he is able to think independently, and he possesses the conscience and emotion of human beings. Otherwise, he wouldn't have frequent nightmares because of Ah Chuan's suicide, and it would even be difficult for him to shoot his teacher while acting. In the film, after Fu Yigui's failure to act, there is such a dialogue against him:
Bian Jiantun: "He's just an ordinary person, isn't he?"
Handa Moto: "I don't know, but anyway, he can live like a beast to someone. For some people, it is more comfortable.”
In any case, Fu Yigui is still a naked and living person! He has thinking, emotion, and conscience, how can he live like a beast? How could he be as insensitive as a beast in the face of the passing of his life? Therefore, he has always wanted to return as an individual, to break away from the "wolves" and restore his group attributes as a "human". However, when he tried to get closer to human beings, the human society that unfolded before him confused him again. Atomic bomb, coup, student movement... When he encountered the little girl who blew himself up, he asked the society for the first time: why?
Why did the little girl set off a bomb to give up her youth? Why can Kei Amamiya use feelings as a weight for deception? Why can my best friend Bian Jiantun stage a betrayal massacre for the sake of profit? Why can officials give up the dignity of the country for their own desires? Why can humans kill each other for the sake of "justice" that is not true or false? But the little girl just shook her head in pain, kept silent, and detonated the bomb.
People often use the word "beast" to describe the heinous villain. But I don't think this is appropriate, because human minds are much more complex than mindless beasts. Feuerbach once said that people are half angels and half devils. In addition to the virtues we praise such as benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith, human nature also contains ugly dark sides such as cowardice, deceit, selfishness, greed, and betrayal. It is fundamentally accompanied by "self". For the benefit of the id, human beings can hide even the ugliest actions under their friendly appearance, and their thin body can develop weapons to destroy the world.
In comparison, beasts are pure, all their fighting and cold-blooded are for a pure purpose, survival. To achieve this, they worked together, at any cost. Take wolves as an example, wolves are known as the most united animals, and wolves are invincible in the wild world. They work together for a common purpose and maintain strict discipline. But human beings with desire and self can face each other for their own benefit, but they are wise to protect themselves in the face of common danger. In the clip of the military exercise in the film, when the instructor reprimanded the failed soldiers, he asked about the defect of the night vision suit, Fu Yigui said: We need to unite and cover each other's blind spots. However, in an untrustworthy society, it is impossible to establish such a mechanism of solidarity and trust, and even the most powerful weapons and equipment cannot protect human beings who guess each other. Therefore, compared with pure wild wolves, human nature with a complex and dark side is much more terrifying.
Therefore, when Fu Yigui tried to take Amamiya Kei's hand back to the human world, he found that the world was so dark and even absurd. The ugliness in human nature makes this "human wolf" discouraged from returning to the road.
There is a scene in the film that everyone is impressed by: Fu Yigui returned to the sewer where he originally performed the mission in the fantasy, and as he chased Achuan, many wolves came from all directions. Suddenly, an iron gate fell from the sky, separating Achuan and Fu Yigui, but when Achuan turned back, Fu Yigui saw Amamiya Kei's face, and she said, "You can't get through." But Fu Yigui still opened the iron gate separating them, and the wolves swarmed up and bit her to death.
If the dream conveys the subconscious self, then from this lens, we can easily understand Fu Yigui's attitude towards the return of human nature and society. As the only "hand of God" for Fu Yigui to return to the human world, Kei Amemiya's deceitful emotions and words in his dreams gave him a fatal blow: You can't get through - since you have become a lover Bloody and stupid beast, you will never return to human society. Don't try to get close to me, my existence itself is based on deception, and buried under my gorgeous skin is a dog-like selfishness. So when Fu Yigui wanted to forcibly integrate into this society (pushing open the iron door between the two), his inner conscience wanted to convince him of his relationship with Amamiya Kei (stop the wolves from attacking), and his instinct The dark wolf nature wants to tear open her hypocritical skin (the wolves bite her to death). Before his death, Amamiya Kei's expression was calm, as if he was saying to Fu Yigui: If you really want to survive in a cruel human society, if you don't understand the hypocritical nature of human beings, then please keep Keep your cruel wolf.
