I watched this movie because I was famous and won an international award. Besides, I have always had confidence in the previous level of Korean movies (such as: fish, Tai Chi flag flying, common security zone, my savage girlfriend, Wang's man, if love has God's will...), so I went to borrow the disc to watch. It was a bit silly after reading it, but I didn't expect it to be like this. It's a bit like watching "Kill Bill", bloody, perverted and violent, with black humor. Although the story is made, the way it is told is quite catching. As an excellent commercial film, the director did not give an answer until the last minute, and insisted on keeping a suspense to the end, which made people want to stop. This was very successful.
Movies are entertainment tools, and most people want to use them for entertainment. I can watch those long, dull and philosophical movies, but I still have to give me more time to have fun and excitement, otherwise I will die suddenly if I overuse my brain during the day and night. In the past, why did Beijing Tianqiao storytellers mix up? Is there a group of people who chase after Qian to listen to stories every day, and can't move it? Don’t storytellers know how to humor, climax, set suspense, and stop abruptly? Consumers are only willing to spend money to enjoy it when they listen to it with relish, feel happy and satisfied. This is also the basis for the existence of all art forms.
Making a movie is not writing a diary! Shouldn’t it be that the public’s needs should be carefully considered? What the storyteller can understand, the directors who were born in the science class don't understand? But in fact, many directors simply don't understand. Of course, it is also possible that they simply don't have the ability to explain what is quite clear, let alone explain a complicated matter. This is a question of level, and it's useless to be anxious. Just like the Chinese football team, you have to practice your internal skills.
In general, I think there are not many Chinese directors who can tell stories (excluding Hong Kong directors). Feng Xiaogang counts as one, he has the temperament of a folk storyteller. Then the first-class ones like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige probably used the movie too much as an award-winning tool and artwork to make a lot of humanistic feelings, and the clouds in the mist are not very cute. What's more terrible is that it doesn't matter if they are going high-end, once they try to get close to the masses, it's even harder to see.
Well, let's talk about the old boy movie! The Korean movie technology is great. Such as special effects, music, makeup, art, clothing, lighting, editing... Of course, the most important thing is the ability to tell stories.
1. Beginning
The tone of the movie is dark from beginning to end. At the beginning of the film, a middle-aged employee, Wu Daxiu, who has an ordinary appearance and likes to drink, was kidnapped for no reason when he was off work (when it was dark) and was kept in a room with no light for years, year after year.
Although imprisoned, the people who held him didn't want him to die. In order to prevent him from starving to death, he was given fried dumplings with three meals a day; in order to prevent him from becoming a fool, a TV was reserved for him in the house so that he could watch programs every day. He learned from TV that his wife had been killed, and the whereabouts of the young girl was unknown. The police suspected that he was the murderer and absconded in fear of crime.
His family was ruined, he was in desperate situation, and he could not see a gleam of hope. At the worst, he was inexplicable and confused. He didn't know who had offended him, why he was kidnapped, and what he did. From beginning to end, no one gave him an explanation.
He went from panic, to anger, to struggle, and finally to despair. He didn't want to live anymore and wanted to commit suicide. But the people who monitor him pay attention to him at all times, and give him sleepiness whenever he has any abnormalities, and make him fall asleep.
He couldn't survive, and he couldn't ask for death. He was tortured by questions and hatred every day. In this small black room less than 10 square meters, he spent fifteen years.
This beginning was sudden, weird and weird, and cut off all life and expectations of a person cleanly. It's too abrupt. I really like the beginning. Wu Daxiu's life was destroyed in an instant, and the audience was suddenly taken into a huge suspense. Numerous curiosities arose and could not be restrained. They couldn't help asking a series of questions: What's wrong? What happened? Who did it? Why do it? Will he be released? Can he find an enemy? ……
Storytelling, it’s just such an arrangement to attract people. From then on, all the audience held their breath and watched how Wu Daxiu solved the mystery little by little and embarked on his journey of revenge step by step. A good beginning full of suspense is half the success of a commercial film.
2. One's fate and choice
Originally, he was just an ordinary little clerk, his life was ordinary and veneer, and he could see the end at a glance. He has a wife and a daughter, an ordinary job, no sense of responsibility, and often drunk. Because he couldn't see his goal in life, he lived in a muddle-headed, drunken dream, he himself and the people around him would think that he would live like this for a lifetime. However, suddenly one day, with no signs at all, strange and terrible things happened to him, and he embarked on a life path that he had never dreamed of.
Think about it, if a person like Wu Daxiu suffers from a series of tragic experiences such as the death of his wife, the loss of her daughter, loss of reputation, becoming a wanted criminal, being imprisoned, and being kept in captivity like a pig, what else can he do? When the pain is unable to bear and there is nowhere to escape the blow, you will become weaker and weaker. The worst thing is that the opponent is too strong or even flawed, and you can't fight it, let alone fight back. When there is such a good reason to give up, how would you choose?
