ID is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Kei Fujiwara about a man who ends up in a pig farm run by in bred killers. ID is a film about how internal phycological conflict is shown through the external nature of cruelty. It shows how evil lays its eggs at the heart of people’s consciences and the sickness people must live with forever.
The film starts showcasing its philosophy at the start of the film in that everyone wants salvation, and everyone will get it and be saved. This philosophy links to the film Buddhists idea in that human being who are evil have no faith there are inhuman and can’t be saved. The films title ID shows that this film is about the root of evil within people. This root of evil is shown when the antagonist comes across an innocent young boy as they interact with music, and he then goes off. The film shows how through a Buddhist position evil people can become good. The homeless guy has flashbacks to his previous film Organ with him being a murderer and now he regrets it and is pain linking to the films Buddhist ideas of how evil is born. In these flashbacks the homeless guy is shown to be the murderer from the first film now regrets it and is in pain lining to the Buddhist themes of forgiveness. This idea of evil is further shown with the pigs screaming and downing in water shown the nature of evil in the film. The homeless guy wanders the streets like the pigs shown how the nature of cruelty turns people into animals. Dead bodies are found with pig noises in the background shown how through evil people become animals which is further shown as the film states that pigs are born to be eaten like humans again showcasing how evil confuses all and cannibalises itself.
The shown how evil should not be feared as shown with blood leaking on the floor and through the strength of buddha people can change, the film also shows how this nature of evil has imbedded in the hearts of people and the struggle to change. This is further shown as the guy looks at the woman in a seemingly sexual way before being mutilated with blood showcasing how evil lives forever within people. The main guy then sees his victims come from the excrement to torment him showcasing the regret within there heart. This however is shown to be a nightmare as he wakes up in distress seeing mangled flesh and pig noises showing that through evil people can loses their mind but also feel regret. He then wakes up in the bed at the pig farm and the other people, as the gang of pig people are all weirdos in some way shape or form showcasing how evil spreads into an all-consuming force. The male organ harvester has forgotten his name and is on the run he is metaphorically the killer of pigs being the bullies and weaklings alike. The nature of evil is shown as people are shown to be a big mass of flash before they are sent to the slaughterhouse as the people in the film are like scavengers feeding of corpses. The sister in the film is shown slaughtering people in a pig helmet as the brother eats disgustingly like a pig showcasing the nature of evil in its brutality. The main guy then has flashbacks to him being a teacher in the film organ as the people in house they all live in are all perverts over the woman next door however they are found out and beaten by her husband. This shows the nature of evil and how violence is within everyone.
Next door the man lets in a weird woman with issues that is family related. He woman is seemingly brough back to life as he was killed like the animals, his showcases that these tormented people which shows normal people the value of the gift of life. The brother and sister are shown to be not human as the film has Buddhist undertones, they are nothing more than masses of flesh with not faith, they cannot be saved they cannot evoke buddha. Again, the guy has flashbacks to his violent past and what makes him this way. They have murdered and mutilated people selling their meat to shops. Though the nature of evil they see people as beats and feed them to pigs the other beats. The craziness of the operation is contrasted with a crossdressing schoolgirl and a policeman being escorted home. They then come across another crossdressing guy as people used him as a sex slave and they attack him. This shows the nature of evil and how violence is everywhere in the film. A guy is then found covered in bandages bleeding a freaking out as blood shoots from his mouth as he then awakens with his bandages wounds still leaking, this showcases how the nature of evil creates violence. The weirdo guys in a slaughterhouse are all over the place panicking in a frenzy as the main guy still sleeps. The guy says he will rip them apart and feed them to the pigs as the woman attacks him and they mutilate him. Both the brother and sister are mutilated with the sister losing an eye as she sees her torturer. This shows the nature of cruelty and how violence creates more violence as its within everyone. They find a blood foot form a dead body and everyone is horrified but the rother, as the crossdresser gets his hair ripped off by the brother showcasing how cruelty is within everyone.
