"Time": Kim Ki-deok's concept of love - after the light flies; what can we remember
Time goes by. Is all that we can see real. Does the person we love really exist? When love is an excuse for doubt; should we stop and think about how much of all we have is left. - Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
The younger brother's chick said it was a very scary movie. At least, in her opinion, this is a movie that scares and worries her. It seems to me more like a tragic movie without the slightest bit of horror. When I listened to her, I thought it was because Kim Ki-duk suddenly turned into a thriller movie. After watching "The Empty Room", I fell in love with Kim Ki-duk's films. Indulgent sex, love, and the discussion of human nature are always the eternal themes of Kim Ki-duk's films. Some time ago, I looked and watched almost every movie Kim Ki-duk could find, and then I understood why the reviews about "The Empty Room" all said that it was a surprising movie, because that movie was stripped of Kim Ki-duk's film. Customary depictions of sex. And this "Time" is the movie that surprised me even more. If we say that this is a film about the passage of time, it is better to say that this is a film about love and thinking about emotional propositions. Kim Ki-duk's clear eroticism and beautiful shots are everywhere in the movie, with a little bit of bizarre depiction. These are the film techniques that Kim Ki-duk is good at, and more importantly, this movie joins what seems to have become a Korean fashion. facelift of the problem.
This movie also reminds me of the Korean horror movie "Cinderella" some time ago. The same is about thinking about plastic surgery, but that movie may be more concerned with thinking about family affection, and this one, undoubtedly, is more about love. To a certain extent, this movie may be a relatively mainstream movie among Kim Ki-duk's films. I may prefer Kim Ki-duk's clear erotic depictions, but Kim Ki-duk's pure love depictions are not bad from another angle. The film's reflections on the topic of plastic surgery and love are no worse than other films with the same theme. Not thriller and thriller, not beautiful but beautiful, not pathetic and pathetic. Perhaps, aside from Kim Ki-duk, not many people can give a movie something so prosperous and contradictory.
How we should maintain our sincere emotions is a heavy proposition. Love, the so-called love, is not just loyalty, piety, faith, focus and no distractions. The beauty is not old, perhaps, it is just a beautiful prayer in myths and legends. Men always like novelty things, and always like to look around, even if they love the woman in front of them so much. Looking left and right, maybe just because of novelty, for men, it may not mean betrayal, but just visual greed on the eyeball. However, for women, this means that whether their appearance and body have made the man they love very tired, and the man will have the corner of his eye to peep. Such contradictions seem to be innate. There is a kind of love that is crazy monopoly, endless self-judgment and self-questioning, and hysterical possessiveness.
When two completely different logical ways of thinking, men and women, collide and cannot compromise with each other, there will always be some crazy things happening. Because of desire, a woman will let the man she loves make love to her while thinking of other women. For both parties, it is more like the other side that goes further and further endlessly. Is it true that love can only be maintained by novelty and sex? When a woman's definition of love is so superficial, it seems natural that tragedy will happen. Why do I sympathize with this woman, not because she looks so pitiful, but because her extreme way makes her never go back. And the road ahead, in addition to indifferent sadness, seems to have nothing else. The greatest sympathy comes from watching a person go to a dead end but can only pretend to be indifferent from the side, and Kim Ki-duk has the ability to completely force my sympathy and compassion with his cold camera.
The language of the shots in this film is extremely light, even a little lyrical. But using such lens language to describe a story with a cold taste seems a bit too indifferent. There are basically no extra shots, all shots are clean and clear, just to express the same theme and run in the same direction, in a certain way, the film is not dragged at all, the pure and simple language of the shots makes people feel intoxicated. The story is tragic; most of the reason may be such extreme lens language. After all, whether it's a movie or something else, using an extremely soothing way to express another extreme emotion can often give off a more extreme effect. Such an effect may be more powerful than a simple tragic approach. There is no doubt that Kim Jide knows this well. Expressing grief in a soothing way is easier to move than blindly grief. Kim Ki-duk's films are full of this kind of unrestrained ambiguity.
called love. It is perpetual possession, and endless anger; it is jealousy, boasting, and arrogant; it is quick-tempered and scheming; it bears all things, doubts all things, hopes all things, endures all things; . With such a definition and a powerless belief in the self, the madness just got out of hand. Escape from everything in reality, disappear suddenly from everyone's eyes, and appear in front of the man he loves with a brand new face half a year later. Is this choice correct? Let the man who loves him, sometimes wait and not wait for him, fall in love with him again. Memories and existing reality are separated. If he loves the current me, it means betrayal of the previous me; if he blindly watches the memory and refuses to accept the current self, it means another degree of betrayal of the existing self. Since it is destined that no matter how you face it, it will be a betrayal. Then, from the time when a woman chooses herself to watch this man alone in the dark for half a year, in fact, this love will be destined to be a grief no matter how it ends. Closing.
Another theme that Kim Ki-duk wants to express is: What does time mean to love? Love may not have a time limit, but desire will. Therefore, we can love a person for a lifetime, but we cannot always be as passionate about a person as when we first met. If you love someone for a lifetime, if you are deeply in love and deeply in love, there may never be a correct and complete answer to such thinking. Love is a subjective act, while desire is not. Many times we have no way to control our desires at all. But love, should there be other things besides carnal desire? Perhaps the most profound reflection in this film is such an exploration. Even if there is no definite answer, at least we should enrich our emotional life. It is also extremely sad to have an emotional life when there is nothing but carnal love left. Carnal love is only one aspect of love. And what kind of love is a higher level of love? The movie doesn't seem to teach us anything. The computer in the movie always edits another movie "Empty Room" by Kim Ki-duk. Maybe it is a metaphor for a higher level of emotion, but it is actually an emotion without words, without carnal desire, everything is just quiet and peaceful. , from carnal love to spiritual love, such love may be unattainable. So the film was choreographed to a heavy, tragic ending.
I hoped that the end of this movie would be two completely different people meeting and falling in love again. Just when a woman madly suspects that all the men around her are the man she loves deeply. However, the end of the movie is the beginning of the movie, everything will repeat the cycle, thinking about love, it seems that it can only go all the way without stagnation. To doubt everything; to be apprehensive. This woman watched the man she loved finally die in front of her, and in the end couldn't even see his face clearly. Does this arrangement want to tell us that there is another aspect of this movie that completely violates the definition of love. definition. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not jealous, it is not boastful, it is not arrogant; love is not shy, it is not gainful; love is not provoked, and does not consider wrongs of others; love does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices Truth; love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things; love never fails. The endless and domineering desire for possession will eventually shatter all this goodness. In any case, love in the Bible is the definition of God, and we are actually just ordinary people, weak and vulnerable people. If the world can really be as described in the "Bible", perhaps, everything will become beautiful.
2006-12-19; Noon day of the Gengzi month of the Bingxu year. Willow trees are in danger.
Note: Movie information. ■Title: "Time" ■Translation: "Time", "The Lie of Desire" ■Director: Kim Ki-duk ■Starring: Sung Hyun-ah/Park Jiyeon/Ha Jung-woo ■Genre: Drama ■Duration: 97 minutes ■Country: Japan/South Korea ■Language: Korean ■Premiering: August 24, 2006 / Korea
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