When the United States and South Korea hold large-scale joint military exercises, it is really a special feeling to chew the epic Korean gangster blockbuster "Yellow Sea" full of political metaphors. Different from the beautification of rivers and lakes, loyalty and romantic and childish obscenity in Hong Kong films, Korean noir films that focus on analyzing human nature and insinuating history have a taste that is a hundred times more spicy than Korean kimchi, but it is often lost in excessive force. Kim Ki-duk's films are becoming more and more unpopular, and cruelty is not a problem. The problem is that he can only see the trees and not the forest, and he cannot use the stories to show the complexity of human nature. "Yellow Sea" is still in the preparation stage, and Hollywood is investing and buying out the filming rights of the American version of "Yellow Sea" because it was created by the original team of "Chasers". In 2008, the bloody and gripping "Chasers" not only sold well at the box office, but also handled the relationship between the male protagonist and his former police colleagues. year) after the best Korean film noir. After being laid off, the Korean taxi driver, Hisao, repays the money owed by his wife for smuggling to South Korea to work. 60,000 yuan of "travel expenses", accepted the dispatch of the Korean gang boss in the border area, went to South Korea to assassinate Professor Kim, hoping to take the opportunity to find the unknown wife. When Jiu Nan stepped on the spot, Professor Jin, who was kept in the dark, actually gave him alms. This warm and slightly funny detail embodies the director's strong and complex emotions such as compassion, disgust and irony towards his fellow countrymen. In the jungle world, sympathy and pity are a sin, and to survive, you have to be more brutal than the enemy. Sure enough, Professor Jin not only stole from his wife, but also died first. The professor's driver and bodyguard is a taekwondo master who has obtained certificates and medals. He has all the facilities to kill the professor, but he is obviously not trained to fight on the stairs. Rather, her lover who works at the bank looks more serious than the bank. Hisao didn't have time to rejoice that his personality power broke out (someone killed Professor Jin for him), so he enjoyed the meticulous care of black and white. For the first time in more than 30 years of life, so many people and so many organizations are concerned about the whereabouts and life and death of Hisao. "Yellow Sea" has inherited the glorious tradition of filmmakers using films to fight the government, and never missed an opportunity to ridicule the police. The police officer who shot a colleague by mistake cried: "You told me to shoot and I fired, who knows-----" Only after shooting did they find that they had shot "my own person". In many parts of the world, they understand this. One point tends to take more time. The police were dragged to the ground by police dogs, the police cars collided with themselves, and hundreds of police officers couldn't help an amateur killer. Does it remind you of the poor performance of the South Korean military and police in rounding up North Korean agents in 1968 and the crackdown on students in Gwangju in 1980. ? In order to kill people, the South Korean gang boss did not hesitate to kill all the Koreans who smuggled in, as if they were just a group of dogs; it so happened that the South Korean gangster who chased and killed the Korean gang boss across the sea was also treated as a dog by the former. How to deal with the corpses? "The head is cut off, and the rest is fed to the dog." The most important part of the human body is not even eaten by the dog, you are ruthless! The killing of the two major gangsters of the Koreans and South Korea without faith and bottom line is shocking. The face is bright, the strength is weak, and the belt is resolutely stretched at the juncture of life and death. The Korean boss ordered the South Korean boss to wrap his wounds, which means a kind of spiritual conquest: shameless afraid of death, Yi Ye Zhiqiu's innuendo kung fu is admirable. The film is adapted from the real incident of a Korean man who smuggled to South Korea to find his wife: what Kuo paid for was only his wife's fake news and fake ashes, indicating that there are many similar incidents. Hisao, who vowed to unearth the real murderer behind the scenes, witnessed the professor's wife meeting her lover in the bank, Knowing that he was too shocked, or that the sullenness of his compatriots was beyond his comprehension, he suddenly felt disheartened. The director seems to want to tell people that in a sufficiently shameless and ruthless world, death is not terrible (it may be a relief), but what is terrible is that the motivation and meaning of struggle are completely eliminated. The confrontation between the north and the south, the pain of separation of relatives, the melee caused by the phrase "Korean stick", the depression and anger living in fear, the film wants to convey too much and too deep, plus the box office pressure, the artistic quality is greatly affected, some The plot setting is too bloody, but the victory is that the scene is hot, and it is not hot for the sake of being hot: Humanistic care is dressed in a bloody, cynical coat, and every drop of blood shed by every axe contrasts the difficulty and preciousness of peace and reunion. Why did Hisao set foot on the road of no return? Why did the wife leave her husband and son to smuggle to South Korea? Mahjong, which is calculated all the time, is not fun, windfalls are not so easy to make, and the thorny rivers and lakes are really difficult to mix. Why are there tears in my eyes? Because "I" are you and him who have been fooled, used, and betrayed. On the golden road to happiness, the weak always hurt each other. Hisao, who escaped the pursuit of black and white, died at the hands of a rookie who was also a stowaways. "The people live forever and die silently on the ancient murals." Facing the sharp knife and the corpse in the pool of blood, the old fisherman who read the wind and waves of the Milky Way was as calm as water, like Hisao sinking into the Yellow Sea without a ripple. That is not the Yellow Sea, it is clearly the sorrow and sorrow of the Korean Peninsula for thousands of years. (Xinmin Weekly) Died at the hands of a rookie who was also a stowaways. "The people live forever and die silently on the ancient murals." Facing the sharp knife and the corpse in the pool of blood, the old fisherman who read the wind and waves of the Milky Way was as calm as water, like Hisao sinking into the Yellow Sea without a ripple. That is not the Yellow Sea, it is clearly the sorrow and sorrow of the Korean Peninsula for thousands of years. (Xinmin Weekly) Died at the hands of a rookie who was also a stowaways. "The people live forever and die silently on the ancient murals." Facing the sharp knife and the corpse in the pool of blood, the old fisherman who read the wind and waves of the Milky Way was as calm as water, like Hisao sinking into the Yellow Sea without a ripple. That is not the Yellow Sea, it is clearly the sorrow and sorrow of the Korean Peninsula for thousands of years. (Xinmin Weekly)
View more about The Yellow Sea reviews
