A man and woman who had been in love for two years without incident, just because the woman insisted that love cannot be kept fresh forever, and the passage of time will make many things deteriorate, and her boyfriend will definitely get tired of looking at her with the same face every day. Thinking about it from an angle, the solution I came up with was to go to the plastic surgery hospital to change a face in exchange for a fresh relationship with her boyfriend. But after she really got her boyfriend's favor with her new face, she began to suffer again, in her own words a "strange sadness", because she was dissatisfied with her boyfriend's move into a new relationship. Has he forgotten? the old me? So she wrote a letter to her boyfriend in her previous identity, saying that she could not forget him and planned to come back. The old and the new appeared at the same time. The boyfriend made the choice to return to the old love. She had a big fight with him in the restaurant as a new girlfriend. After hysterical, she looked around and a strange smile appeared on her face. Boyfriend is loyal, he still can't forget me before. But is this something to be happy about? This result was not what she expected at first - the purpose of her new face was to make him fall in love with her, and after she fell in love, she had to test whether he still had feelings for her before and could not forget it. She forced herself into an extreme contradiction and was in a dilemma. The only thing she could do was tell him the facts and hope he would understand. So far, it can be seen that the heroine Shixi is extremely unconfident and has an anxious personality who lacks a sense of security. Craving for love but not believing it will last, her paranoid character leads her to do a series of extreme things. She has been thinking about the relationship between her and her boyfriend from her own point of view. She feels that he is disloyal to her by looking at other women, that he will get tired of her, and that changing her face can solve all these problems. Why didn't she think about it from another angle, if she really loved him so much, why didn't she think about it from his point of view, and think about how doing so would affect him. Later in the story, the conflict became more and more intensified. The man also underwent plastic surgery in order to retaliate against the woman, which also prevented her from finding him and recognizing him. The camera is also switched at this time, with the man's point of view as the main and the woman's object, and the same thing repeats itself again, just like the title of this film - time. Life is a cycle of reincarnation, and it is the wisdom and mantra of our ancestors. Any attempt to save time or reverse the order will not last long. Just like the sad ending of this film, the woman shouted "I do this because I love you" to all around the subway station. Yeah? Is that love? How can love be so selfish and paranoid? Love him but don't respect him, don't understand, don't learn, just keep persecuting him in the name of so-called love from his own perspective.
Kim Ki-duk's transformation is more and more apparent in this film, he begins to let his characters speak, and begins to pay attention to mainstream society, no longer just prostitutes, thieves, gamblers, homeless. This transformation shows that he has an open mind and a stronger sense of social responsibility. But the sharp things inherent in him are still there. I believe that Kim Ki-duk is not a person who likes verbal communication. Although he made his characters speak a lot this time, he still cannot communicate. The communication of words cannot achieve the communication of the soul, but it brings more misunderstandings and contradictions. This reminds me of Tsai Ming-liang, a Malaysian who has never valued language communication. The language is pale, and sometimes what I feel in my mouth turns into a different look. It is better not to say it, and it may not have any effect.
The characters are still paranoid, neurotic, and hysterical as always in Kim Ki-duk's films. The characters in his films seem to be like a scripture. They always only look at problems from their own perspective, and have a strong ability to act and willpower to implement their own wishes. Does this actually have something to do with the characteristics of the entire Korean nation? Koreans don't like to see Kim Ki-duk so much. Is there a reason for this?
I read Wen Wei Po yesterday and there was an article saying that Kim Ki-duk has become a topic in Korean movies. There is a sentence at the end that made me sigh with emotion, "Now that Park Chan-wook has also started to use Rain to shoot romantic films, Kim Ki-duk's persistence seems so out of place, maybe he can only continue his persistence by going abroad."
The words "out of time" were also used to describe Jia Zhangke in an article. He used a 17MM camera to shoot Xiao Wu, the platform, and the little people in the background of the big era. Now that he has won the Golden Lion, he has attracted the attention of the domestic mainstream media, and a series of publicity activities have been arranged for the release of "The Three Gorges Good Man". In fact, compared with Jin Ji-de, Jia Zhangke has always been very mainstream. He photographed people around us, those people who can be seen everywhere in the streets, and the stories, events, scenes, and music interspersed are all familiar to us. This is also the most commendable part of Jia Zhangke in my opinion. He has been paying attention to our lives, our current lives. I don't know where those comments that his films are marginal come from, have they seriously watched his films. Compared with Jia Zhangke's growing domestic media attention in the past two years, Kim Ki-duk has always been in an embarrassing situation in South Korea. Koreans don't like him to vilify Koreans, but human nature is so complex and multi-faceted. All right? So that Koreans are not ugly or dark? Besides, Kim Ki-duk is shooting people who are generally referred to instead of "Koreans", why can't he be a little more tolerant of him?
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