Wu Daxiu couldn't ask for death, and gradually fell into decline. But at the moment when he was forced to a dead end and took a step back and fell to pieces, his potential fighting spirit was finally aroused. He bottomed out! He found the only meaning to support his survival-he wanted to live to find out the truth and take revenge! He swore an oath in the dark room that he would never cry, beg death, or give up. He wants revenge.
He has found his goal and direction again in his life.
Because he found the meaning of survival, he was full of fighting spirit and perseverance. He became strong, persevering, persistent, and composed. He is no longer the vague Wu Daxiu before, the little clerk who can see the future at a glance. Now, his future is full of mist and the road is full of thorns, and he will use his hands to overcome the thorns, wading through the turbulence of fate, and rewrite his future.
In order to achieve this goal, he began ten years of persevering self-training. He insisted on keeping a diary to record his suffering. He felt the pain to remind himself that he was still alive. And all of this will remain on his enemy in the future.
There is a saying that life is a choice.
When the blow of fate has nowhere to escape, you can't hide, you can only go head-on. Since it is inevitable, go to fight. If you must die, you must die like a hero. What value is there if you die silently and cowardly? The blow will not be relieved because of your cowardice. In the end, you will hate yourself for giving up.
You cannot choose your destiny, but you can choose how you face your destiny. And every time you make such a choice on the road of life, it will determine who you ultimately become.
3. About the reason After
15 years, Wu Daxiu was finally released by his enemy, not escaped! Even then he had dug through the wall with a spoon! But his enemy did not give him a chance to enjoy the joy of success, but let him cleanly. Suddenly like the kidnapping fifteen years ago.
He was free, but a greater confusion came-why let him go? He doesn't have time to think, he can only take his own path of revenge step by step. As everyone knows, every step he takes, seeming to be his own choice, are actually the footprints arranged by others, and there is no exception at any step.
So far, such a well-planned and painstakingly managed conspiracy for fifteen years is still confusing and confusing, and all the audience are in confusion and anxiety like Wu Daxiu. We watched Wu Daxiu hurriedly come to scene after scene-sex with a sushi restaurant girl, fall in love, find a dumpling shop that he ate every day for fifteen years, and use violent torture to extract a confession from the person involved... But he still doesn't know anything. .
However, suddenly the enemy appeared automatically. It turned out that the enemy was his old classmate. The gun was in his hand, but Wu Daxiu did not pull the trigger. For fifteen years, the idea of wanting to know why has been stronger than the idea of killing an enemy. After all, there is no love for no reason, and no hate for no reason.
why? why? ? why? ? ?
Finally the memory gate opens...the past is surging. It was a mistake when something happened, but it caused extremely tragic consequences. When the two were still classmates, a young girl died, and she was the sister of the classmate. Classmate and sister, the two had a secret love, although they were not tolerated in the world, they fell in love sweetly and wantonly. But Wu Daxiu broke through this relationship in an accident, and after that, he couldn't control his tongue and leaked the matter out. The elder sister of the classmate disappeared in the vast blue water with her beautiful appearance and years.
After that, the classmates continued to live with their love for his sister and hatred for Wu Daxiu. The biggest goal in his life was revenge. But his revenge is too patient, too imaginative, and too cruel and cold-blooded!
When the movie came to an end and the mystery was about to be revealed, Wu Daxiu received a box from his classmates and opened the box, which contained a photo album. He looked down one by one. It's a picture of his daughter. Three-year-old daughter, four-year-old daughter, five-year-old daughter...18 years old, sushi restaurant girl. The first woman he met after he was released; the woman who received infinite comfort and sensual pleasure in her after fifteen years of imprisonment; the woman who called him "uncle".
It turned out that the real blow awaited him here.
The previous fifteen years of imprisonment and torture were nothing but lengthy preparations and warm-ups. The real shock lies in ambush here.
Suddenly there was a gasp when he had sex with a sushi restaurant girl. He beat him with a sound that was more painful than a whip.
In just one second, all of Wu Daxiu's tenacity and perseverance all will collapse in a short moment. The whole spirit fell to the ground. The flesh and blood in one place are shattered and messed up.
4. Regarding the ending,
I think that at this time, very few viewers were not stunned, and were deeply shocked by the conflict between humanity and morality. For how this deadlock could be opened, I was eager to look at it and investigate it to the end.
Therefore, if a film wants to catch people, it is to carry the suspense to the end! Before the last minute, I don't know the ending at all. Moreover, the director's wisdom always exceeds that of the audience a little bit, and the ending must be beyond the estimation of everyone to be successful! Of course, the plot must be unexpected, but it must also be kept within the truth.
After Wu Daxiu learned all the truth, he suffered a nervous breakdown. He ran to find his old classmate, knelt in front of him, weeping, kowtow, barking, and licking his leather shoes, completely trampling himself into mud on the soles of his feet. In the end, he even took the initiative to cut out his tongue with scissors and abruptly! And his only request is not to let the sushi restaurant girls know the truth.
If you know the truth, the girl definitely has no reason to live. Incest...In modern society, this is the death penalty, even if it is too late, or even more terrible, it represents the beasts in clothing and being cast aside forever.
