It's been a long time since I watched a movie that lasted more than two hours.
Shohei Imamura cut out the evil, cruelty, and desire in human nature, and showed me every inch of it.
The "snatching" incident in his childhood was the source of everything. He was not willing to fight against power in a gentle way like his father, but chose violent resistance.
After the failure, the father's image completely collapsed, so the complex of "father murder" runs through
He keeps cheating, killing, and having sex for pleasure and revenge
But at the same time, are the innocent people around him really innocent? The ambiguous incest between the father and the wife, the filth and embarrassment of the hostess family
Every detail, every shot can feel the taste:
Male protagonist urinates and washes blood from hands after murder
Father-in-law buried the dog that bit his daughter-in-law alive and poured it over with boiling water
The different reactions of the waitress to the husband, the male lead, and the little white face on the bed...
Both the perpetrator and the victim are so complex and unique, everyone is contradictory, cowardly, and helpless
They all have flaws in one way or another, but it's this flaw that makes them credible
There are too many difficult passages in the film, which condense into the depressing atmosphere of the whole film
Makes me think over and over again, why?
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