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can be seen from the history of the rise of Korean films: With the political thaw in the late 1980s, Korean films In just 20 years, people have completed a worthwhile catch-up and leap in the history of film. After 20 years of hard work, today's Korean films have become an important city in Asian films, and they have also attracted more and more attention from the international film industry.
The Korean movie "Mother" represents the depth of a typical Asian filmmaker's bizarre script and the psychological portrayal of characters.
This film tells a story that is not easy to read at all: 16-year-old Tai Yu is a somewhat mentally handicapped teenager. He is friends with Qingyang, a selfish and somewhat ruffian gangster. However, the mother's anxiety and fear are often caused by the danger. Poor families often suffer misfortunes, and once Tae-woo was involved in a murder case after stalking a high school girl while drunk—the girl he was following was found dead on the roof the next morning. Although the mother and Tae-woo firmly believed that they did not kill, Tae-woo was finally imprisoned because of the objects left at the scene. A small climax of the film is also here. In the situation of being alone and helpless, Taiyu's mother began a arduous and exhausting road of atoning for her injustice. She sneaked into her son's detrimental friend Qingyang's house, made an unannounced visit to the police station, complained in tears, and begged an expensive barrister. It was finally the emperor who lived up to his painstaking efforts, and the plot hinted that a homeless person was likely to be the real murderer of the girl. Just as the audience waited for Taiyu's mother to visit the homeless and the truth was revealed, the plot took a sharp turn. The homeless's candid recollections revealed a possibility that had been ignored by those who knew the case, including Taiyu's mother, that the slightly demented Taiyu was indeed Because of his rage and his inability to control himself, he killed the girl without being conscious, which means that Tae-woo is the real murderer. Under this circumstance, Tai Yu's mother, who has insisted on her beliefs for a long time, finally lost control of her emotions and went to a road of killing and destroying evidence. The case also took a strange change at this time. A local Japanese mentally ill teenager was arrested and convicted because of the blood of the deceased. Taiyu was also "washed out" and returned home safely.
If the assumption that the essence of the film is a dream is correct, the film "Mother" is very successful in this dimension: through a seemingly bland and slightly depressing script, the director will The audience in the mirror is introduced into a dreamland full of metaphors. In this world, "people" represented by Taiyu and Taiyu's mother have become the most important objects of concern. The insights are so profound in many places that some of the film's shots even take on an allegorical quality. From the perspective of textual science, of course, film is also an important representative of text, and after it is created, it has vitality independent of its creator. The author will take four shots to erode the profound aspects of this film:
Shot 1: The mother and son stand under a high wall.
You can see the history of a woman's life from a drop of water, because behind every woman is A history stands. Such a movie title of "Mother" can easily remind the audience that this is a movie that describes the deep love between mother and son and celebrates the greatness of mother. In any case, this is indeed one of the very important themes of this film.
A single mother with hardships and hardships, a mentally handicapped child who is incapacitated, coupled with a poor and helpless life, makes Taiyu's mother's life in the movie, in the most ordinary gestures, all reflect inexplicable sadness: this mother We never knew her name, only that her son had a common Korean name "Yoon Tae Woo".
In life, Taiyu's mother made a living by selling some herbal medicines privately and taking needles for neighbors to cure diseases. The mother and son huddled together in a small workshop home. However, his son Taiyu has never been a poor child who had been in the family for a long time. His intellectual disability made him play around and get angry easily when he was called "mentally handicapped" by others. Taiyu's only friend, Qingyang, is a selfish and scheming gangster. After Taiyu's unfortunate car accident, he led Taiyu to seek revenge for the Mercedes-Benz owner, and he never forgot to blame the Mercedes-Benz rearview mirror. to Tae-woo.
A scene at the beginning of the film became a huge reflection of the life of the mother and son: Tae-woo was rubbed by a Mercedes-Benz car and fell to the ground, but he was not injured. On the other side of the road, while working and watching Taiyu's mother, she was slashed by the small guillotine in her hand because of the horror in her heart. When her mother ran to Taiyu's side, she mistakenly thought that the blood in her hands was caused by Taiyu's car accident. But the life in the future did not become dull because of Taiyu's mother's hardships. The storm of Taiyu's beating up the car owner and having to compensate has just stopped, and he was involved in an unknown murder because of drinking and hanging out. A single and helpless mother has thus embarked on a road to confront the indifference and prejudice of the whole society.
