Evil Does Not Exist
Summary
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’sEvil Does Not Existis many thing — a fable about human beings ’s relationship with nature , a dramatic event about a little village ’s competitiveness against collective pollution , a poem about the peach and destruction brought on by the natural world . finally , though , it circumvent classification , refusing to perpetrate to being one thing and instead asking us to question our relationship with the humanity around us .
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deeply in the forest of the small rural village Harasawa , individual parent Takumi lives with his unseasoned girl , Hana . The overcome serenity of this untouched land of mountains and lakes , is about to be disrupted by the at hand arrival of the Tokyo company Playmode .
wickedness Does Not Existfollows widowman Takumi ( Hitoshi Omika ) , a resident of a small-scale village outside Tokyo . He lives with daughter Hana ( Ryo Nishikawa ) , who he often forgets to pick up from school . Takumi is an oddball and the local Greenwich Village handyman , respected but allow for to his own devices . One day , the village is visited by people who have purchased land in the region to develop a glamping site for tourists . What these developers do n’t realize is just how frail the village ’s ecosystem is and how their comportment already serves as a disrupting effect long before construction even get .
Evil Does Not Exist Finds A Contemplative Rhythm
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Evil Does Not Existbegins and end with an extended shot of treetops , filmed from below as if someone is bet up as they wander through the forest . Eiko Ishibashi ’s score is doleful , but we do n’t quite know why yet . The passive village of Mizubiki seems to be in a nation of transition at the tail end end of winter . snowfall is still on the reason , but it is slow melting . Golden grass peaks through the freeze , the meth on the lake is making way for a reflexion of the sky above .
Bookended by these two sequences , the moments in between vacillate between slicing - of - living vignettes — a town hall merging , a dinner between champion , a walk between father and girl — and something more minacious . Mysterious gunshots ring out , presumably hunters in some neighboring Greenwich Village . Ishibashi ’s score will hop to sudden secrecy as Hamaguchi cuts to another range of a function . It ’s all meant to sense slightly off , as if we are n’t think to find our balance within this on the face of it idyllic populace .
[ Takumi ’s ] near silent behavior belie a huskiness that suffer in dividing line to the warmth of his fellow villagers .
That ’s likely because this equilibrium will soon be disrupt . We touch Takumi , who spends his time collecting body of water from a bounce for the local udon restaurant , chopping firewood for his wood - burning stove , and hosting fellow villagers at his outside dwelling . From the beginning , though , something seems off with Takumi — his near silent demeanour contradict a gruffness that stands in direct contrast to the warmth of his fellow villagers .
Hamaguchi Lulls The Audience Into A Dream-Like State
But Evil Does Not Exist’s ending is a wake-up call
That huskiness allows him to live a comparatively peaceful living until it ’s interrupted by Takahashi and Mayuzumi , two representatives of the company who want to put in the glamping land site . Though they are swayed by the villager ' pleas to take tutelage of the land they trust to occupy , their corporate bosses are not . With dependable intentions , they retrovert to Mizubiki in the hopes of meeting the villagers midway , but their very mien is a reminder of the way the industrial human race is encroaching on the innate dish of the small town .
Takahashi eagerly insists Takumi teach him how to chop Sir Henry Joseph Wood . Mayuzumi helps Takumi collect the pee for the udon restaurant . These efforts , though , only lead to imbalance . AsEvil Does Not Existgoes on , Hamaguchi ’s focal point becomes more and more disconcerting . The balance of nature is throw off off . fourth dimension make a motion other than , cuts become more knockout . When Hana give way missing , an baleful dusk settles over the village , making the surrounding woods seem otherworldly .
Deep in the forest of the small rural village Harasawa , unmarried parent Takumi live with his young daughter , Hana , and takes care of odd jobs for locals , chopping woodwind and hauling pristine well water . The overpowering tranquillity of this untouched land of mountains and lakes , where cervid peacefully cast gratis , is about to be interrupt by the imminent arrival of the Tokyo company Playmode , which is ready to start mental synthesis on a glamping site for metropolis tourists — a architectural plan , which Takumi and his neighbor discover , that will have dire consequence for the bionomical health and cleanliness of their community .
Ryo Nishikawa in Evil Does Not Exist.
The end ofEvil Does Not Existtakes thing in a wholly surprising direction , one that left my theater whole silent as the credit entry rolled . It may seem out of leftover field of force and in some means it is , but upon closer inspection , it falls in line with everything Hamaguchi has been showing us up to that tip . If , as the title posits , evil does not subsist , then what do we make of such wildness pop the bucolic bubble that has been portray to us ?
Violence can be instinctual , something that lives torpid within us until it is pressure to make out to the open by extreme circumstances . In that sense , despite its ataraxis , ferocity looms overEvil Does Not Existuntil the very end . The gun shots repeat through the snow - capped tidy sum . stock dripping from a thorn bush in a tranquil timberland . A corporation invade a modest village for lucre . The roar of a chainsaw in the front yard . It ’s all there , waiting to rear its ugly caput .
That ’s hardly Hamaguchi ’s independent concern , but it is one that he ends on . The terminal shot of the film is of the treetops again . This prison term , though , laboured breathing can be heard as iron boot crunch over the snow . It ’s unclear whose perspective we ’re understand , but it does n’t matter — what we see at the beginning and at the end , of life , of this moving picture , of a short journeying — is all that cease up mattering .
immorality Does Not Existis now recreate in select dramatic art . The film is unrated .
