Gohatto, também conhecido como Taboo, é um filme japonês de 1999 dirigido por Nagisa Ōshima. Seu tema é a homossexualidade no Shinsengumi durante o período bakumatsu, o fim da era dos samurais em meados do século XIX.
“Acts that offer a glimpse of transcendence to one group are condemned by another. We are pressured from every side - by peers, by church, by state - to accept the consensual definition of taboo; though so often what excites our imaginations most is the violation of taboo.”
“At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.”
“The invasion of technique desacralizes the world in which man is called upon to live. For technique nothing is sacred, there is no mystery, no taboo.”
“The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
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