The taste of Korean movies is too heavy--the despair and fear in my heart

Lavonne 2021-10-13 13:06:01

Laugh, everyone laughs; cry, weep alone! When you were inexplicably imprisoned for fifteen years and saw your wife being killed on TV, you were suspected of being a murderer. You were angry, you were desperate, and you wanted revenge. When the initial panic disappeared, your anger was burning. When you use Chopsticks dug the wall for fifteen years, only a month before they could escape from the hole, and then was released inexplicably. To find the truth in the vast sea of ​​people, your hatred must be released, and your wounds must be healed through revenge.

Fifteen years of imprisonment has allowed you to know a lot through TV, making your fists harder and harder, your heart is getting harder and harder, and your body is getting tougher and tougher. Since he was released, he has been constantly searching for the truth. In the process of searching, Daxiu meets Mi Dao, a female clerk at a sushi restaurant, and they look for the truth together. Through the taste of the dumplings he ate during his imprisonment, he finally found the group of people who imprisoned him. After a bloody torture to extract a confession, he was gradually approaching the real murderer. When the unexpected is that the real murderer is not afraid of him, let alone avoiding him, but let him choose revenge or find out the truth within a time limit. He gradually traced back to the high school where he was studying through sporadic clues. On the last day of leaving school, he accidentally ran into the incestuous behavior of two of the school’s wealthy siblings because of his unintentional spread of gossip. His sister jumped into the lake to commit suicide, but he had no idea about it. After more than ten years later, when his younger brother returned to China, he had huge financial resources and power, and he carefully planned this revenge action. When he thought he had learned the truth, he still decided to take revenge and put an end to everything, but the truth and climax didn't stop there.

When he gradually revealed the truth that he had discovered, while entangled with the two complicated emotions of apology and hatred, Li Youzhen told him the more terrifying truth. The beauty of the sushi restaurant is his daughter more than ten years ago. He released the big show to direct such tragedies. When Daxiu opened Meidao’s album from childhood to childhood, my spirit and mind collapsed completely, and my heart felt a swooshing coolness. He prayed for pity and threatened Li Youzhen not to tell Meidao the truth. His own hatred and life are no longer important. He even cut off his tongue to express his regret for their brother and sister. When Li Youzhen finally fulfilled his purpose and felt that life was irrelevant, Daxiu nodded silently when the pistol was pointed at the heads of the two people. Perhaps they both felt that they had become irrelevant. While recalling the moment when her sister committed suicide, Youzhen ended her life with a pistol, leaving a big show that can never be solved. Youzhen and her sister know that incest is wrong, but they still insist on it without regret. So what choice should Daxiu make.

Brother originally planned to watch a movie with a little bit of violent revenge to relax, but he didn't expect to see the ending but it was so heavy, depressing and cold. It was totally confusing. The taste of Koreans was too heavy and too heavy. In the end, the director still left some warm hopes. Through hypnosis, he divided the personality of the big show into two parts, the demon who knew the secret and the big show who kept love, and finally Meidao and Daxiu hugged to see the beauty of the sunset, although much It warmed the cold heart somewhat, but still filled the audience with a feeling of confusion and inextricability. Is that the case? A good movie always leaves people with a lot of aftertaste. This movie is undoubtedly an excellent movie from a certain perspective, but it will be very depressed and silent after watching it. The theme and plot are too heavy to even comment. It's good and bad.

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  • Dae-su Oh: The TV is both a clock and a calendar. It's your school, your home, your church, your friend...

    [Dae-su masturbates to a pop star onscreen]

    Dae-su Oh: ... and your lover. But... my lover's song is too short.

  • Dae-su Oh: Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.