Slog - Comments on Instinct Woman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman In 1964 Kaneto Shindo directs Onibaba: We must never forget this film. It is one of the ten defining works of silver-age Japanese cinema. Two women live in a grass swamp and survive by luring and killing samurai going to or coming from an everlasting war. The women and her daughter-in-law kill and rob men. The bodies of the men are then dumped into a deep hole. The raw power of this film is generated by this dynamic: life devours death. The women are life; the men are death. And the more death life devours, the less death there is... Copyright 2008 Thu, 22 May 2008 15:46:54 -0800 Thu, 22 May 2008 22:27:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jared This film always reminds me of "Women in the Dunes," both are favorites of mine.

]]> Jared http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030354 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 16:17:53 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave Why should we take your critical opinion seriously when you've shown yourself absent the process of critical thinking.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030355 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 16:20:16 -0800 Comment by Special K I long for people...
then again I loathe them:
end of autumn. -Chogo

]]> Special K http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030383 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030383 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 16:36:53 -0800 Comment by japanesejill Onibaba means evil old lady. Oni means demon and baba is a not very nice word for an old woman.

]]> japanesejill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030400 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 16:50:45 -0800 Comment by TheTruthHurts It looks like the adult version of the girl who was run over.

]]> TheTruthHurts http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030417 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 17:11:57 -0800 Comment by Bob Parodying yourself is usually a sign you need a vacation. Take some time off, man.

]]> Bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030427 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 17:26:03 -0800 Comment by Irena It's the archetypal story that feeds irrational masculine fear of woman -- the fear of the earth devouring him. Which is a justifiable fear; the mistake is thinking woman is of the earth and man is not.

(White) man is NOT formed in the image of God; Woman (black man) is NOT Freud's "dark continent". We know ourselves; we are knowable. (White) man may be born of us, but he is still in us, and we are in him. We are not so different.

We need some new myths. Those old ones are so tired.

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030461 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:38 -0800 Comment by Becky Also.....boobies!

]]> Becky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030477 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030477 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 19:22:15 -0800 Comment by Spoogie Please, Chuck, remember this film for me. I already forgot.

]]> Spoogie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030490 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030490 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 19:56:23 -0800 Comment by ellarosa charles, why is it irena's analysis makes more sense than yours? she's just an unpaid commenter, and you're an employee of the stranger. life just isn't fair, i guess.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030494 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030494 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 20:01:05 -0800 Comment by Colin Onibaba don't mean hole.

]]> Colin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/instinct_woman#c1030532 Film Thu, 22 May 2008 22:27:38 -0800