The story told from the maid's point of view is actually not much different from "Fingersmith's Love". The plot is also similar, but the scenery is very different due to the different settings of the region and era. In addition, in the story structure and plot setting, in addition to the slight change in the kinship relationship between the owner of the bookstore and the young lady, there is an additional layer of meddling with the girl's intentions under the influence of interests, and more explicit sex scenes are added. The plot is probably the biggest change in my opinion. In order to lean towards the erotic film as much as possible, the scene was first changed from the window to the bathtub, and the young lady's eyes were no longer innocent and pure like a deer, but stained with the desire of red fruit. The use of the last prop, lollipops, is a bit evil in itself. Girls licking lollipops when they meet candidly are easily reminiscent of the stuff of sauce. But so far, the direction of the story is still in the hands of the audience.
When it came to the second part, the audience who thought they could sit on the sofa and watch the play was taken aback. The director's style is about to come out, and the smell of darkness is blowing in the face. Compared with "Fingersmith's Love", the director began to make drastic reforms to the script according to his own preferences and expertise. The first thing that was cut off was the life experience of the young lady. Out of thin air, there is an aunt who is mentally abnormal under the suppression for many years, and an ex-wife of his uncle, who is now a maid. It came up to train the young lady, and the training method turned out to be hitting the back of the hand with a bell. With a round thing in it, we who are adults can't help but think crookedly, and the bells that appear again and again later also confirmed our evil thoughts. Then there was the personal teaching of the aunt. After the two laughed happily, the young lady's uncle, wearing black leather gloves, stood behind the two, covering their faces and swaying. The camera only dimly showed the faces of the two women struggling, and the abuser could only see the cold lower body. how? Do you feel a little bit close to SM? In the days that followed, this aunt showed the tortured and a little mad lady what it meant to be rude, crawling out of the library in a panic, and slapping the young lady to death by suicide. After her death, the aftermath was also uneven. From her aunt again, the young lady understands what is the ultimate fear - the basement. No matter how many things are added, it’s also jaw-dropping. Reading is not only about reading, but also a personal demonstration. Wearing a red kimono, the beauty with long black hair and snow-white skin, on the cold and empty "booth", reproduced the scenery in the book with a wooden man, and the gentlemen in the seat took out their glasses and took a closer look. If we talk about the previous training, it just shows the sadness of the little girl. So in this scene, a noble girl is completely reduced to a plaything for men. Compared with "Fingersmith Love Picking", Maud walked up to the gentleman with a book in his ascetic face to demonstrate, it can be said to be the first dwarfing of the heroine's personality. The third thing that adds to the plot is a key evidence, the opium in the count's hand. This also makes the young lady no longer rely on her own strength, but through the hands of others. Once again, the independent personality of the heroine is dwarfed. The fourth plot is not an addition or deletion, but a drastic change. The mutual suspicion that was originally in love turned into a killer, but when they arrived here, they turned out to be a young lady who failed to court herself and wanted to commit suicide. Even the heartwarming plot of destroying the book was completed by the two of them together, and the lady even regarded the maid as the savior. So far, Miss's own independence and self-esteem have been wiped out step by step, and in the hands of love, it has been completely destroyed. In the British drama, the maid escaped through her own struggles and strategies. The plot of the prison has also become dependent on others. The wisdom and character of the two have basically been changed beyond recognition by the Korean director here, and the shadow of the original can hardly be found. But this is just the director's little test. When it comes to the third story, things have completely gone out of the audience's expectations.
The third story was originally dramatic. The young lady who thought she was playing with someone else found out that the last big boss was her biological mother and the maid's adoptive mother. All of this turned out to be her trick, just in exchange for her own daughter. In the process, she also realized the value of maids, and this love has a more solid foundation. Otherwise, as the party who always stands in the position of the strong, the party who regards her as the weak cannot be regarded as an equal person, and there will be no final result of perseverance. But the Korean adaptation completely overturned this possibility. A woman whose character and personality have been weakened, naturally no longer struggled, but just kept going forward and fascinated the Earl for love, and then the two women had a happy ending. Two beauties with face and body just got on the ship to Shanghai, leaving two men in the perverted basement while lusting after the beauties they could not get, while showing SM equipment and killing each other. In the end, the two beauties also presented a fragrant meat scene for everyone. It seems that this ending is a bit of a twist, but in fact, it is not worth exclaiming when you think about it carefully. Under the director's hands, the beauty has gradually become a pure sexual symbol, instead of a person with thoughts and strategies, and the final setting of the ending also conforms to the director's presupposition. Park Chan-wook originally intended to maximize his personal style with the final ending, but he tried too hard and looked very embarrassed.
Now let me ask a question, which character will you be most impressed by in the whole film? I think most people will answer Miss. Why? Is it because of the skin of a porcelain doll? Abstinence look? A lie on the imperial concubine's couch? What about the female elements these directors deliberately symbolize? So let’s put it another way, which character’s character setting is the most impressive to you? If it were me, I would choose Earl. A character who is purely used as a gunman in the British version. Why? Because this character is brave and resourceful, knowing that he cannot control the young lady, he chooses to conspire instead. Note that there is no such thing as a maid and adoptive mother in this version. After learning that he had been beaten by a snake and scorpion and was about to be brutally retaliated, he played a trick, smoked the normal three cigarettes in one breath, and let the old man die with him. In the end, she was still soft inside, and what haunted her heart before her death was the lady's red lips.
So seeing this, we also understand why the Korean version and the English version were originally the same, but the results were so different? The answer is about to come out, the gender of the screenwriter determines everything. In the English version, we see women's autonomy and self-reliance. Under this premise, they are indomitable, and the expression of sex scenes is as subtle as women's. But in the Korean version, what we see is the flat and even femme-like beauty of women, and the expression of sex scenes is also the wildness of men's red fruit. The earl himself was elevated, even as an idealized man in the male eye. In all fairness, this work obliterates the protagonist and turns a love-hate, forgiveness and redemption story into an eye-catching piece for the sake of form. It's really not satisfactory, but if you think about it carefully, it may also be a good idea to tell the story from another gender. record of. what do you say?
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