To be sure, the song rang during his first love. Rock singer Ray Peterson wrote this song in the 1960s. The lyrics tell the story of Tommy participating in a dangerous illegal race in order to earn a wedding ring for Lola, and he lost his life before he died. Still not forgetting to say: Tell Laura I love her. Both Ray Peterson and Xue Jingqiu have thin bodies. In the film, the passage between him and his first love girlfriend in 1978 did not appear until the end. Li Cangdong used flashbacks to seem to enhance the tragic effect of the film.
When he and his first love were walking by the creek, they took pictures of each other and finally gave her the camera. In 1978, his face was very shy, even simple. In the previous episodes of the film, what the audience sees is the gradual fading of his humanity. The Korean film scholar Lee Hyo-in pointed out in the book "Post-War Korean Films and Social Culture" that the Gwangju Incident in 1980 completely changed the humanity of the male protagonist played by Xue Jingguo. He mistakenly killed a man while participating in the encirclement and suppression of the protesters. A female high school student has since become cruel and indifferent. After leaving the army, she severed her first love, married a woman she didn't love, and later divorced, was deceived in business, and eventually committed suicide.
The connection between the Gwangju incident and the hero's transformation can be said to be Lee Cangdong's personal experience. In fact, "Mints" is a story he imagined, and the protagonist is himself. The movie describes another trajectory of his life, which is pessimism buried in his heart. As a witness to the Gwangju incident, Lee Cangdong believes that the incident has caused irreparable trauma to himself and even the Koreans. Politicians do not take the lives of civilians seriously. The incident is not only a political struggle, but also a struggle between human nature and power. When human nature finally fails, some people will go to the path of pessimism.
When I was defying myself, I walked into the tavern and met a beautiful-looking woman with old love songs in my ears. This can't help but arouse the memory of the hero, and deep in the memory is his kind and innocent figure. The years of love are so beautiful, but now, the life of his first love girlfriend is dying. Her haggard, bandaged body awakens his surviving humanity. When he sees the camera that his girlfriend has kept, he knows himself. How cruel it is. The protagonist committed suicide at the end, a poetic ending designed by Li Cangdong, because in this way, he was like the song sung in that song. Before he died, he finally told her that I love her and is the only love in life.
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