" -----Jin Ji De is
serious The old man, who looks a bit Hemingway, has two boats. The large one is parked on the endless sea, and the small one is used to pick up tourists for fishing. Living with the old man is a young girl who has not disembarked for ten years. On her seventeenth birthday, the old man will marry her as his wife. Only more than three months before marriage, the old man prepared traditional wedding supplies while protecting the girls from tourists. But everything changed because of the arrival of a young man.
Kim Kidd’s new film in 2005 is about the desire of a sixty-year-old man for a seventeen-year-old girl. His previous films on this theme are even more non-mainstream. But this film, as the opening film of a focus unit in Cannes this year, won much more applause than many films in competition units.
"Bow" is considered to be a return to "Drifting Bathroom" while also following the style of "Empty Room". In "Bow", the old man and the girl did not speak, all they wanted to express were in their expressions and movements, as well as their eyes. Most of the time, I hear the music made by a bow that resembles an erhu instrument. The timbre of this instrument is similar to that of the Erhu, a lot less bleak and a little more sad. As the story unfolds slowly, the emotions incorporated into the music also fluctuate. Correspondingly, several details also show differences in different periods. Testing luck, taking a shower, holding hands, and paying attention to details such as these changes after the conversation disappears is a memorable thing.
The bow as the title has three meanings here. One is a murder weapon, used to protect young girls from tourists, and later used to separate young girls from young people; the other is a musical instrument. Whether happy or sad, the old man will use a modified bow to draw his own voice; Third, the bow is a state of the old man’s emotions and desires, with tension and relaxation. And the core of these three is the girl whose eyes can also laugh.
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