All roles are reversed, and all foreshadowings will be fulfilled.
It starts with a vulnerable mother protecting her mentally handicapped son at all costs, and ends with her killing the more vulnerable elderly and orphans.
The trust of one link after another collapsed, and it was exhausted again and again.
In the process, it shows how the bottom struggles, paralyzes, pushes, and finally eliminates the weaker ones.
The golf course at the beginning of the film is the first climax of the film. From the vast and beautiful long-range perspective to the cramped and shabby close-up of the characters, the relaxation highlights the insignificance of the characters and the incompatibility with the environment. Obviously the poor man was hit by a Mercedes Benz, but the police sentenced the poor man to compensate the rearview mirror.
The director told the audience at the beginning that the "public" world only looks at profit and loss, regardless of justice.
In the remaining pages, the audience is told that the world of "private" is only deformed and full of despair.
Under such a structure, human loneliness is infinitely magnified. The mother needs to be silent in the crowd, not believing anyone, to find the truth, but she can't accept the truth, she can only cover it up with greater sin, so she has to dance in pain on the wasteland. This is a story of a mother, forced by an extremely cruel reality, and she has only the cruelty left to choose.
The good and evil of human nature are so vulnerable in the face of reality. For the audience, this is not only deep interrogation and excavation, but also indifferent gaze and isolation. We, who are in the safety zone constructed by society, are powerless to change the reality, and it is even difficult to sympathize with their misfortune, and we can only stare at their struggle, pain and numbness.
This is Feng Junhao's early work. From the perspective of photography techniques, family analysis, and group portraits, it is even better than the parasite.
Just talking about the weather in the film, from the weird solo dance in the morning mist at the beginning, to the golf course in the clear sky, to the desperate visit of the pouring rain, to the son's release from prison on a cold and cloudy day, to the acupuncture dance in the dazzling sunset...
So neat and delicate, spare no effort, although the film did not meet my appetite, but Bong Joon-ho's romantic spirit of realism, strong control, and ingenious conception are still so delightful.
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