低下层

It's a good film, only very hard to watch. It's hard to watch not only because the audience would have a difficult time with empathizing any of the characters, but they'd probably also hate the sound design-- the long trivial conversations, with old alcoholics talking non-sense and women screaming. The plot structure is also unconventional. Nobody evolves, which proves to the point that these jobless poor people are living in hell (人间地狱). Even the landlord and the police-like uncle behave vulgarly and disgracefully. They are not any richer than each other. There are diseases, death, greed, gambling, viciousness... The wise old man who embodies Buddism cannot help much.

2020/7/2