This is a movie about life and death. The harsh living environment has formed unique living habits, and natural selection has prompted changes in people's understanding of life and death. Sexuality takes the place of love when life is all about survival. So survival and sexuality have become the protagonists of life. When life is a pain, death may be a joy.
When the men in the village reach 70, and the women reach 60, they will be carried by their families to Mount Ao. Only by reducing the number of people without the ability to work can they maintain the current state of survival. So, 59-year-old A Lingpo started to prepare for her trip to Aoshan, although she was still full of teeth and could even knock pine nuts and soybeans. Before going up the mountain, she prepared everything for her family. Continue the string for the eldest son, and find a woman for the second son who has never tasted a woman's body odor. Before going up the mountain, she taught her daughter-in-law how to catch fish. When everything was in order, she went up the mountain with her son in peace. She has no fear of death. The bones all over the mountain make her son feel her sin. At first, she killed her father who refused to carry her grandmother up the mountain by mistake. Now, it is like killing her mother with her own hands. And A Ling knew that the rules were the rules. In order to survive, the rules could not be broken. Her husband's behavior had already made her lose face in the village, and she could no longer let her son have no place in the village. After finding a stone with no bones, she resolutely waved goodbye to her son, and at this moment it was snowing heavily, and A Lingba sat there peacefully in the blizzard.
The source of the movie is full of expressions of survival. The daughter-in-law of the continuation string married into A Ling's house just because she could eat better. As long as a woman has food, she can be called her daughter-in-law. After the daughter-in-law passed the door, the first thing A Ling taught her was how to fight mice. People who steal food in the village will be buried alive...
When Imamura Shohei expresses sex, he uses animal mating to echo human sex from time to time. Such as snakes, birds, butterflies, mantises and owls. When survival is a problem, humans and animals have only desire and no love. Human existence is not even as free as animals, and sometimes people are even more helpless.
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