Izo. i can see why a lot of people would not like this one. There must have been a lot of symbolism that got lost between cultures, but that is not going to stop me from taking a stab at what this movie was trying to say.
***potential spoiler alert***
Mu guess that what Miike had in mind is that man created a culture in which man himself was to be worshipped. Anything that got in the way of man's self worship was to be annialated, which in turn became a self perpetuating cycle of violence and absurd destruction. Now this may have two implications. First, i think that a major tenet of Bhuddism is that to become one with God one must annialate the self. In parallel but to the contrary, i think that Miike wanted to show that in man's drive towards apotheosis he must annialate God as well, which would have been all well and good except for the fact that is was only man's ego that desired to become God. In the end, man's/culture's destructive tendencies will only get him close enough to God such that he will be destroyed by the Almighty himself. Anyway, that is what i took from this flick. Admittedly, i could be way off the mark here, but what the heck. Ashe.
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