But after watching the movie (I watched the diversity version, not the integrated version released in the mainland), I felt that this manga-modified movie still managed to catch the eye and dig deep into the connotation, but whether it is the same as the original book , I once asked a friend who had read the original comics, and he said that the picture and the plot were basically consistent. It's hard to keep me from saying a thing or two about this sci-fi gore movie.
The sense of anxiety in nationality
If you have seen this movie or anime, you should know that this movie is mainly about environmental protection issues. It uses extreme ways to describe environmental protection and changes in the ecological environment. There are many Japanese movies that have resounded in the cult world. Representative works, such as "The Mermaid of the Sewer" in the "Guinea Pig Series" are this kind of environmental protection theme that uses extreme visual stimulation, but because it uses blood and disgust to keep the audience's focus, this kind of film always It is easy to be called "banned film", not only because of the inappropriate picture of the film itself, but also because of the rough production.
In comparison, "Parasite" is somewhat restrained in its visual processing. Although there are many scenes of human body tearing and cannibalism, it can also be appropriately deleted with clever editing. The reason for the "PG-12" rating in theatrical release. However, the visual impact has never been the reason why "Parasitic Beast" can impress me. It can catch my eye because it has the background color of the Japanese nation-a kind of cruel "matter sorrow" thought that is close to cherry blossoms.
Different from the "optimism" attitude carried in American movies, due to its geographical location, Japan is always full of deep homeland security worries and cruel human heart palpitations. Americans always think that with the development of technology, even if we face In the event of a huge disaster, future humans will travel through time and space to save us, as can be seen from a series of Hollywood sci-fi movies, such as the "Back to the Future" series and the "Star Trek" series. But the Japanese hold the opposite attitude, and with the increase of the population and the continuous increase of domestic waste, the environmental problems facing human beings are also becoming more and more serious. From the beginning of the movie: "If the number of human beings is halved, the The burned forest area will be reduced by half. If the number of human beings is only 1%, then the amount of rubbish released willfully will also be reduced to 1%.” And we can see the core of the film’s pessimism. . The setting of "Parasite"
under the perspective of science fiction is actually the same as many science fiction movies, they are all a paradigm of "looking at human beings from the outside".
In the movie, the "Little Right" parasitic on the hands of the protagonist "Shinichi" keeps talking with Shinichi throughout the movie. They talk about human nature, killing, and even survival. When Shinichi says parasitic beast cannibalism When his behavior was "devil", Xiaoyou made a shocking assertion: "According to the definition of 'devil' I searched on the Internet, human beings are the most suitable.
" In their opinion, some simple descriptions of the phenomenon of "human nature" in the world can refute some wrong "illusions" that humans are accustomed to in the movie, just like where did the parasitic beasts come from in the last movie? In fact, they are the products of modern human society. Their existence is actually for the better survival of human beings, to eat the appropriate population, so as to ensure the stable survival of the whole human being. The rigidity and coldness of rational thinking are like piercing ice. On the backs of people, let's not even refute the "reasonable" behavior of the parasitic beasts.
This kind of moral dilemma does not come from the outside world, but from the human beings themselves. Just like Xiaoyou thinks about the various living habits and behavioral contexts of the species "human" from the outside world, the existence of the entire parasitic beast world is also because of human beings themselves. It seems that the concept of "original sin" in Christianity has also begun to bloom in this flower of evil, and this inescapable shackle is actually a reproductive risk carried by human beings, just like What Shinichi said later: "Even so, we still hope to survive!"
In fact, the quality level of the upper and lower parts of "Parasitic Beast" is still quite different. The bloody scenes and fights are used to attract people's attention. On the contrary, these elements are only supporting the film's thinking about family affection, human nature and survival, but the lower part starts to overflow in form, and the happy ending at the end is clearly a kind of unprovoked ending. Compromise, using the unique narcissism of human beings to redeem all the people and things that want to be redeemed, this is also the biggest difference between the upper and lower parts. After all, the revelation that tragedy can bring often exceeds the reunion of the secular world, and it has a foundation for profound human thinking. Why? Are you still bowing your head to worldly routines?
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