The more you grow, the more mature you are. Leaving our parents, we walked into the university and into the society. We learned how to be worldly, we learned to be strong, we learned to be rational, we learned to let go, and we became detached and indifferent. We got money, status, and the envy of others.
But people are always used to looking at what they get, but always forget to walk along the way, perhaps inadvertently, missing something.
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finally finished watching the long-awaited movie "Wolf Clan Boy" a few days ago. HD. Korean. No subtitle. (Forcing the study abroad party to really not wait for TT to be released in China, I really want to go to the cinema to watch TT) I was always worried that my Korean proficiency was not enough to understand this movie, but after watching it, I realized that I not only understood it, but also She was moved to tears. I thought I was a language genius, but when I searched on Weibo, even if I didn't understand it, everyone cried into tears without exception. As a commercial film, "Wolfman" not only broke the record of the number of Korean romantic movies, but also received continuous praise. Where is its charm? Song Joong Ki? If you give me this answer, I want to say that you think Song Zhongji's appeal is high, he is just a young actor who has just started to become popular. You not only lowered my EQ and appreciation ability, but also lowered your IQ as a spectator. Not all movies with handsome guy platforms will be successful, dear.
It takes many efforts for a movie to succeed, but the core of the success of the wolf clan youth is to give many people a clean dream, open the door to their purest emotions, and entrust their wandering passion for many years. It reminds many people in society of youthful feelings that have been discarded for many years, and they begin to realize its preciousness and begin to reflect on it.
The first scene of the movie is about an old grandmother, perhaps because she is too old to fall asleep, she gets up early and starts to clean up. She tried to put on all kinds of jewellery, even though the ring was a bit out of her due to her fatness. She began to try to show a smile in the mirror and lift her loose skin with both hands. But the smile disappeared, looking at herself in the mirror, she sighed: "Am I already like a monster." Finally, she sat in the living room alone, waiting for the morning to come, waiting alone Boring life day after day.
She is the heroine of the film, the once beautiful girl. Time has given her a prosperous life. The girl who used to be sick and sent to the fence now lives in a big warm house in America. Years have also given her a reliable family. Once lost his father, and depended on his mother and sister, now he has a son, daughter-in-law and grandson. But when she was sitting alone in the living room, she suddenly felt lost, always feeling that she had lost something. So when I received a call from South Korea asking her whether her house in the country was going to be sold, she insisted on going back to the country in South Korea to take a look, hoping to find something. From then on, the memories of 47 years of sealing dust began to unfold before our eyes.
This memory is simple to say. About a teenager. A special first love. He is not a human, he is a semi-finished product of a scientist's experiment, a werewolf. He doesn't understand human words or emotions. She trained him, encouraged him, believed him, fell in love with him. It was she who let him understand people's lifestyle, people's words, and people's emotions. He also used his kindness and innocence to stop her from being cynical and make her boring life full of hope. But dangerous werewolves are not tolerated by cold society. In order to protect her, his identity as a werewolf was exposed and he was hunted down. In order to keep him alive, she endured heartache and beat and cursed him to escape. She also left this place full of her own laughter, legend, love and passion, and only left him a note saying: "Wait for me, I will come back to see you." But it was 47 years.
After 47 years, the girl became a grandmother and returned to this place full of memories. She hesitated and walked into the small iron room where the teenager was kept. Afraid, but looking forward to it. Opening the door, she saw the lush plants, which she had left. Who cares about these plants for decades to take care of such luxuriantly. The door not far away was shining with warm light. She hovered in front of the door several times, and finally opened the door with a trembling hand. The warm light came out, following the light source, there was a teenager sitting on the bed. Warm and moist like jade, his appearance has not changed. He recognized her at a glance, but he was very quiet, changing from the anxious excitement he had seen the owner before. After a long wait, he seemed to have become steady. The firm eyes are telling her, I know you will not lie to me, you will definitely come back. So there is no rush or anxiety, just waiting quietly. As before, he stretched out his head and waited for her complimenting touch. She laughed, but couldn't hold back the tears anymore. She hugged him and cried and said, I'm sorry, Cheol-soo, I ate what you like and wore what you should wear. I met other men and had children. Why have you been waiting for me? "She was immersed in sentimentality, but he didn't care about such sad words. He was just immersed in the touch and joy of meeting her. Until she said, "Look, you are the same as before, but I am already an old woman." Now, my hair is all white. "At this point, he said the second line in the whole film, which is also the most touching line. "No," he said in the language of people who have been trying hard to learn for 47 years, saying word by word, "the same way, Your mouth, nose, and eyes are as beautiful as before. I miss you so much..." She cried out and kept him tightly. During the 47 years waiting for her, he tried his best to finish the homework she gave him, and the crooked words have been It became square, and the ghost-like paintings had begun to be organized. That night, he read to her a story book for a whole night. The
next morning, she quietly embarked on the road back to the United States. Did not say goodbye to him. He received a house on the road. On the phone from the agency, she said without hesitation that the house is not for sale. She left like this, but he only watched her from a distance. There was no sadness, no anxiety, no sadness in his eyes, but he was still firm. He Always the young man who listens to her. Because she said, don’t wait for her any longer and live your own life. This time, he finally didn’t wait for her again. But he would never forget her. In the heavy snow, he started to make snowmen. , Treat it as her... So far the whole play ends.
