When I saw the film review of "Empty Room" in the magazine, I yearned for the fragility and beauty in the state of aphasia, but I hadn't noticed Kim Kidd's name at that time.
I watched "Bow" tonight, and I had been playing a movie that had been hidden for a long time, only to find out that it was made by the same person as "Empty Room". Still a suffocating and hopeless state of aphasia.
I looked for a lot of film reviews, because many things in the movie impacted me and I lost the ability to think. Later, I discovered that the original "Bow" has been classified as a pornographic movie. Once again, the critics took the movie that Kim Kidd gave to the movie as an erotic movie. I hate this shameless hype with no bottom line.
Kim Kidd doesn't avoid sex and can't say that he is erotic. I have always insisted that a good modern art work cannot be separated from sex and eroticism, because in the face of sex, talents return to their attributes as humans. The naked face of biological instincts will make everyone vulnerable— -This is the result of our dependence on social attributes for thousands of years.
In fact, the first few films of King Kidd did have some expressing desires in them, and some of them were purely expressing human desires, but "Bow" was not. From these movies, we can see that the director's thinking about human nature is slowly sublimating. Maybe he could only feel certain truths of human nature through sex at first, but in "Bow" he can almost grasp the essence of humanity by transcending desire and sex.
Therefore, I disagree that "Bow" also describes human desires.
Those who have watched "Empty Room" must be impressed by the detailed scenes, colors, and close-ups of the characters' eyes in the movie. It can be said that the performance of "Bow" in these aspects is even worse. I won't say much about the small parts. There are two places that shocked me the most:
1. When the girl was taken away by the boy in a boat, the old man trapped in the big boat put the rope of the boat on his neck around his neck. As the boat went farther and farther, the rope around the old man’s neck became tighter and tighter. The old man’s face changed from white to red and red to purple, and his eyes were almost as bright red as protruding. The camera shot the subtle changes on his face right next to the old man's eyes, which was shocking enough.
2. The girl noticed the old man's suicidal behavior and hurried back to rescue him, and finally held a grand traditional wedding with the old man. After the wedding, facing the girl in a white dress sleeping soundly on the deck, the old man threw himself into the sea, but the arrow he shot into the sky before his death ended up in the middle of the girl’s legs, replacing the old man with the girl. The bright red blood was left in the early night.
This is almost the last third of the plot of the movie. Every minute of development is silently grasping your heartstrings tighter and tighter. More and more questions will appear in your mind:
What kind of feelings are between girls and old people?
The old man used suicide to face the departure of the girl and the young boy. Is it a final effort to retain or express the fear of living alone without the girl?
What kind of emotional drive did the girl return to the old man? Is there really no love?
The answer is very complicated, so complicated that it is almost impossible to figure it out. Just like the girl's seemingly cunning and innocent eyes, you can't tell what kind of story it is. This is a story that is free from morality. This is a story that excludes the attributes of human society.
I still don't understand the "bow" as the name of the movie, although it stands at an extremely important position in the movie, but what the metaphorical image is. But it can be vaguely felt that the complicated and unspeakable relationship and emotions between the old man and the girl are all maintained by this bow.
Still trapped in that feeling: I want to say a lot, but I can't figure it out to form words. Every time I watch Kim Kidd’s movies, I will end up with aphasia, not only has the tendency to close myself, but also loses the ability to express in words.
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