The snake represents the "owner" here, and the young man is called "the mouse". In the play, the mouse appears to eat a hibernating snake, and this hibernating snake I think is Aling Po. After Aling Po goes up the mountain, the camera turns. To a hibernating snake. It is an extremely rare phenomenon for rats to eat snakes (only in the case of lack of food). This should prove that the young people in the film put the old man on the mountain and let him die in order to survive, and the old man regards Kaminayama as a sacred event. The survival of offspring is exchanged for the sacrifice of the same kind, just as female praying mantises will eat male praying mantises after mating. It is a normal thing for snakes to eat mice in life. The people in the play can throw the newborn baby boy into the farmland. In order to reduce the population, A Ling-po trapped and killed the delicious and lazy granddaughter-in-law A Song, but A Ling-po understands that "a mouse" My son will be there soon." So she moved up the mountain ahead of schedule. This is just to keep the whole family through the coming winter. In short, mice eat snakes and snakes eat mice, which makes me feel that everything is determined by nature. I believe that human nature is innate and will do some bad things for their own survival (young Hannibal). The emergence of such behaviors and the distortion of their perceptions lies above all in the harsh environment. The harsh environment forced them to send the old man to the mountain, and the old man believed that going up the mountain was a sacred thing, perhaps it was a sacred thing to reduce the burden for the family in the harsh environment.
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