This is reminiscent of the notorious sadist Thad, whose ethics is to never worry about the feelings of others, and to make others a tool for their own enjoyment. But Yuanyuan, on the contrary, is not interested in torturing others. His cruelty is purely due to the moral “instinct” of “preferring oneself to others”. Good), always willing to show courtesy to others.
Masochists always say "no" in front of sadists. Ah Yi realized the true meaning: Only by rejecting me can I constitute an aggression against them. For the woman who eloped with her elder brother, her resistance was not to show her loyalty to her elder brother, nor did she say "thank you" to Ah Yi to create a chance for a surprise attack. Her thanks came from the sincerity. She was tortured by Ah Yi to give it. The identity of the abuser who likes her for a long time, she also obtained the supreme pleasure at the moment of being killed, which surpassed the day after day and "sufficient" happiness of the big brother (Floyd's " Happiness Principle" Happiness).
Yuanyuan, of course, also abides by the sadomasochistic script, running away like a panicked woman in front of Ah Yi (that is the excitement-anxiety in the face of extreme pleasure). But unlike ordinary sadists, he has an extraordinary ability to endure pain. He disdains for having a weak personality like most masochists in order to "attract" the abuse of others. He is like Kafka's "Hunger Artist": If there is no food I want to eat, I would rather not eat it (and endure the pain of "hunger" and practice it as art). What he was after was not cheap violence, because he couldn't feel emotions from it, so he made himself a tiger to lure another tiger to torture him and die in this ultimate happiness. Isn't his cracked mouth a symbol of greed and violent desire?
I believe that many people are misled by the poster, thinking that the one who looks like a gangster is Ah Yi, but Ah Yi is hiding on the back of the poster.
A Yi is a more interesting character. Contrary to Yuanyuan, he is an extremely weak and timid person. When I first appeared on the stage, I thought he was a comedic hero, but the story once again subverted my expectations. Like Yuanyuan, his ethics are just his desires.
Ah Yi always looks cowardly, and has the same psychology as a general masochist: unconsciously induces others to violence against him (this is also the blank of the strong masochistic Yuanyuan). But he did not enjoy the violence of others at all. The significance of the violence of others to him was to become a reason for his own violence, that is to say, he created hatred for himself, and rationalized the violence that was originally a pursuit of pleasure into a pure Revenge.
Of course, this is not his contribution alone, behind him is a scheming uncle. Uncle is like an evil psychoanalyst. He made up his past and gave a reasonable reason for his murder. As Lacan said, people’s self-knowledge is nothing more than a misunderstanding of the mirror image identified by others (for example, when a baby sees his mother pointing to the image in the mirror and says "little baby", the baby thinks that it is himself). Under his uncle's identification, he mistakenly thought he was a hero who walked for the sky. But since being helped by the original policeman who is also a gangster, he has questioned the indoctrinated black and white logic, and also questioned the hatred and his identity ("Did they really bully me?" ") Regarding this situation, Uncle knew that he could no longer be allowed to return to the mirror image of the hero. Next, he carried out the clinical work of "getting out of illusion", letting another person identify the truth of his desire. That's right. Karen.
The question Karen asked Uncle was very interesting: "Then I was hypnotized by you?" This question cannot be answered, but it implies that she does have the same memory as Tachibana. She found Ah Yi (with reason to believe that this was also part of Uncle's layout), exposed her desires to him, and Ah Yi's heart knot was untied, and he finally faced his true face of sadism and became a killer again. .
Both the original policeman and his son "misidentified" Ah Yi. The former mistaken him for his past unbearable self, while the latter mistaken him for the future ideal self (a powerful and righteous hero). The last scene was a tragic mirror break for them. They were all driven by hatred into Ah Yi’s "script"-bullying him and making him the protagonist of the tragedy (Uncle told him that the original policeman was actually his elder brother. Also to add a sense of tragedy), only in this way can his sadistic nature overshadow his emotions as a normal person.
If Yuanyuan is a powerful masochist, then Ah Yi is a weak masochist. The former will be ruthlessly abused, while the latter will be painfully self-masochistic, and because of this, they can enjoy the ultimate pleasure of sadomasochism. : Both are painful and pleasant self-denial.
However, the most wonderful thing is that this extreme pair, in the end, neither of them can get the ultimate pleasure from each other. Contrary to Uncle's expectation, Ah Yi was not strong enough to completely "walk out of the fantasy", but still stayed in the pain of self-defense, unable to bear the pain of killing his brother. Yuanyuan's "Duel" (SM) invitation to Aichi is a complete comedy, which is the most unbearable blow to the powerful masochist Yuanyuan-he has lost his ultimate desire object. Therefore, Yuanyuan also chose to self-mutilate his ears, and escaped to the hallucinations to complete the false bliss (there is no crack on his corpse's head). Isn't this Lacan's famous proposition "Sexual relationship does not exist"?
This is the only mistake made by the uncle who controls everything behind the scenes. The actor of the uncle is the director Shinya Tsukamoto who has a style similar to that of Miike. In his films of "Iron Man" and "June Snake", he always likes to play the role of manipulating everything behind the scenes, making the protagonist painful (sometimes accompanied by Growth). From his strength, his identity as Uncle Yi, and from his expression cut to the scene of Yuanyuan's cracked mouth, it can be boldly speculated that he actually trained two killers at the same time, and then kept controlling them until this day. Looking at Yuanyuan's body, his expression changed from happy to sad, and finally hanged himself. He finally declared his failure.
The two protagonists have been driven by their uncles to fulfill the ethics of "don't want to make concessions to their own desires", but in the end, their desires fell through in their respective intersections.
View more about Ichi the Killer reviews
