"Empty Room" was filmed by Kim Ki-duk after watching "Long Live Love." Although it also tells the story of "break-in-the-home" (using the space of the owner of the house while he is away), the emotional core is the opposite. There is no love in "Long Live Love", and the "empty room" is warmer than when the owner is at home. Both belong to the "urban loneliness and marginalized people", the protagonists of "Long Live Love" are the real bottom, but the hero of "Empty Room" is "actively marginalized" (he has an expensive motorcycle and has no education. Low, but chose the job of handing out flyers. Living in countless families, but being undiscovered like a ghost. Not dumb, but he didn't say a word in the whole film. He practiced disappearing in prison, and finally became "invisible" People”) Although this kind of initiative is also passive (helpless) in a sense. A keyhole covered in advertising flyers for days means an "abandoned" empty house. A "3 iron" is a golf club that is longer than a normal club, resulting in a relatively low slope when hitting, making it difficult to aim for the hole. Many people buy a No. 3 club, but they only know that they are covered in dust in the bag. "You have a home and a family, but you only know to keep her (him) at home. How is this different from an empty house?" The old man, the divorced couple, the man with domestic violence... Happiness is rare in these houses. When there is no one, it is warm. The return of the master makes it lose its peace. The male protagonist is a strange intruder, but he is there At that time, the house was the "home". Every time he went to a family, he would take a photo with the photos on the wall, wash the clothes (hand wash), water the flowers, repair the electrical appliances for the owner of the house, cook and eat alone, but leave In the past, everything will be returned to the original state, and the careless may not even find out that someone has come to the house. "Why do you need to wash it by hand when there is a washing machine? ' The domestic abuse husband asked his wife.
The female protagonist is also a silent person, but her lines are a little more than the male protagonist. One is shouting "Ah--" to the husband on the other end of the phone, and the other is "I love you" to the male protagonist. They are silent for the same reason - the world is like a domestic abusive husband to whom we do not want to speak. At the very beginning of the film, the golf ball is hit again and again. Later, this action appears many times, and it is the core action in the whole film. Violence, whether out of anger, boredom, or instinct. Even the little boy's toy pistol (it did hurt people too) (btw, in this movie, men attack women and men kill each other inside...) not to mention the boxing gloves. Strength and fragility coexist in the swing, and the heroine who stands in front of the pole is braver. But she didn't stop it, until the innocent passerby lady (again, a woman) was unfortunately injured by a golf ball, and the male protagonist burst into tears. After getting to know the male protagonist, the female protagonist cut up and reorganized the photo of herself that the photographer hung on the wall. (Reinventing himself) These two silent people are each other's roofs, and the only ones who can see each other. The domestic abuser, the police, the owners of those houses can't see them. The "can't see" at the beginning was just "can't really see", and at the end of the film it became "really invisible". The male protagonist has changed from an "invisible man" to an invisible man.
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When I first met him, he asked what would happen to these two guys if we were written as a story? I said without hesitation, they disappeared together. At that time, I didn't have a specific thing in my mind, just a strong desire to disappear, so I blurted out. Then one day we talked about our future career. We were all thinking about how to go to work at sea, leave the mainland, or observe animals in the primitive jungle and leave humans in college. I said, let's become stateless and statusless people together. The thought also popped into his head suddenly and spontaneously, he asked, how to do it. I do not know either. Later, it became clear to me that the outcome of outside society is to become a missing person, making the “I” in the social sense disappear.
Disappearing is the best. In the end, the boy was really invisible, and no one knew his existence except her. In the end, the two of them stood on the scale together, but the weight was 0. It turns out that what I thought about had already been thought of and photographed. It's also natural, after all, who wants to be here?
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