The train kept going, kept going, rewinding Kim Yong-ho's life. At the beginning, he lay by the river with tears in his eyes, got up and roared and sang like crazy; at the end, on the outing twenty years ago, he sat around with a group of people, sang the same song tenderly, got up alone, watched Weeping wildflowers. A structural loopback.
What should I do if you leave suddenly
what should i do without you
What should I do if you leave me and go
No, really no, please don't leave me
Is there something I can't tell you?
...
After reading a lifetime in flashbacks, the outing in the past finally ends. Such a pure time, like poetry. I cried for it while singing.
The mint that I bought when I went to see the critically ill Yin Shunren, and the tearful narration; the mint that was spilled when urged by the commander in the barracks. Refreshing and clean mint candies, behind Yin Shunren's letters one after another, young and innocent emotions. This is the only human nature in the cruel and inhumane military life, but such a carefully cared and treasured collection is scattered under the kicks and trampled, leaving black marks.
In the evening after seeing Yin Shunren off, he rushed into the store like a madman, yelling "stand at attention", "saluting", "resting" and "turn right" at the happy people in the store. At this time, the story has not yet returned to the life of the military camp, but I can vaguely see where his changes come from. A nightmare-like order, violence, irreversible, the pain written in the depths of his heart.
Yin Shunren said that I had come to see you at the time, but I couldn't get in. You probably didn't know that; behind the car that Jin Yonghao was sitting in, was the back of Yin Shunren who was getting farther and farther away. In the sound of military songs, the yellow sand was raised and gradually disappeared.
In the past, he said he wanted to take pictures, but he rejected her camera; the mints he liked in the past, but also no longer like it.
"Life is beautiful." "You wrote it in your diary." "Do you really think that life is beautiful?" In his subsequent life, he asked more than once. Is life beautiful?
The more rewinding life gets, the more heartbreaking and terrifying it becomes.
The first time he extorted a confession, he hugged the prisoner's neck and said softly, "Please." Trembling, he shouted "Speak it out" with great difficulty. And every time he hit, he roared "Who do you think you are?" "Do you think you are great?" "Why are you trying to be brave?" It is clearly not purely ruthless and unbearable, but more of hating that iron is not steel, and it is also like saying to myself - why don't you understand, what will happen to you.
Many times before the film, Jin Yonghao's injury to his right foot was portrayed, and it was not until the barracks that he understood where it came from. The most shocking part of the whole film for me.
He cried that there was water in his shoes and he couldn't walk. When I took off my shoes, the blood poured out. When he met the girl who entered by mistake, he shouted "Go!" and shot her out of panic and cover, and never thought to hit her. He dragged his injured foot and hugged her helplessly, crying all the time, "Isn't it too late to go back, will I be scolded by my mother..." At those moments, his face was full of tears and pain, and he was as helpless as a child. Xue Jingqiu's acting is also too good, too layered, and too emotional.
Some people say, "Li Changdong is really a poet". I agree.
How a person is destroyed. Great shot. I like it very much.
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