"There is strength and a beautiful voice in the extension and contraction of the bow. I would rather live like this until the end of my life" - Kim Ki-duk "Bow"
Yes, I would rather live like this until the end of my life.
In the middle of the night, when I was sitting by the head of the bed, watching "The Bow" quietly, I repeated the subtitles at the end of the film. In fact, before I finished reading it, my heart was already broken, completely shattered by its beauty!
1 Plot A lonely old boat in the
sea , there lives an old fisherman and a 16-year-old mute girl he has adopted on the boat since she was six years old. When she turns 17, the old man will be with her. marry. They make a living by carrying passengers on boats to fish, and the old man can tell people's fortunes with bows and arrows, and they can also use bows to draw beautiful and desolate music. Just as the wedding day is approaching, the arrival of a male college student attracts the girl. The male college student condemns the inhumanity of the old man's "imprisonment" of the girl and asks to take the girl away. But just after the old man told his fortune and let them go, when he decided to commit suicide, the girl came back to complete the marriage ceremony with him, the old man jumped into the sea, the girl mysteriously completed the first sexual intercourse and waved goodbye to the sinking ship.
2 Style
"Bow" continues Jin Ji's consistent style,
closed space,
silent characters,
deformed love
, beautiful pictures
, rich camera language
, but this "Bow" adds to the beautiful music that makes people cry. The music comes from a strange musical instrument I call "bow hu" in the film, that is, a microphone is placed in the middle of the bow, and it is played like an erhu.
3 pure
Why does Kim Ki-duk like to silence his characters? The heroine of "Island" ("Room of Drifting") is a dumb girl, so is "Bow", and the male lead in "Empty Room" is also silent, and the corresponding characters in the supporting role also rarely speak. Obviously not just because he is not good at talking, the more important reason should be that not talking, or just relying on actions and pictures to "speak", is the purest movie, such a movie will not be humorous or mediocre. Dialogue interferes with the viewer's immediate perception of emotion. Sincere emotions are false as soon as they are said, they must be conveyed by heart and heart.
Why did Kim Ki-duk keep his story space closed? Because what he wants to show is the purest love and the purest desire between people! He wants to avoid the double interference of social reality on the characters and the audience.
In the face of such pure feelings and desires, worldly morality is immediately invalid.
Therefore, although the characters in the play often appear deformed love affairs in the secular society, it is difficult for us to make moral judgments, and the dimension of morality is invalid. So what is valid? What does Kim Ki-duk want to highlight? It is aesthetics, it is the dimension of beauty!
Watching such a movie, you just feel, oh, such beauty, the pictures, the music, the characters, the shots, and the emotions are also poignant, the beauty is fascinating, and the beauty is heartbreaking!
4 Thinking
Back to "Bow". The old man in "The Bow" is like a spokesman for the secular audience. Was it immoral as the college student accused him? Did he keep girls to satisfy his own desires? No, otherwise the old man could possess the girl very early! He bathes the girl every day, but he keeps a promise to himself, that is, he will not get married until the wedding day! This day has become the reason for the old man to live and become a "thought"!
The old man dressed the girls in the most traditional clothes and completed their wedding according to the most traditional ceremony. From this traditionality, we may make a narrow guess that the old man may maintain this tradition. The girl is the seed of the tradition that he has carefully cultivated for ten years. He holds a sharp bow and carefully protects this seed from the contamination of secular civilization. However, modern civilization, like that young college student, is so seductive that it will eventually bring Walk your own seeds. The old man calculated that this was not good for him, but he told the college students personally - the old man still exuded traditional nobility at the last moment, he let the girl go, but he was so hard to let go, so he put the rope over his head It is a kind of worry and a kind of sacrifice for love on a ship that is far away!
And when the girl came back and finished their ritual with the old man, he chose to jump into the sea. Is this a satisfaction? Or a regression? Or a tragic departure? However, just after the old man jumped into the sea, an unbelievable and heart-moving scene appeared. The girl slowly moaned sexually in the sound of the bow and moustache echoing in the air. The arrow shot by the old man to the sky suddenly fell, penetrating the river of love. The white skirt between the bumpy girl's legs was inserted on the deck. The bright red virgin's blood stained the white skirt, like a bright flower. The girl opened her eyes contentedly, and as the boy waved away, The ancient ship sank slowly.
The ancient ship is slowly sinking...
Only the poignant music of the bow and Hu is breaking your heart and mine!
Really, I'd rather live like this until the end of my life!
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