Ten fingers connected to the heart, how can it not hurt? So I had a lot of thoughts when I saw Tae Woo being scratched by a car. At that moment, the mother rushed out of her small workshop, blood ignoring. Which ignorant teenager in this world is not Taiyu, and which mother in the world who panics because of concern is not Taiyu's mother? In other words, which son in the world is not me who makes his mother fearful because he is in danger, and which mother in the world is willing to take off for his son is not my own mother?
When every child in the world is watching this movie, maybe they should see that they have lived in many similar scenes: In this movie, Tae-woo's mother is overwhelmed by the stress of life and made her worry and worry. The son of the eldest son, with his face upright, not smiling, his facial expressions are always in a state of restraint and shock. Occasional frowns and smiles also have a sad taste because of the wrinkles at the corners of the mouth. However, there are only certain moments, when she feeds Taiyu medicine, when she and Taiyu eat together, when she looks at her son, her eyes no longer have the bleakness and fear that make the viewer cry, but Get warm and loud. Like all mothers in the world, a son she gave birth to and raised—even if this son was born with mental retardation and acquired all kinds of imperfections—became the source of all her happiness and joy.
The last bright scene before the murder case is born is under a high wall, Taiyu's mother brings a bowl of medicine to Taiyu who is in a hurry to go out to play. The scene at that moment was full of profound meaning. Tai Yu was urinating beside the wall while drinking the medicine brought by his mother. The director then pulled the camera back, and the high wall gradually expanded. The composition of the two mothers under the wall appeared depressing and insignificant. At that moment, Tai Yu continued the ignorance and fearlessness of an ignorant son, but his mother was clearly smiling softly.
And in that gentle smile, the ultimate power of all redemption is nurtured: love.
Therefore, I dare to say this: If you have ever paid attention to any scene that has become less bright due to the hard work and suffering of Tae-woo's mother, I believe you know the most precious feeling in the world; if you have ever tried to preserve this feeling And pay attention to every smile and frown of Taiyu's mother, I believe that you will love your mother as well, and I believe that you also have a heart as delicate as the director of this film.
Scene 2: In the rainstorm, the mother is walking alone.
If Tae Woo hadn't been involved in a murderous murder, although she was frightened and lived hard, the life of Tae Woo's mother and her son might have continued like this. So when the body of a girl named Wen Huizhong was exposed on the roof of the corpse the morning after Tae Woo was drunk, the whole movie ushered in a climax in the fog: Tae Woo was found at the crime scene with a golf ball with his name engraved on it. He went to jail and was convicted as a murderer because of his mentally retarded answer in a simple questioning.
The scene of the movie on the night of Tai Yu's drunkenness gave people, including his mother and the moviegoers, the following hints: Tai Yu was ignorant by nature. Although he did follow Wen Huizhong because of the sprouting of spring after being drunk, he left the scene because he failed. I have also witnessed boulders being thrown out of the dark, but it has nothing to do with this murder in the slightest. With this understanding, the audience will be entangled with Tae Yu's mother: the mother who firmly believes that her son is mentally retarded and kind, and who is involved in this case must be framed by the police, will embark on a difficult road of vindication.
What Tai Yu's mother is fighting against alone is the whole dirty society, including the chaotic and sloppy detective and judicial system. Everyone who pays attention to this film has witnessed how far this thin mother has gone on her own path: Tai Yu The community is an acquaintance society. The police officers in charge of investigating the case and even Tae-woo's mother grew up watching them, but they were ridiculously convicted by a golf ball found at the scene-because the golf ball was engraved with the inscription. Yoon Tae Woo's name. During the process of questioning the prisoners, the police did not have the slightest right to inform them, and no lawyers were present. The police were convicted in just a few minutes because of the mentally handicapped Taiyu's mentally handicapped answers to the police's questions. Before being convicted, Tae-woo was even subjected to corporal punishment and abuse in disguise. A system so chaotic, ignoring a mother's hoarse voice, and it's so easy to take a life.
