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Jean 2022-03-26 09:01:14

1. Break away from city life and return to the simplest form of life: endless sand shoveling, Sisyphus-style asceticism.

2. After watching the director's two works, the depictions of female characters are all well-intentioned, admitting their power, but they are all symbolic and idealized, and they are also willing to play vassal roles that take care of men. In the movie, women not only have to work in the fields, but also manage the housework. This can be regarded as restoring the division of labor between men and women in the farming era, but when they go home, they have to serve the men's bath. .

3. Is there such a thing as "the whole village helps a widow to house a foreign man" in reality? Women are the ones who are treated as resources, trafficked, imprisoned and used as reproductive tools. At this point, the movie can be said to be very kind to women.

4. What is the meaning of escape? What he wants to be is a preacher, the first person to [discover], as long as he can achieve this "self-realization", what kind of life does it matter?

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Extended Reading
  • Violette 2022-04-22 07:01:55

    weird. Japanese desert? A certain woman was trapped in a house under a bunker by a group of people, and a traveler was also tricked into living with her. He escaped, but fell into the bunker. The woman was sent out after she was pregnant and found out that it was the sea, and the siphon pump could get the water out. poverty? Similar to "Blind Mountain"? Some close-ups, extremely close-up body shots, some shaking lights, some phantoms of running water in the desert.

  • Jaron 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    The difficulty in interpreting [The Lady of Sand] is how to understand the meaning of this cave. On the one hand, it is an existence far from social civilization, and on the other hand, it is an artificial space. The male protagonist loses his identity in society, but gains an identity (husband) through labor in a purely artificially constructed survival struggle environment. This is where the work defines the human situation: the identity of a person is always defined by the outside world, in society due to various proofs, and in the driving force as a missing person through his primitive labor. This kind of thinking alludes to the Nazi philosophy: work sets people free. On a positive note, lifeless sand is juxtaposed with water, which symbolizes vitality. A man can always find his way out of death, just as he wins water from the sand.

Woman in the Dunes quotes

  • Entomologist Niki Jumpei: A rope ladder?

    Male Villager: That's what we use out here in the boonies.

    Entomologist Niki Jumpei: This is quite an adventure.

  • Male Villager: Don't look up. You'll get sand in your face.