The village where the story takes place is closed and wild, and the life of the villagers is primitive and somewhat barbaric. And the various phenomena in the village's attitude towards the relationship between the sexes and the elderly are indeed worthy of modern people's thinking as fables.
The film is two hours long, but it takes the last 40 minutes to show the long and torturous process of "Kami Narayama". In these 40 minutes, the audience's backlog of repression and sentimental emotions were released. In addition, through the processing of the camera, this process seems a bit mysterious and terrifying, which makes the feudal color of "Kami Nara Mountain" more and more intense.
The film depicts the various characters of the old mother "Azhen" and her family in a very three-dimensional manner through trivial details of life, and the sufficient story foreshadowing also makes the ending "Kami Nara Mountain" appear to be a natural fit.
Ah Zhen's love is selfless and broad, and she spends the last time of her life taking care of her children's and grandchildren's lives. She is like a snowflake that falls from the sky, turning into invisible but providing nutrients to the earth.
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