Someone once told me that Kim Ki-duk always likes to use distorted violence and deformed sex to show his unique charm. Although all kinds of flaws are announced to the world like a burden, but every time I watch his movies, I don’t hate it, don’t spit it out, why? . Because he breaks the stereotypes that appear in most movies, not too sad not too happy. As Chai Jing said in "Seeing": The essence of disaster is disaster.
I think that's why Lao Huang said: "Sadness" is not so much a luxury for Kim Ki-duk's movies, but rather shallowness. Kim Ki-duk's movies are pain, the kind of pain that smashes bones and connects tendons. Because he is real, painful, depressed, but you can't cry.
Going back to the film, there are a few points that I want to bring up, which may be confusing, but I summarize it a little bit.
The two middle school girls sold their bodies to save money because they wanted to travel to Europe. Why did they choose Europe, a region with a strong religious color, the director's handling of this point is very meticulous, because in my personal opinion , a big reason is because fathers often tell their daughters foreign religious stories. The translation of the Hong Kong version of the name, this movie is called Yuhai Cihang, I like this name very much, kindly like a Samaritan woman, giving the world sympathy and a hand of salvation. Yijun used his real body to complete the prayer for Jierong, while his father completed Yijun's redemption.
When the father accidentally discovered that his daughter was engaged in physical transactions, he did not confront his daughter directly and expose her actions. Instead, he chose a way to protect his daughter secretly. It is not difficult to see in the film that the father's actions become more and more violent under the protection again and again. The first time was to persuade the client to return the same way, but later he began to act impulsive, until he saw that because of his own mistakes, he did not prevent his daughter from selling her body once, and he killed someone.
An indirect killing and a direct killing made this child-protecting father, like Jie Rong who jumped from a high-rise building, had no way out. Even though he regretted it, he still acted quite calmly and calmly, never showing anything in front of his daughter.
In the process of a father redeeming his daughter, we rarely see very violent scenes. When getting out of the car and hitting someone, the director used the backlight to shoot, and he could only see a few silhouettes, knowing that a client was beaten. When we went to a client's house to humiliate the man in public, so that the man had to jump off the building, we only heard the sound of objects falling, and several strands of blood merged, knowing that a client committed suicide. After fighting with a whore client, the camera freezes on the picked up brick, hears shouting, hears panic, and knows that his father killed someone.
Why use such an anti-Kim-Kid normal approach? Because what the director wants to bring to us, just like what a father wants to bring to his daughter, the world should not be dirty and complicated. The old man in the mountain village who appeared at the end of the film has a simple and simple goodwill, and being away from the trivialities of the world is the life that a father always hopes to bring to his daughter.
The ending ended in the picture of the father teaching his daughter to drive, and there is a line that I always remember: "Now it's up to you, Dad won't follow you anymore." The daughter drove well and was still a little happy, but when she looked back, she found that her father had surrendered himself. When he was taken away by the police car, and when he drove the staggering car to chase his father, it was really heartbreaking to watch.
The car that the father handed over to the daughter is like the steering wheel of the daughter's life. From now on, the car will be controlled by himself. The stumbling car is a hint of the setbacks that the daughter will experience in the future life. The father who gradually disappears is an irreversible past.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength
- The Bible
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