Hong Sang-soo's life masterpiece

Not sure when it started, Hong Shangxiu had the privilege of only filming the bad things in the film circle around him. It seems that if you press a monitor on him, a series of interesting life films will fall out. After all, movie fans are always interested in the entertainment circle and the art circle that surrounds the halo of gossip. As long as the person in it has a busy and interesting life and is good at self-deprecating, then the monitor that follows him will become a The automated production lines with different molds shake out interesting stories one by one. Sometimes the product is the selection of film festivals, who go to the world's major film festivals full of art films to flicker, and then fall asleep in the theater, and when they wake up, they despise the audience next door who are also asleep ("Film Festival Peach Blossom Tribulation"); sometimes The product is a young teacher from the Film Academy, crying and screaming at the girl, and after dawn, it is clear that "we are still not suitable to be together" ("Beicun Direction").

The product this time is a director who is scouting and vacationing abroad. Abroad, it is not Hong Sangxiu himself, but a French female director Anna (Isabella Huppert), and this director is calmed down by a film school girl who went to a seaside town with her mother to avoid debts And whatever is written. However, don't think that this is another art film that needs to be piled up in the complex structure of the play. The girl who wrote the script completed her mission shortly after the opening, quitting the time and space of the movie's story, and only occasionally explained the French she created with a prompt voice-over. Female director itinerary. Like most students chasing art films, this created script is three-part. The first Anna, a popular director, was taken to a seaside town by a couple of local directors; the second Anna was dating an old lover here, a Korean entrepreneur who was wary of the paparazzi; the third Anna was arrested by South Korea because of her husband. The woman snatched it away, and was led by a folklorist (played by Yoon Yuzhen) to the place where the "accident" occurred. Interspersed, in addition to the folk master's daughter played again by Jung Yu-mi, who plays a film academy student, there is also a funny beach lifeguard (played by Ryu Jun-sang). The three stories are like triple doors that can be pushed and pulled at will, superimposing a mysterious rhythm and aura on each other, and it is destined to be a unique Hong Shangxiu-style work.

Don't devote yourself to digging up the metaphorical secrets about the lighthouse because of this, and don't disrupt this simple structure into a ball of yarn full of philosophical hints. This is a sketch written by a film school student who practiced his pen temporarily. Even if it is multiplied by 3, it is a mid-level or high-level product. But if you insist that life is art, and art comes from simple life, then all Hong Shangxiu's life masterpieces are the works of art that truly condense life. Audiences unfamiliar with his works left the theater and cursed: "What kind of mess is this? It's also called a movie? Why is Huppert acting so contrived?" The familiar audience laughed heartlessly in the theater, extremely Approve this kind of superficial and flamboyant performance.

After all, in the contemporary era when it is no longer too late to catch up with the pace of art style renewal, any creation that is anti-traditional, anti-movie and anti-art can be regarded as a treasure, because contemporary nature gives human beings a short but sufficient choice space, so that no one has to be With guidance, you can find items in the art supermarket that suit your mood and taste - such as Hong Sangxiu's art of life.

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