Four local high school students came to Tokyo for college entrance exams, just in time for progressive figures to hold a march to abolish the conserva[Expand All]
Four local high school students came to Tokyo for college entrance exams, just in time for progressive figures to hold a march to abolish the conservative faction's "National Founding Day", and the ideas of the two generations collided. The four people developed a strong sexual desire in their pursuit of the girl. While they were having a meal with Teacher Dazhu, other customers sang military songs while Dazhu sang spring songs. That night, Ohtake committed suicide. Nakamura happened to see it but did not stop or save him. Instead, he sang loudly, "A commoner was born." On the night of keeping vigil for Dazhu, a group of high school students sang spring songs to remember Dazhu. The next day, four students escorted the girls home and had the fantasy of raping them. Another girl, Imada, joined them and sang a spring song. When the bourgeois girl Mei Zi held an anti-war folk song rally, Imada, Nakamura and others also attended, and a grand battle between folk songs and spring songs was launched. When Nakamura told Meizo that he had raped them in his fantasy, Meizo accepted the challenge. Everyone came to the large classroom of the examination room together. The boys sang spring songs loudly and pounced on their eyebrows. Japanese spring songs are regarded by some critics as symbols that enlighten the public, sing of fantasies and help people escape from painful lives. The spring songs and the plot of indulging in desires in the film still carry the aftertaste of post-war democratic ideology, while the way the new generation of young people resist follows the rules of personal desires and is tinged with anarchism. Just like the hippie movement in the United States, young people in Japan also use "sex" as a weapon to attack conservative predecessors, and Haruka is one of the means. However, just as in real life, the blindness of such resistance cannot lead to substantial social change, the surrealist rape scene at the end of the film reveals the confused and illusory mentality of this generation of young people.[Collapse]