The old classmate and mortal enemy smiled. Abnormally cold. Without saying a word, he walked into the elevator alone.
He has taken revenge, but for what? My sister will never come back. No matter how he tortured Wu Daxiu, he couldn't change this solution. He remembered a sentence said by his sister before he died, I don't regret it... he doesn't regret it either. But he wants to make Wu Daxiu regret it. He has done it.
Why does he use this method? Did Wu Daxiu also try that kind of deep-seated love, and then try the tremendous pressure and pain? Perhaps, he wanted to let Wu Daxiu know that in fact, anyone could fall in love with his relatives... The love between him and his sister was not a sin.
When he saw Wu Daxiu kneeling in front of him that day, willing to spare everything to keep this secret and protect his beloved, he knew that Wu Daxiu had finally understood. Therefore, all his revenge fully achieved the goal. However, at the same time, the meaning of his existence disappeared.
Sister...in the elevator, he murmured, his sister's face smiled calmly before falling into the water. He saw that he was crying, his sister's body slipped in his hands, and there was a huge reservoir below. She said, remember me...I don't regret...He cried again in the elevator. His sister finally fell into the water, and he blasted his head with one shot.
The enemy is dead. But Wu Daxiu still has to live. How can he survive? With such great fear, pain and burden? Fortunately, there is an antidote to such a tragic fate.
When an old classmate was arranging a revenge plan, a mysterious female hypnotist once appeared. The female hypnotist ensured the love between Wu Daxiu and the sushi restaurant girl and the implementation of this conspiracy. Now, why does she want to dissolve her own masterpiece?
Wu Daxiu wrote her a letter with the last sentence: Even if I am not as good as a beast, don't I have the right to live? These words moved the female hypnotist, she decided to give Wu Daxiu and his daughter a way out.
At the end of the film, Wu Daxiu woke up from the snow after his memory was erased, and the sushi restaurant girl was dressed in red, pitifully warming his hands. She hugged him and told him that I love you! Wu Daxiu smiled, what kind of smile was that? It turns out that laughing can be more painful than crying.
All memories have been washed away. They finally got relief. Even beasts have the right to survive. Just let everything be forgotten. Who cares? There is no father and daughter in this world, but at least there is an extra couple who survived and lived on each other.
5. Regarding
the blood and violence of violence and incest in Korean movies, I don't need to introduce more. Everyone should have seen a lot. Some violent, gore, and pornographic content is also embellished in this movie. On the whole, it can be regarded as serving the plot, not purely attracting attention. In short, it is definitely not suitable for children. If adults feel physical discomfort and cannot accept it, just fast forward.
When I watched "Kill Bill", the head was flying with severed limbs and blood splattered, but it was American style, still a bit exaggerated and distorted. It looked like a Korean movie. Every detail was described meticulously, and the audience seemed to be on the scene. . For example, in the film torture a confession, there are scenes of live tooth extraction, which makes people feel sore. There are also clips of scissors twisting the tongue, which really makes people feel cold. As I watched it, I thought to myself that Koreans are really abnormal...
As for the incest plot set in the film, my understanding is that the director is not to explore a deep ethical issue, but to find a good story for his revenge. reason. Of course, the question raised at the end of the film has risen to a human level. Let Wu Daxiu and the woman live as a couple, just because beasts also have the right to live! This view couldn't be more correct. Now some local governments distribute needles and condoms free of charge for this reason. Drug addicts and people who have debauched lives also have the right to live! Some moral gentlemen objected on the grounds that this move was a disguised support for drug abuse and illegal sex. Be more pragmatic! Since it is impossible to prevent these two phenomena at all, I still think about how to help them, because "even animals have the right to live!"
In addition, about the phenomenon of incest in the early stages of human development, basically every nation has it. In Greek mythology, all the gods are incest. Only later, as human ethics matured, it gradually became a taboo. In fact, in modern times, the complex of Electra and Oedipus is actually very common, but most of them are converted after adulthood.
Just think about it, Duras’ semi-autobiographical "Lover" has a plot of incest with his younger brother, and this book won the highest award in French literature in 1984. The audience was indifferent, and Duras did not lose his reputation; some time ago , An old Austrian man imprisoned his daughter for more than 20 years, and gave birth to 7 children with incest... It is said that he is mentally ill. This is a living example.
Therefore, I always feel that we are more perverted than imagined! What secret fantasies do we have in our hearts? The ulterior part? These special hobbies were formed unknowingly before adulthood, and after being sensible, they were all hidden by the requirements of civilization, etiquette, and society. It may become subconscious or something else later. But maybe sometimes it can leak a little by accident, such as watching those weird and perverted movies. Of course there are many other ways to satisfy.
I think if modern science is strong enough to expose these dark enough things in the human heart, just like peeling off the skin of a person, what is exposed is vague flesh and blood, and a bunch of disgusting internal organs... if the world is really true With such an instrument that can see the true heart of human beings, will people who master machines collapse because they can’t stand the reality? (Just think about how many lies we tell every day...) Forget it...
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