Humanity's maddening feast

Justice 2022-04-22 07:01:31


The seemingly kind kindergarten teacher is actually a sadist and murderer of children. The gentle and rigid-faced missionary is actually selling gold for money. The 13-year-old girl is calm and ruthless beyond ordinary people... There are sympathetic reasons, whether it's because of outright badness or forced crime.
Is the director trying to subvert all our beliefs about truth, goodness and beauty? I couldn't help laughing while watching the movie, couldn't help but run wild in my mind, I gave everything to the movie itself and followed it to experience this wild carnival.
Following the old man, I fell in love with the old woman in a hopelessly pure way. There is a noble and stern temperament in Li Ying Ae's performance of Jin Zi, which even makes me unable to feel sympathy for Jin Zi. All my emotions have been used for this. The simple and scary woman pays her respects! Towards the end of the film, there is a long plot where the parents of the victimized children cooperate to kill the murderer, which is a bit disgusting. At the time, I was confused about the reason for this plot arrangement, like it was just creating a visual horror effect for the film, and procrastination was very annoying. Now think about it, is it saying something? After Jin Zichu was fully prepared to win over people's hearts, the teacher was able to hang up the gun as she pleased. Is gold just to torture men to death bit by bit? When she found out that the man had killed more than one child, she showed the kind of shock, when she persuaded the parents to carry out the killing ceremony... I gradually believed that Jin Zi was actually a too simple and kind person. She cares about the prisoners more from nature than purpose. She firmly believes that evil must be thoroughly and forcefully punished, so she killed the fat female prisoner for several years, cut off her pinky to repent, and tried her best to avenge... This is not a kind of Clumsy simplicity? In the world of gold, black and white are too clear. She doesn't know and disdains to live in the world's devious and false way. She is so stubborn and crazy that she doesn't spend a single glance on the unrelated world. This is really a too powerful idea, too utterly destroyed. Jin Zi's life is dedicated to driving on a one-way road. Such Jin Zi is extremely stupid before the age of 18, and is extremely terrifying and cold at the age of 31.
Oh, and the 13-year-old girl, what a complex and contradictory character! She is the main force who threw gold into the abyss, and the only one who can cry and laugh vividly and dazzlingly when she pulls gold out of the black hole of vengeance... This child makes me feel terrible. In the final scene, the snow is full of empty space, Jin Zi buried her head in the pure white cake and wept, and her daughter hugged her mother gently behind her.
Like a dream.

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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"...