Aesthetic Revenge - "Kind Gold"

Bettie 2022-04-19 09:02:00

Kim became pregnant, lived with her former teacher, and gave birth to a daughter. The teacher kidnapped a boy and killed him, making Kim a scapegoat or killing her daughter. Jin Zi treats everyone very well in prison, smiles like an angel, learns to make cakes, and uses garbage materials to make human delicacy, and spends 13 years relying on people who have benefited from her to master everything about the teacher, brewing a plan of revenge . After walking out of the prison, she found her daughter who was sold to Australia, found her teacher, found the police officer who hastily closed the case, and found the parents of several children kidnapped by the teacher. After the children were kidnapped, some of these parents borrowed money to prepare for the ransom, and some couples committed suicide. In the end, under the witness of the guilty police officer, the parents stabbed the teacher several times by themselves, and finally killed him with a pair of scissors inserted into the teacher's brain, causing a river of blood. Clean up the scene, bury the body, take pictures, quietly hold a birthday party for the children of heaven... Revenge is over.
Li Ying'ai herself said that audiences who were used to her acting as a gentle woman should not like her movie, but she wanted to change the way she played, so she took over the movie. This drama is indeed sometimes unbearable to watch: just like the cake, the picture is beautiful enough, but in fact it eats something fat, it becomes fat, and it is disgusting. Kaneko aimed the gun at the teacher's feet without hesitation, and shot, the teacher who was tied and unable to move only howled, and then the viscous liquid stretched from the feet, glowing with light.
I thought that this was the way the film was. Jin Zi killed the teacher, which was revenge, and the teacher himself used his life to atone for his sins. But if that's the case, I can be a director too. The brilliance of the film is at the end. When Jinzi was just out of prison, the priest asked her to eat tofu, saying that people who eat tofu will become white and will not continue to commit crimes. At the end of the film, the parents celebrated their children's "birthdays" and it snowed. Jin Zi made a snow-white cake that looked like tofu, ran all the way to her daughter, and said to her: be write, live write, like this. Snow fell on her, she buried her face in the cake, and her daughter hugged her ... She took revenge, but she still did not get the redemption in her heart. If she had told the police that the teacher was the real murderer, perhaps the children who were kidnapped later would not have had such a fate. She has never been able to be a pure and innocent person. For revenge, she can only live in the dark, but the angel hidden in her heart is calling. She hopes that her heart is clean and wants to "more write". At this time, she can only pray that her daughter can live a clean life. When the snow falls and the white light shines on the mother and daughter, I feel at this moment that they are holy, and Jin Zi is a bloody person, a woman with maternal love, not a hysterical beast that is provoked.
Yes, if sin is committed, there must be atonement. But if I were God, I would love you too, gold.

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Lady Vengeance quotes

  • Geum-ja Lee: Listen carefully. Everyone make mistakes. But if you committed a sin, you have to make an atonement for that sin. Atonement, do you know what that means? Big Atonement for big sins. Small Atonement for small sins.

  • Mr. Baek: Ma'am, there is no such thing as a "perfect person"...