Now everything has changed and he has experienced too much. Separation, repression, manslaughter, forced confession, infidelity, deception. . . . . . He has experienced all the unbearable things in human nature, endured it bit by bit, riding on the background of the development of Korean history, he is just a small person in the torrent, and he is carried forward involuntarily. There is no way out of choice, only this kind of life will eventually lead to his down-and-out end.
Peppermint, the only token that his first love had in the letter when he joined the army, he couldn't bear it and kept it in small bottles, but in a sudden alarm set, he was kicked to the ground by his superiors. It was too late to be sad, and he was already urged to get on the military vehicle. Kim Yong-ho's passive life was doomed from the beginning. However, that bottle of mint has always been the thing he misses the most, the person who is the most loved in his life but cannot be together. For no reason, they just weren't together. He missed her all the time, but he wasn't with her. However, he later gave the camera—given to him before his first love died—as a camera shop. Perhaps, it was not this first love that made him linger, but the pure and innocent feelings at the beginning, the bright sunshine of the outing that day, and the green years full of hope.
The train is going backwards, and Jin Yonghao's life is traced forward. Maybe only on the day of the outing, he is happy, and the smile on his face is real. The complexity of society distorts a simple mind at will, he can't find the direction, and he has nothing to look forward to. He knew that this method of extorting confessions was cruel, but he didn't have the courage to resist, he just let it be pushed and pushed and became one of them; sometimes he thought he was full of energy and everything went smoothly, but his heart was empty. He was betrayed by his wife, and he betrayed his wife, out of revenge, maybe out of vent, and he didn't quite understand it either. In the end, he was alone, and what he remembered was still that day, the youth in his memory. In the final freeze, he was bathed in the sun with a smile, and beside him was a little flower that was shivering by the breeze. He looked so weak that he couldn't help the wind. I don't know how long he could bloom in the wind, just like his life.
"Mints" tells the story of a person, but it actually tells the story of a generation. In many hidden factors such as social and political history, it shows the mental journey of this generation. The tone along the way is so sad and helpless. Xue Jingqiu's performance is wonderful. He played a 20-year-old innocent youth, and he is also competent for a 40-year-old middle-aged Luotuo. His eyes, movements and expressions are extremely delicate. The difference between 20 and 40 years old, everything is just right, it's really wonderful.
The protagonist is so lonely and weeps bitterly, but time cannot be reversed, the past cannot be repeated, and the rest is just sighing and sighing. "Is life beautiful?" No one can answer, but you can only experience it yourself.
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