呢條友寫得唔錯
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Extraordinary images and allegorical representations of the human condition and its fragility abound in Imamura's first color metaphysical mammoth. Extraordinary in its ability to be absorbing at its core, and with a haunting fusion of cinematic styles that range from surrealism to images of nature that mimic a documentary style, Imamura's analysis of the invasion of civilization over a secluded tropical island pervaded with Pantheistic philosophy is a truly entrancing juxtaposition of themes, rhythms and styles as varied as the unpredictability of life itself. Illusion and reality are combined but exclusively through the eyes of the Futori family, rather than the engineer, who symbolizes the side that announces "rationality" as the medicine for modernity, despite the fact that there is an inherent irrationality in declaring rationality as entirely proper in its application over all life areas, dismissing the undeniable emotional human component.
Painting primitiveness with tones of aggression and beauty, placing the camera as an omniscient god capable of adopting multiple perspectives, from an eagle-eye judging divine presence to subtly and coldly calculated invasive minimalism, Profound Desire of the Gods is an entrancing examination of reality vs. fantasy, beauty vs. ugliness, rationality vs. emotional impulse, tradition over modernity, and superstition vs. psychological atheism. Epic in its ambition and duration, this is potentially the director's best film, as well as his most complex reflective dissertation of life.