Since the mint was trampled on, Jin Yonghao's personality and life went to annihilation. Personal fate in the historical wave is particularly tragic under Li Cangdong's poetic narrative and lens.
Positive time, flashback movies, Jin Yonghao's life gradually turned into chaos, but we finally saw his once pure time. "Do you still believe that life is beautiful?" The flashback has no intention of showing tragedy, and the memory of the goodness of the passing is even more embarrassing. His déjà vu for the landscape may have added a fatal element to his time. When he returned there 20 years later, it was still the same mountain stream and the roar of the train, but it was no longer a beginning, but an end.
"I want to go back", back to the moment when I was looking at my first love, back to the time when I was in the army and collected the mints she sent him, back to the moment when I was lying under the bridge and I saw the sun. But the deceased, the disorder of the life process, and the changes made by society to people, will eventually tear the sweet and the wonderful life of first love to pieces. The beauty that cannot be returned is Jin Yonghao's Rosebud, and it is also the "rosebud" of a generation of small people who have been submerged under the huge waves of the times.
The Gwangju incident is the death of South Korea, and it is also a topic that Korean movies will never bypass. After he shot and killed an unarmed female student in the process of suppressing the student movement, this was an accident, but the times began to imprint the worst marks on him. After being distorted by the instructor and the senior policeman after retiring, he became neurotic, furious, and violent. Because of guilt, he rejected the love of his first love in a cruel way. Once gentle, he also learned to violently extract a confession and beat the prisoner to incontinence. Colleagues and family members are indifferent, violent, and affair outside. Li Cangdong is an elegant poet, but his narrative scenes are so destructive, so cold-blooded, as if he wrote a poem soaked in blood.
The encounter and affair with the girl in the tavern during a mission made him show the remaining love for his first love, and the kindness with some human warmth. After the delicate soundtrack, Jin Yonghao called out the name of his first love, accompanied by his sobbing and the girl’s empathic cry, "Don’t say it anymore, I understand your mood, I always hope that you can be happy", human sorrows are connected here, Accompanied by this is the constant rain at night. This is also my favorite segment in this movie. Under the literary treatment, the atmosphere seems so quiet, gentle but painful. No matter how the girl makes him imagine himself as a first love, she can't replace that beautiful existence. The next day, he didn't even take the initiative to catch the suspect, and then he ceased to be a policeman.
Fate changed his role in society time and time again. As a small business, he married a wife he didn't love. He was too alienated from his wife and children. He caught the rape himself but had an affair with the secretary on the same night. Even if the secretary is very beautiful, the mints fed to him will not taste the same anymore. The emptiness and depression are in my heart, everything goes against my heart, but there is nothing I can do. "She was in the rain, and I was also in the rain, and the rain I was watching, she was also watching" this feeling is not so much a nostalgia, it is more a memorial in my heart.
The business went bankrupt and his wife broke up. It seems that he has gone through all the encounters with the down-and-out little characters in Carver's novels, so he is about to embark on the road to end his life, but unexpectedly meets his first love. First love and mints appeared in his life again, but before the end of his life, and also before the end of her life, fate was almost madly ironic. However, the tears of her lying unconscious in the hospital bed are also a trace of residual warmth in front of the cold reality, a kind of weak resistance. In the end, life is frozen in a crazy cry for a beautiful that will never reappear.
The train is the era, the destiny, and the time, without any emotion. The inverted train connects life fragments. The train can engrave the young days, witness the shooting of students, record the parting with the first love at the train door, and let him stop having sex with the secretary when passing by, and can see the first love. He passed by with howling his own camera film, and he could also drive past the desperate soul and body.
Under the crushing pressure of despair, it is especially cruel to remember Rosebud like this.
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