For Tae-woo's mother, the pressure didn't stop there. She went to the girl's funeral to seek understanding from Wen Huizhong's family, but was abused and beaten. What's more paradoxical and ironic is not just here. At the funeral of the victim girl, the film camera focuses on the unsmiled faces of the girls' families. Wen Huizhong's grandmother was still drinking heavily, and relatives who came from afar talked about life related to her, smoking cigarette butts, and it didn't match the bleakness of her clothes. In such a community, Tae-woo's mother faced everyone's prejudice that her son must be a murderer, and started a tired and thorny road.
In the process of Taiyu's mother trying to clear her grievances, it was not without a turn of events: she initially thought that her son's bad friend Qingyang was the murderer, and after sneaking into Qingyang's house, she was pleasantly surprised to find a golf club with "bloodstains" , and hopefully get a police test. At that moment, walking in the rain, she was so relaxed that she thought she could use this bat in exchange for her son's innocence, although soon after, the "blood" was proved to be lipstick; after that, the helpless she found a An expensive lawyer, only to discover that this selfish lawyer with a creed of "eat a buffet must stand up" cares more about money than his son's innocence. When the lawyer offered to reduce the crime by admitting that Tae-woo was mentally retarded, she resolutely refused after drinking a glass of wine.
Taiyu's mother refused because, on the one hand, she insisted on her son's complete innocence, which of course did not require commutation; mentally handicapped. This is the mental strength of a thin woman. After every attempt failed, Tae-woo's mother encountered a torrential rain on the way home. At that moment, all the rain fell on a woman's troubled shoulder.
It was after she returned home in rain, and with the help of Qingyang at the expense of the charges, the case began to take a turn for the better. She went deep into the life of the victim girl and found many plots that the police had hastily ignored: the victim girl's family was also miserable, and she lived with her grandmother. In order to improve her life, she disguised herself as a prostitute among her high school classmates, and is known as the "Rice Cake Princess". After being beaten by Qing Yang, some of the boys who had been involved in Wen Huizhong suggested that the real murderer was probably one of the boys who had had a relationship with Wen Huizhong. And "Skynet is sloppy and not leaking", these photos of all the men were kept by Wen Huizhong in his mobile phone without any omissions.
Of course, the development of the case began to become more tortuous. When Taiyu's mother finally got Wen Huizhong's mobile phone with great effort, Taiyu's memories implied that he once saw an ugly middle-aged man at the scene. Coincidentally, the photo of the middle-aged man was indeed in the girl's phone.
It seems that the whole truth of the case will be revealed at this time, and Taiyu's mother mustered up the courage at this time to go to the middle-aged man - the middle-aged man turned out to be a homeless man who makes a living by picking up scraps - to spy on the truth. Just when the audience thought the story was coming to a successful conclusion, the conversation that followed made everything turn sharply in an instant: the tramp's memories of that night proved that Tae-woo was indeed the real murderer, and indeed killed the girl while drunk. At this time, Taiyu's mother finally broke down suddenly because she couldn't accept the fact, and killed the homeless person with a sharp weapon in the collapse. In a situation of despair, the police station brought her excellent news: the police found bloodstains matching Wen Huizhong's blood type on a local Japanese homeless youth who was also mentally retarded, and convicted him for this. Tae-woo has thus far been acquitted.
In this film, the scenery along the road by Tae-woo's mother along the way becomes a mirror image of the whole society's morbid state:
The investigative agency, which has hastily convicted and acted sloppily, never took into account the joys and sorrows of the families involved in the case. Such a sloppy system initially convicted Tae-woo with just a golf ball, ignoring Tae-woo's mother's cries and complaints. What's even more paradoxical is that just after Taiyu's mother realized the real facts of the case, she fell into the abyss. The detective and judicial system used the same method to impose charges on the Japanese youth who also suffered from mental illness.
In the process of Taiyu's mother's confrontation with this system, the weakness, sloppiness and confusion of the whole system were exposed at a glance. It was not considered to find out the truth, and the protection of the rights of the parties in the case was not considered. is to be ignored. The climax of the entire movie begins with the police department sloppy handcuffing Tae-woo's hands and ends with the police's similarly sloppy handcuffs removed from Tae-woo's hands and handcuffed to another person.
