After reading it is first silence, after silence is thinking.
Survival and Morality, Sex and Morality, Law and Morality.
The story takes place in a closed mountain village in ancient Japan! The technique of the film is simple and straightforward, but the topic is the eternal one, survival and morality
The theme of the movie is about the parents who are in their 70s in the mountain village, in order not to drag down the family (the winter food is not enough, and people will starve to death), and their sons will be sent to the Nara Mountain. This is the iron law of the mountain village for hundreds of years! Then, get back to nature!
The protagonist of the movie, the grandmother, voluntarily entered the Nara Mountain, and the son and daughter-in-law (the male protagonist just continued) were also unwilling to send the grandmother to the mountain to see the mountain god, but the grandmother was determined and felt that she could no longer contribute to the family because of her old age, and insisted that her son be sent to the mountain. go! (But not all the old people were sent to Narayama voluntarily. Another old man in the play did not dare to face the cruel choice of nature, but was pushed down the cliff by his son, causing an ethical tragedy!) Under the survival of the family, parents are willing to sacrifice themselves , the continuation of the family, this is a very remarkable thing! The love of parents does not ask for anything in return. Only by maintaining this tradition from generation to generation can the family be able to continue! 2. Sex and Morality Chinese people generally don't talk about sex and think it's a hidden thing, but they do it in private! The film also discusses the issue of sex. The second son in the family has body odor because he was born. Only two people do not despise him, one is his mother grandma, the other is his eldest brother, his nephews and the whole village. They all despised him and called him a stinky person. The whole village despised him, believing that he was inferior to a beast, and he had never touched a woman at the age of thirty-five. In order to vent himself, he spoiled his neighbor's dog, Xiaoxue, Even the beautiful young woman who was looking for a man in the village would rather go to the old man than to be with him. . . When the elder brother found out, in order to take care of his younger brother, he was willing to give his new daughter-in-law to go out for one night. After the mother found out, in order to solve this problem, she found an old woman for him and let him vent his animalistic desires.
There is a saying in China, a full man does not know that a hungry man is hungry!
First of all, what my brother did is not advisable. If he did, it would be incest, completely breaking the ethical rules, and causing endless harm! It will lead to family harmony and social disorder!
Secondly, although the mother's practice is not desirable, it solves the problem after all, it does not violate ethics, but also solves the second problem after human existence, sex! Some things will grow unsustainably if they want to be suppressed. If they are properly guided, they will make all parties satisfied!
3. Survival and the Law
In fact, there is no clear law in the small mountain village. There are rules that everyone agrees on commonly known as, we call it, unwritten law!
There is a family in the mountain village that has been stolen from generation to generation, and the reason is very simple. They have given birth to many children, and they are lazy and cannot support themselves and their children! Just choose to take shortcuts and steal!
Once caught stealing, the village chose the most ruthless method, destroying the family and burying all the members of this family alive!
Stealing is hateful, but the crime does not lead to death. It is too cruel. If you do not deal with it and continue to be stolen, other households in the village will not have enough food to eat, and people will starve to death!
The evil of the film comes from the pressure of survival. If people have food to eat, they will achieve family surplus! Then the society will become more civilized, the old will be supported, there will be marriage and marriage, the household will not be closed at night, the road will not be picked up, and the world will be harmonious!
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