"Time" is a film released by Kim Ki-duk in 2006, also translated as "Liar Face". Insecurity.
The reviews for the film don't seem to be high, with people mostly emphasizing its dark side, or Kim Ki-duk's even-handed on-camera performance. However, I still really like this kind of offbeat gray love story with a twisted character. This may have something to do with my fondness for watching philosophy movies. I have always believed that the natural sense of insecurity of human beings stems from their own fragility. In the face of strong time tension, they are weak, fearful, and panicked, almost paranoid. This sense of dissociation is concentrated in the restlessness, emptiness and fear when alone On the theme of love that requires the most effort and is the most neurotic, "Time" is like this.
The heroine Se Hee loves Seung Woo deeply, and this love is possessive and a little perverted paranoia - Seung Woo can't touch women, otherwise Se Hee will have a nervous breakdown. Shixi can't tolerate her boyfriend's restlessness due to aesthetic fatigue, and she is always in fear because she loves too deeply and is afraid of losing. "I'm sorry, I will always be this same face," she repeated repeatedly. This desperate monologue. So, almost collapsed, she walked into the plastic surgery hospital, she wanted to change her face, to deal with the time, to restore the love that she fantasized about to die.
Facing the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend, Seung Woo suffers from longing and loneliness, but he doesn't know that Se Hee, who is recovering from plastic surgery, has always been by his side, guarding—or monitoring him, when he is because of "we are all human". When he is close to a woman, a sudden stone will smash the glass; when his loneliness is unbearable and his old love is rekindled, there will be a woman in the dark who will overturn his old love, making it impossible for Shengyu to succeed. . One month, two months, three months, this pair of lovers played the "light-dark" opposition game like this (in other words, this paragraph is still very shocking).
Finally, Se Hee survived the plastic surgery and repairs over time, and began to appear as a new face of "Seung Hee". In the cafe where Seung Woo frequents, Se Hee arranges a performance of a new romance, and Seung Woo also accepts "Seung Hee" because the window is empty for too long. Not long after the two lingered together, Shengxi tried to erase the old self in Shengshou's mind: changing the photos, constantly asking whether Shengyu loved her, and constantly trying to be the only one of Shengyu, however, she was desperate again. , What Shengyu loves is still the old Shixi, who has a new face and can no longer enter Shengyu's heart. This huge blow made Shengxi almost collapse. So, she put on the face mask of Shixi, and showed off in a cafe full of herself, such as her beloved Shengyu.
The result can be imagined, in the face of such crazy, paranoid and incredible behavior towards his girlfriend, Shengyu was deeply fearful, puzzled, and resentful, and his spiritual world collapsed. After he fought with strangers regardless of his image, he stumbled to the plastic surgery hospital and complained to the doctor about his dissatisfaction and helplessness. Suddenly, a perverted and paranoid thought emerged in Shengyu's mind. . .
The scarred Seung-hee searches the world for Seung-woo she loves, but can't find his shadow. Then, a terrible thing happened: still in that cafe, still in the seats they used to sit, men of all shapes and sizes came up to talk to them, and they were all covered with traces of Shengyu! ! And, just like the previous situation, a man who was still recovering after plastic surgery appeared in their place of love. Like Seung Woo, he loves taking pictures, and it feels so familiar! ! After searching and searching, Seung-hee still couldn't find Seung-woo, but saw the true face of the plastic surgeon, and found that he had been following her. In the end, Shengxi finally found Shengyu, and after some hysterical shouting, the two started a game of chasing - and all this was silent in front of a speeding truck: Shengyu was run over to flesh by the car Fuzzy, and Shengxi on the side was crying so heartbroken that he couldn't hold himself back. Pedestrians crowded around, and the police began to get irritable, but Shengxi seemed to be unable to hear or see, and began to behave strangely, with a dead gray expression, blood-stained hands, and a body like a dead body. An insurmountable sadness in a woman's heart.
The cry is the most terrifying when it starts to become quiet, the sadness is the most terrifying when it begins to laugh, the most terrifying when the expression does not change - Shengxi starts from these three most points and goes to the starting point of everything: that Home beauty hospital, changed a face again.
Shengxi's extreme behavior in despair is completely understandable. His most cherished lover is gone, and his face is nothing.
At the end of the film, Duras said, believe me, it is not the blade, but love, but time that destroys the face. Meaningful.
Crazy to the extreme, love to the heartbreak.
It is also worth mentioning that the heroine's acting skills are full of tension. I think Seung Hee's actor interprets the role vividly and well, which is a highlight of the film. In addition, I am also impressed by Director Jin Da's ability to select "images". The director who cares about the psychological level always likes to use reflectors, glass and any objects that can express the meaning of images, which makes the film's meaning more layered , meaningful and meaningful.
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