The girl grew up on that broken boat from the age of seven. Living with a man in his fifties. Maybe it's a child picked up by a man, wearing tattered clothes, every day he just lies on the edge of the boat to watch the man who went to solicit customers from afar come back. And the purpose of the man adopting him was to marry her after she was seventeen years old. People who were originally kind and noble have become a little disgusting because of a selfish and even shameful eyes. Because the girl does not understand accidents, she has no intention of rejecting the ridicule, ambiguousness and even indecent assault of many men who come to fish on big boats. And at this time, the man will always warn those "people from outside" with bows and arrows, and immediately send them back to the shore. Perhaps, this is a kind of protection, but also a kind of restraint. One day, when a boy of the same age as the girl came on the ship, the natural attraction between the opposite sex made the girl see through the man's purpose of restraining her, and decided to leave the ship and the man, away from this closed world. The man looked at the drifting boat, threw away his wedding dress, shoes and headgear, and put the rope of the boat around his neck. He doesn't want to watch the girl he raised for ten years leave. If she wants to leave, he will die...
If the story ends here, it can probably be regarded as an extremely beautiful tragedy. But ten years of parenting grace, after all, can not be immediately forgotten. The girl's heart was moved, and she turned around and returned to the big ship with the boy, and held a wedding with the man. From here, the film takes on some psychedelic overtones. The man and the girl drove the boat to the depths of the sea. The girl took off her dress and lay on the boat in a white dress. The man held a bow and arrow, played a song at the end, and threw another arrow into the sky, then jumped into the sea. The girl and the boat drifted back to the boy. Suddenly, the girl's body throbbed, and the invisible hand was inserted between the girl's legs, staining the white skirt with a red spot. Surprised by this wonderful phenomenon, the boy got on the boat and took the girl to the shore. When the girl waved to the big boat, the big boat miraculously slowly became silent...
This is a work by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk. My favorite is the music of this movie. This is the music made by the men in the movie with bows and arrows. The unique and wonderful sound, combined with the beautiful scenery like a paradise in the depths of the sea, is a must. Speaking of music, the only thing that bothers me about the film is the music. The music that had been exaggerating emotions from the beginning of the film turned out to be the subjective music of the girl after she brought the mp3 in a passage in the film. This mp3 was brought to the girl by "someone outside". If the music here also uses the theme music of the film, it is obviously inconsistent with reality. In the film, only this kind of music is used to create an aesthetic feeling, so it is best to give up the idea of subjective music here. Otherwise, take care of one thing and lose another.
The film is extremely simple, with few lines of dialogue, so simple that it doesn't even have the protagonist's name. But at this time, silence is better than sound. One look and one action of the hero and heroine is enough to express the director's intention. If there is any more dialogue, it will be an unnecessary move to destroy the atmosphere of the film.
The director's intent is obvious: society is dirty. "People from outside" all have dirty thoughts. The isolated ship is the holy place, and the isolated girl is the saint. The bright red brought by the sword from the sky, doesn't it mean that this saint will lose her precious purity like chastity and go to that filthy society. The girl bid farewell to the ship, to this holy paradise, as sacred as the ceremony she wanted to bid farewell to her chastity.
Everyone in the film is a tragedy. I have learned that there is no right or wrong when it comes to watching movies, only fate. Men are not shameful, just pathetic. For ten years of hard work, he did not ask for anything in return, he only thought about the most instinctive things of human nature. Life and death were nothing in front of him. His only hope was this girl who could hold her hand when she slept every day. But in the end, he still didn't get what he wanted. The same is true for girls, who are bound by such a closed environment and want to escape but are reluctant to give up. No one is to blame, it can only be the fault of society. It is a tearless sorrow. All the viewers who see this will be sad, but they must not know why they are sad. tragedy. These are just two beautiful but lonely tragedies.
The small boat gradually moved away from the sinking ship, carrying the girl away from that pure place. I hope that if she can survive, the girl is still dressed in white...
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