The Japanese movie“0.5mm”connects the life clips between the nursing-care helper Sawa and several old people in the form of a road movie,highlighting many thought-provoking social problems,and revealing how the elem...The Japanese movie“0.5mm”connects the life clips between the nursing-care helper Sawa and several old people in the form of a road movie,highlighting many thought-provoking social problems,and revealing how the elements of emotional abuse hidden between the old people and their relatives and friends affect people’s dignity and decency,and at the same time trying to offset the persecution from the emotional abuse with the warm kindness between the elderly and the care workers.The film’s implicit description of emotional abuse and explicit display of good deeds are blended in the quiet and mysterious narrative character,achieving the effect of synchronizing the artistic narrative rhythm with the flow of life,reflecting the unique aesthetic characteristics of Japanese films.展开更多
Süskind’s “Perfume” constructs the story frame of the text through three sets of contradictory narratives, exploring the process of Grenouille, who is regarded as an alien by others, trying to find and constru...Süskind’s “Perfume” constructs the story frame of the text through three sets of contradictory narratives, exploring the process of Grenouille, who is regarded as an alien by others, trying to find and construct true meaning of being a human being from three aspects: human smell, emotion, and discourse. This process constantly encounters deconstruction from its own smelllessness, senselessness and aphasia, thereby implying the lack of human subjectivity and value through Grenouille’s failure to find identity. It also uses the image of perfume to express the author’s deep concerns about the loss of subjectivity, the disillusionment of classical morality, and the violence of industrial civilization in France and even Europe in the eighteenth century.展开更多
文摘The Japanese movie“0.5mm”connects the life clips between the nursing-care helper Sawa and several old people in the form of a road movie,highlighting many thought-provoking social problems,and revealing how the elements of emotional abuse hidden between the old people and their relatives and friends affect people’s dignity and decency,and at the same time trying to offset the persecution from the emotional abuse with the warm kindness between the elderly and the care workers.The film’s implicit description of emotional abuse and explicit display of good deeds are blended in the quiet and mysterious narrative character,achieving the effect of synchronizing the artistic narrative rhythm with the flow of life,reflecting the unique aesthetic characteristics of Japanese films.
文摘Süskind’s “Perfume” constructs the story frame of the text through three sets of contradictory narratives, exploring the process of Grenouille, who is regarded as an alien by others, trying to find and construct true meaning of being a human being from three aspects: human smell, emotion, and discourse. This process constantly encounters deconstruction from its own smelllessness, senselessness and aphasia, thereby implying the lack of human subjectivity and value through Grenouille’s failure to find identity. It also uses the image of perfume to express the author’s deep concerns about the loss of subjectivity, the disillusionment of classical morality, and the violence of industrial civilization in France and even Europe in the eighteenth century.