"Common Security Zone" is Park Chan-wook's masterpiece. It can be said to be the first successful feature-length film. It was also shortlisted for the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. However, this film is very unlike Park Chan-wook. There is no violence, no blackness, and no deformity. Love. Some of it is the emotion between little people, and some is a kind of mood of the country and the nation. It goes beyond the scope of the movie and becomes a spiritual appeal.
The shell of the film is a suspense film. The director tells the story in a Rashomon and suspenseful way. A shooting incident involving two countries, an ongoing investigation by a female police officer. The narratives of different parties keep accumulating the truth of the whole story, coupled with the constant flashbacks, making us half-believing and sketching a picture until the truth is finally revealed. Quite different, such a mature suspense technique makes the whole story very rhythmic, extremely catches the audience's attention, and the whole plot is not procrastinated. Unexpectedly, the film takes the profound theme of the country and nation as its connotation, but tells it in such a way, an ingenious balance of business and art. I have to admire the director's way of making the whole story lively and exciting.
The whole movie can be said that the actors hold up half the sky. And all the leading actors are evenly matched to perform this wonderful film together. Song Kanghao, as one of the three major Korean actors, still has extraordinary acting skills even when he was young. From the initial temptation, to the later brotherhood, to the later forbearance, he has done a good job at every level. Similarly, Li Bingxian stepped on Lei's helpless cry in the field, and the tragic tragic suicide finally made people move. What I want to say in particular is Shin Ha-kyun, the young Shin Ha-kyun is really too young, a young boy of sunshine. Bring the sluggishness to life. If you have seen the villains, disabled, dumb, and marginal characters played in his other works, you will understand that one person has thousands of faces, and he is really a good actor.
The whole film is filled with a lot of metaphors. In the scene we met at the beginning, the sentence "I didn't tell you to go, save me" deeply embodies the metaphor of the mutual support between the DPRK and the ROK. In the photo-taking scene at the back, the three people kept standing until the leaders of the North and South Korea disappeared from the picture, and the meaning of it can be imagined. The suspected female police officer was suspected of being unfair because of her father's identity. In particular, Song Kanghao's line of marksmanship is not calm and useful, no matter how accurate it is. The gunfight at the end fully reflects the meaning of this sentence, and it is absolutely ingenious. The photo at the end, the hat flying across the border, is undoubtedly an emotional expression of the country and the nation, it goes without saying.
The end of the film is a very powerful expression, which can be said to be one of the best Korean films. The front cap flies off, leaving a blank space. The last clip is a photo that keeps moving sideways, and the four characters keep showing their faces, which is amazing. The only photo of the four people is a magical scene at the national border, which echoes the previous clips. This is really The best Korean movie I've ever seen is over.
The profound idea of the film is expressed through the small characters under the extraordinary identities. The emotions of the DPRK and the ROK and the nation are constantly magnified through the four little people, which makes people sigh. The director's expression is very clear and clear. The four of them laughed and cursed at the national border and exchanged gifts. Why should people from the same nation be like enemies? The suspenseful way tells the ordinary stories of little people in special places, and extends the deep wish for the peaceful reunification of the country and the nation. The director did not deliberately, but deeply integrated the emotion into the story. The whole film was completed in one go, and the completion level was quite high. After reading the story, I was deeply moved by this kind of national-state emotion. Film transcends the boundaries of art and becomes a spiritual expression, which is the highest state of film.
View more about Joint Security Area reviews