A small police station alludes to the entire detective system and even all human political systems. The director's allegorical power is admirable.
The well-dressed lawyer Yufeng was the first and only lawyer that Taiyu's mother hired. The lawyer, who owns his own law firm, is extremely busy, and in many places appears to be well-informed—his "must stand while you eat your buffet" credo encapsulates a lawyer's mercenary philosophy of life. When the lawyer first saw Tai Yu, his expression was mocking, and he seemed to think the mother and son in front of him were very interesting. And his last appearance was in a feasting KTV, surrounded by local judicial elites. These judicial elites hugged the young ladies, casually pointing out that the only legal remedy for the case was to identify Tae-woo as a mentally ill patient for a reduced sentence. As mentioned earlier, Tae-woo's mother left quietly after drinking a whole glass of red wine. Her departure pointed out the basic fact: In a legal world where the legal elites are mercenary and have no good values, the elites are not interested in saving The way is always farther and farther from the true way of salvation, "harder than a camel going through the eye of a needle".
The world is so vast, and ordinary people in the streets are the most important part of the entire human society. In the process of Taiyu's mother's search, we see the world the director is trying to build for us from some of the most inconspicuous details: Taiyu's only "good friend" Qingyang sneaks into Taiyu's house after being "framed" by Taiyu's mother, He extorted and extorted Taiyu's mother, who was covered in rain and exhausted, and stole the only money she had, and used it to buy a private car; Wen Huizhong's classmates were talking about the "rice cake princess" who died tragically. There is no sympathy, on the contrary, he enjoys it and even covets its fragrant things; and perhaps more typical are the vulgar-looking boys and men in Wen Huizhong's mobile phone, who have truly become the morals of the local citizens. Life is a perfect metaphor: in this world, men rely on some millet to have a relationship with the poor Wen Huizhong, and save their unhappiness in Wen Huizhong's cell phone photos; Wen Huizhong's relatives include her grandmother, There is no sadness for the tragic death of the girl. In the eyes of her grandmother, her granddaughter has long been just a tool to exchange her sex for food.
It was in such a world that Taiyu's mother walked step by step, changing a Chinese version of the words, "to ask for a statement for her son". Along the way, she saw the investigative agency that was ignorant of people's lives, saw the legal elites who smelled of copper, and saw the "good friend of Taiyu" who was blackmailing her -- this "good friend" was handsome and saw The indifferent eyes of Wen Huizhong's family members also saw the naked men on Wen Huizhong's mobile phone...
Along the way, Tai Yu's mother saw a lot of scenery. Just as she walked into the pouring rain after the "blood" on the club was proved to be lipstick, she was walking alone in the solemn rain all the way. She's just an ordinary mother, with no armor in her chest, and she's never tried to fight any of the ugliness we've mentioned above. However, the fact is that these roadside scenery constitutes a thorny road that is not honorable. Taiyu's mother walked in, and she was full of scars and used her muddy footprints to describe it all, and finally deconstructed it all.
Scene 3: Taewoo's numb smile
If this film merely embodies all that the author has stated above, then we have reason to think that its ideology may not be that important. However, many places in the director gave us many hints - we can't speculate whether this hint was intentional or not, because the film itself has an independent vitality - these hints prompted us to think about the possibility of this film after a long script. The ultimate concern of existence. These ultimate reflections begin to appear deep and even terrifying after some of our denudation that may appear wishful thinking. There may be a lot of metaphors in the movie—maybe used here because it is impossible to speculate whether there is a purpose behind the use of such metaphors, and these metaphors describe many aspects of human society.
In the movie, it can be said that what supports the mother to go on is a belief-that her son has never been a murderer, but perhaps it can be said that it is a kind of love, a kind of consistent love that a mother has for her son. However, in the details deliberately arranged by the director, this love begins to become fragile and full of paradoxes. The story arranges such a paradoxical plot: During the visit to the prison, the mother tries to make Tae-woo recall what happened on the night of the crime. After a beating, Tae-woo claimed that "I remembered everything", but the scene he recalled was: "Mom, you tried to kill me when I was five years old." The mother was shocked at this time. Get up and try to give Tae-woo a needle to comfort him: In this movie, Tae-woo's mother keeps saying that there is an acupuncture point in a person's thigh, which can make people feel comfortable and forget all the pain.
