Japan
directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara
written by: Kôbô Abe (screenplay + book)
starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
seen: 26th July, 2015
This is what happens when you're thrown into life. Or maybe after you run a pin through an antlion. (?)
What kept my mind busy a long time after the film was over was an overthought about one sentence the protagonist said (according to the english subtitles): "Men aren't dogs, you can't put them on a leash." In my head I translated that into my native language as "men" = "male humans", but what if he ment "humans", aha?! I did a brief research using an online dictionary and I found that Japanese does not distinguish the words "man" and "human" as both can be called by a single word (otoko), but "men" (hitobito) and "humans" (hito) are differend. But for the love of god I cannot seem to catch which word is the poor fellow using when he says that line.
And moving on: I don't understand him in different ways as well. He has an idea about making a ladder, but why does he never make one? But that's of course me polemizing the human nature, not me holding something against the film itself. Maybe I'm not human? Surely I'm not a man.
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