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Where is the lighthouse?
In A Foreign Land (2012), three women, played by Isabelle Huppert, are inexplicably searching for a lighthouse in a place called Mohang Village. Have these three women lost their direction in life? Do they all desperately need to find the lighthouse to find the exit of the path of destiny? Until the end, they were not found, it seems that they are still trapped in the dead sea of life, struggling to swim and lost forever. But that's just appearances.
The sudden push and pull of the camera in "In Exotic" makes people dizzy. Hong Sang-soo has a bit of a dazzling connotation, I think it is to highlight the delicate relationship between the characters. In fact, without such stretching, the audience can see it at a glance. Likewise, we can find traces of experimental cinema in his 1996 The Day the Pig Falls and many of his later films.
If I want to come to Korea, Hong Sang-soo, like Kim Ki-duk, is a director who is well-received and unpopular, with innovation, ideas, and depth. It seems that Li Cangdong is more skilled and can have both. Like Anna's search for a lighthouse, it's by no means an easy task. Of course, in terms of film peace and introspection, I definitely like Hong Sang-soo more than Kim Ki-duk. Most of Hong Sang-soo's films, like Rohmer's films, have a slightly underwhelming power.
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In Mohang Village by the sea, the 25-year-old Yunzhu had nothing to do after graduating from university, taking care of a private hotel. When she was idle and bored, she wrote about three women related to the small hotel. The three women are all named Anna, and they are all played by Yu Peier anyway, which is recognizable. The first Anna, brought here by South Korean director Zhongsu, wanted to let this French friend have a good time to relax, but also had a selfishness and wanted to split with Anna. But he was accompanied by his wife who was pregnant with Liujia. She was a woman who likes to drink vinegar. She knows that she is a big belly and can't satisfy her husband who is just about to move. Not to mention that the husband will be chaotic when he drinks too much, which is more burning than shochu. heart matters. This concern continues into the third paragraph.
The couple still appeared, but this Anna was not Bianna, a French woman who came here to relax after a divorce. They didn't know each other, but they just met in a small hotel. Sure enough, after drinking too much, Zhongsu took Anna to see a special secret with his sleeping wife on his back. As a result, the two came to a swamp overgrown with reeds. The so-called secret was a man's old-fashioned trick - "me". Killed, a burst of bang, the two fled.
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All three sections of Anna are associated with a seaside lifeguard. Every time Anna came to the beach for the first time, it was the same scene. A young man was swimming. After landing, Annas were all attracted by his strong body. Youth is strength. The boy gestured and replied in half-familiar English, saying that he had never seen a lighthouse here. no. Each time, he would take them to his little tent, where he slept.
The first Anna went in and sat down and listened to the songs he sang to her. She was very moved. After leaving, the young man who also worked as a charcoal delivery worker at night sent charcoal to the small hotel. They are eating together. The guy's enthusiasm for Anna made the Zhongsu couple look surprised. Why did you know this guy when you first came. Especially when Zhongsu told her that the men here are unreliable and the law and order are in chaos, so you should be careful.
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This kind of plot also appears in the last paragraph, but Zhongsu's tone of speech is different. In the second paragraph, Anna wandered for a while outside the lifeguard's small tent. At first she lost her phone when she came. This phone is very important, because she came here to have a tryst with a director behind her husband. The South Korean director is afraid of being known by people, and always looks at ease when he is with her, afraid of being photographed and uploaded to the Internet. This network was originally convenient for people, but now it seems that it has blocked people's privacy space, resulting in an increasingly narrow world of personal relationships in public places.
So, when the phone was dropped, Anna panicked, afraid that her husband would call. If a young man answered the call, her husband in Hong Kong would be very surprised. Why did my wife go to a ghostly Mohang Village. Fortunately, the director came to find Anna, but no one answered the door. After calling the phone, he found that the phone was in the boy's hand. Anna, who opened the door, hurried to the small tent with the director, but there was no one there. As soon as a dozen, the phone rang, she went in to get it, and the two walked away. When the director kissed Anna passionately on the beach, Anna gave him two slaps in a row. He was quite stunned, but she smiled and said I love you. I slap you because I love you. This is more in line with the masochistic and abused roles played by Peirie, such as in "Piano Teacher".
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In the third paragraph, Anna followed the young man, standing on the cold and windy seashore, and the two of them couldn't drink much soju. Finally, she followed him into the small tent and slept all night. There is no such thing, no account, presumably no need to guess. She was just worried that the female college teacher who accompanied her was simple. The old aunt took the old monk to search for the missing Anna, but found nothing. Zeng walked to the small tent and asked the guy who came out of it. He said he didn't see any foreign women. It looks like he's also a little flabby.
The female teacher brought Anna here for vacation, and it turned out to be aimed at the old monk here. The old monk is learned, writes and understands English. He could resolve all the questions that Anna asked, but he still couldn't do what Anna wanted, and she asked for an expensive Brown pen. The female college teacher wondered why he gave her such a valuable pen. He said I was a person who would not refuse. But you know, this pen was given to you back then. He scratched his bald head and smiled. Turns out they were a couple. I don't know why they parted ways and why they still have such an incomprehensible and delicate relationship.
The fate of life is so strange. Three similar but different stories, the blindness and style of the three Annas, just like the stacking and confusion brought by this film, it is difficult to clarify and cannot stay. Although the seaside of Mohang Village is very beautiful, it is only a It's just a small stop for leisure, not a place to stay for a long time in life. Because the lighthouse always hangs alone on the vast sea. And Anna is just by the sea, far away from the real sea.
2013、8、21
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