If the author is not lying, the mentally handicapped son Taiyu in this film is actually a metaphor for human beings, at least a metaphor for human beings: a mentally handicapped teenager can remember the past when he was five years old. In desperation, he tried to kill him and then committed suicide. Taiyu can't remember his mother's love for him, and he can't remember his mother's countless admonitions to him, but he can remember his mother's injury to him this time, and coldly told his mother "you won't come again". However, it was such a young man who immediately became furious when others said he was mentally handicapped, and because of this reason, he couldn't control himself after being drunk, and killed the girl Wen Huizhong who scolded him for stalking.
Author’s note: I can’t remember love, but I remember hate. If I mentioned to my parents more than once, I clearly remembered how my father beat me, but I didn’t mention my mistakes, but I forgot how my father played a role in each of your life. The pass day and night is planning the future for you, rushing around for the good, but forgetting it, forgetting the goodness of your loved ones may be a habit of human beings, and when you get used to it, it becomes what it should be.
Tai Yu's selfishness, forgetfulness of love and good memory of hatred, together with his mental retardation, together constitute an allegory of the director's innate deformed personality: many people on this earth do not remember the love that others gave to them, even their own mother. I never remembered the possibility that life gave me and the infinite beauty behind it, I never had the slightest sense of gratitude, but I remembered anyone's hatred with me, and remembered it deeply in my heart. In this film, Tae-woo brutally kills his own countryman as an ignorant human being or a representative of human ignorance. And what's even more paradoxical is that after killing the girl, because of this sobering, everything was forgotten, as if nothing really happened.
Editor's note: A heart without gratitude is shared by many people. I just remember being jealous of evil, but I still don't know what to do. Others have done ten good things for you, nine of them are good and one is not good, but they still haven't handed them over to you, but who has ever thought carefully about whether they should be grateful for all of them?
Among the movie audiences, there may be many people who "sorrow their misfortune and do not argue with Tae Yu's mental retardation". However, movie audiences, you turn your vision from the movie to the society around us. Aren't people more ignorant than Tae-woo? Aren't those who are smart and hurt others actually more "mentally handicapped" than Tai Yu? Those who ignore the disasters of the past and have no historical feelings at all, aren't they just Tae-woo who has forgotten everything after a sobering up? In this sense, in front of each of our own mothers, we are all ignorant sons like Taiyu; in front of the entire human society, if we have hurt others because of our ignorance, our ignorance and Compared with Tai Yu, it may be more unbearable than his intellectual disability.
Throughout the movie, Tae-woo has been "taking medicine" because he's been sick all the time. However, what is more morbid than the mentally handicapped is human nature, Tae-woo's ignorance, selfishness, tyranny and even more terrible - the unconsciousness behind all these are metaphorically so profound in the camera shifts, too profound to face such words:
In the book of Galatians, the Savior tells the world, "The things of the lust are evident. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy, anger, Partisans, strife, heresies, corruption, envy, murder, drunkenness, and the like, I have always told you, and I tell you now, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” One is ignorant Tae-woo.
The Bible is written for each of us.
Scene 4: The solo dance on the grassland and the group carnival on the bus
The time of a lifetime, in this film, begins to become bitter and long.
The scene at the beginning of the film is very incomprehensible: in a vast grass, Tae-woo's mother came far away, and after looking around no one, began an awkward solo dance. The usually restrained and even slightly frightened facial expressions show inexplicable strangeness when dancing solo, but this elusive expression is accompanied by a rigid dance language against the background of the vast grassland in monochrome, which makes the whole film have an eye-catching effect. can't start easily.
And if the final homeless narrative hadn't come out, the film might have had an ending that made many viewers sleep well: The homeless was the real killer of the girl, and Tae-woo was acquitted. However, the director's genius lies in this, the homeless living in the broken grass hut does not have the ugly soul expected by the audience. And his memory revealed a conclusion that made the audience as thunderous as Tae Woo's mother, that Tae Woo was actually the real murderer. Under the exposure of this fact, Taiyu's mother finally broke down and killed the evidence.