At this point, I started crying again. But I want to talk about more than just the plot. It is difficult to tell such a beautiful story in a few words. The real touch is left to the spectators to appraise and understand. Here I just want to talk about my understanding and the enlightenment this beautiful story has given me.
When you walk into the theater with the mentality that you might want to watch it, but cry that Ewha comes out with rain, you can't help asking yourself: "What's wrong with me, how can I be so moved by such a simple story?" This is indeed a big deal. The mood of most spectators. So we started to look for the reason. I don't know if every viewer has analyzed the reason for crying, but I want to use my mentality to try to analyze it.
The plot of the film determines that this story cannot be a happy ending. The happy ending not only ruined the film’s beauty but also immediately destroyed it. Imagine what an insult to beautiful fantasies it is to live in a cruel and complicated society with an innocent girl and a werewolf who doesn't understand anything. Although the ending of the film is not perfect, "Wolf Clan Boy" is not just about breaking beautiful things for you to see, and earning the sympathy of the spectators by relying on the plot of abusive heart. If this is the case, then the film can only describe the process of the girl and the werewolf boy meeting and being forced to break up, so that we can still see tears in everyone's eyes. Why join the story of the 47th generation of the old grandmother and destroy our fantasy of beautiful girls? Obviously, the screenwriter has a deeper content that he wants to show us: the encounter with the little wolf is a beautiful but unrealized girl dream when the heroine is young. And returning to the old house in his hometown 47 years later is the process of the heroine's re-seeking of dreams. Unrealistic, naive and innocent girl dream, why do you want to find it again? The film is to answer this question.
Every one of us may be the old girl in the film, and now the old grandmother. Perhaps our story is not so legendary, but I believe that everyone has had such a period of time in the past, which once made us desperate, sleepless, passionate, and even put our reason behind.
Helpless people always move forward. We reluctantly sorted our minds and tried hard to abandon our naive and innocent mood. We gradually sealed this past event, turned and walked towards the billowing red dust. We thoughtfully thought that what was sealed was the impulse and sad past of our youth, but we didn't realize that the dreams of our youth are the ones who slept together. You forgot and discarded that dream, and you said it would never be realized. But the value of this dream does not lie in realization, because it also carries the innocence, youth, passion and touch that you had when you were young, and it is the spiritual pillar that makes your life full of hope.
In the story, the little wolf carries the heroine's girly dream. The departure of the girl in the story takes away not only an unrealized fantasy, but also her innocence, youth, passion and touch. After 47 years, she got everything she wanted. But one day, when she was sitting alone in the living room, she suddenly felt lost. Only then did she begin to realize that she, who had lost her girly dream, had a rich life but still boring and boring. So despite her old age, she still insisted on finding her dream. She is not confident, even afraid and suspicious. Can you find the innocence and moving back then? After 47 years, things are different, and the vicissitudes of life, will the little wolf still wait for me? Fortunately, the heroine got a positive answer.
In fact, the immortal little wolf is like our childhood dreams, passion and innocence. Even though time flies, his face remains unchanged. He will always wait for you in that place, waiting for you to visit. And the small iron house where the little wolf is closed is closed by our forgotten dreams. You used to think it was outdated and worthless. But when you have an opportunity, you open the door, and you find that it is still alive and full of beautiful flowers. Your dreams will still last forever, as long as you are willing to find them, it will make your life full of vitality and vitality again.
In the film, the heroine’s opportunity to seek dreams is a journey back to her hometown. What about our opportunity to seek dreams?
Start searching now, don't wait for old age to feel lost.
The singer asked: "Remember the dream when you were young? Like a flower that never fades." Start looking for it now, let it accompany you to experience the ups and downs, see the impermanence of the world, and see the vicissitudes of life.
Start searching now. After you find it, find a home for it, let it go on the road with you, and let it help you regain your innocent yearning, courage and passion for life.
Some commented that watching a wolf clan teenager must have an innocent girlish heart in order to be moved. But I think everyone has a girlish heart, but they are sealed. You think that complicated society and people's minds have made you abandon this worthless dream. But the moment you shed tears is also the moment when your dreams from when you were young are remembered and your heart is beaten fiercely. Many people couldn't believe they would cry like that after watching the wolf clan youth. But when you are sitting in the cinema and crying like a teenager, when you don't even believe in yourself, you have already begun to regain precious innocence and passion, as well as youth dreams. I think this is the reason why people are deeply moved after watching "Wolf Clan Boy". Because no one will be affected by stories that have nothing to do with them.
