(thought that the lost manuscript was found hahaha) When
it comes to [recipient unknown], South Korea XX (the information in "Wild Jin Ji-de", mentioned in the previous interview, temporarily incomplete) University are all Professor Zhengyi once mentioned: "Imperialism has caused the colonial people to suffer from special mental illnesses such as inferiority, greatism, inferiority complex, and nihilism. The barbarity of capitalism has also induced many special mental illnesses, such as Depression, schizophrenia, destructive impulses, suicide, etc.", which shows the high level of discussion and attention this movie that caused Kim Ki-duk to induce anger in South Korea's domestic blockbuster. In fact, Kim Ki-duk has no intention to provoke a dispute, but just wants to tell a cruel story that concerns the fate of the three young people - "No matter who the three protagonists are, as descendants of the incomplete history, it is difficult for them to find their own true personality".
Children are not good
in Korea. In the 1970s, in a small village close to the US-occupied area, there were a group of depressed young people.
Zhang Wu, the posthumous son of an American soldier. When his mother was 15 years old, he fell in love with Da Bing and gave birth to him, but the other party returned to China, leaving her insane. Every day, she took a photo of her son with a Polaroid, and put it in an envelope and sent it to the United States, but the postman always delivered it. She still persevered in the bounced letter of "unknown recipient". Today's Zhang Wu is already a gloomy adult, with thick lips, flat nose, dark skin, curly hair, and a black father he has never met left a tough mark on his face, which makes him behave towards his mother. Even more disgusting, every morning when he was secretly photographed by his mother, he would always get angry, and even beat her violently, making her cry. If his mother was beaten, there would be "dog eyes" looking for trouble for Zhang Wu. He is a dog butcher, a dog dealer. He is called all day long to collect dogs in villages and towns, kill them for meat and sell them to restaurants. He is irritable and rude, but he only cares about Zhang Wu's mother, and treats her as his girlfriend, Zhang Wu As an assistant to him, he is often scolded by him, especially after hitting his mother, he will be beaten and kicked by him.
Enluo, a beautiful one-eyed girl. She lives in a family of "martyrs" who receive pensions. Her mother makes money by assembling dolls for people. He still refused to feel guilty. What Enluo loves most is her puppy. She holds her baby in her arms every day, eats and sleeps with it, only it makes her smile and her childlike innocence, but outside, she stares at her family with a good eye, Scare her offenders with a bad eye, and seal herself in a shell of indifference. Hearing that the U.S. military hospital could cure her eyes, she began to pay attention to the soldiers. After being abused by her brother at home, she even picked up an English book in a huff.
Changhua, a weak and handsome young man who can paint. He grew up under the scolding of the veteran father, developed a submissive character, never went to school, and was often bullied by two gangsters. He worked as an assistant in a studio in the town. He had a good talent for drawing. After secretly falling in love with Enluo, he wooed her with a portrait, but was torn apart by her angrily-because it was good to draw her eyes, but he was saved later. Her puppy still got her favor. Whenever Changhua was bullied, Zhang Wu would help him and drive away the gangsters, and the two muffled and fringe people gradually became friends. The chaos in Zhang Wu's house, Changhua always sees it but can't help, Enluo's desire for good eyes, Changhua is also consciously unable to solve it. Helplessly, he looked at the people around him and at himself, sliding towards a sad fate.
Zhang Wu finally killed the "dog's eye", cut off the words on his mother's left chest, drove his motorcycle head down into the mud, and the corpse was frozen; That anger, his eyes were healed, and he self-destructed again; Changhua used his anger to revenge the two gangsters, and charged himself with attempted murder, so he might be able to leave the town.
Fathers and Times
In the 1970s, post-war South Korea received a lot of support from the United States, but in fact it had a relationship of giving and receiving. Since World War II, "US troops stationed in South Korea" has appeared in the Korean dictionary, with an inexplicable meaning and a secret. Kim Ki-duk used [address unknown] to dig out fragments and wounds about the war and the imprint of the US military, trying to piece together the meaning. In the opening credits, an American flag is slowly raised, and it is stated that all the tragedies in this Korean village happened under this flag.
