O Mal Não Existe

A complicated moral mystery that's both thriller and fable.

Preachers are a dime a dozen, while true humanists are as endangered as the woods of Mizubiki Village.

Ryu Hamaguchi’s quietist, enigmatic eco-parable Evil Does Not Exist refuses easy explanations and perhaps it refuses difficult explanations as well.

...a haunting depiction of the gulf between capitalism and environmentalism.

...the film never feels like a patchwork, but rather a cohesive whole. Or to be more specific: a haunting and meditative yet often hilarious cohesive whole.