How old are people to be considered "old"?
In ancient times, when productivity was low, there were very few people who could live to be sixty or seventy years old, so there was a saying that "life is seventy years old".
Now, people who are more than ancient and have a very strong vitality abound. Their experience and wisdom accumulated over the years are even more valuable assets.
However, in the Japanese film "Kaiyama Festival Examination" released in 1983, directed by Masahira Imamura, the definition of "people are old" is direct, simple and crude - as long as it is an old man over 70 years old, he will be carried by his son to the mountain behind the village to worship the mountain god (waiting for death).
The whole film is full of cruel, wild, primitive desire, it is like a monster lurking in everyone's heart, casting a huge shadow and devouring the sunlight overhead.
In the process of watching the movie, people feel depressed, uncomfortable, painful, and fidgety, but after watching it, they will fall into introspection and ask the soul for deep introspection.
Chenping carried Ah Ling po on his back to mount The mountain
The story takes place in a small village in the mountains of ancient Shinshu, Japan, which is a very primitive agricultural society. The villagers live on a narrow plain in the middle of the mountains and have been farming for generations.
There is a family in the village that is the Mudun family, and the owner of the Mudun family disappeared inexplicably thirty years ago, leaving the hostess Ah Lingbo and two sons.
And this year, for Ah Lingbo, is a very special year. She was already 69 years old, and soon after she turned 70, she would be carried from her eldest son Tatsuhira to the mountain to worship the mountain god according to the custom that had been passed down from generation to generation.
Ah Ling Po was very concerned about Shangling mountain, but there were still a few things that worried her, and she had to do a good job before Shanglin Mountain.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > the marriage of the eldest son, Tatsuhei
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Ah Lingbo's eldest son, Tatsuhei, is 45 years old, and last year his wife Ah Zhu fell to her death while picking chestnuts, and he became a widower.
Ah Lingbo always remembered to find him another wife, so she asked someone like an intermediary to find a suitable object. On this day, a man named Shioya brought her good news, there was a widow named Ayu in a neighboring village, who had just died of her husband, and it was appropriate to give Tatsuhira.
It didn't take long for a woman with luggage to come to the house. She is not good-looking, but she has a large waist and a thick waist, and she looks like a good helper for farm work.
There is no ceremony for men and women to marry here, as long as the woman comes to the man's house to eat, the man's family is willing to let her eat, and eat all the time, it means that men and women are united.
The new woman, named Ayu, stayed at Mudun's house for dinner that day, and Ah Ling po took out her treasured collection of dried trout and welcomed her.
Ayu came to The Wooden Dun house
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Alingbo's teeth</h1>
Ayu's arrival made the family, which was originally short of rations, worse. Except for the eldest son, Tatsuhei, everyone else hoped that Ah Lingbo would go to the mountain as soon as possible, especially her eldest grandson, Yuanfuji, who was 20 years old.
He sang his own song in the village, ridiculed his grandmother and 33 teeth, and called her "old and immortal" in disguise.
Ah Ling Po heard the song sung by her grandson and was very ashamed in her heart. She can eat and sleep, her ears are clear, her hands and feet are sharp, and she has no old age at all, which makes her feel that she is a different kind.
She made a fierce heart, knocked off her front teeth on the grinding plate, and said to Ayu with her mouth full of blood, the teeth are not working. He also ran to the village, showing off that he had lost his teeth, and finally he was like other old people with white teeth.
Ah Ling Po knocked out her front teeth
The people in the village are happy about the old age and death of people. Akinbo, who was about the same age as Ah Ling Po, became seriously ill, and her son happily ran to the Mudun house and asked them to prepare the coffin (the custom here is that the dead people let others prepare the coffin).
When Tatsuhira and his brother Ritsusuke, as well as Akinbo's son, the three of them carried the coffin to her house, and found Akinbo standing in the doorway, Akinbo's son asked her in surprise and disappointment, Are you not dead?
Akinbo was not dead
Akinbo waved her hand indifferently, and it was still early, and it was good to eat white rice.