The tyranny of Tae-woo's mother when she killed people, the fear and crying after killing people, and the kindness and integrity she showed along the way - this poor mother didn't even want to steal a rain cover from a homeless tricycle. Broken Umbrella, even if the owner of this tricycle doesn't know it - creates a strong contrast and irony, how could a kind mother kill a living being based on maternal love? If the act of killing is acceptable, does the most powerful force of maternal love make human beings kinder or more blind? If maternal love is the only power a mother has, if maternal love is the source of all meaning in a mother's life, then why does one go down the path of killing someone else's son? What man in this world does not have his own mother?
All this deeply troubled the owner of this mother's love. Of course, maybe what she thought was not so deep, maybe she was just tortured by the guilt of killing. The torture is so deep that at the end of the film, when the police come to tell her Tae-woo's innocence, she doesn't smile much. It is precisely this kind of confusion and guilt that made her face the mentally handicapped youth in Japan who were also innocently convicted, and finally could not restrain her feelings, so she cried and asked, "Child, do you have your own mother too? , do you also have your own mother?" Selfish maternal love and compassion for others conflict so deeply.
The last group of shots in the movie gave the whole story a final ending: after everything was over, the mother would take a bus to travel to relax, and Tae-woo accidentally left the needle and thread of the mother on the burnt ruins of the homeless in the station. The box was given to the mother. This small sewing box may be the most delicate thing in Taiyu's family. All the beauty and delicacy of a woman are carved on the plum blossom pattern on the sewing box. When the mother saw the sewing box, she naturally remembered the whole story related to the case - including her own murder of course - and was saddened. She couldn't hold back her tears and walked into the bus. At this time, the passenger car slowly drove out, and the sun set in the west, and the tourists who were full of cars stood up and danced in the carriage. A ray of sunset hit her mother's worried face, and she finally slowly took out the needle and stabbed the acupuncture point at the base of her thigh. As said before, that acupoint is said to make people forget all distress and pain, and just give people happiness. Then she stood up and joined the group dance.
In the collective carnival, the mother temporarily forgot all kinds of unpleasantness in the murder case, including the injustice of the police station, the greed of the lawyers and the indifference of the people around her, and also forgot the ugliness and ugliness of the men in Wenhui's mobile phone, of course. He also tried to forget his experience of killing and destroying evidence, and just danced in the carriage. The plot of this dance echoes the bizarre grass field solo dance at the beginning of the movie. An image of all living beings in a social group and an allegory to the whole society also culminated in this dance of using acupuncture and medicine to forget the past. In this needle-piercing dance, at that moment, the mother may have forgotten all the suffering and the unbearable life, and told herself, "It's better to dance." After having fun, the mother joined the carnival of tourists. The whole movie ends here.
Maybe we shouldn't go too far in the comments, maybe all of the above has nothing to do with the director's original - maybe the director just wants to talk about a complicated case.
Yet if Teubner is right, the essence of modernity should be obscene.
In the movie "Mother", all the people appear unbearable and wretched on the thorny road of a single mother, and this might not be a great mother, who also walked into the despicableness of human nature in the final murder.
Throughout the film, no one can be truly happy, no one can be truly happy. People can only dance and use the pleasure of their bodies to cover up their inner unhappiness. This is modern society, this is human beings living in groups. The only difference between the kind "mother" and them is that she needs to stab a needle in her thigh before she can dance. Perhaps because she is still kind, she needs to dance in shackles.
In any dimension, those who have lost their freedom in pleasure are the same. So if you've ever seen human suffering, if you've ever witnessed your own suffering and suffered because of it, you are Tae Woo's mother; as long as you finally try to dance in the pain, and finally try to escape this pain, you're Tae Woo's mother . We have witnessed pain as she did, we have experienced pain with her, and in that sense, we are her.
Because in the age of modernity, the life of a Chinese and a Korean mother will not be fundamentally different. Because in the era of globalization, there is no essential difference in the life between people.
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