First, I read the Nishiguchi Akira Murder Case written by Li Miao, and found this film by following the vines. Although more than half of it has been spoiled, Li Miao wrote it completely in chronological order, and Imamura spent a certain amount of time introducing the relationship between Enojin Yan's family background and his character and crime. This logical relationship makes Enojin Yan, Enojin Yan's father and others have three-dimensional and full personalities. When Enotsu Yan was a child, he witnessed the Japanese warlords requisition their family's fishing boats. His father's weakness in front of the Japanese warlords was a kind of collapse of his father's image. At the end of the film, the father went to visit the prison and confessed to his son that he had restrained his desire for his daughter-in-law Kazuko for a long time, and that both he and his son had evil blood flowing in their bodies. Did the father have an affair with his daughter-in-law? Imamura's depiction of such taboo physical relationships makes them come to an abrupt end at some point, intentionally leaving an imaginary void. Five years later, when father and daughter-in-law Kazuko Yu sit on the cable car, they can peep into his father's filthier heart. The father's character makes prayer gestures from time to time, Enotsu Yan sends a cross to his lover, and A Chun of Asano Hotel is wearing the same pendant when he is strangled by Enotsu Yan... Such forms of religious behavior continue to appear in this film. , Imamura seems to be raising his doubts about religion. Can a believer do things that go against ethics and morality?
In the film, in addition to the unexpected male characters of the police, the young mahjong player A Kuan, the middle-aged lover of the hotel owner A Chun, and the male characters such as Enoktsu Yan, who has been seen many times a night, all collude with the coitus. Male characters are surging with desire. Female characters are accessories, which are goods for men to enjoy. An unknown female companion in the gray area, Kazuko, who was placed as a railroad worker, and Achun, the ill-fated hotel owner. A Chun's lover placed her in a hotel and asked her to help take care of the hotel and provide him with physical services that he needed from time to time; A Chun also took care of the gambler's mother who had just been released from prison. Of all the female characters, A Chun's mother's role is the most jaw-dropping. In A Chun's confession, she learned that her mother had never taken care of her, and now her mother is parasitic on A Chun. When A-Chun was humiliated by her lover in front of her mother, her mother just hid her face to avoid it. When Enojin Yan was about to throw a knife at her lover, A-Chun's mother stopped him again. A mother who sees her daughter being insulted but turns a blind eye, or a murderer and lover who has compassion, who is more evil?
Does Enotsu Yan really love A Chun? In the middle of strangling A Chun, Enojin Yan once let go of his hand for a short time, is it an awakening of conscience? Or because A Chun, like him, is a person who has been abandoned by society. He knew that what awaited him was being hanged, and he chose to end the life that A Chun had abandoned by strangulation?
Imamura Changhei did not continue to be desperate and indifferent. A Chun's struggle at the end of his life is a kind of longing for life, and it is also the glimmer of humanity in the film.
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