Evil Does Not Exist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21320635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian R Jacobson (0000-0001-6325-2991, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 18-23 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Film Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-1386 • E-ISSN: 1533-8630 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/fq.2024.78.2.18 |
| OpenAlex | W4404630974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist (2023) takes a formal approach to environmental criticism that this article names the “downstream.” Delivered audio-visually and thematically, Hamaguchi’s technique turns a familiar ecological parable into a perception-challenging experience of aesthetic ambiguity and disorientation. Pushing the viewer to look closely and to trace the downstream effects of actions that threaten to disrupt tenuous forms of ecological and social balance, the film offers a generational message about the risks of human action and environmental precarity
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Balance (ability) · Criticism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Perception · Precarity · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Cinema and Media Studies · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Gender Studies · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |