"Old Boy", total score: 9.3 "Old Boy", from the hands of the famous Korean gloomy master Park Chan-wook. In "Old Boy", Director Park Chan-wook discarded the calm and restrained sense of reality in "I Want Revenge" and the pleasure of revenge in "Kind Gold", telling a story full of ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy Revenge story of sexual reflection. In "Old Boy", Director Park Chan-wook has achieved the most incisive effect on the lens and picture. In this movie, he combines the form of the image with the story seamlessly. For example, in the police station at the beginning, a rough hand-held recording photography was used, and then the camera was switched to the phone booth. As Wu Daxiu’s friend picked up the phone, and then used the track to surround the camera, it showed Wu Daxiu’s disappearance a little bit, and finally The lens fell on a purple umbrella with geometric patterns, which kicked off the film a little bit. Let’s talk about my personal favorite long shot in this film. Here, the director used only one shot to show in detail a violent corridor fight. Wu Daxiu, like a character in an old fighting game, wields iron. The hammer leaped towards the crowd, and the sadness and fatalism in the revenge at that moment was nakedly manifested. Here, the music created by the soundtrack of the film, Cao Yingwo, has also reached the top level. The music started with the harpsichord and slowly added the bleak violin, showing Wu Daxiu’s restraint in calmness and outburst, and finally From the stillness of the surging trumpet sound, Wu Daxiu wrestled down the corridor like a beast dazzled by revenge.
In addition, in this film, Director Park Chan-wook also used a green light on the face for an unprecedented effect. This effect can be said to be unprecedented. This green light makes people depressed and unable to breathe, as if they are wrapped in Wu Daxiu. This kind of psychological haze; in the end, when Wu Daxiu and Li Yuzhen confronted, the green lights in Li Yuzhen’s building also hinted that Wu Daxiu had found the source of the evil. Wu Daxiu who learned the truth at the end chose hypnosis and chose to forget the cruel truth. , As he walked step by step, all the lights were extinguished, leaving only the green light at the bottom of the pool, which also symbolized that Wu Daxiu would be in pain and could not get the salvation of life.
In fact, under the core of the film's two-way revenge, there are two abnormal loves. Li Yu really fell in love with his sister Li Xiuya, and Wu Daxiu fell in love with his daughter Mei Dao under hypnotism. Because of Wu Daxiu's long tongue, Li Yuzhen's unscrupulous love is known to everyone, which led to the death of his sister Xiuya. Many years later, through hypnosis and imprisonment, Li Yuzhen made Wu Daxiu see his grown-up daughter, Mei Dao. The two fell in love, so that he was tortured by the world and tortured by what he did. In fact, this leads to the philosophical proposition that the film wants to think about: can love transcend ethics? Director Park Chan-wook once said in an interview: "I don't know it is incest! I don't know it will be like this, then It’s not a kind of sexual addiction of Wu Daxiu." Wu Daxiu, a father, fell in love with his daughter Meidao; is it disgusting, too disgusting of tmd, how can a father fall in love with his daughter, how can he even have sex Yeah, disgusting, too disgusting of tmd. But what if two people really love each other? Love is a pure thought and a unique product of life, but our moral concepts are always hindering our love from the heart; hundreds of years ago, homosexuality was discriminated against because it was unable to reproduce offspring. It was forbidden and crossed. Nianlian was questioned and denied because of improper households. Nowadays, everyone's attitude towards love is becoming more and more tolerant. Homosexuality and New Year's Eve love are gradually being accepted by the public. So why is the love between father and daughter, mother and child turned into incest? Love is a spiritual thing. It will make people possess and give. It should be a completely pure and completely free decision. The universe cannot interfere, and time cannot be deprived of it. This is the identity, status, age, gender, morality, justice, and even law. What life can't do, this is true love that overwhelms everything, and the only thing a person really has-this is love. Our morality teaches us how to choose the right love, but morality is the result of social choices. That society is composed of interconnected human communities. If today’s society is truly correct, there will be no Antarctic glacier fusion. , The incident of the ozone layer rupture. To borrow a comment from a bean friend: "There is nothing wrong with love itself, no matter how unreasonable it is." In my opinion, the old boy is absolutely the best Korean movie, and even ranked in the top ten in film history. The reason is that he cleverly integrated a reflection on society and thinking about love into a revenge story. Park Chan-wook's stylized images It also makes the film add a touch of unique beauty, shocking the soul.
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