The film again has Buddhist ideas as the organ people lift and carry the corpse in a ceremonious way. The film shows the through the nature of cruelty everyone is in pain as the brother is mutilated and the sister has lost an eye. They dispose of the corpses in a pig farm and destroy the headquarters again showing they are like the pigs they are scum. The slaughterhouse pig farm organ harvester guys are crazy. They find the corpse of one of the friends as they get organ people. This shows the nature cruelty how violence causes more violence within people. This nature of evil with the woman being bandaged and blooded beaten showing the violence in everyone. The cop then comes across the guy who is here to avenge his dad to prove he is not a pig. The film has a flashback to the dad mutilating the brother and sister, the siter wants to die as she was cut form her mum’s womb, she is symbolic of the sins of her father, and she hates herself. This shows the nature of evil passes from person to person as an eternal hatred that can’t be stopped. When the sister was mutated, she symbolically died as due to her being a messed up, abused and weak person the flesh literally and symbolically falls from her face as she goes crazy. Her mutilated shows her symbolic evil that is inside of her. She is seen to be a miracle reborn and lead astray from buddha showcasing the spiritual connection into the nature of evil. She removes organ chained from her body symbolic of her trauma. Symbolically removes her trauma as she admits she is weak willed and wants to suffer showing that revenge is pointless. The film states that these people are monsters who end up in hell, from this the sister loses her mind mutating from her trauma as he prays for her showing the Buddhist undertones. The brother and sister are animalistic both in pain bleeding literally and metaphorically red and green blood making each over showing a yin and yang showing the Buddhist themes.
The siblings end up being found by the pig owner gangster in a disgusting state that makes him throw up as the girl kills him in a fit of rage. This shows how trauma is within everyone creating violence and evil expressing itself in murder. The film again shows how trauma creates evil as the film shows flashbacks of themselves rising from the hospital beds showcasing there are symbolically haunted by their past. They stumble around the old organ harvesting place seemingly haunted by the past showcasing the nature of cruelty. This is further shown as these people are not shown as humans but wild animals. They find the corpse of a guy as the sister is traumatised by all the death as she leaks and cries blood. This again shows how evil, and cruelty pass on and her violence is systemic of her past violence and inflicted others. She ends up reliving her past having sex with people who are now dead she is a bitch and a whore he is disgusted with himself. This shows how the past trauma can create a downwards spital destroying a person. The sister both literally and metaphorically rips herself apart by her rips apart her stomach. She sees herself as evil as a beast which is psychically shown with jaws in her stomach which she tries to rip it out and kill it symbolically like an abortion. This shows evil that lives in people with trauma that people must destroy. This is further shown as the guys track the siblings down to the organ place were the brother finds the sister mutilated as they come looking for him, and they start killing each other.
The sister helps the brother and kills the criminals as she sees them as pigs, the brother wants her to stop seeing herself as a monster and out of mercy he tries to kill her however she ends up killing him. This shows cruelty and evil are caused from abuse this is the stem of their evil. She is no longer human she is inhuman; symbolically born in hell she states she should have never been born showing how trauma creates evil and destroys people’s lives. The other organ harvests come in as she states they are pigs killing as the brother escapes and their father excepts his role in the evil he created and begs for forgiveness. This shows how cruelty creates trauma that spreads form person to person creating a never-ending downwards spiral. The film ends with the sister mutating linking into the idea that is you do good you cannot die evil. With her mutation she seemingly rejects the evil becoming human, in rejecting the evil she states she doesn’t want to die. The brother ends up kills his sister ending her suffering and killing. She is seemingly excepted by buddha in death as the guy stumbles around embracing his id and going into the forest as the cycle of evil will continue. This shows that their phycology created evil and that you can either be consumed by it or move forward from it by embracing the teachings of the buddha.
ID is about the psychological conflict of trauma and cruelty and how it lays its eggs at the heart of people’s conscience and how this is a sickness people must live with. However, teaches a person can move on from there trsauma and form a better path.