Why do you want to say this? I think there are many details in the film that are buried in this argument.
It’s more obvious like eating. Before the "mother" appeared, the film deliberately showed the son’s meal: the chicken boiled in white water was sprinkled with some salt. Don’t look simple and unacceptable. This chicken seems to represent the son’s feelings at this time. He only knows how to make the debtor who cannot pay the loan shark be disabled and get compensation. He thinks it is natural and righteous. If you don't pay the money, you are wrong. Look, how pure you are. After the mother appeared, the first meal she cooked for her was to chop the head of the eel he had raised as a pet. Note that the movement of head beheading was shown in a single shot, indicating the "mother" The meal is cruel, and the meal is also colorful. Although the son did not eat, the scene of the "mother" eating on the stomach will still make the audience feel uncomfortable, because she eats a pet, and it also means "I want to take your things," smiling".
"Mother" brings only one thing to the son, and that is love. The son who has never been loved also changes after being loved, becoming compassionate and complicated. When the mother disappears, he painstakingly searched and searched for it. Every creditor who has been retaliated thinks about every possibility of revenge for his mother. This behavior and state are very straightforward. "Love" has already acted on him, and "love" has also become a murder tool of "mother". Pollute the pure white son.
Why do I say it is pollution? This son's heart is pure white and has been dyed, but he was dyed with scarlet red. The love that controls revenge itself is not pure, so what the son gets is also not pure.
In fact, behind the film’s revenge story, there is still a director who denounces today’s Korean men for irresponsibility and recklessness. The debtors in the film are all men, and some of them are their own hands (not the left hand, don’t think about it, it’s the right hand), and some are their own legs, but in the end it is their own wife or the one who has to support the burden of the family. The old mothers, especially several old mothers, are living in the humble hut, almost all of them have nowhere to go. They are quite shocking, and they reflect the mood of the protagonist "mother".
The whole film of "Holy Sorrow" is shown in cool tones. A large number of industrial machinery and equipment bring out the coldness of the film's inherent "humanity". Even in the scenes of mother and child shopping, it feels cold and has no warmth. In terms of shots, Kim Kidd is basically unrestrained. Many scenes have as many as 5-6 shots. They are very good at shooting, but in the replays, they try to ensure that they are done in one go. The shots taken are cut in, but it is also the effect of cutting out a scene.
The performance of the mother Zhao Minxiu was very touching. Personally, the three most difficult scenes were the son rapes the mother. The mother finally curled up on the ground and wept bitterly. In the other scene, the mother returned to the place where her son committed suicide, holding herself as her son. Knitted sweater wept bitterly, and finally the mother mourned her son in three scenes. The three crying scenes were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which led me to wonder how Kim Ki-duk told Zhao Minxiu at the time, and how Zhao Minxiu’s heart handled this episode. Because it is too difficult to act, the actors may not be able to come out for a while after they have acted in these three scenes.
Although the long bloodstain at the end of the film hurts people's hearts, if you have a strong heart, I still recommend this film. It is good to see a woman's strong will to revenge, or to see a cup of white water infested by a drop of scarlet ink, it is very shocking.
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