Recently, under the influence of my friends, I have watched a lot of Korean films that I had little contact with before. In fact, many of my favorite films are relatively close to the region, such as Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. Because Korean dramas are more popular, I feel that Korean films may be more mindless, and Korean is not as good as Japanese, Cantonese, and Hokkien. . . . The recent contact, the result was so violent and bloody, it was far beyond my imagination, it directly challenged my bottom line, and many scenes were simply impossible to look directly at.
The darkness of Korean films is really beyond my imagination, whether it’s the Yellow Sea or the revenge trilogy, this kind of darkness is really beyond many films I’ve seen before, Hong Kong films are also dark, but more of them happen in the underworld. The society of ordinary people has opened a distance, and there are gangster bosses in it, the loyalty of brothers, and helplessness, etc., so there is no dark feeling.
Taiwan's movies are mainly small and fresh, and there are not many dark ones. If you really want to say dark, it is Hou Hsiao-hsien's sad city, which is mainly political darkness.
There are some dark films in Japan, but I don't have much contact with them. For example, the films of Takeshi Kitano and confession are relatively dark.
The darkness of Korean films is different. First, many Korean films are killings between ordinary people. It feels like it directly pulls people from modern society to the primitive jungle. I feel that this kind of killing is not very far away from us. People's hearts, deep into the darkness of human nature in people's hearts, revenge.
When I was a child, I might read fairy tales and beautiful things, but as I grow older, I may encounter some dark things more or less. On the one hand, like shadows and sunshine, there are shadows in the world. Deliberate avoidance is worse than looking directly. On the other hand, negative and dark things can often trigger people's thinking more, and these thinking can often push people forward.
I have gradually come into contact with more things. I really feel that different ethnic groups have their own misfortunes. Historically, South Korea has always been a weak country. It has long been a vassal of our country. Human beings have invaded, and the country cannot be unified after entering modern society. Behind the ideological confrontation is the competition of great powers. I have read some film reviews, it seems that South Korea is still homogenized by the military, the country is extremely oppressed, and later on the road of democracy, it has been bumpy and bumpy. The Korean films I watched recently, some of them are human, and some also allude to the social background.
In addition, whether it is a small town or a city in South Korea, it actually feels very familiar. After all, it is in the same cultural circle. If it is the audience from the three eastern provinces, it may be more sympathetic. The tonality of Korean films is similar, the interior decoration, the feeling of the street and so on.
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