So far, this is my perceptual understanding of "Wolf Clan Boy". This is a movie that makes it easy for people's sensibility to take over rationality. If someone suddenly asks me, "Is it good-looking?" after I just watched a movie, I would hate to answer this question. This movie will inevitably be a bit tacky if I answer it with good-looking or not. Moreover, just two days after watching the movie, I didn't think about whether it was good or not, because it brought too many thoughts, and my brain didn't have time to make a rational evaluation.
But now, returning to the perspective of commercial films, I also want to make some more rational analysis.
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Second, shooting style and technique
First of all, I want to talk about the shooting style and expression technique of "Wolf Clan Boy". I'm not an expert in this aspect, so I can only do a trick.
Many Korean romance films like to use open scenes, and when shooting, they use the distant view and the panoramic view to increase the aesthetic feeling. The more intimate the scene, the greater the perspective, highlighting innocence. A kiss from Hirosaki Castle in "The Kind Man" is a typical representative. In the plot, this kiss is not simple, in fact, it has ulterior motives. But the large panorama drawn by the lens at the end is impressive, even if it has ulterior motives, it is beautiful. One close-up shot of the kiss scene is enough, and the kind of close-up shooting for a long time is inevitably vulgar. (Am I off the topic? But I really want to spit it out. Okay, let's get back to the topic.) In "Wolf Clan Boy", many open scenes are also selected, using a lot of perspective and panorama. I think there are two purposes for such use. First, the film set in the big city gives the audience an open world view and does not need so many panoramic views of the city. The setting of "Wolf Boy" is set in a small village, and the plot is simple. Using more open scenes can reduce the viewer's feeling of crampedness due to the simple and small scenes. Second, increase the feeling of innocence and simplicity, and blend in with the scenery.
In addition to the use of lenses, I also really like the choice of film content. The plot of this film is very simple and tends to be gentle. So what it can touch people's hearts is not the ups and downs of the plot, or the straightforward emotional presentation, but the obscure detail description and exquisite performance techniques. For example, the actions and expressions of the grandmother at the beginning. Even if no one appreciates it, she still tries clothes tirelessly, even trying to wear a ring that is no longer suitable. These details not only reflect the emptiness and loneliness of the old man's heart from the side, but also vaguely show the old man's deep expectation that he hopes to regain the passion of life, and make the necessary preparation for the subsequent plot. Another example is the scars left by Zhezhu's face being stoned by the heroine Shun Er, 47 years later, it is still clearly visible. Seeing this scar, I seemed to hear Chel-soo’s inner monologue: “Even the scars you gave me are memories that support me to live.” There is also the scene of Chel-soo building a snowman at the end of the movie. The Snowman was also an agreement between Shun'er and Chel-soo before, and he fulfilled this agreement alone 47 years later. The description of these details is not straightforward in expressing emotions, but there is something deeply waiting for the spectators to taste.
In the middle of the film, Song Joong-ki and Park Bo-young's rivalry, the selection of the content of the shots is even more outstanding. 70% of the time of the film is not presenting the plot, but focusing on the expressions and actions of the actors. There are many close-ups and close-ups of the actor's expressions, and the stay time is also very long. It can be said that this movie is not filled with the plot, but with the expressions and movements of the actors to support the 120 minutes. The changes in emotions are expressed in subtle expressions, which are real and moving. However, this kind of shooting content has very high requirements for the actors, and the actors are not sure about their expressions, and the whole film is basically ruined. (We will discuss the issue of this actor below.) From the selection of content, I think this young director, who is also a screenwriter, is a meticulous, innocent and bold director at the same time.
I personally like the delicate and obscure film style of "Wolf Clan Boy" very much. I especially dislike the howling and heart-piercing scenes that appear in many Korean movies. I believe that human emotions are delicate and changeable, and changes in a person's mood will inevitably lead to differences in subtle movements and eye expressions. So if you want to show delicate and deep emotions, you should show more details. The scene of howling and crying on the street when nothing is wrong is not impossible to appear, but I don't think it can be used as the main method of expressing strong emotions, let alone the climax of the film. Such scenes always make me feel that I am being forced to accept the emotions of the hero and heroine. I can only know the fact that "he loves her very much", but I can't know how to love. The audience's thoughts and emotions are also delicate, so the emotions conveyed by the film should also be like spring breeze, which is integrated into the audience's heart through details, rather than forcing acceptance and reiteration over and over again.
