sentences:  Poststructuralist film scholar Maureen Turim disputes this characterization, arguing for a continuation of Ōshima's theme of split subjectivity.The titular boy is between father and mother, "knowing and not-knowing," and paralyzed by fear of abandonment.The fantasy and the psyche figure prominently in the film, both in the boy's relationship to family, and in cinematic techniques like the use of the color red as a "focal point" suggesting the mother and loss.