I finished watching Park Chan-wook's revenge trilogy off and on (although the order was not right, it was "Old", then "Me" and then "Pro"), which are three highly controversial films, and some people accused the director of overplaying Violence and endless despair, of course, some people appreciate his grand tragic color and real image style. None of this is my concern, I am only concerned with one thing, and that is the initial and final theme: revenge. Their vengeance, as I see it, had no useful result; they were just digging a shovel of dirt, or a hole, in a perfectly flat ground. In the minds of the Avengers, this is actually the equivalent of a tomb. Or to be more precise, the Avengers and their purpose become one, not to mention their murder tools (this detail arrangement is very important, I think). Ineffective reality and Park Chan-wook's lens captures the most important point here is the distinction between useless and useful. The Avengers are observing an inanimate machine. In the eyes of the Avengers, the one who created the karma is a gravedigger, and thus becomes their opposite. Seeing our opposite always feels unpleasant, let alone makes us feel threatened. The closer they got to each other, the more guilt and vengeance they felt. The father and younger brother in "I" did not show the joy of victory expressed by a person who was not deceived when they killed the enemy, nor did they show the joy of victory that they felt when they captured the enemy. The law of revenge fails here, the uselessness reaches its extreme here, it devours the useful and places the latter in its shadow - that is, the legitimacy and rationality of revenge in the traditional sense been dissolved. This kind of feeling should also be quite strong in the mind of Wu Daxiu, who has planned a 13-year plan or Wu Daxiu who has practiced boxing for 15 years. What's more, they can't convert their pain into any kind of useful action, and can only run around in the darkness of life with extreme irritability, and at the same time make useless approval and senseless resistance to this powerless fate. I also notice in particular that there is a counter-purpose echo between the movements of the two of them—their expressions and their pistols or hammers. Who knows what the consequences of this will be? You know, they are actually disillusioned in the cave they conceived in the end, and their relatives are buried in this cemetery; and they themselves may be the gravedigger.
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