At that time, I didn't know that the director of "Mints" was called Lee Chang-dong, and later the Minister of Culture of South Korea. He was 49 years old at the time, but he had only made three films. When his debut "Green Fish" came out, he was already 43 years old. Because he was a famous writer before. As of today in 2011, he has only made five films. Interestingly, two people are mentioned in the train's words, one is alive and has made five movies, and the other is deceased and only made eight movies when he left.
It's not that a low-productivity director is necessarily a good director, and a high-productivity director is not necessarily a bad director, but there is no doubt about one thing, the two people in the train's mouth are indeed good directors, and I'm afraid they can even be called great directors. , Lee Chang-dong is only the second "Mint", which is considered by me to be the best movie among Korean movies, a movie worth pondering over and over again.
This movie is full of power, and while it seems dull, it is terrifying. How does a person gradually become the person he once hated and disgusted with? The annihilation of ideals is not scary. What is scary is that they slip step by step to the opposite of ideals without knowing it, until they become accustomed to them, insensitive, and their humanity disappears. The most shocking sentence in the movie came from Jin Yonghao, played by Xue Jingqiu, when he tortured and tortured the suspect during his tenure as a police officer, and then dug out the suspect's diary. The beginning of the diary was a sentence: "Life is beautiful." Several. Years later, Jin Yonghao and the suspect met again, which was quite embarrassing. When they met again in the toilet and were about to separate, Jin Yonghao asked the suspect, "Do you still think life is beautiful?" He asked the suspect and himself, Both doubt and denial. This feeling of being trapped in a huge sense of tragedy, but unable to extricate and save oneself, makes people feel hopeless and depressed.
"Mint" together with "Green Fish" and "Oasis" constitute the first three films of Li Cangdong, and also his "green trilogy". Green symbolizes hope and life, but we are distinct in these three films. Seeing the disappearance of hope and the trampling of beauty, this murderer is not only the protagonist himself, but also the people around him, but also time and destiny. At this time, it is meaningless to discuss whether people are born good or evil, but there is no doubt that everyone has a good heart, at least the desire and appeal of chasing good, just like Jin Yonghao, who always lives in his heart With his first lover, he will always keep the fresh mint, just like his lover, he still misses each other when he is dying, but this fresh and beautiful mint is crushed by the big feet of life. , go with the wind and leave nothing behind.
Jin Yonghao died, from the moment the mint was crushed, from the moment when he accidentally killed the female student, and then he hugged the female student's body and cried bitterly in fear of sadness. He was already dead, and the crying was for the manslaughter. female students, but also for themselves.
He knew that he would never go back.
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