Because the focus is not on the plot, but on the presentation of the details, the whole film of "Wolf Clan Boys" is also relatively obscure, and does not express emotions from the front. This is also a style I like very much. Romance movies should dig out the feelings of the characters through careful observation of the audience. People drink boiled water only because of their physical needs, but film and television works should not have the same function as boiled water, just to satisfy people's needs for passing time. The straightforward plot that doesn't need to go through the brain is like boiled water, and tasteless. I dare not say that all film and television works should be fragrant tea, but at least they should also have a taste, worthy of being tasted. Being able to chew carefully is also the reason why I like Song Zhongji's other work "The Kind Man". (Why are you talking about a good man again? It really has nothing to do with me. Song Zhongji recently chose the script because he likes to choose this. What can I do!)
Third, the superb performance of the actors
As mentioned above, "Wolf Clan Boy" has relatively high requirements for actors. I'm not saying that the actors who play this movie need to have the most superb acting skills in the Korean entertainment industry. But the selection of actors requires a lot of thought. The understanding of actors' acting skills cannot be summed up as "acting skills are really good". Every actor has his own style and bias. Some actors have the advantage of quick response, some are accurate expressions and movements, some are explosive, and some are smooth and natural. The protagonist Song Zhongji's advantage lies in his amazing meticulousness. As I said above, "Wolf Clan Boy" pays a lot of attention to the subtle expressions and movements of the actors, so it needs actors who can make more details on the details. (Please don’t say that I started to praise Song Joong Ki again. I really like Song Joong Ki not because I like his work, but because I like the work, I like him! I'm really not writing "Song Joong Ki Biography"! You don’t See it! I'm talking about XX, XX friends, don't get me wrong haha) Sometimes I think the constellation is like a curse. Song Zhongji is indeed a Virgo, and even his acting style is meticulous. Looking at Song Zhongji's performance, I often feel that he divided one expression into three expressions. I especially prefer his performance when he has no expression and no dialogue, because often this time is when he perfectly expresses his delicate emotions. This should be regarded as a personal characteristic of his acting. There are also many such shots in the film, and careful spectators should be able to understand what I mean better. Some people questioned: "If "Wolf Clan Boy" did not have Song Zhongji, would it be so popular?" My answer was: "No." It's not because Song Zhongji is so popular. There are many actors with superb acting skills, but not every actor's style is suitable for "Wolf Clan Boy". Song Zhongji’s exquisite acting skills make "Wolf Boy" more shocking and can be presented perfectly; at the same time, it is precisely because the filming technique of "Wolf Boy" requires a delicate acting style that Song Zhongji can shine on the screen. The relationship between "Wolf Boy" and Song Zhongji can be said to be each other's achievement.
Someone once commented on actors like this: "An actor is not a model and does not need to be exquisite, but it must have aura." It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, so I think that the aura of an actor is actually reflected in the actor's eyes. Some actors' expressions and actions are impeccable, but they always make me feel that he is an actor. I think he is acting and acting very well. But the real acting skills are not acting, but shaping, shaping a flesh and blood individual. To shape a complete individual well, inner play is the most critical. It is easiest to see a person's heart through the change of eyes, so if an actor wants to play a person well, he should start acting from the heart, not expressions and actions. The performance of the inner drama is mainly judged by the eyes. Anyone who has followed Song Zhongji's works should have a consensus: his eyes are particularly beautiful. When playing Jiang Malu, people can see the entanglement and complexity, and when playing the little wolf, they can be completely innocent and simple, and people can see completely different, flesh and blood individuals from his delicate and changeable eyes. Instead of seeing actor Song Joong-ki playing well. I think this is the aura of being an actor. Good looks don't add points to Reiki, but it is certain that actors with Reiki must make people feel attractive. This is the main reason I think people think Song Joong Ki is handsome or attractive. But Song Zhongji is young after all, and there are places where his inner drama is not in place. But he is undoubtedly an actor with great potential.
The heroine Park Baoying (actually her sister, okay.) is an artist I have always liked. Her acting advantage lies in sincerity, smoothness and naturalness. It’s more meticulous, Song Joong Ki is already the most meticulous actor I have ever seen. It’s more explosive. She looks too thin and lacks the natural conditions for explosive acting. But her performance is more accurate and natural. In the film, Song Zhongji's lines are only three lines, which is basically equivalent to the heroine who has finished all the lines by herself. She can only reflect on Song Zhongji's expression and make accurate judgments. This was originally a very difficult thing, but Park Bo Young did it very well, and it was very smooth and natural.
At this point, what I want to say is almost time to end. In the end, I just want everyone to watch this movie. Someone said: "Dear! You are spoiled!!" In fact, before I watched it, I had been spoiled by various film reviews and clips, but when I watched the feature film, I was still moved and touched a lot. If you believe me or don’t believe me, you can go and watch it after the show in China to confirm whether I am right. At the same time, like-minded friends are also welcome to discuss together.
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