Kim Ki-duk's works range from the first "Samaria Girl", "Empty Room", "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring" to "Bow". Almost every work has the erotic theme that Kim Ki-duk wants to express, and the same is true in "Bow" , the bow implies that the sex organs also symbolize possessive love. The vast sea is a metaphor for the boundless sea of suffering in life, the old man is a symbol of loneliness, and the girl is the spiritual comfort of the old man's soul mate, so in the end he jumped into the sea, which also means that the last fortress of his lonely island has also been broken, because the girl wants to go back. Go to land to find parents. The old man's ten years of hard work, the girl is like a delicate flower. He irrigates and nourishes her every day, thinking that one day he will be able to "marry" her and then take her. When the girl meets a young man visiting from outside, he opens it up again. She wanted to explore the new world, but the old man clenched his teeth in silence, and threw the bow at the young man in anger. This was a powerful catharsis and a kind of protection for the girl. This seemingly deformed protection was not a protection for the girl. It is a kind of containment and a kind of selfishness. At the end of the movie, the last bow thrown by the old man shoots into the place where the girl was born, which is also a sign that the girl is about to mature. The old man's last ship sank into the sea, which also means that the girl's era is over, the pure world is over, and she is about to go to land and say goodbye to the clean and pure sea. The sea is one world, the land is another world, and the ambiguous relationship between the old man and the young girl seems disgusting, but compared to the evil in the world, it is the eyes of the worldly people that are more disgusting.
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