[Vasumitra]
It is said that there is a prostitute named vasumitra in India, and any man who sleeps with her will become a devout believer.
With the dream of traveling around Europe, middle school student Yi Jun and good friend Jie Rong began to help communicate. Yijun is a virgin and doesn't know what sex is. Thinking of her good friend being caressed by a strange man makes her feel dirty and heartache even more. Jie Rong told Yi Jun that she was like Vasumitra, a legendary prostitute in India. Even though she had only brief sex with her clients, she felt that they were cleansed by her and even felt close to her clients. During one transaction, the police broke into the door, Jie Rong laughed and jumped off the window sill, her head was bleeding. Before her death, Jie Rong asked Yi Jun to take out her diary, and asked her to find a musician who was quite fond of her, hoping to see her "beloved" one last time before she died. Yijun came to the door and begged bitterly, and finally got his sympathy with her first time, but when she arrived at the hospital, Jierong had already passed away.
[Samaria]
Samiria, refers to the good Samaritan often said in English, which means a good-hearted person, a person who is brave in seeing righteousness. This allusion comes from the Gospel of Luke in the Bible, about a Jew who was robbed by robbers, was seriously injured, and was lying on the side of the road. Priests and Levites passed by, but they ignored it. Only a Samaritan (the Samaritan was a pagan in the background of the story) passed by, and regardless of the barriers, moved with compassion to take care of him, and when he left, he paid for the Jews to be sent to the hotel.
After Jierong died, Yijun began to have paranoid thoughts: she decided to find her former clients and return the money to them. A guest said to her: You make me feel ten years younger, thank you. Perhaps from then on, Yijun began to understand what Jie Rong said about being a Vasumitra. Be a good Samaritan and help others to be happy, this is one aspect; on the other hand, a good Samaritan also obtains satisfaction while helping others - when he is close to the client, he is hugged tightly by the client At the time, she found a way to communicate with Jie Rong. She smiled happily because she felt that Jie Rong's soul was attached to the client's body and entered her own body.
Until Dad stumbled upon her little secret. Dad began to do everything possible to prevent the client from meeting and having a relationship with her. From beating, intimidating, and killing a man with a family, to finally beating a man alive with handcuffs and bricks. Yijun thought it was God telling her that this was not the act of a good Samaritan. Not only did she fail to help them, she even killed them. So she left Jierong's book and ran away. She abandoned the satisfaction of "helping others", she abandoned her best friend Jierong.
[Sonata]
If I were a dad, what would I do?
Bearing the pain of losing his wife and the pressure of raising his adolescent daughter by himself, Yijun's father was at a loss in the face of his daughter's confusion. Therefore, he can only be driven by instinct to protect his daughter from being tainted by more clients. Dad is a policeman who presides over justice in the world. But his daughter took the initiative to go to prostitution and whoring, but he didn't know where justice should go. Dad was a policeman, and he should have stood up in an upright manner to eliminate evil and punish traitors, but in order to protect his daughter, he was not allowed to play with stones, complain, etc. Even beat up despicable acts of venting anger.
However, I am not sure that I will take my daughter to worship at his wife's grave, like my father, go to the countryside to relax, teach my daughter to drive, wait for her closely, and tell her that the troubles of the past let it go with the wind Go, tell her that no matter what happens, Dad is here; I am not sure, I will be like Dad, I will bravely surrender, tell her, "Go on your own, Dad will not follow you", and firmly believe that no With the protection of the father, the daughter will make her own choices wisely.
Yijun: In fact, from the beginning to the end, Yijun was a cowardly person without reason, faith. Jierong said she wanted to go to Europe, so she helped her find guests. Jierong is dead, so she walks with her thoughts of Jierong in her arms. It wasn't until her actions had consequences that she began to feel that God was stopping her and she had to stop. But she didn't know where she was wrong - she didn't know, she hurt her father's heart. She helped her father clear the roadblocks, maybe she was just feeling sorry for her tiredness; she cried in the middle of the night, maybe she was just sympathizing with her father's loss of his wife; she even had a nightmare that her father killed her. This understanding of father is narrow. The love for Jierong is a narrow emotion; the fear of retribution may overwhelm the blindness of love. But I think Kim Ki-duk wants to tell us that being responsible for ourselves and those who love us is a great and noble difficult choice. Hope, I hope she can grow up, drive her own car, and walk her own way.
Reminds me of another Kim Ki-duk movie, The Drift Room. Both films can't help but make us think, what is the highest state of love? To possess, or to let go? Should he take the blame for him/her, or take him/her away?
What is the form of love? Need skin-to-skin, or just watch him/her fall asleep? Is it just to make him/her happy, or anyway, to know what kind of struggles he/she has inside?
Perhaps the greatest love is the love that is detached, but never leaves.
PS: Although I also think the modern sonata name is a good one. But how much does it cost to get Kim Ki-duk to name the entire third quarter sonata and shoot the Hyundai logo like a taxi ad?
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