Regarding this film, I think most people who recognize it will have a deep sense of the misery of the girl's life and emotions. From a male perspective, my first feeling is that the old man is pitiful. All of his actions stem from his possessiveness. He devoted ten years of energy to raising the girl. Let's not say whether his behavior is correct or not, at least he really loves girls. What he needs is only the instinct of a male animal, to possess motherhood, companionship, and breeding. He raised the girl carefully and protected her from outside men. Until he found that the girl lost interest in the monotonous life he gave, the girl longed for new things, young men, the outside world. Unable to stop the girl from leaving, he chose to wrap the rope tied to the stern of the girl around his neck. Ten years of hard work is to be able to marry a girl. Seeing the shattering of dreams, life has no meaning. It's a pity that at the moment when he was about to be strangled, he still took out a knife and cut the rope... I'm very disappointed, the old man's loyalty was shaken in the face of life and love. But it is very realistic. Abandoning literature and art is also an instinct to survive.
What a woman wants, I admit, I don't understand more and more. Amusing little girls when I was a child, I know they like surprises, they like freshness and fun. Later, the little girls in middle school liked the life you were willing to fight for her and the exciting life you could give them. The girls in college have changed again. They need your company and your careful care. But it's not that you can be boring, it's not that you can be someone who can't carry freshness, a sense of humor, and a mediocre personality at the same time. Once they can't get the part they like in you, or find a new interest, their hearts begin to choose to leave. This is also an instinct, and it is understandable. When the lion king is defeated by other young lions, he will lose his lioness; if the peacock's tail is no longer bright, then it will no longer have the opportunity to possess the female peacock.
The reason why we have an ordinary and stable monogamous marriage in today's society is because human beings have evolved a moral system. Since ancient times, people have used chastity and shame to constrain women's loyalty to marriage, and even a widow cannot continue. This is indeed unfair to women, so after modern society shatters all kinds of shackles for women, the divorce rate also increases. Because they have the right to choose to leave. Scientists have confirmed that from a biological point of view, the relationship cycle between two people relying on mutual hormone action is only 7 years, and the inadvertent feeling of boredom can destroy the entire marriage. What's more, most divorces happen within 1 or 2 years of marriage. Here I am not blaming women for the betrayal of marriage. I just want to show that women who choose to leave men because of boredom are just as instinctive as men want to have more women. Many people reject love, many people are tired of marriage, and many people are afraid of having children. Our world is flooded with a psychological state called insecurity.
At the end of the film, the girl uses a "great relationship" to mark that this is Kim Ki-duk's film. Also, the arrow shot by the old man before jumping into the sea fell equally, between the girl's legs, shedding a pool of virgin blood, representing the old man's deathly insistence on the girl's possessiveness. There is also the director's affirmation of the traditional concept of marriage morality, which is unique to the East, that men are superior to women.
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