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When it comes to Japanese film masters, the first thing that comes to mind are Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, etc., and Kore-eda, who recently won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, was once named Ozu's successor.
But people have also forgotten a master who won the Palme d'Or twice, and it was these two films that made him internationally famous and established himself as an international player.
Yes, it is Masahira Imamura, known as the Master of the New Wave in Japan.
Today, Pgour would like to recommend one of his Palme d'Or-winning films, a heavy and great film that hit the hearts of the people after watching it, and the title of the film is "The Examination of the Mountain Festival".
The movie Douban scored 8.9 points, once surpassing Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon", but many people called this movie "a movie I don't want to see in my life" because it is too tragic and sad.
"Old and not dead for thieves" is really a thing, which is really infinitely emotional.
The film is called "The Examination of the Mountain Festival", because there is a song "The Festival of the Mountain" that runs through the whole process, and the mountain is the name of the place where the story takes place, alluding to the basic form of human life in the beginning, the festival is a ritual of the rules, and the examination is the meaning of torture records.
The meaning of the "Raoshan Festival Examination" is to go to this place of The Mountain to investigate the local customs.
The story opens with a dark and gloomy sky, a vast expanse of snow, in this remote village more than a hundred years ago. The seemingly peaceful silence, behind it is a bloody tragedy.
Behind the small mountain village is the endless mountain, which stands in the center of the long camera, as if lamenting a tragedy staged here.
Spring has come, everything has revived, people have woken up from hibernation, this place is not only a bad living environment, resources are also scarce, poverty is the real situation of this place.
It is precisely because of this situation that there is a frightening tradition here: there is no surplus grain in the village for the elderly who have no productive capacity to eat, so when the old man turns 70 years old, he must be carried by the eldest son to the mountain to worship the mountain god, but in fact, it is sent to the mountain for the vultures to eat.
If you refuse to carry your mother up the mountain to die, you will be directly poked in the spine by the whole village, and if the old man is not willing to obediently send him to death, he will be directly thrown to death by the five flowers, which is cruel to the extreme.
And only the eldest son in each household can marry and have children, and the other men cannot marry and can only work.
And everything here seems to tell the audience the original face of the primitive social form, people have no rules and no cultivation, and every day they stage the event of plundering food.
The protagonist Ah Lingbo is 69 years old, not far from the days of shangling mountain, but her body is still strong, despite this, she still calmly faces everything, and the only thing she can't rest assured of is her two sons.
The eldest son, Tatsuhei, is capable and down-to-earth, so he did not spend much effort to renew the string, while the second son is a foul-smelling and annoying person, because he has never tasted sex, and has been full of sexual hunger and thirst.
This also became a matter of concern for Ah Lingbo.
At this time, a man in the village died, in order to atone for his death, let his wife sleep with all the men in the village, after the wife agreed, the second son thought that what he dreamed of was going to happen, but he did not expect that the woman skipped him.
The second son became angry and had nowhere to put his desire on a dog named "Xiao Bai".
I thought that this secret was only known to me, but I didn't expect that the next day the bachelors in the whole village knew it, because everyone had tasted the rain and dew for the first time, and only the second son was single, so the second son became the object of ridicule of the whole village.
The second son was sullen and indignant, and the resentment in his heart had nowhere to vent, and when the eldest brother saw it, he asked his wife to accompany his younger brother once, so that he could also balance his heart.
Ah Ling Po felt that the eldest son's approach was inappropriate, and out of the psychology of hurting her son, she found another 70-year-old Ah Jin Po who was about to turn over, and asked her to meet the physical needs of the second son.
The second son finally got his wish, and he finally experienced what it was like to be a man, even though the other was a woman about the same age as his mother.
After Ah Lingbo had this matter, there was also the matter of her grandson marrying his wife and having children.
Fortunately, things were more satisfactory, and the grandson married the daughter of the Rain House family.
The Rain house is poor and populous, and its lazy nature makes them earn a living by stealing other people's food.
