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Do you agree with its title?


Does Evil REALLY not exist, like that, and if yes or not, what do you think it meant, thanks.

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I just watched this yesterday. I also read an interview with the director. I think the title refers to animals in nature. They can harm each other but we don't think of them as "evil' acts. So our human sense of evil doesnt exist among wild animals. The wood cutter Takumi is human but lives in a remote rural wooded area and reacts to a special situation. Is his action evil?

I very much liked the directors "Drive my Car" and he uses the card-riding conversation tactic in this movie as well. This movie was a little too slow and the ending was a little to vague for me. Still good.
As far as the shocking last ten minutes:
Takumi choked the guy instinctively like a deer would attack somebody in the wild. I'm pretty sure the daughter was still alive since Takumi felt for her breath and he didn't collapse in grief. The other guy was probably still alive but knocked out too since they bothered to show him getting up. I'm just guessing about it though.

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