⚠The following involves spoilers, please read carefully. As a fan of Jun Ji-hyun who has no interest in Korean pop culture, his expectations of "Kingdom: Asin in the North" (also translated as "The Story of Yashin") are comparable to "Black Widow". It may be that "Black Widow" was "subverted" so disappointingly that there was no slogan, no symbols, and no subversion of "Kingdom: Ashin in the North" which gave me a lot of surprises. The long-lost "tell the story" , A mixture of revenge films, loss films, war films, spy films, historical films, and ethics films. Many people criticized "Axin" Jun Ji-hyun for being too late, but this is exactly what I like about this movie. Think about the "Hunger Games" many years ago, the "Black Widow" of the past two years, "Captain Marvel", or even my favorite "Wonder Woman", all of which put a lot of pen and ink. The heroine after adulthood seems like a girl is not worthy of being told. As for "childhood", there are usually two ways: A: Use MV-style quick editing and soundtrack to render emotional fullness, so as to make up for the lack of character integrity; B: Use a very small space for simple growth Circumstances are generally more important to lay out the relationship between characters and to lay certain clues for the expansion of the story. But this film called "Li Shi Chosun" SP (yes, Netflix actually used such a Japanese drama category) "Axin" has done the above two methods, but not all, this 94-minute length The movie, as the "signature" and "traffic" "big star" Jun Ji-hyun, until 50 minutes, which is almost half of the time, tells the story of Ashin/Yaxin's childhood.
Many people think the previous paragraph is very boring, but in my opinion, whether it is a series of accidents caused by accidental eating of the life and death grass from the perspective of the deer and the tiger, or the internal division of Jurchen and North Korea and the Jurchen clan The inside story of the historical warfare, and then to the encounter with the tribe where Asin/Yasin belonged, is not just as a "tool" for the next part of "Lee Shi Chosun" as some film critics think, every line on the contrary is given to Asin. / Yaxin this character has more behavioral motives and internal conflicts. Seeing that I want to come back to the opening chapter of the battle between the deer and the tiger and the final death, these two animals not only played a key role in promoting the development of the story, but also played a metaphorical role in the tragic fate of the characters. They are very classic and very smooth. . And Kim Shia (played by Ashin/Axin as a child) and Jun Ji Hyun used two completely different ways to interpret the roles, the exposure of Kim Shia’s emotions and the performance of Jun Ji Hyun’s almost zero expression, let this "revenge" story have A strong tension, another character’s "growth" line. So far, many of the scenes are not restrained like a Netflix series, but they are in line with the habit of oriental costume dramas. For example, there are two scenes of Jun Ji-hyun being raped by North Korean soldiers: The first scene is to steal into the house by soldiers. -Jian Ji-hyun took a knife and hijacked-The soldier used two lines "I can't survive here if you kill" and "You are too big to be squeezed into the shed" to let her put down the knife-the next day, her face was full of scars Jun Ji-hyun continued to do dirty and inferior work. Such a few extremely clean shots clearly explained the situation of the characters and the opposition between gender and class. Of course, the language of the shots is also very agile, such as deliberately letting soldiers in the foreground give the background. Jun Ji Hyun’s sense of oppression, coupled with those two "coercion" lines, and Jun Ji Hyun’s sense of loss of soul and despair when he slowly raised his eyes, are all in place;
The second scene is more concise. Only the soldier climbed in through the window and came out disheveled and was hit by the officer. The officer looked at Jun Ji-hyun from the perspective of the door, and Jun Ji-hyun's perspective looked at the officer’s "secret agent" under the depressive feeling of the dark side as the dominant color. The mission not only confessed the fact that these men acquiesced that Jun Ji-hyun had been sexually assaulted for a long time, but also advanced the plot without wasting the drama at all. Similarly, the 50-minute complete story of childhood is explained because every person and event in it is very important, and it is the key to promote Ashin/Yaxin to become the one in the final scene of the film. She has no fear and no desire for men, and she has no mercy on the cruel scenes of carnage. All of them have a solid factual and emotional foundation, and the audience can empathize with them, and understand and forgive her after " "Villain" behavior. "Kingdom: Ashin in the North" actually follows the same story line as "Joker". The most innocent person chooses to be no longer innocent. A good person chooses to join the battlefield, and every step that makes him no longer innocent and joins the war has been changed. As if destined, the background of this tragedy of fate is the darkest and heaviest, because everyone has been an innocent person, and everyone has been a perfect good person.
"Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise, when a good man goes to war . Demons run but count the cost the battles won, but the child is lost. When a good man goes to war."
In the end, the imaginary flashback of childhood memories and the cross-editing of Yaxin/Axin dragging the corpse towards the village was also handled very well. The emotions gradually pave the way to the final climax, the character transformation is complete, and the behavior motivation is complete. , The story logic is also complete, and the merger with the main line is also completed, explaining some of the doubts in the first two seasons, and laying the groundwork for the conflict in the third season. Compared with the popcorn family-style "Black Widow", this movie is more like a real "Black Widow". Yaxin/Axin went from complete to broken, from broken to reconstruction, and finally became an unconventional "lone hero" "No relatives, no reason, no love, no sex, ruthless and unjust, but at the same time they have their own obsessive view of the world, living alone, fascinating, frightening, doing their own way, independent, this is a feminist film, male directors obviously It can also be done from the perspective of feminism.
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