四个地方高中生为考大学来到东京,正赶上进步人士为废除保守派的“建国纪念日”举行游行,两代人的观念碰撞在一起。四人在对女孩的追逐中产生了强烈的性欲。他们在和大竹老师吃饭时,其他顾客唱起军歌,而大竹则唱起了春歌。当晚,大竹自杀了,中村恰好看到但没有阻止挽救,而是高唱“诞生了一个平民”。为大竹守灵的晚上,一众高中生唱起了春歌怀念大竹。第二天,四个学生护送女生回家,产生了强奸她们的幻想,又有一个女生今田加入了他们的行列,唱起春歌。当资产阶级女生眉子举办反战民谣集会的时候,今田、中村等人也去了,并展开了一场民谣与春歌的大会战。当中村对眉子说曾在幻想中强奸了她们时,眉子接受挑战。大家一起来到考场大教室,男生们高唱着春歌,向眉子扑去。 日本春歌被某些评论家认为是启蒙民众、歌唱幻想、摆脱痛苦生活的象征。而片中的春歌和放纵欲望的相关情节,还带着战后民主主义思想的余韵,而新一代年轻人的反抗方式则遵从着个人欲望的规则,并带着无政府主义的色彩。同美国嬉皮运动一样,日本年轻人也以“性”为武器,向保守前辈进行攻击,春歌就是其中一种手段。然而,也正如现实生活中,这种反抗的盲目性并不能导致实质性的社会改变一样,影片结尾的一段超现实主义的强奸道出了这一代年轻人彷徨虚幻的心态。
Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy. Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha. Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom), renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax. – kijA
妻子为何横刀伸向病榻中的丈夫?这个世界上除了自杀,还有没有一种能让自己杀了自己的可能性?不经意间打死的的蜘蛛,为何也能让自己丧命?无知少女崇拜美女老师,竟然要求老师用屁熏死自己。
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