Ah Ling Po did not lose a tooth, which means that her vitality is still very strong; Ah Ling Po has been seriously ill, everyone is preparing for her, and she is inexplicably well. They all represent that they are old and do not die, but everyone looks forward to them, and when they are old, they will die.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > second son lizu sex</h1>
In the village of Lingshan, everyone is more female than male, because the first boy born can get married and have children when he grows up, while the second and subsequent boys have no right to mate.
In the village, there are often abandoned baby boys who die, sometimes casually thrown in paddy fields. Risuke once quarreled with a neighbor because the neighbor threw the newborn baby boy in his paddy field.
Risuke asked the neighbor why you didn't throw this thing into the mountains. The neighbor said it was too far away and too lazy to go.
The fate of boys is like this, and the fate of girls who are relatively valued is not much better. When girls are born, they are bought and sold in exchange for food.
Yes, the reason why girls are valued is simply because they can be sold for food.
Risuke is the second son, has no mating rights, and coupled with his natural body odor, no woman wants to approach him. Grow up to be 35 and have never really touched a woman yet.
He often hid in front of his brother-in-law's window to eavesdrop, and when he couldn't stand it, he ran to the neighbor's new house and caught a small white dog to vent his desires.
This was known to Tatsuhira, and he beat up his brother violently. But Tatsuhira knew that a beating wouldn't solve the problem. He went to beg Ayu, hoping that she would agree to sleep with her brother for one night, but Ayu hated the body odor on Lisuke's body and did not agree.
The man in the village Ah Zhi was seriously ill, and at night he told Ah Zhi that his father had killed people and that he should now repay him. When he died, he asked Ah Zhi to sleep with all the unmarried men in the village to eliminate the evil spirit of this family.
Their conversation was overheard by Risuke, who was hiding outside the window listening to the corner, and he was overjoyed. The next day, he ran to the mountain god to pray, hoping that ah zhi's man would swallow his breath early.
Soon after, the A-chi man finally gasped, and Toshisuke waited expectantly for A-chi to arrive. Finally it was his turn, but Ah Zhi crossed him and went straight to the next one.
Ah Zhi with her husband
This made Risuke mad and ran to the crop field to destroy many of the crops he had just planted. Ah Ling Po knew about this matter and must find a way to solve it.
She went to beg Akinbo, who had a bad sense of smell and could not smell the body odor on Ritsugu's body. Akinbo said that it had been useless for a long time.
Ah Ling Po knew that she had agreed to this, and only said, it doesn't matter, LiSuke can't be fresh and old at all.
In the small village of Lingshan, sex is not something that is ashamed to open. In their eyes, just like eating and sleeping, it is just a physical need.
In the film, scenes of men and women copulating are always alternated with shots of various animals mating. Here, men and women sleeping has nothing to do with love, but is just an animal instinct.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > send the elderly to the mountain</h1>
Thirty years ago, Ah Lingbo's husband was reluctant to send her mother-in-law up the mountain and fled. This incident discredited the Mudun family and they could not lift their heads in the village.
Now that Ah Lingbo was about to go up the mountain, Tatsuhira acted like his father and was reluctant to send his mother up the mountain.
Ah Ling Po saw her son's thoughts and sternly warned him that he must not be like his father. Tatsuhira finally couldn't help but tell Ah Lingbo that his father was not a coward, and that he did not run away that year, but let him take a shotgun and kill him.
Tatsuhira takes Ah Ling Po to a tree and tells her that he buried him under the tree after he shot his father.
Thirty years later, he finally understood his father's pain, helplessness, struggle and reluctance, because he loved his mother so deeply that he was very reluctant to throw her on the mountain.
Even if you are no longer willing to do it, you are no longer willing to do it, the days are sliding forward, and the seasons are changing. Ah Ling Po turned 70 years old, and it was time to send her up the mountain.
