I like Kim Kidd, am I perverted? Anyway, I have never dared to tell people that I like his movies, for fear of people suspecting that I am abnormal. Haha, I'm normal, especially normal, what am I afraid of? cut!
Let's talk about "Bow". In fact, I can’t say much. Just like Kim Kidd’s movies, the language is very boring. He firmly believes that laughter and crying are the best emotional expressions. Because human activities cannot lie. They are all honest, regardless of whether these behaviors meet the standards of right and wrong. Watching his movies, you don't have to be tired of reading the subtitles, and you can focus all your attention on the development of the lens. This is the first reason why I like Kim Kidd. He is a director who started with fringe themes. Jin Kidd has always not only expressed normal emotional conflicts, he always magnified its extremes to show you. In order to highlight such effects, he often drastically deletes many unnecessary things in the movie. Such as the social background, the real life environment, the names of the characters, and even the dialogue between people. In "Bow", Kim Kidd, who is obsessed with extremes, once again tells an extreme story:
an old man and a young girl live in a boat floating on the sea, and the two make a living by picking up guests on a boat to fish. The girl was adopted by an old man ten years ago. He was about to marry her when she turned 17. But one day, a handsome young man came on the boat, and the girl’s heart began to rippling like spring water...
Maybe everyone can’t The desires and hopes that are fulfilled are usually hidden by everyone. In the movie, he wanted to show how mean, noble, sad and beautiful these hidden wishes are. So he used a girl who cannot be controlled by others to talk about the old man's desire. But the old man's imprisonment of the girl seemed so desperate.
Kim Kidd’s movies have always had two major paranoias. One is that he likes to put the characters in a closed space. "The Drifting Room" is a lonely island. "The Empty Room" he chooses a lonely room. Once, he put the protagonist on a drifting fishing boat; secondly, in a closed space, his movie will have an abnormal love, this film is about the indecent love between a pair of grandparents and grandchildren.
Kim Kidd has a never-weary preference for showing cruel violence. When the girl was playing with two fishhooks, I closed my eyes a little bit painfully, and said, "Isn't it? Playing with fishhooks again?", read "Drifting" The people in "The Room of Desire" will understand what I mean. Fortunately, she just played around. Shooting a person's thigh with a bow and arrow is the most serious violence in "Bow". Another cruel scene is that the old man puts the cable around his neck, the expression of pain to the extreme, it is so cruel that people can't watch it. As for sex, it is an unavoidable topic for Kim Kidd’s movies. The scene of the old man taking a bath for the girl is very ambiguous. In the end, the sex scene performed by the girl alone is within the scale, but it is really stunned.
An ordinary bow glowed with magical beauty under the lens of Kim Kidd. In his view, the bow is a powerful murder weapon to prevent intruders, a musical instrument that expresses the voice of the soul, and a language that conveys the relaxation of inner emotions. He even added subtitles at the end of the film: Strength and beauty are like tight bows, and I wish to do so until the end of life.
This is "Bow", a film made by a talented director in just 17 days. This director, who was born as a painter, became famous by writing scripts. His films have never left the love, vendetta, loneliness, despair and humbleness. From obscurity to winning an international reputation, from being unable to be shown to frequent invitations to first-class film festivals. Kim Kidd has successfully reached the public. Today, he is the most controversial Korean director. His strong pessimism is hated by Hollywood, and his shocking images caused an uproar in Europe.
His films pay more attention to the causes of tragedies and the various marginalized people ignored by the public. In this way, he is actually extremely compassionate and fragile. Far from being qualitative by the media.
If you visit the zoo with curiosity and superiority and look at Kim Kidd, that's the real cruelty!
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