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This is my third commentary about Li Cangdong, the movie "Mints".
Say it is a comment, it is better to say it is just an impression.
These three comments were not written to the media, but were published on BBS, blogs, and my official account (the first two were also included in " Absence ").
Although they are public, they are my personal feelings.
When I wrote the first article, I was less than 20 years old . When I wrote the second article, I was 24 years old .
Today, I have reached the 35-year-old life hurdle.
I am still the me, the movie is still that movie, knowing the ending-just like the audience knows the ending of the protagonist from the beginning. The place of concern seems to have undergone certain changes.
This time, I was more involved in the emotional connection between "Mints" and other movies.
For example, the protagonist went to hunt college students. He was crying and told his fellow comrades who had also fallen off the team that his boots were filled with water and he really couldn't run. He just fell on the rails and sat down. You suddenly think of it, no wonder that in the previous movie, in the life after him, his feet would suddenly get up like that from time to time. Whenever rheumatoid arthritis patients encounter changes in the weather, their bodies will have a prior perception. The existence of perception reminds the future, and it is more of the cause of the past, which is repeatedly entangled and troubled.
The movie shows this scene. Although the protagonist wears a military uniform, does not wear a steel helmet, and steps on high boots, from the moment he sets off, he always acts more like a bewildered child, an unqualified soldier, just like a black hole. The gunpoint was aimed at a female student who was also at a loss and was rushing through the night.
I think you can think that in this place, "Mints" is like "Once Upon a Time in America", the protagonist is just a gentle, shy, young man who likes flowers on the beach and wants to own a camera. The movie is a Korean tragedy that tripped and fell on the road of life, and couldn't get up no matter what.
The protagonist will look in the mirror repeatedly during several years of his life. He looked at himself, like a beast or a stranger. Isn't it not Robert De Niro, who was traumatized by the Vietnam War in "Taxi Driver", was just on the other end and pulled out two small cones.
There are also trains passing through the tunnel, the flowers are retreating, and everything is going backwards. It always feels like Li Cangdong's inspiration after watching Hou Xiaoxian's "Love in the Wind". A letter with a mint in it, and finally a full jar. The way young female workers express their love can be a token that can be presented to their beloved. It is only one by one, pure white, with a new smell, and can instantly evoke sober memories. Just like in "Lian Lian Feng Chen", A Yun bought more than 1,000 envelopes and more than 1,000 stamps to send a letter to A Yuan. This is the true story of Wu Nianzhen. His first love is called Ah Zhen, so he gave him the pen name: Wu Nianzhen.
Li Cangdong didn't tell the audience what kind of deep affection the young couple had. The vows of the mountain alliance were still tender, making the woman want to see her first love before she died. She once said with some anxiety and shame that his hands were ugly, but very gentle. But he pretended to be a bad person, put his hand on the thigh of another girl and rubbed her hands up and down, completing the transformation of a vicious dog and a devil.
Love is too dramatic, but Li Cangdong didn't tell the audience why.
Just like death. Death is such a cruel thing. Every second in the Thai movie "Death to Tomorrow", people in the world are dying, but few people want to seriously understand what is in a person’s life. It was trampled by.
Judging from the many things the protagonist has done, he is also a scumbag and a violent maniac. The more cowardly, the crazier. In the Korean society, he changed his role, and finally he lost everything.
After the screening, Li Cangdong explained on the spot that he was modeled on the literary nature of Proust’s novel "Looking for the Passing Time" (ie Madeleine cake, which symbolizes the memory of life). Tang, through the daily details, presents the anger or sadness of the character, and understands and feels the phrase "Life is beautiful?"-a sentence from the diary of others, like asking, asking, and constantly asking.
Whether it's trains, cameras, mints, bicycles, chorus songs, or TV news, they all appear in the protagonist's life in an unremarkable way. The self-destructive protagonist, the things in his body, have slowly died. He longed to go back in time and let everything not begin. He wants to go back and follow the old days.
The poet Wordsworth wrote:
For me, the plainest wild flowers can also inspire, and the deepest thoughts cannot be expressed by tears.
Note
Madeleine Cake: In Proust’s famous novels Reminiscences of the Waters (such as "On the Swan House" in Volume One), the Madeleine Cake or "Little Madeleine Cake" appears many times in the text. The taste of Madeleine cake mixed with linden tree tea reminded the "narrator-I" of his childhood, and thus became the catalyst for the young Marcel to start his efforts to regain the lost time and promote his writing. Therefore, the Madeleine cake gradually has important signs (signs) and symbols representing the meaning of Proust (and his works) and stream-of-consciousness novels.
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