In Michelangelo's famous oil painting, Adam mournfully stretches out his hand, begging God for deliverance. Conversely, you cannot tell whether God's outstretched hand is redemption or abandonment. However, in the film, it is clear that Amamiya Kei finally gave up Fu Yigui - in the sewer where the two came together at the end of the film, the officer Handa Moto found the police station's bug in her backpack, and Fu Yigui at the same time. His friend Bian Jiantun also followed him here in order to entangle him into a huge political conspiracy. I think from this moment, Fu Yigui no longer believes in the so-called love and so-called human nature.
The only "Hand of God" Amamiya Kei who returned to human society finally deceived "Human Wolf" Fu Yigui. So, in despair, he chose to give up and perish. At the end of the film, Fu Yigui shot and killed Amamiya Kei with his own hands in pain, killed his love, killed his beautiful humanity, and killed his only hope of returning - he held the rain Gong Gui's hand fell into hell together.
However, is Fu Yigui, who personally ruined the hope of return, still a pure beast for survival?
If the complex in the film is the main ideological thread, then the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood that runs through the whole film is a huge metaphor for humanity. Some people say that Little Red Riding Hood symbolizes Amamiya Kei, and the wild wolf symbolizes Fu Yigui. I have different opinions on this.
In my opinion, Little Red Riding Hood symbolizes all the good consciences of human beings, while the wolf symbolizes the dark side of human nature, and the mother symbolizes hope and peace. This is a cruel fairy tale. In the story, Little Red Riding Hood was put on an iron coat and did not see her mother for seven years. The person who wore the iron clothes for her told her that she could only see her mother when the iron clothes were worn off. Japan in the 1950s and 1960s was in a period of recovery after World War II. The aftermath of the atomic bomb has not dissipated, Japan is still under the control of the United States, and domestic conflicts are extremely serious. The just and peaceful war claimed by militarism has left the Japanese people devastated to this day. Like Little Red Riding Hood, people have been looking forward to it for a long time. Not only that, the authorities flattered the signing of a security treaty with the United States, student movements continued one after another, the economy was stagnant, the domestic political situation was drifting, people's hearts were not ancient, and black and white were reversed. The kind little Red Riding Hood was also unknowingly bewitched and ate her mother's flesh and drank her mother's blood. In such an era, how can people not be confused? How can you not be sad?
In the film, Fu Yigui and Amamiya Kei are both victims of the times. They all desperately want to escape the iron clothing that binds them, and even want to use love as an antidote. Fu Yigui has the same pure character as the wild wolf, and at the same time he also has the most beautiful emotions of human beings. As a spy, Amamiya Kei also said: I didn't want to think about it before I saw you, but after seeing you, I felt as if I was hurting myself. Why is this? It can be seen that neither of them has completely lost their conscience. However, the trust between the two is based on social deception. Although the two love each other deeply, the darkness of hypocrisy keeps the relationship teetering.
In the end, Instructor Handa Yuan gave the pistol to Fu Yigui and said: While you are still a beast. The beast can not be responsible for the killing, and the beast can have no human emotions. However, Fu Yigui is not a pure beast, but a "human wolf" who has both the survival desire of the beast and the rationality and conscience of human beings. In the end, Fu Yigui shot and killed Amamiya Kei with his own hands. The human wolf also became no longer pure because of his beloved blood. The wild wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood. The darkness in human nature swallowed up the conscience and deceived. Destroyed love. Fu Yigui has also fallen into hell on earth, becoming a "human wolf" who has lost his conscience and only has pain and hatred. When human beings lose their conscience, it will be the greatest destruction and sorrow.
So, back to the original question, who is holding whose hand? I think that Fu Yigui held Amamiya Kei's hand and wanted to return to human society through her love, realize personal belonging, and at the same time find his own conscience in human nature. However, the betrayal of Kei Amamiya and his friends made him deeply doubt the existence of this society and the humanity of people. So in the end, he chose to kill Kei Amamiya, return to hell with Kei Amamiya, and become a "beast" with no emotion and no humanity. But it was he who killed his beloved that made him as cannibalistic as so many humans at the time. Since then, he has also fallen into the dark hell on earth, realizing the deformed return of his social attributes and human nature.
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