love loses time

Augustus 2022-04-21 09:03:11

Kim Ki-duk's "Time" impressed me more deeply than any of his other films I've seen. Of course, this may be attributed to the law of diminishing memory. In my opinion, "Spring Goes and Comes Again" is far-fetched, "The Drift Bathroom" advertises cruelty, "Empty Room" is about alienation and ambiguity, "Bow" can be regarded as a musical, "Samaria Girl" is very pure . I haven't watched "Shoreline" where my idol starred.

When talking to a friend about movies, he said categorically that Japan has masters, but Korea lacks masters. The first thing I thought of was Kim Ki-duk, and then Park Chan-wook, who was revered as a philosopher. "Old Boy" is absurd and chilling, and "Kindly Gold" also twists and turns the plot, and the fancy style hinders the easy. Thinking, his films are not like philosophy, but more like criminal psychology.

Kim Ki-deok's "Time" can also be called "Changing Face" in my opinion. It can ridicule and warn against the current plastic surgery phenomenon, and it can also philosophically explore the relationship between external beauty and ugliness and internal soul. But these propositions are too common. I saw what he said was, what does love look like in front of time?

Time can't be restored, so, in time, what is the face of love? Will love be fragmented by time? First of all, we must admit that time is strong and can beat love. If love leaves a space for time, someone else will eventually fill it. Whether you want to admit it or not, in this changing, lonely, and noisy world, no matter how strong a person is, they can't live with their memories forever, unless they die.

Ji Woo chased Se Hee, the woman who looked completely different from Shun Hee, was equally dazzled by her and couldn't help himself. This was supposed to be another love story, but the tragedy is that the two women who were loved turned out to be the same person. She herself played the role of old love and new love at the same time, forgotten and pursued, sad and jealous at the same time... carrying such a secret The taste is unimaginable.

Time is a one-way straight line. The time she spends with one person eliminates the possibility of him spending time with other people. This is the absolute that can be grasped. The love they have between them, which one day can be called a memory, can no longer be changed. But one day new memories will cut down on old ones. This is the law of nature. Love is no match for boredom, no match for doubt, is it really better than time?


Later, she chose to let the past Shunxi return to verify the man's former love. Facts have proved that men love her in the past, so they can easily abandon their new love. At this point, the pain of one person has become that of two people. She is alone, playing two roles, bearing the pain of two people. She has no way out.

And time always moves forward. In fact, no pain can make it heavy, no joy can make it light. It's just that we are in love, and Shunxi loves so much that he loses his mind. There are too many people who do not lack the courage to madly pursue love, desperately rush to love, and are not afraid to pay any price... At the end of the film, Shunxi madly shouts the name of the man she loves in the underground tunnel: Zheng Zhiyu ! In the blink of an eye, the game of hide and seek came to an end, and Ji Woo's soul disappeared in time.

If the ending is really like the little trick directed by Kim Ki-duk, we will really meet the self in the future (in the past), then whether everything can be saved... Impossible, time is a train with no return, we are all on the train, there will be no Avoiding an unpredictable future, it is the winner.

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Time quotes

  • Ji-woo: [Having been rudely awakened] Did... did you just slap me? Why did you do that?

    See-hee: Because I love you.