"Holy Sorrow" is one of Kim Kidd’s works that is easier to interpret. Although it is still cruel, but compared to the previous works, Kim Kidd has great kindness this time. This kindness is hidden under the appearance of revenge, and it is faint. The appointment was extremely tragic. The protagonist in the story is a wicked person. He exists for destruction and has no humanity at all. His cold and hard heart seems to never see a gap in goodness. He is like a believer of Satan, but of a middle-aged woman. Sudden break-in changed everything. She melted this seemingly indestructible heart with her mother’s love step by step, and at the same time taught him salvation in an extreme way, and the cost of this class was extremely tragic. It destroyed two people, because behind this maternal love was twisted hatred, and it was a helpless cause and effect and destiny. Kim Kidd was tepid and unraveled the story with a scalpel-cold lens, giving the story a gloomy tone with the indifferent eyes of the bystander, and the cold texture of the reality under the background of the story made the story even more chilling. The slogans of Christ constantly appearing in "Holy Sorrow" hinted at the theme of redemption from the very beginning. Regarding redemption, Kim Kidd’s interpretation was with great kindness. The sobbing before his mother’s suicide added to this icy story. With a touch of helpless warmth, love finally resolves hatred and crime. At the end of the film, when the three cuddling together in the tomb, Kim Ki-duk's great compassion for humanity and reality and a strong sense of helpless fatalism evaporate.
Compared with the killings and violence before Kim Kidd’s works, "Holy Death" is more peaceful and uses a lot less metaphor, but the content is still profound, the lens is still aimed at the edge of the world, and the proportion of the depiction of reality is also very important. With a big rise, the story of "Holy War" takes place in an urban village that is about to be demolished. It is dilapidated and desolate. The bottom groups living in it also have their own misfortunes, including the protagonist Gang as himself, and he is also a person with a miserable life experience. Cruel reality, cruel crimes, cruel stories, King Kidd’s hostility to the real world or pessimism are still everywhere. Many people think this is a cruel and cheap sale, but we can’t force someone with a unique worldview. Artists create things that most people love to hear, because this world of singing and dancing requires some people to coldly think about whether the world and the entire human nature are as beautiful as we imagined, even if the images presented are exaggerated and cruel, there is also behind it. It's just a sincere and harmless compassion for human nature.
Kim Kidd is more merciful than before, and there is a helpless red in the cold snow. For the hero in the film, death is not the point, but the way home. The long red line at the end seems to lead to hope, although it is still Cruel sustenance, but after punishing the heart, what kind of fleshly sacrifice and salvation are. The hateful must be pitiful. Human nature is inherently good. The abomination is the transformation and persecution of people by reality. The difference between Satan and Jesus lies only in one thought. There is no eternal sin, and only the complexity of human nature remains unchanged. This kind of gesture of kindness, but Jin Ji De is still unwilling to be kind to the world with kindness to people. Perhaps this kind of hostile gesture can make the ascetic monk Jin Ji De think more calmly and lash out.
"Holy Sorrow" is Kim Kidd’s eighteenth work. It’s dark and cruel all the way, which is shocking, but what remains unchanged is Kim Kidd’s extreme compassion for humanity and the world. The director’s bones bear too much, like a heavy burden. Like the ascetic monk, every part of the journey is covered with blood stains left by him. This is perhaps the ultimate salvation of Jin Ji De.
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