only now do I understand feudal japan
when death is everywhere, your main concern is no longer to preserve life. it is to live meaningfully.
this is the crux to understand this foreign way of life
i can see what mishima felt japan had lost
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The Substance 2024
The insane last act probably wanted to be a question posed at us, how much can we look at before we close our eyes? How much blame can we accept as the audience for the monster before us?
But independent of if I think that moral question is a valid one (and if I think “we created the monster“), there is a much simpler problem. It doesn't work because the whole sequence is not really in line with the character…
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