Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist centres on the ecological connections to rural communities, the inherent violence of these connections, and the disconnect between them and urban societies. Ideas ingrained within the metaphor the film presents to us, that the actions of those upstream affect those downstream. This metaphor becomes applicable when examining all aspects of the film. Firstly, who is upstream? This was a question I was constantly at odds with while watching the film. Initially, I thought that the…
