In the first part of "The Samaritan Girl", Yi Jun and Jie Rong tried to sell their virginity to realize their dream of going to Paris, and their lives (especially Jie Rong) bloomed ahead of time under the baking of various desires The girl's bud, and finally Jie Rong's death proves the powerlessness of chastity. The guest Jie Rong once loved, a musician, even raped Yi Jun, who came to deliver the letter, before her dying request to see her. In the eyes of Kim Ki-duk, the secular society is so evil, and the efforts to realize the dream relying on innocence are bound to be ruthlessly gang-raped. The death of Jie Rong as the end of the first part sets the tone of despair for the whole film. It is worth pondering that in this part, Jie Rong claims to be the Hindu sex god Vesumita, in a strong Christian context, this is obviously a reference to the Samaritans who betrayed the Lord in the Bible. A record of serving foreign idols. A person who betrayed the faith (the restraint of secular morality) did not receive any salvation, and died without drinking a sip of the living water that "flows straight to eternal life", and the reason is that she sold her virginity for her dream. Force a moral paradox!
The second part of the film further complicates the critique of religion and secular morality in the first part. "The Last Purity in the World" Yi Jun grew up after Jie Rong's death as a "Holy Maiden". She found the men who had had a relationship with Jie Rong, had sex with them, and then gave them back the money they spent on Jie Rong. She is using her body to wash away the dirt on Jierong's soul, and at the same time she is using her body to summon the kindness of those men who have lost their conscience. However, this self-devotion of hers once again triggered an even bigger moral black hole. For Yijun's father, his daughter's actions are equivalent to smearing dirt on his own soul, while Yijun cleans up the sins of others, but at the same time triggers his own father's more ferocious sins. The desperate father tried to remove the great shame that fell from the sky in an extremely brutal way, and the man who once had a relationship with Yi Jun died because of it. In this part, Kim Ki-duk devoted the most ink to the portrayal of the heart of the character of his father. This lonely man actually took on the role of Jierong in the first part. He was roasted by the desire to wash away his shame, and finally lost his rationality. Finally, through his ending with someone else's death, he continues the despair that started in the first part. In this section, the film looks equally strongly at the biblical account of the Samaritan woman: she had five men, but none of them were her husbands, so she was considered unclean. From the father's point of view, the daughter's behavior was also completely unclean (in the second part, Yi Jun also had sex with five men), and this uncleanness was simply the greatest humiliation for him. It should be noted that in such a story with strong religious overtones, the so-called God is always missing, and the actions of several characters in the film are to achieve self-salvation in their own ways, while " The God who promised to bring living water to the lost in the Bible never appeared.
The third part of the film begins in intense despair. The father was driving with Yijun, and the tension between the two created by each scene seemed to foreshadow that the father would remove the last touch of his humiliation—he would kill his daughter. However, in this last part, Kim Ki-duk's characters are still stubbornly trying to save themselves from despair, and their efforts to stay away from death are realized in the bland and trivial exchanges between father and daughter. At his wife's grave, the father who swallowed sushi was apparently trying hard to kill his daughter, but he spat out all the sushi. On the way down, the car was caught in the rocks, and the daughter, sweating profusely, moved the rocks away and smiled back at her father. In the single old man's house, the daughter peeled the sweet potato for her father and brought it to her mouth. The display of these details made the dying ice peak slowly begin to melt. However, in the end, the two still came to an end, and everything should have been broken. At this time, Kim Ki-duk showed us a meaningful ending. In the daughter's nightmare, the father kills the daughter. In reality, the father made a phone call and turned himself in. At this time, the roles of the father and the daughter were reversed. The father took all the sins and became a martyr. He tried to achieve the daughter's new life with self-destruction (teaching the daughter to drive and take a new path in life), and at this time The paradox reappears, because the daughter also suffers a new disgrace for her father's martyrdom, so the daughter, who is chasing her father at the end of the film, gets stuck in the mud. The whole film ends with despair, but this despair is not without an outlet. Its openness determines that the self-salvation efforts of human nature will eventually achieve the harmony in dreams, and this answer is clearly shown in Kim Ki-deok's subsequent film "Empty Room". come out. (Cui Yiwen)
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"The Samaritan Girl" has a direct relationship with the "Bible" from its title to its content. In the "Bible • New Testament • Gospel of John", Jesus came to the city of Sychar in Samaria, and sat beside Jacob's well because he was tired from walking. At this time, a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus went Said to her, "Give me water, please." The woman said to Jesus, "How can you ask me for water, a Samaritan woman, if you are a Jew?" Because in 700 B.C.E. After the Israelites occupied the kingdom of Israel and captured Samaria, the people here turned away from the LORD they had originally believed in, and went to serve foreign idols. Since then the Samaritans have been despised by orthodox Jews. That's why women ask this question. But Jesus avoided answering, but promised her, I ask you for water to give you living water, and you will be thirsty again after drinking this well, and the living water I will give you—“If anyone drinks what I have The water I give will never be thirsty. The water I will give him will be a spring in him, springing up to everlasting life.” The Samaritan woman, who represented the betrayal of her faith, had five men in all, but none of them were Her true husband, who represents uncleanness but is ultimately saved by Jesus, when she returns to Samaria she spreads the thoughts of Christ throughout the land of rebellion.
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