Having read "Sacred Sorrow", I couldn't help but overflow with the urge to avenge Kim Ki-dek with words. This is a powerful force generated by the reverse explosion of personality. It not only drives Jin Ji De to create another personality that is completely opposite to himself in his creation, but also drives those film critics who really understand Jin Ji De’s core to catch him. Based on this psychological clue, he can infer how far his real personality is in reverse and equidistantly. Then, continue this edge that has never been softened, offset the so-called "mainstream", stand on the "edge zone" at the same position as Kim Kidd, try unruly, alternative and wild, expose those cruelty, violence and weakness, and finally bring it with you An inherent identity, namely salvation, atonement for oneself, and bearing all sins for others. And this sin is the "original sin" in Christianity.
"Original sin" is Kim Ki-de's most happiest topic, whether it is the unclean person in "The Samaritan Girl" becoming a preacher and redeemer, or "Early Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring" from the reincarnation of the joys and sorrows. Gains and losses, good and evil cause and effect, Kim Kidd’s film discusses nothing more than three things-desire, depravity, and redemption. In the movie "Holy Sage", the same is true.
What is "Holy Sage"? The Italian "Pietà" means "the mourning of the Virgin and the death of Jesus". The original inspiration for King Kidd's creation came from Michelangelo's famous sculpture-"The Pieta". "Through the posture of the Virgin, I was deeply moved by the humanity contained in her sad and painful emotions." After winning the Golden Lion Award at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, Jin Ji De explained the reason for the creation and also revealed the film's The core is "mother and son".
What can "Mother and Son" tell? Putting it on other people’s movies will wantonly radiate family warmth, but when it comes to Kim Kidd’s place, it must be a great controversy. Therefore, in all major online newspapers, the dazzling attribution of "incest" is poured on "Shengshang". . In fact, the plot of the story is quite simple. It is about a man who lives on loan sharks and spends his days crippling debtors in exchange for insurance money. One day, another middle-aged woman who claimed to be his mother came to the door and stalked and refused to leave the man until the man believed that this woman was his mother and developed feelings. As for what kind of feeling this is, it varies from person to person. For example, when Michelangelo created the statue of mother and child, many people criticized that the Virgin Mary in the statue was too young, but Michelangelo believed that the body of the saint was a woman who kept her youth forever. The secret of her, this is also a strong evidence used by God to prove her virtue. This spirit of classical aesthetics based on Greece and beyond often surpasses the logic of reality. Therefore, the sad Virgin not only looks young and beautiful, but also has a very calm expression, even if her son is a bloodthirsty thug.
I wanted to change the bloody winds of the past, but as one of the masters of violent aesthetics, Kim Ki-duk just wants you to live in a cruel whirlpool of non-idealization. In "Holy Sorrow", it is not a lot of bloody scenes in Jin Zhiyun’s movies. Instead, those images discuss the contradictory relationship between debtors and debt collectors. Either the latter makes the former’s family ruined, or the former risked his death to seek revenge. Come to the scene to tear up the ticket. In the play, most of these debtors are engaged in self-operated processing industries. The narrow space is full of machines, which seem to be the most convenient torture weapon for debt collectors. Some people cut off a hand for their children, while others are Two, in order to give the children more hope in life, and they don't want to stay alive like this.
Kim Kidd, who is a devout Christian, is full of religious significance in every work. From the poster, it can be seen that the heroine is the incarnation of the Virgin Mary. Her sudden appearance is to redeem the male protagonist who seems to be heinous and like the devil. But everything will be reversed. It seems that it is the devil, but it is Jesus. A man who has lacked maternal love and warmth since he was a child is always chasing women without hesitation, from violent confrontation to glad acceptance. When going out together, when a passerby makes irresponsible remarks, he will argue forward angrily; when a woman is kidnapped, his mental defenses are completely destroyed. At this moment, the man completely believes that the appearance of a woman is the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. After decades of wandering, he finally got the care of his mother. The man snuggled in the woman's arms, and the woman caressed the man's hair. The incest in the eyes of ordinary people, put in the frame of Kim Kidd's film, is extremely warm.
Of course, Kim Kidd will still put a wall on your chest. For example, when dealing with sex, the debtor is anxious physically and mentally, and the only way to resolve it is to have a relationship with his wife suddenly; and the protagonist resolutely demands to prove that the woman is not the biological mother. Have a relationship with it. In the simple script, there is hidden suspense. The later version of the transition avoids the extremely controversial part of incest-the most terrible thing about a person is not to lose an organ in the body, but to deprive him of the love he originally had. The mysterious woman seeks revenge. Let the man get full care and loss, the pain in the heart is definitely far greater than the body. When the truth is revealed, the man still deceives himself and the illusion that the woman is the mother, and walks to the dark corner in the days of self-salvation. .
At the end of the film, the depravity of women represents Kim Kidd’s attitude towards the world. He did not intend to be gentle from the beginning. Even in the face of resistance and slander, he is a man who is used to irrigating his wounds with cruel tenderness. Among these angry emotions, the sting of shame is the sharpest and most profound. At the bottom of life, the human heart must retain the most basic dignity and emotion of being a human being. Even if it is a bastard, even if he has been living in loneliness, as long as his humanity and feelings are awakened, what is the death of the Virgin Mary! A trace of faith and trust resolves the hatred between people, just like the worker who is addicted to alcohol and has disabled hands. Under such unbearable conditions, he will have a wife who can hug and give him warmth. This is that the disabled still have hope of being redeemed, whether it is to be saved or to save themselves.
"Holy Sage" has maintained the style of Kim Kidd's past, explicit sexual violence, heavy crusade against society, but compared with the past works, this time is quite mature, in the seemingly indifferent and gloomy core, there is no hiding. Changed, another kind of care for this world and infinite redemption. This is an old soul that only belongs to Kim Kidd. As a film critic, as long as he can see this, the rest is to help him get revenge.
8.5/10
Classic Line: In a capitalist society, money is often the best weapon to test people's hearts, and people are indeed obsessed with believing that money can solve everything, but to this day, the basic problem of all things still comes from money.
Fragment: The man used his identity to rape his mother with anger, destroying his desire for love.
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