I don't know the name of this film imported from mainland China, but I always feel that the Hong Kong translation of "The Lie of Desire" better reflects the theme of this film than the English name "Time".
The plot is very simple. Se-hee and Ji-woo have been in love for two years. Because he is afraid that he will get tired of this relationship, he chooses to leave. , when he knew that Shixi couldn't accept the fact after plastic surgery, and after struggling, she also had plastic surgery to say that after half a year, let her find him in the crowd.
"Time" replays many plots from "Empty House". It can be seen that the director's originality has brought memories of old works to countless fans, and the themes of these two films are just a little bit positive and negative.
In the sculpture park by the sea, all the themes are about sex and love. The background of the photo of the two people, two opposite palms, with a staircase in the middle, the raised part points to the sky, and half of it is covered by the sea when the tide is high.
This movie is in Kim Ki-duk's style, but it's not like it. I'm used to watching movies with very little dialogue, but suddenly there is such a normal dialogue, but I'm a little uncomfortable. An almost entirely straight-forward narration, with an almost drowsy opening, where the heroine's hysterical boyfriend is tired of her, and even during sex, says you think about her, imagine it's her.
Then it got better, and I liked the clever arrangement after Zi Zhiyu's operation. The heroine looked for the original cafe, the same palm, the same dialogue, the same plastic surgery, and they were not him, but the man who finally followed in the subway , unexpectedly run over to death under the oncoming car, and can't identify who he is by his face, and the heroine is extremely extreme, and finally decided to reshape it again and make a face that no one knows.
And the ending finally made my eyes shine, when the heroine described that she had undergone plastic surgery for the last time, and came out of the hospital wearing a white trench coat with a stern face, and bumped into a woman in a black trench coat who was going on a date— - This scene is exactly the same as the opening scene. A year ago, she also bumped into a woman in a white trench coat who had just finished plastic surgery at the same place. It is another ring, just like the female college student and the woman in the red dress among the bad boys, whether the reincarnation of the fate is good or not, there is the next one in the crowd that she will step into a tragic fate again, "In extreme love and Behind the hate, behind the sadness and helplessness, the director not only explores the relationship between the passage of time and love, but also hopes to use the film "Time" to further analyze the far-reaching impact of the increasingly common phenomenon of cosmetic surgery on Korean society."
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