A personal epic about Kim Young-ho's important experiences over the past 20 years. We shared with him the sweetness of his first love, experienced the savage years of military service, witnessed how he shot a girl, and the great torture he suffered when he became a police officer, and we also witnessed how he became a calm How a violent policeman formed a family, then betrayed the family, turned into a successful businessman, and finally became extremely desolate in a dramatic way, and finally was tortured by memory and went mad, and died tragically under the wheels of a train. The film is epic.
How bland the first half of the film is, how powerful the second half is. The director used flashbacks to let us see that the madman and the villain were also pure teenagers, which made us have to think about what caused such a big change.
Cruel and ruthless army life, violent law enforcement agencies, and various flaws in human nature all lead to the man who ends up going mad on the railroad. In particular, we can see the impact of social institutions on individuals from the film, and it also makes us reflect on how the society we live in breeds evil.
This is a very big tragedy, the well-designed social system of human beings does not allow a person to live a happy life, but destroys a person. If a person can survive in such a society, he is either driven mad or forced to be a villain.
Several films directed by Lee Chang-dong I have seen are filled with strong pessimism, revealing the dark side of society, and all have strong social expressions. "Burning" focuses on class division and the gap between rich and poor in society, "Poem" shows the demise of poetry in society, and "Mint" tells how society alienates a person. These themes are so important, so relevant to us, so close to the world we live in. These issues accurately grasp the pulse of the times and force us to think about what it means to build a society.
The flashbacks of the film are very subtle, because the earlier parts of the timeline are more thrilling and dramatic, and we can clearly see the various struggles of Kim Yong-ho. The film begins with an outing and ends with an outing, contrasting before and after, showing the delicate structure of the script.
Xue Jingqiu's performance is also very good. He has to play a person in different states of different ages, and the time span is as long as 20 years. In addition, the scenes are so complicated, which is very challenging for the performance, and Xue Jingqiu's performance is convincing.
Regarding personal epics, I can think of "Barry Lyndon" that is similar to this film. Although the film's cinematography and music are excellent, the play is too bland and boring, and it is far less attractive than this film. .
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