The servility of the fathers to war was implanted in the marrow. For most of them, war means glory, and Changhua's father is the most typical one. It is as good as a medal", showing the achievement of "killing three enemy soldiers" that year, day after day, year after year, this intoxication does not fade away with the years, but breaks through all the trivialities of life, deepens day by day, and becomes unique. A single sense of honor made them give up respect for life, so when we saw Changhua's father dug up the wartime bones outside his home, he shouted "this is a bandit army" with contempt, and discarded the bones at will. He worshipped violently. —— He scolded his son all the way, and only smiled when he saw him practicing archery, and took the initiative to demonstrate; Enluo’s mother heard that the pension had been suspended, and her husband had actually been living in North Korea, but sat on the ground crying, the money was cut, and the honor was lost. The military family has turned into a defecting military family - these are more important than a person's living existence. Even the condescending elder brother Enluo said a human word at this time: shouldn't Dad be happy that he is still alive? Fever for war has divided two generations of values.
From excessive slavishness towards "war" to slavishness towards "US military", Zhang Wuma connects the intersection of two eras and two mentalities. She did not directly participate in the war, but only existed as the first abandoned wife of the US military stationed in South Korea. Her body blurred the violence of the war, but reflected the initial confusion of the Koreans who longed for stability after the war. This woman who has received letters for more than 20 years in a row, lives in an abandoned bus, is beaten by her son all day long, is scorned by the villagers, and needs to steal things to live from time to time. She is still practicing English diligently and firmly living the "American Dream". , which shows how powerful this dream is, making it so unbearable for her to resist reality. On the surface, Enluo's story is a copy of Zhang Wuma. She took the initiative to approach the basketball court of the American soldiers, looking for someone who could treat her eyes. After the goal was achieved, she broke up with Changhua neatly and gave everything to the soldiers... Zhang Wu Ma and Enluo are also eager to improve their situation with the help of the soldiers. The difference is that the former believes in Zhang Wu's death, even with blind love, while the latter is always suspicious and completely unable to show affection. From the 1950s to the 1970s, in the past two decades, the U.S. military has changed from the original "God descended to the earth" to today's "woman killer", leaving more contradictions than majesty. From the attitude of young people towards the US military, the dignified and undignified can also be directly distinguished. The former is like Zhang Wu - he thinks that there are two things trapping his mother, one is the name engraved on her left chest, and the other is He himself, so he cut off the skin on his mother's chest and then self-destructed; Enluo - unwilling to repeat Zhang Wuma's experience, refused the soldiers to engrave her name on her body, and finally self-destructed his eyes to return the kindness; "Speak English" to provoke others and differentiate between high and low punks. The contrast between struggle and indulgence shows us that no matter what era or situation, some young people will always wake up.
History is deeply imprinted in everyone's blood and destiny. They are controlled by it and cannot escape. It is an extremely sad thing. Everyone in the film has accumulated anger of varying degrees in their hearts. release. The dog's eye killed the dog. Zhang Wu killed the dog's eye and liberated his mother. The always weak Changhua successively beat the gangster, learned archery and wanted to kill the soldiers, put himself in jail and strangled the gangster to death. He even bullied Chang all the time. Hua's two gangsters are going to have internal strife. Because of a little money and a few words, the police can't pull them away. In the face of this anger, the social coercive order method will fail, let alone hope. The existence of morality and self-discipline.
