The first shot of the film branded the film with a clear brand of literary film, a long shot, a field of wheat, a middle-aged woman slowly approaching from a distance, the music sounded, the woman danced freely with the music... ...
Won Bin's mentally retarded son is involved in a murder case where a girl is killed. Since he is mentally handicapped, he naturally cannot figure out the situation, so he signed a confession in a daze. The mother played by Kim Hye-ja is convinced that her son is innocent, so she uses all her strength to investigate the truth. We always say that maternal love is great, and this movie is telling us how great a mother's love can be.
But I venture to ask, is it appropriate to use the word great to describe maternal love? This is a thought that this film gave me. At least in this film, it is not appropriate to use greatness to describe maternal love. Maternal love is not a kind of fraternity, it has her specific object, so it is a selfish emotion, and it does not naturally stand with justice. Self-sacrifice is great, but sacrificing others at the same time as self-sacrifice is not worthy of praise. Maybe my understanding was too cold-blooded and too offensive in front of such a beautiful word, but this film gave me that feeling.
What is not worthy of praise is human nature. During the mother's investigation of the case, all kinds of people were involved, including police officers, lawyers, victims, victims' family members, friends, friends of mentally handicapped youth, witnesses, etc. There isn't a real good person in this group of people. As the case progresses, the other side of each person is exposed to the mother one after another. Maybe she once wanted to seek justice, but it seems that justice does not exist and everyone lives only for profit. In the end, it is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself.
The director of the film is Bong Joon-ho, who directed the pinnacle of Korean film "Memories of Murder." As a movie fan, I'm looking forward to Bong Joon-ho as much as I'm looking forward to Cameron after "Titanic". I am very pleased that, like Cameron, Feng Junhao did not fail me. It's not easy to find an adjective to describe his film, don't even think about being moved, and sadness is not appropriate, it should be depressing, very depressing, but this depressing seems very restrained, there is no strange plot in the film, and the characters are not crazy The behavior is not the same as Kim Ki-duk's weirdness and Park Chan-wook's arrogance, but it is precisely because of restraint that the film looks down-to-earth and real. The actor's performance is also very wonderful, not to mention the old actor Jin Huizi, Yuan Bin's performance is especially wonderful, there is a line in the film to describe his role - like a little deer with innocent big eyes, this pair of acting and The requirements for looks are really high.
Unlike "Memories of Murder" where the murderer was not found in the end, this film has the final answer, which was unexpected and reasonable, so the mother's final choice was made. After that, she went to the wilderness, so there was a long shot at the beginning of the film, which was waiting for us here.
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