In 2004, Chinese movie fans took a crucial step. No longer deceived by the cover of the nude girl with the "third-level movie" and the erotic film "Drifting Desire Room", I met a Korean man named Kim Ki-duk who captured a silver bear and a silver lion, and then countless hats were attached to him. On his head, it is no longer the brand hat he often wears.
Once asserted that it is difficult for "Time" to surprise myself, and even fear that Kim Kidd will continue the silent "tenderness" of "Bow", continue his escape from the public, get close to the edge and enter a dead end. Just like the heroine in "Time", Shixi questioned her boyfriend's inevitably fading interest in her body and face. It took only two years. After all, no matter how hot the relationship is, the best way to overcome obstacles is to change her face.
From 2004 to 2006, for the same two years, some people were looking forward to "another Jin Ji De" by appointment, even if he would not appear in the end. I have to admit that this is the same linear thinking as Shixi.
Straight-line thinking has appeared a lot in Kim Kidd’s previous films, from fatalism to transformational cruel self-abuse, mute girls, bad boys, compensated dating girls to old men with bows. Being too rigid and refusing to compromise is one of the characteristics of marginal figures. The practice of reducing complexity to simplicity is always unsatisfactory. But it is not suitable for Kim Ki-duk in reality (it’s just that he often reveals this tendency), nor is it suitable for the Korean public-even if a large part of the Chinese audience is interested in this thinking, the irony is that they try to escape it in reality. The entanglement of the way of thinking.
2. There is always a squeeze.
Never worry that Kim Kidd doesn’t have a new movie. Just like Time, there is always a squeeze.
Time is still going on, and the voices for transformation also appeared immediately. For example, Director Kim declared to reporters that his lines have increased a lot, monsters suspected of hype, smoke bombs continue. The past half year has not been good for Kim Kidd: after Venice and Berlin, Kim Kidd’s works are undoubtedly aimed at Cannes, otherwise his high production will not further prove his progress; in Korea, he still appears as unpopular. After the bombardment of "The Host", a channel of apology was published, and the disturbances were normal.
Even if "Time" is under the banner of "plastic surgery", these two words can always reflexively contact the Koreans, all the actresses with big eyes, high nose bridge, and melon face. However, don't think that Kim Kidd is paying attention to the hot issues in the real world, and plastic surgery is no longer a new event.
It is undeniable that too many Chinese people treat Korean plastic surgery ventures with contemptuous eyes, just like a friend who always ridicules the appearance of South China people with high cheekbones. However, in the past six months, there have been many advertisements for various plastic surgery agencies in the media. The trend is becoming more and more prosperous.
They use the mentality of ordinary people to speculate about the cause of plastic surgery, which is nothing more than becoming beautiful or seeking a future. However, "Time" denied the answer at the first time, not because the heroine's face was so horrible, and her plastic surgery was just to get over the period of love burnout, this kind of psychology is undoubtedly the mentality of marginal characters. Think about it, it's not the time to hit the wall every day to vent with the face for a lifetime. Having said that, there are still many surprises for Cheng Xian'e's performance.
Therefore, don't be deceived. Just like "The Capital of Beasts" and "Empty Room" which are intentionally appearing in the film, the essence of "Time" is the men and women in Kim Kidd's works. Go to extremes and refuse to look back.
3. Lie Yan
This is the translation of "Time" in Taiwan, which means false face, which fits too much.
Kim Kidd never gave up the speculation and portrayal of the mentality of marginal characters, which disgusted a group of people and fascinated some people. The first half of the film is calm, everything is reasonable and reasonable, and I am used to seeing the self-abuse of Kim Ki-de-style characters, and I am not surprised by Shixi's choice. The same is true of Zhiyu. It doesn't matter whether the ending is shocking or not. For the sensitive audience, most of them have already smelled what kind of breath in the broken frame at the beginning.
Shixi doesn't want to stay in the torment of self-pity and self-pity, her linear thinking is making waves again. Faced with the passage of time, how to avoid the unfavorable situation envisaged, the best way is not to leave him for a new love or to talk about it, but to use another self to agree to the satisfaction, change the current dilemma, and solve the irresistible situation. concern.
It is one thing to imagine by every possible means, but whether to be able to change in person is another.
In "Time", the two people have the dual identities of persecution and persecution, beginning with the change of Shixi, without ending (see, Kim's fatalism again). Regardless of how Zhiyu confronts his lover, he will encounter hysterical revenge. To put it farther, it is the complex mentality of sadism and masochism in love, or attenuate a layer of revenge that alternates with each other. It has nothing to do with deformity, and it is not unfamiliar to Kim Kidd's works, that is, one party entrains aggressive initiative, while the other party is willing to bear it. Human beings are a contradiction, so for Kim Ki-duk's use of old bottles to fill new wine in "Time"-plastic surgery is the subject of a love proposition that he has repeated countless times.
Kim Kidd once set up an unbelievable exchange of love, which is used to vent the emotions of the people in the drama, but everyone will no longer be dumbfounded, and everything is caused by Kim himself.
Maybe this constant plastic surgery is just a change of mask that can't be removed in vain.
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