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Having said that, I still have to talk about the "Squid Game" that became popular overnight in the New Year.
This "magic drama" not only made the leading actors popular all over the world, but also many supporting roles also became popular.
Whether it is Lee Jung Jae and Kong Liu, who were famous before, or Zheng Haoyan, a representative from supermodel to potential florist, or the villain in the play, Park Hae Soo, police brother Wei Hajun and others.
In addition, there is also a real protagonist Wu Yongzhu in the play. He plays Wu Yinan, No. 001, who looks ordinary in "Squid Game".
The Squid Game made history.
Not only is it the first Korean drama to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Unexpectedly, he also won South Korea's first Golden Globe Award-winning actor: Oh Yong-soo .
Today we will talk about another of his works -
"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring"
Kim Ki- duk is not only the director of the film, he also played one of the roles in the film.
He is a director who speaks with pictures, and the actors have relatively few lines in the film; he is also an artist who always pays attention to marginalized people, and each work has a unique personal charm.
Representative works include "Empty Room", "Drifting Room", "Samaria Girl" and so on.
Without any film education, he has made 12 films in 10 years, and his works have shined in major film festivals.
Each of his works is very exciting, and the deep meaning of his films is always thought-provoking and has always been controversial, but he himself died of the new crown in 2020.
This film, which was released in 2003, still allows many viewers to comprehend life because of it after nearly 20 years.
The film , with the theme of monks , tells the story of the life cycle of little monks from passive birth, to falling into the mundane world, and then to complete repentance .
In layman's terms, it can also be regarded as a story about a mountain in the past, a temple in the mountain, and an old monk and a young monk in the temple.
One of the film's other protagonists, the old monk, is Wu Yongzhu .
Interestingly, he played the role of a monk in many film and television works in the past, including the TV series "Martial God" and "Queen of Goodness", etc. He was also named a " professional monk " by Korean netizens.
Regarding winning the Golden Globe Award, he also delivered his acceptance speech through Netflix, and he was as Buddhist as always: "For the first time in my life, I feel that I am a good guy, and I wish everyone a good life."
In addition to being called "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring", this movie also has a more exciting name translation: Spring goes and spring returns.
The film cycles through the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter .
In spring, playful monk monks hold stones and tie them behind the backs of fish, frogs and snakes to play tricks on these little creatures.
When the old monk (Wo Yong-soo) found out, he punished him in the same way, and tied the young monk behind his back when he slept in the middle of the night.
When the little monk woke up, he felt puzzled, and the old monk asked him to rescue the creatures who were tricked by him, but unfortunately they all died of torture.
Only then did the monk realize that he had done something wrong, and he cried as if he understood.
This passage represents the sin and redemption that took place in the spring .
In the summer, the seventeen-year-old young monk was deeply depressed because he lived in the mountains for a long time to practice alone.
At this time, a sick girl came to the lonely temple to recuperate.
The young monk was moved from the moment he saw the girl, and when he saw the girl changing clothes again, their eyes completely met each other.
The young monk could no longer resist the temptation. They secretly had sex behind the old monk's back. The old monk found out and sent the girl away.
But the young monk was unwilling to continue to be a monk, and the old monk did not stop him when he chased the girl away.
This passage represents the lust and indulgence that takes place in the summer .
In the autumn, the young monk who had left came back, but at this time he was on the run for the murder of his wife.
Because the girl didn't just love him alone, he killed the girl and returned to the temple, while asking the old monk's forgiveness.
He wanted to die but couldn't, and was tortured.
Gusi welcomed two more men, who were the police officers who were chasing the fugitive wife.
The old monk hoped that the police would wait a day and then ordered him to write the Heart Sutra to get rid of his sins.
This is the love and hate that happens in the fall .
In the end, the old monk sent away the young monk who had been redeemed.
The old monk, with gray hair, waved goodbye to him, both reluctant and relieved.
Because the old monk has completed the last "passing" in this life, it indicates that he will move towards the final ending - Nirvana rebirth.
In winter, the man who had served his sentence returned to the lonely temple to resume his hard training.
A woman suddenly visits the lonely temple and leaves behind a baby boy hoping to be taken in.
The following spring, the baby boy became the next child monk.
The stubborn Tong Seng not only made fun of the living beings, but also got more pleasure from his evil - giggling.
These two passages represent the philosophy and reflection in winter, and then the continuation of spring.
Looking at it in one breath, there is only one word to express the feeling of watching the movie: quiet.
The lines are few, the picture is quiet, quiet and elegant.
The tone of this film is very gentle and gentle, with a Zen feel, the pace is very slow, and the long shots and the few lines form a sharp contrast.
It is worth mentioning that director Kim Ki-duk explained the matter of reincarnation in 100 minutes of film time, which also aroused more emotion and thinking from the audience.
Tong Seng went from teasing living beings to doing evil to meeting a girl who broke the precept to killing his wife and finally repented.
In short, director Kim Ki-duk expressed many aspects through this film, such as human nature, but it is difficult to say whether nature is inherently good or inherently evil.
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