The Mudun family invited people who had been to the mountain before to a meeting and listened to them talk about the path and precautions for the mountain. At that time, Yuchenping carried his mother into the mountain, and he had to walk for a day and a night until the depths of the mountain, and the two could not speak the whole time, and after letting go of his mother, Chenping could not turn back.
After the meeting, an elder called Tatsuhira to the side and quietly told him that when he entered the mountain, if he did not want to go that far, he could also send it to a place called Qigu to put the old man down.
Tatsuhira didn't understand what the elder meant when he said this, but silently wrote it down.
Explanation before going up mt
On the day of going up the mountain, Ah Ling Po packed up the old clothes and left them to her children and grandchildren. After cleaning himself, dressed in a neat white filial piety suit, lying on his son's back, the two of them walked toward the mountain.
When you walk to the depths of the mountain, you can see sensen white bones everywhere, and above your head are full of crows circling and foraging. Seeing the arrival of Tatsuhira and Ah Lingbo, the crow was even more excited to scream, as if smelling the freshest food.
Chenping found a place with few white bones and put down Ah Lingbo. Ah Ling Po opened the grass mat and spread it on the ground, looking indifferent, she had accepted the arrangement of fate and saw through death.
But this middle-aged man with thick lines could not bear it any longer, hugged his thin mother tightly, and cried bitterly, and could not stop for a long time. (See here, who can hold back from crying)
To the depths of the Mountain
Ah Ling Po raised her hand and slapped her son, telling him with her eyes that she had made up her mind and let him go down the mountain quickly.
When Tatsuhira went down the mountain to the place of Qigu, he saw Ah Yougong who had ascended the mountain with Ah Lingbo. Ah Yougong did not want to go up the mountain to die, and escaped at home several times, this time being bound by his son and carried the mountain tightly. The two had a heated argument here, and his son angrily pushed Ah Yougong off a cliff.
Only to hear ah yougong's mournful voice resounding through the valley, startling a group of black crows. Before ah yougong's son could stop sounding, he ran down the hill as if fleeing.
Chenping probed at the tired white bones under the cliff, and then ran madly back to the place where she had laid her mother, only Ah Lingbo's hands were together, her eyes were slightly closed, and she sat peacefully on her knees on the grass mat, and the falling snowflakes had covered her body with a thick layer.
He shouted at his mother, "Mom, it's snowing!" Mother waved her hand and asked him to go back.
"Mom, are you cold?" Mother shook her head.
"Mom, good luck with the snow!" Just in time for the day of entering the mountains. Mother nodded.
His mother waved her hand again and asked him to go back, and Tatsuhira turned and walked down the hill with tears in her eyes.
Ah Ling Po accepted the advent of death peacefully
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > conclusion</h1>
The people in the film are very busy, busy living, busy dying, busy eating, busy sleeping, busy mating. Man, like any other creature, is here just to survive.
The famous American social psychologist Maslow once proposed the famous "Maslow hierarchy of needs" - human needs have physiological needs, security needs, emotional and belonging needs, respect needs, self-realization.
This is a good explanation for the fact that the people in the village are still at the first level - physical needs, and do not allow the existence of high-level needs such as emotions and morality.
Even though the feelings of mother and son between Tatsuhira and Ah Lingbo, mother and son, have flashed, but in the survival war, this emotion is quickly erased.
The mother-child relationship between them is a meteor that flashes in the dark night, although it is short, but it truly illuminates the darkness.
There is a saying in the Pipe Herdsman:
Cangmiao is honest and knows etiquette, and has enough food and clothing to know honor and disgrace.
It means that the people have sufficient granaries and abundant food and clothing to take into account etiquette and value honor and shame.
What is worth introspecting today is that in today's extremely rich material world, why there are still incidents of abandoning old people who bury sick mothers alive, there are all kinds of news of abandoning babies, and there are men and women who only think with the lower body.
We have long been "in a hurry" and "enough food and clothing", but why are some people still unable to "know etiquette" and "know honor and disgrace"?
This is what is worth asking ourselves and deeply introspecting after watching "The Examination of the Mountain Festival"!
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