【ZiYuanTun.Com-资源屯】Amotherandsonhaveastrong,almostsexual,bondthroughmomentspresentandpast.Thefatherofthepast(whohasdiedofTuberculosis,revealedshockingly),themother’scurrentliaison,andtheson’swifeallre-enforcerolesofsexualinadequacywiththetwomaincharacters(Mother,Shizuko,andson,Shizuo).Timeisblendedtogether,andthefilmendsupbeinganincrediblyinterestingmelodramawithmuchofthe(Japanesenewwavestaple)politicalputonbackburner.Asubplotinvolvingtheson’slackofsexualinterestinhiswife,andhismother’slackofsexualfulfillmentinherlover(husbandtobe,I’mnotsure)addstothedevelopmentoftheincesttone.
