And the brightest is undoubtedly the way of storytelling, an oriental way of self-restraint and blank space, telling the pain behind the peace in every part of the film. For example, the gurgling water, the daze on the bus, the focus on the beautiful nature before the victim's mother, until the grandson was finally sent to the police car by himself. The film did not capture how painful she was. Two sets of shots were used. One was facing the camera and focused on plucking the badminton on the tree. Behind her, the grandson was taken away by the police. Badminton, one click, one click, very hard, people are immediately connected to the same hard, one-click hitting the racket before the police car came, all the bereavement, all the humiliation slowly accumulated in this one-click , and finally could not be released.
Maybe the last poem is release, I don't think so, poetry is done, but smoldering will never be released.
It was absolutely right to choose this grandma Yoon Jung-hee as the starring role. The softness of her voice and the slenderness of her image and temperament show the protagonist's sense of powerlessness and hope for a better life. In an old man who is full of powerlessness in life, such a beautiful hope is especially tragic and painful. And the so-called tragic and painful are undoubtedly light and light, like the gurgling water that reappears from the beginning to the end of the film.
It is worth noting that the director arranged many details with great care. For example, running water appears three times in total. Except for the above two times, in the middle one is the hat blowing off the bridge, which corresponds to the apparently identical bridge at the end. I suspect that the old man committed suicide. In addition, when the old man sang in karaoke, Renoir's masterpiece "Girl with Flax Hair" was hanging on the wall. The same vulnerable temperament also corresponds to the heroine's almost collapsed state of mind.
In the face of the truth of life, poetry is powerless after all, and the old man finally completed the poetry, which implied a little warm tone on the lead gray life background.
Also: The setting of the character of the police is very interesting. Faced with a cold and ruthless life, how can poems that represent beautiful things behave themselves? The police have taken a completely different path from the old man. By going down the three paths, they have the effect of laughing at life and finally deconstructing suffering. Undoubtedly, his choice is also the choice of the majority of contemporary people (consciously or not), so most people at poetry readings will laugh and acquiesce to the humor of the police. Isn't the current situation of poetry in China just like that? Only the old man disagreed, and the old man's almost stubborn insistence on the meaning of traditional classical aesthetics also conveys a certain view of Li Changdong himself on contemporary Korea and even this turbulent world?
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