Since the original book "Fingerman's Love Picking" and the BBC's TV movie are in front, the film "Miss" (아가씨 2016) will not win later with its basically faithful to the original storyline of deception Yes; if all the erotic scenes in this film are deleted, there will not be too many audiences interested in it, then, we seem to say that this is what makes this film unique at the 69th Cannes Film Festival . Of course, at any time, a movie cannot conquer the audience with just a few sets of erotic shots. More likely, the ideas behind these shots are more moving. I think these shots in this film are trying to lead us to think about the relationship between desire and freedom, especially the relationship between female lust and the feeling of freedom.
Generally speaking, freedom is the natural need of human beings. People's pursuit of freedom often starts from satisfying their own desires. The higher the degree of desire satisfaction, the stronger the feeling of freedom. The film seems to recognize this and present it as a keynote. Let's see how the behavior of the two main male characters in the film can be used to illustrate this. Last month, Jiao Ming, the uncle of the young lady, is hard to say whether he is sexually incapacitated, but his lifelong pursuit lies in the satisfaction of his sexual fantasies. Although he also has other pursuits, all other pursuits serve his ultimate, almost physiological desire. For example, he started from pursuing the status of a "fake foreign devil", to when he returned to the country to build a mansion, to the fact that he sat on the back of his own people and made a fortune, and even wanted to marry his niece as his wife. Satisfy the thrill of sexual fantasy by listening to "dirty stories." When he found out that someone was calculating his sexual well-being and his desire for freedom, his inner frustration and anger were unparalleled and unstoppable. At the end, when he faced the "angry" scene of the enemy, his desire was really frustrated. An excellent portrait of a man blocked from freedom. The other also started from the pursuit of freedom of identity, to claiming to be Earl Fujiwara, returning to China and cheating, to wanting to marry Miss Hideko just to occupy her property. On the surface, he just wanted to get rid of his identity as a gangster and cheat some money. , his desire is not only this, but a wider freedom, in his own words: "To be honest, I'm not interested in money, what do I want? Order wine regardless of price. Attitude." Even in today's world, this kind of "attitude" is rarely achieved in a state of "freedom"! It can be seen that the pursuit and satisfaction of desires are themselves part of the pursuit of freedom.
However, when the pursuit of freedom depends on the satisfaction of the desires of others, such freedom is cheap and meaningless. Therefore, when we see that Miss Hideko, who is still quite noble, is always sullen and cold, we can understand, because the freedom she enjoys as a young lady is entirely based on her uncle and a group of "gentlemen" recruited by her uncle. ” is premised on the satisfaction of their perverted desires, and this “satisfaction” is based on the existence of a coercive attachment relationship between them. Because of this, her predicament was discovered by the very discerning Count Fujiwara. In order to gain freedom, Fujiwara asks her to join forces with him against the perverted uncle in order to get rid of her dependent status. Of course, if Miss Hideko really cooperates with Fujiwara and succeeds, she will definitely enter another "dependency" when she gets rid of her uncle. This state of going out of the dragon pond and entering the tiger's den is by no means free in the true sense, so, While using Fujiwara, Miss Hideko subtly got rid of Fujiwara's control, but this time she gave her freedom to "love" to control.
Besides, freedom is more about it being a feeling. Although we can also deny the so-called "slave freedom" from a humanitarian standpoint, freedom in the sense of human needs is more of a feeling. Otherwise, whether we are advocating the right to freedom or claiming that we need some kind of freedom The state has no basis for human nature. In this film, the obstacle to freedom that Miss Hideko can feel most is the desire of men. Coupled with the so-called "long-term teaching" of her uncle, she has developed a look that is "cold like a water bird" for men. "Body, that is to say, no matter how much she desires freedom, Hideko will never pin her hope on a man, especially a man who has a desire for her body. Of course, what she fears about this "obstacle" lies in the fact that there is a "coercive" element in male desire. Although the coercive erotic relationship she has vividly described also includes the perversion of women to men, but in that era In North Korea, "coercion" can only appear in the perverted injury of men to women. So, when she managed to escape, she wrote to her uncle to tell her that she had gained the "joy" of not being influenced by a "coercive" relationship. Perhaps this explains why she chose the same sex as the object of her lust for freedom. When there is no external coercion, the release of desire is the full support for her freedom, and the feeling of desire is the feeling of her freedom at this time. (Text/Slate Planting Flowers on Friday, July 29, 2016)
PS. Thanks to TSKS Korean Drama Club for providing Chinese subtitles for this film!
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