Generally, it is necessary to be cautious about movies named with abstract words such as "poetry", "painting" and "beauty", because they will inevitably have a closed and inner color-this is also a feature of the author's movies, it is beyond reproach .
However, it's just that if the creator is not the same person as you, then the viewing process is likely to be a torture.
For example, Li Cangdong's "Poetry", the first half is still a top grade with a good balance of suspense and poetry, but the second half suddenly becomes too abstract and drifting on the mental level. It seems that the director has been seeing the director behind the screen saying: "Do you know poetry? You Do you understand beauty? Do you understand the realm? If you don't understand, don't expect to understand my movie." Whether you understand it or not, this attitude makes people uninterested.
In comparison, the previous "Oasis" and "Miyang" are like a person who actively communicates. At least its ups and downs of narrative, tragic emotions and strong criticism of society are easily attractive. But "The Poetry" is a lonely old man, who needs you to take the trouble to understand, figure out, or listen to him/her talking about those things over and over again. Of course, if you really do that, this film is also a masterpiece. It allows you to discover the beauty of transcendence and the perception of humble life.
The film won the Best Screenplay Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, largely due to the stitching of the two plot lines inside and outside the film. First of all, a plot line in line with realistic logic-Yang Meizi was diagnosed as Alzheimer's, her grandson and several male classmates raped a rural girl for a long time, leading to the girl's suicide. Several parents plan to raise money as a hush fee for the school and the girl’s family. Yang Meizi got the money from the old stroked man she took care of (through sex with him), but in the end, the grandson was taken away by the police.
Facing reality far away is a world of "poems and beauty"—in this plot line, the heroine learns to write poems, observes flowers and leaves, records with paper and pen, and suffers for the dead girl. And write poems for her and herself. In the end, she completed a confrontation with the dead girl in nature, or according to the director, "accepted the fate of herself and that girl." At the end of the film, the world stays in the middle of vast mountains and rivers.
The film also won three awards for Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor (Stroke Old Man) at the Daejong Awards in South Korea, which fully demonstrated the recognition and appreciation of Korean local film festivals for personal expression. Elegance of worship. However, what I have to say is that the film’s evasive orientation is very obvious-it criticizes the world’s failure to understand beauty, but not the corruption of the entire social system and people’s hearts; it does not face problems, does not analyze problems, but is in trouble. While doing the fragile pain state, carry out unnecessary self-blame. In the end, the law will punish crimes, and individuals will accept fate, just because the power of writing poetry is infinite.
What is even more paradoxical is that the heroine is unwilling to accept the logic of reality, but is acting according to the logic of reality, and is doing very "authentic". For example, when several fathers were discussing parental hush fees and public opinion buying matters, she ran out of the house to see flowers and was immersed in "beauty", but in the end she was able to raise a sum of money in the most effective way. Of course, the method of raising money will also be interpreted as "atonement" because of the ambiguous meaning of the whole film. But in fact, her consciousness is indeed always in chaos and surreal (making the audience feel that her savvy is really high), but her behavior is not at all confused (the plot has to be continued)-perhaps, only so paralyzed, reality Only with the world of poetry can we coexist peacefully.
This feature can be directly associated with Lee Cangdong after he entered politics. In 2003, he joined the government cabinet and became the Minister of Culture and Tourism of South Korea, but he resigned after 16 years. The former President Roh Moo-hyun, whom he supported, also committed suicide by jumping off the cliff in 2009 due to a bribery incident. .
At moments when it is difficult to face reality, face oneself rationally, and unwilling to actively act, the illusion of "poetry and beauty" can indeed embed itself in reality, and at this time, only "poetry" is. The best place to hide.
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