Hometown and foreign land
The role of "American Private" just contrasts with the young Koreans in the film, forming two sides of a mirror image tortured by history. From the very beginning of the film, he has shown strong anti-war and disgust, extremely negative about his own identity. During training, exercises, basketball, and leisure time, he always breaks down, weeps, vents, and is never happy. In him, violence and weakness complement each other. It is precisely because of his own weakness that he imposes violence on the weaker Enluo. All kinds of predicaments in a foreign land make him struggle like a fish out of water. After pursuing Enluo, he made no secret that this is just a pastime to fill the pale time-"If I don't have you and them (anaesthetics) now, I will go crazy". Of course, it's also because there are too many dialogues that are too close and straightforward, such as "world peace? Hell world peace, who would think that, that's us idiots", "what the hell are we doing in other people's backyards, you really Do you like war so much?" The entire character of "Prince" also appears flat and functional, and there is no lack of the possibility that Kim Ki-duk deliberately amplifies certain emotions.
The soldier escaped from the exercise for the last time and went to Enluo's house, intending to tattoo her on the grounds that "will you remember me when I leave?" Ironically compared to Zhang Wuma's life trapped in memory, she was attacked by her. After Enluo resisted, he tried to commit violence. Enluo used a knife to destroy his reborn eyes and completely lost control. He shot Enluo's mother and went out. The middle-aged man who shoots arrows to pass the time seems to have come in handy at this moment with "martial arts". He is flustered and has no clue. The imaginary war has finally been staged in this ridiculous way. The result is that the villagers were taken to the police station, depressed and chaotic. Surrounded by his own people, the soldier shouted "Send me back to America, I can't stand this hell anymore" and tried to shoot himself, but there was no more bullets in the gun, so he had to continue howling and venting his anger, unable to tell the difference. , is the tenacious history always injected into the reality, or the absurd reality drags down the history, the two have been intertwined into a farce.
Behind all the farce and madness, there is always Changhua's eyes. Throughout the film, he always exists as a "helpless bystander". This is his homeland, but it does not give him any effective right to speak. At home, he is the audience of his father's life, and in the village, he is the audience of Zhang Wu and Enluo's fate. If you watch the film carefully, you will find that Zhang Wu first appeared in the camera - he was cooking outside the abandoned bus where he lived, and was provoked by his mother taking pictures through the window. He went in and tried to beat his mother. Escaped and climbed onto the roof of the car - Changhua watched the whole process, and everything that happened to Zhang Wu and his mother was prompted by the camera that Changhua was on the side. fundus. Zhang Wu's life with his mother was at the edge of the village and was excluded, in other words, it was a kind of privacy. Only Changhua sympathized with his situation, paid attention to everything about him, and witnessed all his crazy behaviors towards his mother, but he couldn't interfere at all. Even after Zhang Wu's death, he stepped forward and cried and tried to help Zhang Wu's mother put away the body, but she pushed him away and drove him away. His sense of powerlessness caused by bystanders extended inward and became self-anger, and finally extended into revenge. Violence. The same is true for Enluo, he is her voyeur - only he knows what happened to her and the puppy, and has seen her smile occasionally, her innocence and lust only exist in his eyes, and the two have feelings for each other. , separated by the desire of En Luozhi's eyes and the intervention of the soldier, his peeping has not stopped, and in the process he wants to shoot arrows to kill the soldier, so through his eyes, he sees Enluo's contradiction: she does not love Da Bing, but secretly trying on Da Bing's shoes outside the room - she hoped that he would take her out of the predicament, but she clearly couldn't see how the road ahead was.
The reason why only Chang-hwa can "see" is because Kim Ki-duk shaped the character based on himself. The relationship between Changhua and his father is basically a replica of Jin Jide and his father. Changhua's struggle and separation from his homeland may also happen to Jin Jide himself. In reality, his father is a veteran who has experienced 6.25. Every year to this day, he writes a letter to the Prime Minister of the State: At that time, for the sake of the country, he suffered several gunshot wounds all over his body, and suffered from the pain caused by the sequelae for ten years. As a result, it has no meaning...but the reply he gets is always only four words "undocumented", so he has passed on the hurt and anger he received from the country to his children. As a result, Kim Ki-duk became the Changhua, afraid of his father, and subjected to all kinds of deafening orders every day. In front of this aloof monarch, he even opened and closed the door carefully. A young man who was repressed by his father, a letter that is always "undocumented", became the initial foundation of [Unknown recipient], which shows that he has accumulated deep hurt since childhood. However, in the film, he only has a sense of history. Resentment, but let Changhua wear military medals for his old father in the police station, which confirms the helplessness he once said: "Maybe one night now, I should gently open my father's door and listen to him. He rambles about the story of '6.25', listens to him explain, puts him at ease. Then wraps his old, frail shoulders in the early morning light like a friend... I know this will be the perfect story The ending. But until now, I didn't give my father a chance to talk like this."
