Time is something that human beings have not yet been able to understand. Although philosophical people say that one day they will be able to understand it, but at present it is still impossible to extricate themselves. So in a word, in the torrent of time, the world has changed beyond recognition. Fortunately, human beings have memories, and they always feel embarrassed every time they think about it.
So in movies, I always like to take time out to talk about things. It is a coincidence. Mint is a movie from 2000, and Reader is a movie from 2008. It is also a kind of fate to be able to watch these two films in succession.
Mint adopts a flashback. The movie uses the image of a train to replace time. As a connection of the movie, the tone of the entire movie is also gradually transitioning from dark and wet to sunny. In this way, from completely broken to sunny. The beautiful beginning, showing the life of the protagonist's destruction, not only increases the suspense of the film, but also increases the audience's emotional resonance to the plot. Among the readers, the image of the train is also used. This film adopts the method of cross-cutting between reality and memory. Trains, including urban rail trains, are also used in this film to replace time. I don’t know if this is a convention. Directors like trains very much. People sit in the car and watch the outside keep running backwards. People outside the car watch the train run forward. A sense of instinct, a sense of passing.
Rain is the second image. I really like the sound of rain in the movie, it's ticking and very textured. Rain gives the feeling of cold and wet. In the mint, the host committed suicide by buying a gun in a car, the rain kept falling, and the whole picture was disturbing. At the beginning of the reader, the young man met the heroine in the rain. He even suffered from scarlet fever and vomited filth all over the place. Rain can wash everything, but it can also bring intense discomfort.
Everyone has different opinions on what the film is going to show, in order to calmly write down one thing, in order to satirize and alert people, in order to show the truth, goodness and beauty of human beings, or just to reflect the director's own hysteria, etc. Like literary works, movies themselves can express a lot. Movies can reflect on history and imagine the future. In Mint, the broken life of the protagonist originated from the Gwangju incident, and in the reader, the entanglement of the fate of the two protagonists also originated from the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II. In fact, there are countless similar movies. My favorite "City of Sadness" I watched last year was about the February 28 incident in Taiwan, including the well-received "Eavesdropping Storm", which also showed the history of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at that time. .
So why is this movie so loved? The directors didn't have to face masks to show the full picture of history, and they didn't pursue any historical blockbuster, epic blockbuster and so on. What people see in the movie is time. The directors focus on the little people. The history is too big, but personally, it is that period of life, which is cruel and sometimes beautiful. Although only one person is selected in the movie, he actually represents an era. After watching the movie, the strong resonance sometimes makes people breathless. In Mint Candy, the person who joined the army, experienced incidents, and unfortunately killed an innocent student, his fate began to take a turn for the worse, his whole life became unbearable, and the fate of the tragedy happened, foreshadowing has been laid before. In the readers, the shadow of World War II actually shrouded every character in the movie, and history can destroy a lot.
The language of the shots in Mint is monotonous. There are many still shots and quiet pictures, giving you enough time to think about the whole picture. Like Sad City, there are a lot of empty shots and stop-motion shots. This kind of movie needs such a Quiet, the director does not want to be an operator, making you think that he is describing history, he is just a witness, let's see how the trajectory of history came together. History cannot be forgotten, and it is necessary to reflect on the past. We need these, because some mistakes cannot be repeated. Sometimes, we make history and we don't know it at all, and looking back is often horrifying.
In fact, what amazes me in the mint is the director's meticulous handling of details, because this is a movie about time, and the span is so large, so sometimes the requirements for details are very important, and the handling of details in the film can even affect the whole movie. The direction of the movie. For example, the bad leg of the male protagonist corresponds to being shot when he joins the army. For example, the male protagonist accompanies his wife to learn to drive a bicycle and then catches an adulterer. For example, the name of the movie Mint, and the director is also narrating the history of the era in a way that includes radio and television. Those who can achieve big things are not limited to the details. The details of the film reflect the script's skills and the director's thinking. Sometimes, the director's style can only be seen from these details. Some people say that Li Cangdong is like a poet, which is true.
There is a scene in the mint, the male protagonist went back to his hometown to handle a case and chatted with the young girl in the hotel. That night, it was drizzling, they had sex, and they chatted. On the second day, the male protagonist left, leaving the girl by the pier, standing and wandering, the whistle sounded shrill and long.
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