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Jake 2022-03-24 09:02:29

Feng Junhao once again weave the mistakes and misunderstandings again and again. After a circle, the sin is still his.

The mother's story seems to be born out of a murderous memory. The mentally handicapped son, the dead girl, the police station that closed the case carelessly. However, the mother is more profound and sharper than the memory of murder. Instead of assigning all the crimes to the repeat offenders, she focuses the camera on the dark side of ordinary people's humanity. A kind and simple mentally retarded son, a loving mother who takes care of her son wholeheartedly, anyone can commit a crime, and no one can believe it.

The funeral scene was very impressive. The final focus of the chaotic big scene was only on the close-up of a few women fighting. The women formed a complete straight line, extending to the parabola of the rice wine bottle thrown by the old lady. .

The director's most thorough analysis of human nature comes at the end of the film. The mother repeatedly evaded her crime, but when her son put the bloody acupuncture box (originally a symbol of the healer's kindness) in front of her, she realized that any effort would be futile. She chose to use acupuncture to remove unhappy memories. This is actually a tool made by the director. In fact, there is no such method at all, but we know that the mother yearns for and must have such a method to eliminate her sins. If there is such a perfect method, she will certainly To carry it out without confronting her own sins, the ease of conscience was paramount to her, and the facts did not matter. In the end she was finally able to join the dance in the sun and start her escape journey.

In fact, sin already exists. Bottles of wine with pesticides, hands kneading mother's breasts, are already sins of human nature.

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  • Sydnie 2021-12-27 08:01:06

    Soon after the beginning of the story, the mother fed the medicine and the son urinated. The mother tried her best to hide the urine stains that were running around the ground. Later, when she smashed the old man’s head, she hurriedly wiped the blood from the ground, demonstrating all her habitual movements. How to erase, she will definitely get the needle.

  • Sydnie 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    The most powerful thing about Feng Junhao is "moving with stillness". He can extract the most complex flower of humanity from the most ordinary life, and use his nuanced observation of life to control the overall situation quietly and leave it for the film. With enough room for interpretation, this talent and ability makes his works far from those superficial romance films that can be compared