Today: "Narayama Festival Examination"
After reading "Narayama Festival Exam", disgusting, ugly, primitive, life and death twisted into a rope, whipped on me, which made people feel a strong sense of shock. The film does not conceal the meaning of human nature at all: human and animal rape, brutal murder of fathers, burying villagers alive, knocking teeth and pretending to be old.... With regard to these human gestures, Imamura Shohei made no secret of it, and used this story to show human nature and cause reflection.
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The film is adapted from the novel of the same name, but Imamura Shohei is very powerful. He retained the original work and successfully made the text into film and television.
There are many animal scenes interspersed in the film, and the animal desires are unobstructed at a glance, and the real impact reaches people's hearts.
Almost the whole process of cold gray seems to be able to feel the temperature of emotion, cold and selfish. Even in the spring and summer, it is only hot and dry for a short time, filled with passion and desire, fishing and farming.
The puzzling and grotesque segments are also the finishing touches. Folk songs full of eccentricities, rituals and customs of worshiping the womb, and various village rules and regulations all show the audience a primitive society.
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There is a scene that impressed me the most, which is the part where the villagers forced the Yuya family to "apology to the god of Narayama".
If you look closely, you will find that the perspective of the buried alive is the same as that of the villagers, and the light of the flame is hitting from the side.
The camera is still, like a bystander, this kind of indifference and silent witness to the mutual killing of witnesses is more chilling than focusing on exaggerating fear and despair. Such special coldness is spontaneously understood by the audience. It's hard not to be touched.
The director's control and restraint on the lens is wonderful, and the side light conveys a sense of "compassion".
In such a plot of being buried alive, the author omits the most crucial part of theft, and focuses on describing that village residents, regardless of gender, age, infirmity, sickness or disability, are instantly excited, rush to the scene with murderous aura, and break into Yuwu's house desperately. What is the purpose of the scene of rummaging through boxes and scavenging for food? Who exactly is the robber? (This paragraph is from the thesis) In group psychology, people will consciously form a community of interests and exclude others. It seems that there is finally a reasonable reason that others die and I inherit it reasonably.
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In addition, what is particularly exciting is the scene of going up the mountain without saying a word. This episode is the climax of the whole film, where the spiritual core of this primitive village is revealed. Before going up the mountain, there are strict regulations and routes, creating mystery and seriousness. When going up the mountain, go forward silently, advance in the human-traveled jungle, keep circling upwards, the colorful scenery along the way gradually disappears, the snow-capped mountains gradually come into view, the wounds and bleeding along the way, the bones scattered all over the ground pierce the mountain and pierce the mountain. There is no divine truth. When going down the mountain, the comparison between A Ling's anxious going up the mountain and the constant retention of his daughter-in-law and A Zhong's ruthlessness and cruelty in pushing his father who was unwilling to sacrifice to the mountain gods further stimulated reflection.
Narayama is not a mystery, but people who know the truth will only strengthen it and continue to submit to the religious and idealism they forge, only in this way can death become revered, only in this way, ethics and personal Only emotions can be crossed and the balance of the whole village can be achieved, which is the naturalness of the continuation of a primitive society. Just like the traditional Chinese concept of "changing the small self for the big self", although the big self here is the whole village, it is also indispensable to care about the status and honor of the family in the village. A lot of times people will whitewash the pay with countless positive words to make it reasonable and easy to accept, but it is still bloody in nature.
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"How can you take something so unacceptable for granted?"
The film is also linked to suicidal Bushido militarism.
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When Chen Ping went up the mountain, he thought that his mother had left and was happy. When he went down the mountain, he turned to face the snow and kept shouting: "Mom, it's snowing, this is a good omen." Chen Ping's reluctance and love received a "slap" from his mother.
This last slap is the warmth of love. The mother loved her family from beginning to end, so she made it a goal to go up the mountain as soon as possible. From knocking her teeth to telling her daughter-in-law about the fishing spot, she was explaining her funeral and passing on her spirit.
This is probably the only warmth in the whole film. People aside from animal nature, parent-child love can make people believe in the future, in life, and in the goodwill of human nature.
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