Sai Jinhua, the last legendary prostitute in the old society, died in 1936. She was a beauty-loving woman who used the most advanced photography technology to take pictures of herself in her later years. So these small features, full face, and thin three-inch golden lotus have become the only true old-style prostitute image that we can recall. This image seems to have nothing to do with the woman in the dust. She has married three men, but none of them allowed her to be a widow-widow concubine last time. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, she spoke fluent German and performed a passionate drama of selling herself to save the country on the bed with the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces. Sai Jinhua is full of the absurdity and drama of life just like literary works, making it unclear how to judge her. When she poses a woman's most shameful posture to cater to a man, who would have thought that she would have a day called the "Huguo Empress"? Is this a sublimation of a patriotic prostitute or a mockery of an incompetent government? Perhaps this will give Kate Millett a new philosophical proposition about "sex politics".
In fact, according to Sartre's view that "others are hell", prostitutes are passionate because the world is ruthless, first of all men are ruthless. This is a bit of a sense of turning over and being the master of the house. Only when the times are chaotic, when men are running all over the street, the prostitute can have a good face, but if she meets a good time and a good man, then maybe others will only accuse her of not being worthy of having it all, but not Said she was affectionate and righteous. In the final analysis, even if prostitutes are advertised and eulogized again, they are also underestimated and suppressed. Even if they are literati who have a sense of justice and are more sensational, there is no way to give them. Poor women who care for their livelihood put on a coat of dignity, just to cover the shame of their souls.
So I say that Kim Ki-de is great. In this regard alone, he is more philanthropic and understands love than any old-style Chinese intellectual. As a director with a strong sense of rebellion, he intends to completely overthrow and rebuild those common sense identities, including "prostitutes." So he found Samaria from the "Bible", which was a city in Babylon and also pointed out a woman who sold her body to serve God. They give all the money they get from selling their bodies to temples, or have relationships with men who believe in God, to defend the purity of their faith. Starting from Eve, people knew that they had committed a sin, and the manifestation of this sin was sex, so Babylonian women used their original sin to cleanse themselves, so that their souls were cleansed. This is salvation.
The theme of redemption appears repeatedly in the movie, about friendship, love, family affection, all people, as long as there is love in their bodies, they are constantly using Samaritan's way to save people and redeem sins. Jierong sells her body in order to realize her dream, Yijun sells her body for Jierong's sake, Yijun's father commits murder for his daughter, and the sordidness and cruelty that may exist in the world will appear at any time in a simple wish or idea. inside. How are we to discipline and punish in the ethical category that hasn't been new for thousands of years? Perhaps the use of original sin to atone for sin is itself a concept full of contradictions, and they can only exist in ancient religions. But didn't Jehovah's heavenly Father ever think that original sin is most likely to become the driving force behind the degeneration of mankind? How to grasp the meaning of redemption through sin, and how should those Babylonian women practice so as not to be controlled by their own sexual desires and fall into the control of Satan?
Perhaps only faith, faith guarantees the purity of the soul. So what are the beliefs of Yijun and Jierong? The most brilliant part of the movie is after Jie Rong’s death. In order to redeem her crime of being a prostitute, Yi Jun rediscovered all her clients, had relationships with them, and returned her prostitutes to them one by one. With the money, Jie Rong is no longer a prostitute, and she doesn't have to be thrown into hell with her filthy soul and body on her back. A girl exchanges her body for another girl’s innocence. In their eyes, possession by a stranger is obviously not so terrible, or even irrelevant. Sex here is a means of cleansing, not defilement, even if apart from relying on it. Jun herself, no one will believe that she is pure again, including her father.
In the process of watching a movie, you may feel a kind of estrangement intensely at all times, like a thick wall, and you are eager to cross it. For this reason, you are painful, confused, or even unable to control yourself, and you still cannot cross it. . Yi Jun's father is such a role. He is eager to get closer to his daughter's world. What he wants to understand is the real reason behind her daughter's selling, but he can't understand it. Anyone who feels sorry for Yi Jun's body must have the same sense of confusion as Yi Jun's father. Yi Jun dreamed that his father killed himself, put on headphones for the corpse, and played his favorite music. A thin earphone was first dragged out of the buried soil, connected to a CD player, and buried in the soil was the dead Yijun who was listening to music. I once mistakenly thought that this was the final ending of the film. Both Yijun and Jierong are weak. Their dreams and behavioral standards are too idealistic and idealistic. They will eventually be killed by the cruel reality, which includes the extreme love of their father.
Yijun didn't die. His father turned himself in. He killed a client who had possessed his own daughter. He wanted to atone for his own sin. I don't know if the director's arrangement is showing that the two generations have reached an understanding, maybe it is, maybe it is not. I am just thinking about the meaning of the act of salvation itself, where is it reflected? It is just an individual behavior or must be recognized by the social group. If others do not recognize (or even misunderstand or defame) the noble and deep meaning behind this behavior, does it still have value in itself? When the women of Babylon offered money in exchange for their bodies to the gods, did they get praise or slander?
In any case, we have to admit that sex is an ambiguous thing, you can never measure its size accurately, it has no scale at all. Whether it is Sai Jinhua selling her life to save the country, or Dong Xiaowan becoming a duty widow after losing her husband; whether it is for herself or for others, a woman who displays sex or once showed sex in broad daylight, her moral scale is always ambiguous. Unknown. Even if Jin Ji De showed infinite love and praise to Yi Jun and Ji Rong, they still could not make them the true Virgin Mary. The Samaritan girl is not equal to the Virgin Mary. This is the problem.
View more about Samaritan Girl reviews
