Returning to the movie, I am very impressed with the director's technique. He uses the technique of reverse chronological order. The protagonist at the beginning is already confusing. A man in a suit, sloppy clothes and a trance enters the audience's line of sight. The director's time flashback method seems to be saying to the audience: "Don't worry, take your time."
Then, like a portrait that has been dusty for a long time, it is slowly wiped clean, and even the texture of the canvas is wiped out, we see the beginning of time. , A clean man sheds tears because of the beauty of the world, leaning against wildflowers under the sunshine.
If we are talking about the film, maybe we can see some characters more clearly. At the beginning, the male protagonist Yong Hao met his first love Yin Shun. He said: He likes mints.
The train of time runs until 1980. 1980 is a special year. In this year, South Korea experienced the Gwangju Uprising and the Gwangju Massacre. 518 students were killed because of their opposition to the military rule. In the film, Yonghao is also doing military service. In a military operation, he innocently killed a young girl, and his body was branded with a disability for life. In Yonghao's hoarse cries, we saw his helplessness, self-blame, fear•••• ••The mints were also trampled, and the beautiful love vanished.
1984 was a major turning point in the hero's life, or maybe everything was ready. If we look at it in flashbacks, we may be surprised to see the hero who still has a good sense. In this clip, the male The protagonist took an evil step and began to slowly adapt to the cruelty and abuse of prisoners in the police station, saying goodbye to his first love. If you look at it from this point of view, I think the protagonist should be a perfectionist person. The more people who hope, the more they will break the jar. Rejects who he considers perfect because of his own imperfection (killing female college students).
In 1994, when the Asian economy was taking off, Yonghao became the president of the company. He was annoyed and caught the adulterer. Here, I felt it was necessary to look at Yonghao's wife Hong. In my eyes, she was a poor woman. The clip of her training with her lover in the clip reminds us of the clip of her training with Yong Hao in 1984. This poor woman is looking for the shadow of the past even when she is looking for her lover. She can't help praying at the dinner table. Reminds me of how she was lying on the bed naked and praying with Yonghao in 1984, yes, everything is changing, her prayers were full of hope in 1984, and in 1994, she could only pray low Cry, or perhaps accuse.
Back in 1999, in the midst of the Asian economic crisis, his wife and son were separated. He bought a gun, saw his first love, sold his camera, exchanged money for food, and collapsed against the film under the roar of the train.
Watching Li Cangdong's films, you can always feel the powerlessness and sadness of the little people. The powerful forces of the society are often set against the background. How should we define this "society"? In the movie, it's just passers-by, your work mates, neighbors, and even the closest relatives, whose faces cannot be seen clearly because of the word "society", just as a powerful force, pushing Moving forward with you is very different from America's emphasis on individualism and heroism.
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