The film’s name is "Miyang", a small town in South Korea, which means "secret sunshine". The English name of the film is "secret sunshine". The sun in this world shines in any corner, but there are some places where the sun shines. What can’t be found may be a corner where the sun is shaded. In fact, each of us needs sunshine, just as we all need happiness. The tragedies and pains of this world often leave us scarred, and we long for a secret sunshine. It can shine into our hearts and slowly soothe our violent hearts and angry feelings. However, can sunlight really sneak in in secret? After her husband died in a car accident, the
religious
heroine Shin Ae came to live in Miyang, where her husband was born. She said that no one knew her here. She wanted to start her life again, but life was so cruel that her only relative son, Jun'er, turned out to be so cruel. Kidnapped for extortion and brutally murdered, Shin Ae suddenly lost all the sustenance and love of her life, almost on the verge of collapse. At this time, the pastor and his wife in the opposite drugstore tried to preach to her, hoping that she would be comforted in religion, but at first Shen Ai did not accept it at all. The neighbor said that everything has the Lord’s will in it, just like the ray of sunshine. There is the meaning of our Lord in it. Shin-ae stretched out her hand to touch the sunlight, saying that sunlight is just sunlight, and there is nothing. If there really is a God, then why did he see Jun'er die and not save him? Such doubts are like the father's questioning of God in "The Spring of the Virgin". This is a deafening question from a rationalist.
Later, Shen Ai really couldn't bear the tremendous pressure of the spirit. She ran to a church and wept bitterly, and felt the peace of mind in it. From then on, she started the road of faith. Everything was calm and calm. We thought it would be over. Shin Ai was injured. The soul was redeemed by religion, but one day, she planned to visit the prisoner who killed her son and was ready to forgive him, but found that the prisoner told him that he had been forgiven by God, and he was forgiven every day. Shin-ae prayed with his son. Shin-ae suddenly had serious doubts about God. Her superiority and sense of giving in front of the prisoners disappeared instantly. As the only relative of her son, only she was qualified to give to God. The criminal’s forgiveness and forgiveness, how could God forgive him? The scene she looked forward to was that the prisoner knelt down before her in pain and thanked her for showing him the path of life, and relieved the burden on his heart. Shen Ai said:" I am so sad, but that person said that he has been forgiven and redeemed by God." This is undoubtedly equivalent to God depriving him of his love for his son, depriving her of all rights in the world, which allowed her to start at that moment and prepare Enemy with God.
Such a transformation is indeed profound and thought-provoking. Dostoyevsky said that without God, our fall would be meaningless, but if true religion deprives us of all our rights in the world, it will plunge us into deep depression. In the absurdity of survival, how many people can endure such a meaningless life? Religion is often full of paradoxes when facing life.
Love
Zongcan is the owner of an ordinary car repair shop in Miryang. He was 39 years old and still not married. When he saw Shin Ae for the first time, he fell in love with her voice and took good care of Shin Ae’s life in Miryang. However, Shen Ai didn’t appreciate this feeling, thinking that he was too ordinary. Even Shen Ai’s younger brother told him that you are not the type my sister likes, but Zongcan doesn’t care about all of this, but uses him silently. I take care of this woman who has no husband and lost children. This obsession is reminiscent of "A Letter from a Stranger Woman", a you who have never known me, but I am willing to spend my whole life to love you and make people Thinking of "Speaking to Her", a woman who had been relative to her for four years, when she woke up, he was already dead. There are too many irrational factors in love, which really makes us penetrate half a lifetime.
The relationship between Zong Can and Shin Ae is indeed very strange. We can even doubt whether this is considered as love. Does Shin Ae understand the heart of a man in a small city in Miyang? Can Zongchan understand why Shin Ae is crying? Can two people who can barely communicate have the so-called love? Some people say that this is a story about a woman who lost her love, while others say that this is a love story about Zongcan's unrequited love. From any angle, everyone is the protagonist in their own life.
I like the end of the movie very much. It seems that at the end, the movie gave us a warm ending. Shin Ai is cutting her hair, and Zong Can comes in to help her hold the mirror. He is such a caring man who can’t talk to each other. The story is here. It stopped here. Shen Ae has not yet attained spiritual liberation, and Zong Can doesn't know whether he can get Shen Ae's love. Life flows quietly like flowing water. We can't guess what kind of undercurrent is flowing under the calm water.
Religion and love are both irrational, and the ones that comfort our souls are often irrational. Perhaps our hearts are originally chaotic and untracked. Whether the secret sunshine comes from Christianity’s religious care or from Zongcan’s The forbearing love that comes in? The movie didn't give us the answer. After watching the movie, I found that Jeon Do-yeon won the laurel of the queen, which is well deserved. When will we see Chinese movies make movies that can both empathize with us and touch our hearts? Thanks to Li Cangdong, for giving another heavy thought and moving after a long absence.
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