It's not so much a flashback movie, it's a memoir-traveling movie. Between these clips, the time span is huge, and usually in similar movies, the continuity of the film's plot is a big problem. But it is very impressive that Director Lee Changdong can wipe out these inconsistencies. Moreover, at the two ends of the span of these decades, two tears of different meanings connected the end to the end.
In my opinion, there are two clues to connect the plot: First, it is on the surface, mainly about some specific things. For example, what Kim Yong-ho said before committing suicide in the first clip brought me back to the past. As well as the first love behind, the camera, the criminal who was forced to confess, and so on. All arouse the audience's expectations for the follow-up plot, and at the same time, the plot also appears coherent, and the abrupt things will have reasonable explanations later.
Second, it is a deeper clue, which is the psychological change process of the male protagonist. From the madness - hysteria - coldness at the beginning to the simplicity and tenderness at the end, the performance of actor Xue Jingqiu portrays it incisively and delicately. Among the changes in this state, there is always one that is what we are now, the shadow of the audience in young to middle-aged audiences.
The question at the beginning, why did the male protagonist commit suicide, through the overall situation. As a result, I received the second segment. The director projected the reasons for the male protagonist's suicide through the betrayal of family, friends and life, as if he had nowhere to go. He had a deep hostility to the world and wanted to take revenge and take everything in his life. He spent all the money he needed and bought a bunch of money, which fully proved his hostility and determination. Wanting to take revenge on the whole world that was "injustice" to him, in this state of hysteria, he was not allowed to offend him in any way, and it was ridiculous to treat his first love husband as a debt collector. After hearing about the first love, although the clip did not change, the psychological state has changed a lot. like a tamed beast. The director's genius lies in this, through some subtle actions, he can describe a person's psychological state in detail. For example, at the station to the hospital, the husband of his first love bought him a set of 'decent' clothes for him to put on, which undoubtedly caused a sense of shame. But he said calmly, there is nothing more humiliating than this, and he changed it from the inside out on the side of the road. At that time, I had a question: why such madmen are in the mood to compromise in the face of humiliation. However, this is precisely the case, which fully reflects the sanctity of first love in his heart. It is this kind of warmth that can appease all evil in the world and the soul.
After receiving it, the reasons that caused the male protagonist to have nowhere to go slowly surfaced. It is not the "injustice" in the world, but the ruthlessness of the male protagonist himself. Although he has some achievements in business, he doesn't love his wife, daughter and dog, doesn't respect his friends, and always takes himself as the center. The actor Xue Jingqiu really played this kind of person that everyone hates very well. If you don't love life, life will treat you with disdain. The director has written this simple truth very clearly. But it does not only stop here, but also needs to dig further into the depths. That's why a person can be so cold. The first is violence. The violence developed when I was a police officer. The second is guilt. The guilt of accidentally killing a female student when I was in the army. In these clips, it can be seen that the male protagonist is exiled by his soul step by step, and gradually let himself go. At this time, he had given up resistance and was run over by the train of justice in his mind on the unrelieved railroad tracks. At this time, he had already sentenced himself to death in his soul, and his body was still annihilated in his soul. Compared to the last kind of greenness, he is now like a hooligan. But there is also a touch of warmth in this rogue, when he talks about his first love. Although he already believes that his sinful self is not worthy of his most sacred first love, he still maintains the sacred place in his heart to preserve the most primitive warmth of his life.
The train of life continued to retreat until it reached the familiar place in the mouth of the male protagonist. This line makes me have the idea of traveling through memories. When we are tainted with the sins of the world, if we return to the original youth, will we feel deja vu? The metaphor of the train is very profound. The train cannot go backwards. It is fixed. It is fixed on the rails. It will travel in a fixed direction without any deviation, and its end point is death. We're travelers strapped to the train, and we'll see all kinds of scenery along the way. What you see and feel is beyond your control and is accidental. We resent it, these countless coincidences are like premeditated, irresistible in the middle of the railroad of life, we call it destiny. Rather than making us, it is destroying us. In the face of this powerful force, despite the childishness and simplicity of the male protagonist's cry when he was shot in the army, to the depth and ruthlessness of violently extorting confessions from criminals behind, everyone is vulnerable. Life doesn't get better through subjective ideas. If you go back in time and go back to the beginning again, can you erase these accidents. In this way, the two tears in the first and last scenes of the film are equally weak.
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