"Memories of Murder" won countless plaudits for its unique historical perspective and almost flawless narrative, and was once rated as the best film in Korean film history. The talent of director Bong Joon-ho was also appreciated by the audience. The ingenuity of historical relations has been etched in our hearts for a long time.
The involvement of individuals in history makes the diversity of history and the sense of existence of life fuller. For individuals, history is always a circle that cannot be jumped out. Individuals can never be above history. The Marxist view of history believes that the masses are the The driving force behind the historical development process lies, and the individual is almost insignificant based on the entire historical collective. The entire collective that drives the historical pace itself is also a part of history and cannot exist independently of history. This is the so-called individual historical limitation. This is a dialectical point of view; and individual emotions are often ignored in history, and this time from being ignored to being awake is history.
In "Memories of Murder", the predicament faced by the individual is the law, and the predicament constructed by several serial murder cases. Every rainy night, when the Dejected Letter sounds on the radio, it is the time when the murderer commits the murder. Feng Junhao is not tepid. However, the explosive narrative pushes the plot to the extreme explosion. However, after the silence of the outbreak, the awakening of the world makes people completely smash their own historical view and individual non-existence in their hearts. This person is against the background of big history. The sobriety of the individual, the individual will always jump out of history, under the huge background of the times, there is only powerlessness, the individual is so small, history has kidnapped each of us, and the individual will always be the hostage of history, and under the expression of the film, this inability to do anything It has turned into a suffocating sense of depression, a sense of nonexistence of nothingness, which is directly pressing to people's hearts.
And if we look at the era of "Memories of Murder" independently, it is not difficult to find out that South Korea at that time was in the period of warlord rule, and the laws and democracy were not perfect. This was a period of historical transformation and a special period, because in this era of The existence of the individual is often ignored, and in the transition period of history, the nihilistic existence of this little person in the historical background can be more reflected. In the movie, in addition to this classic "Memories of Murder" There are also China's "Farewell My Concubine", "Guling Street Teenage Murder" and last year's Oscar for the best foreign language film "Mysterious Eyes." After careful analysis, it can be seen that the backgrounds of the times are similar. The background of "Mysterious Eyes" is the period of warlord rule in Argentina, while the background of "Farewell My Concubine" is the entire turbulent modern China, "Guling Street". "Juvenile Murder" is set in the turbulent 1960s Chiang Kai-shek rule in Taiwan. This is the background of the times, an invincible kidnapper.
Some of the films deliberately blur the background of the times, and some highlight the profound expression of history in the individual descriptions that seem to have no intention of pointing to history. Many films like to portray individual tragedies in the historical background, such as "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". "Farewell My Concubine" and so on, and this kind of psychological impact is often bloody, on the one hand, it makes people feel emotional, on the other hand, it makes people reflect and grieve.
History always intervenes in the lives of little people silently, and quietly but deeply imprints the little people on the imprint of history, which cannot be erased. Many times, as the kidnapped hostages, we often suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. On the one hand, there is a sense of existence in nothingness, and on the other hand, we have to thank history for allowing us to survive in a humble and small way. It is sad and deplorable.
As a leader in this type of film , "Memories of Murder" not only makes people sigh that the drunkard's meaning is not drunk. , which makes people think deeply about our humble existence as individuals, and investigate the entire era from an individual perspective, and people can't help but feel the tragic taste of it. The era controls the individual, but the individual is always powerless. The fate of the times, but our fate will always bear the imprint of the times, which can never be erased.
The trend of realism brought by the Neorealism and the French New Wave has continued to this day, and the realism aims to use the camera to describe the individuality and reflect the life and changes at the bottom. Which of these changes and existences has not been marked by the times? The independent existence of an individual is based on history. Every word and deed under the camera, every move and every eye is a product of the times. The fateful ontology of small people has always been active in movies. This is fate, and it is the irresistible fate that history has given us. As an art form that can record individuality, film allows us to see the big bubble of history in which we live. It wraps us in an illusory way, invisible and intangible, but lingering forever.
And we can see everything around us, but often ignore the bubbles that wrap ourselves, we are always the hostages of history
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