'Evil Does Not Exist' explores the disharmony in our relationship to nature

One of the most perplexed crowds I’ve ever been a part of was the local premiere of “Evil Does Not Exist” at last October’s Independent Film Festival Boston Fall Focus. It was a packed house for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's hotly anticipated follow-up to his beloved arthouse smash “,” which had not only nabbed 2022’s Academy Award for Best International Feature but was also the first Japanese language film to be nominated for Best Picture .

I haven’t seen an eager audience so confounded by an ending since “No Country for Old Men,” which coincidentally was also an IFFBoston screening and left me in such an enthralled daze that I accidentally hit Josh Brolin with a door on my way out of the Somerville Theatre. A second viewing helps clarify things a bit.

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