The daughter of the Rain House family also inherited the nature of her parents to eat and be lazy, and after marrying ah lingbo's family, she worked lazily, but the amount of food increased unabated, and also smuggled grain to her own home, and ah lingbo gradually became dissatisfied with her, knowing that this woman staying at home sooner or later was a scourge.
However, unfortunate things happened, due to hunger, the Rain House family had to steal the potatoes from the neighbor's house, and the Rain House family's behavior led to the clan burying their whole family alive, and Ah Ling Po tricked her granddaughter-in-law to go home, resulting in the Rain House family being wiped out.
And this incident also sounded the alarm bell for Ah Lingbo, the food is getting more and more difficult, and hunger will eventually become a problem that the family has to face, so it is time to go.
Before going up the mountain, she taught her son and daughter-in-law to fish, doing her best to hope that her son would not be plagued by hunger.
In addition, in order to let the eldest son see that he was old and that he could carry himself up the mountain without shame, she smashed her strong teeth with stones, bleeding non-stop, and then told her son that she was old and it was time to send her to the mountain.
The day before going up the mountain, the son told his mother that when his father did not run away many years ago, but sent his grandmother up the mountain, he could not bear to throw the old mother to the mountain, and he felt that his father was very humiliated, so he shot and killed his father in anger.
At this point, Ah Ling Po knew the truth of the matter, and she told her son that her husband was killed by the mountain god and had nothing to do with you, and she should not mention this matter again.
The next day, Tatsuhira carried his mother to the top of the mountain, where white bones were piled up and the cold wind was clear.
The eldest son reluctantly said goodbye to his mother, and on the way back, the sky suddenly snowed, and Tatsuhei was so excited that he forgot the rule that he could not turn back, returned to find his mother, and said loudly: "Mother, this is an auspicious omen." ”
At this time, the mountain was covered with snow, and the vast mountain was an endless distance, Ah Ling po and her son waved goodbye, and she was dressed in silver with her hands folded, like a mountain god, and finally prayed for herself and her family.
And the fate that awaited her was the death that would eventually come, she sat alone in the wreckage, let the cold wind pass through, let the vultures hover, and the only thing she could do was to give her life to find her own home.
The story ends.
After watching this movie, I only feel sad, flowers blossom and fall, spring to spring, life and death, cycle after cycle.
But the human beings in the movie are both ruthless and affectionate, but this feeling is so fragile and helpless in the face of survival.
Like the eldest son, who had an argument with his father because his father did not want to carry his grandmother up the mountain, and shot and killed his father, he was also in conflict when faced with his mother who was separated from life and death.
And his son, like his original self, can't wait for his grandmother to go up the mountain and marry his daughter-in-law.
The director is also expressing the meaning of life with the help of cruel images, and in the film, Ah Lingbo feels that taking the initiative to die to continue the lives of others is equivalent to dying for others, and when death is equal to the meaning of living, this is the meaning of her life.
People's attachment to life will eventually dissolve into emptiness and dissipate in time.
But have humans really reflected on themselves? Have you considered the sacrifices and meanings of others?
And after watching the movie and living in the present, should we look back at modern civilization, when the material is rich, does the development of civilization also keep up with the rhythm?
The abandonment of the old in the movie is terrible, but today's rapid development, the patronage brought by society for human beings has not made human progress.
However, the old ideas of brutality and cruelty in the past still rudely trample on the core of civilization under the cloak of modern civilization.
Just like the production of nursing homes and the movie to send the elderly to the mountain without asking, what is the substantive difference?
It is as if the marriage in the movie is only for the reproduction and inheritance of heirs, there is no love and feelings to speak of, just like arranged marriages in many places now, or the oppression and intimidation of children in urban families are all a regression of human spiritual civilization.
The film's criticism of the bad side of ancient civilization is to provoke modern people to think deeply, in the face of nature, in front of civilization, in front of life, we should all be ashamed.
People don't just have to disguise decency.
At the end of the article, Pi Ge recommends a movie "One Man's Jianghu" for everyone, take advantage of the theater line and the schedule, hurry up to see
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