. I always thought I was looking back at my past, but I was actually envisioning my future. - The inscription
plus "Mint", this is the fourth film I have watched directed by Li Changdong ("Green Fish" I am I watched it half-heartedly in an Internet cafe), and the order of watching the films is not in the order in which Li Cangdong was filmed. First "Miryang", then "Oasis", then "Green Fish" and then "Mint".
I have written a film review of "Miryang", and this one is half of it.
In the past, when I wrote film reviews, I always liked to digress a lot. When writing "Mints", the first thing I had to ask myself was: What is the theme of this film? No way, the reading inertia of primary school Chinese: an article without a central idea is not a good article! Even if it is just a short essay about simple scenes, its central idea must be one: expressing the author's love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
So, what about the Mints theme? From a formal point of view, it should be regarded as a suspense film. Following the six major scenes of the film, a question has been hanging in my mind: why is the actor Jin Yonghao such a person? What prompted him to perform like this? Is this always the case, or is it an accidental blow? But if we abandon the question of form, I think the theme the film wants to express can also be: the capricious and contradictory life path.
This kind of analysis of the theme of the film is always based on benevolence and wisdom, and cannot be unified. Just like the theme of the film
In the spring of 1999, on the spring outing of the Beauty Bee Club
, Jin Yonghao's performance was already crazy. And Yin Shunren's husband found him. He bought a bottle of mints and wanted to give it to his first love as a gift. After seeing it at the hospital, he immediately took the camera that Yin Shunren left to him to a thrift store and exchanged it for money. He used to be a young man who loved photography, and Yin also wanted to give it to him more than ten years ago. But he was rejected at the time.
In the summer of 1994, life was beautiful.
Jin Yonghao, who is proud of his business, and the company's front desk girl are getting hot, but the relationship with his wife is becoming increasingly tense. The wife cheated on the driving coach by taking the opportunity of learning to drive. But he happened to meet the person who saved him before and hurt him again - Park Mingji.
In the spring of 1987, it was
reported that Bai Jin Yonghao's wife was pregnant, and Jin was working as a policeman. His mission was to torture his comrade-in-arms, Park Myung-jin, who had rescued him when he was a soldier. At this time, Jin Yonghao could be said to be familiar with such matters, slapped the prisoner in the face a dozen times, stripped the prisoner naked, and slammed it into the pool.
In the autumn of 1984, I prayed that
Kim Yong-ho first became a policeman, and for the first time he had a heavy hand on a prisoner. He rejected the camera and love that Yoon Soon-Rim gave him, all the memories flooded to him, he frantically destroyed the dinner party of his police colleagues, and then Kim Yong-ho chose his XXX who had a crush on him as his wife.
In May 1980,
Yin Shunren went to the barracks to visit his lover, Kim Yong-ho, but failed. However, Kim Yong-ho was injured while performing a political mission and was rescued by his comrade-in-arms Park Myung-sik, but he mistakenly shot and killed a female student who was crossing the road without an aunt, and his life changed forever.
In the autumn of 1979, during the outing
of the Bee Bee Association, Jin Yonghao met Yin Shunren for the first time, and Yin Shunren gave Jin Yonghao mints. And Yin also found out that Jin likes photography very much. The crowd sang happily by the river, while Kim Yong-ho lay alone by the river, tears welling up in his eyes.
Now, let us comprehend the capricious life encounters with the scenery of the railway receding all the way. (All the scenery along the railway before the time-space transformation of the film seems to be taken along the forward direction of the railway tracks. In fact, it just plays the scenery of the backward railway tracks in the opposite direction. The people who have explained this point)
mints can be sent by a lover or a little secret.
Yin Shunren can be used to love or to hurt.
Wife, can be used to caress, can also be used to betray.
Prayer to God can calm and purify the soul, but it can also make people tired.
Pu Mingzheng, a person who has been entangled in his life, may be used to rely on, or he can be used to torture.
You can persuade the nightclub lady not to sell her hue, or you can go on a mission to find a one-night stand.
The beatings of prisoners can be shocking or numbing.
And time, sometimes it flies like electricity, and sometimes it feels like a year.
I think if a native Korean is watching "Mints", they may have more emotions. Because this film is like "Memories of Murder", it has participated in the political history of South Korea for nearly 20 to 30 years, which makes the film add a bit of heaviness on the basis of human nature. This kind of movie-watching feeling is like Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness". If you don't understand Taiwan's "228 Incident", then you don't understand Hou Hsiao-hsien's courage and the detached position of this film in Taiwanese movies. Another example that can be compared is "The Summer Palace". If you are not born in China after the 1970s, how can you understand the feeling of separation between those passionate years and the end of the world!
Speaking of the film itself, the Korean historical factors are removed, the suspense veil is removed, and in the face of the frank and naked life path, Kim Yong-ho's life (this character should not commit suicide by lying on the rails in the end, but jumped off. The first character shot of the film should be a Flashback shots, the audience who pay attention to the details of the tie can see this), on the screen is just a pawn in the hands of the director, can only move forward, not back or regret, even if it can go back in time, it can only be like both sides of the railway The scenery of advancing is just an illusion of retreating. Does the director want to portray Kim Yong-ho as a victim of a big era? Or does the director want to express the capricious and contradictory life? "The Arrow of Time" shatters all assumptions and fantasies. Under this idea, I would rather interpret the tears shed by the last male protagonist of the film as the director's pity for himself.
I thought I was writing reviews of the past, maybe, I just wanted to write my insights into the future.
PS:
A. Lyrics sung on the outing:
What should I do, you leave my words
No , really can't, please don't leave me, is there anything you can't tell me about your troubles? You
were so kind, you were so gentle, why can be so ruthless
I can't believe, you will leave
me I don't want to believe, you say goodbye to me
B. Political events in the film.
1979 "Seoul Spring", 1980 Gwangju Incident, 1987 Seoul Constitution Revision Parade, 1988 Seoul Olympics and Chun Doo-hwan's resignation, 1993 Kim Young-sam was elected, 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo's Final Judgment .
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