non-fish

Newell 2022-03-09 08:02:17

When ordinary people hear this sentence, they always think of the words recorded in Zhuangzi. The famous sentence in "The Debate of Haoliang" in the chapter "Autumn Water", "A child is not a fish, how can you know the joy of a fish." However, I dared to change it, a child is not a fish, how can you know the pain of a fish.

In life, many people are accustomed to standing at a high place and pointing the country, and there is always a desire to express themselves as a teacher. However, in the face of the suffering of others, they always selectively turn a blind eye.

The fisherman in the film, because of an accident, crossed the dividing line between North and South Korea. In these two countries that were supposed to be of the same origin, he could not achieve his wish to go home. After returning to the motherland, he found out that he had Nothing.

Not to mention the political stance in the film, whether it is dictatorship or democracy is more suitable, there is still no conclusion, and in real life, it is not uncommon for the two sides to talk to each other through the air, but about the two governments that appear as representatives in the film. The staff left a lasting impression on me.

In the film, except for the "true friends" of the guards, none of the government personnel appear in a positive image. Whether they are officials from South Korea or North Korea, they are all personal desires hidden under the coat of "government". Whether it is violence or greed, behind it, they are looking down on the common people, looking down on the ants-like life with a superior vision, they pretend not to see the hardships of the people. South Korean officials, because their family members were killed in a battle, were very hostile to all those who came out of the Northern Dynasty, and they did not hesitate to treat others in a subservient way. North Korean officials, on the other hand, are extremely greedy and use all means to take the money that originally belonged to the fisherman. Perhaps in their hearts, the people have never been regarded as equal, they are the superiors, and everything of the people is for them. A child is not a fish, how can one know the suffering of a fish.

In real life, how many government decrees come from the mouths of this group of government officials who do not eat human fireworks. It is not uncommon for the boss to move his mouth, and it is not uncommon for the following to break his leg. When will the two sides sit down and have an equal dialogue? That's what we need to think about.

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  • Verlie 2022-04-23 07:05:12

    Kim Ki-duk also started the main theme, discussing the issue of hatred between the North and the South, a good-natured fisherman who crossed the border and became a suspected spy in South Korea, returned to the country and became a traitor of the Northern Dynasty. The beatings come as soon as they say it, freedom and dictatorship are bullshit, and the poor are always civilians. Once they get into the net, don't think about the days of getting out again.

  • Bethany 2022-04-22 07:01:54

    Kim Ki-duk's good-looking movies in the past always put characters in a small space to show human nature and interpersonal entanglements, but once he came to a broad social background, all those false details when he arranged the story were exposed, and the state of the characters was not at all. resonate. Moreover, the inter-Korean issue here is rigid and nothing new.

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