Kim Ki-duk's fetish
plot and fate, representing Kim Ki-duk's toughness, details and objects, constitute Kim Ki-duk's texture. Kim Ki-duk has always had his own set of theories about props and attaching meaning to specific objects. For example, regarding the "frozen fish" in [City of Beasts] as a murder weapon, he once explained: "The reason for choosing these ordinary objects that are not like murder weapons at all as murder props is to express the danger of this ordinary nature. The possibility of sexual transformation”, [Unknown recipient] is also full of various objects, some prominent, some obscure, which are implicated in each other.
Conspicuous like "eyes", it evokes Enluo's "lack" and Changhua's "seeing", always strengthening the concept of "half-person", in the director's words, "the disappointment of seeing the world with half-eyes". In the film, Changhua takes Zhang Wu to peep at Enluo. Enluo sticks his pen into the hole in the wall, stabbed Zhang Wu's eyelids. After Enluo was raped, Changhua angrily made a pistol and aimed it at the gangster, but the bullet flew out from behind. With his own eyes, the three young people formed an alliance in such a way that none of the left eyes could see, permanent or temporary, only the three of them had enough conscience to bear to witness the reality in front of them.
The props that are also used to divide the camp are "dogs". The three young people in the opening sequence appear in sequence to see the clue: Changhua touches his own dog for comfort after being reprimanded by his father; Enluo comes out of the room with the puppy in his arms, angry He kicked away the toy with eyes on his mother's hand; Zhang Wu's job was to be an assistant for "dog eyes", but he turned his face away sadly when the dog was wailing, and was resolutely unwilling to kill. On the other hand, Changhua's father sold his own dog to the butcher, and the two gangsters dealt with Enluo's dog at the behest of Enluo's brother. It seems that the only way for a dog to be locked in a cage is to be sent to the slaughterhouse, just as the fate of this group of Koreans is only under the live ammunition that the US military exercises every day, and only three young people realize their compassion for dogs and sympathy for dogs. The situation actually alludes to the awakening of self-consciousness, the pursuit and resistance of self-identity.
For Enluo, "dog" is still a symbol of awakening of lust. In the first half of the film, she is lonely and establishes a close relationship with the puppy, and even develops to the level of physicality. During this period, she walks alone on the ridge after school and meets two wild dogs. Coitus, she stopped to watch with relish, a rare smile appeared on her face, the scene happened to be right after she ran to watch the US military play, and after successfully attracting attention, people wondered whether Kim Ki-duk wanted to say that this was a foreshadowing of fate or a premeditated plan. . Creepy objects appear at the end of the film. After Zhang Wu's death, Zhang Wu's mother lost his mind and took his body back to the abandoned garage. Since then, he has been lying on the bed, eating something in his mouth. Jin Ji-de took the initiative to remind everyone to pay attention to the " Boots", the next time the shot goes back to this scene, the boots have changed from one to two. There is no doubt that Zhang Wu was eaten by his mother and returned to his mother in a hopeless form, proving that his birth was a mistake.
Of course, there is also the "letter" that cannot be ignored. The title of the whole film is that the reply letter from Zhang Wu's biological father arrived in an ironic manner, but the people who expected it have disappeared, it was blown into the field by the wind, and the US military kept returning The one-day practice was still going on. One of them happened to find it and started to read it. The camera zoomed back to the panorama, and the teammates were all gone. Only the ignorant recruit was reading the letter written in English carefully. Don't believe this story.
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