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Some people criticized Park Zanyu's latest work "Miss" like this, "Wonderful tricks, in order to please women", pointing at the female audience who cheered and hoped to be bent after watching it.
The source of the dispute was the undisguised love of lilies. Especially at the end of the victory and escape, there is also a new lesbian script full of ritual sense in the sea voyage, and the sweet Burmese bells made some fans angry-thinking that Park Zanyu deliberately sought the joy of women's rights, but in fact he was rude to men's rights.
Putting aside the unnecessary struggle for men's and women's rights, Park Chan-wook, who has a strong sense of form, has not forgotten his technical duties. "Miss" tells a popular story of a traditional boudoir woman who overcame the fence and pursued freedom and a new life. When the next daughter first arrived at the noble house, as soon as the door opened, the driver told her that there was still a long way to go, and the depth of the high wall could be seen. At the end, the lady faced the low earth wall and stopped. It was obviously an obstacle that could be crossed with just one foot, but she had to wait for the next girl's foreshadowing before she could jump over and run towards the vast world.
"Miss" is very long. The film is divided into three sections: slow, fast, faster, reversal, and then reversal. It is like a game of teasing the audience's curiosity.
There are only a few characters around the lady:
The women from the bottom, the liar men who hope to win together, and the perverted uncle of the two devils.
Compared with Park Zanyu's previous works, "Miss" is very literary, but in the portrayal of group portraits, it lacks the witty supporting roles of the past, and stays on the bright surface of "there is a story". Especially after the middle of the process, the lingering sense of unreal game spread to the third part of the prison robbery, ushered in the outbreak of Park Zanyu's personal bad tastes: the octopus with octopus exposed hard, the basement where the fingers are cut off, the smoky atmosphere , suffocating.
The film retains many of Park Chan-wook's specialties of playing with images. The lustful men were all gentlemen, in suits and leather shoes, sitting upright and listening to the noble lady reciting the forbidden book. They listen to the fascinated, obsessive, cathartic or abused book images that make them look excited and unforgettable. The construction of this group of montages cannot be called outstanding, but it outlines the ultimate realm of human desire—the boundless imagination. If it is visible, audible, and tactile, then neither the pleasure brought by women nor the stimulation caused by the whipping of the flesh can be compared with the combination of words on books and the experience of reciting that breaks taboos.
The uncle who was deeply immersed in sensory stimulation and the maze of words was obviously incompetent, and the young lady who had to practice in addition to reciting became a sexually indifferent to men. These characters are set back to the Japanese colonial era, and they have a more intriguing and profound meaning.
Because except for a handful of Japanese soldiers who appeared at the beginning and end, "Miss" could have been a completely empty emotional game that was born out of the British drama "Fingersmith Love Picking". Uncle said introspectively, Japan is beautiful, North Korea is ugly. As the abuser, Japan has triggered the worship and enjoyment of the abused.
This is exactly the same as the haunted devil in Luo Hongzhen's "The Cry".
The devil comes from among us.
When it comes to the well-known skills such as psychological monologues from time to time, Park Chan-wook can't hold his hands in the school games of Wu Daxiu and Li Youzhen in the "Old Boy" era. That is, from the very beginning, "Miss" has made it clear to all audiences that this is a conspiracy, and naturally, the movie screen is also part of the conspiracy. There is also black humor such as the failure to hang himself. Park Zanyu suppressed the melodrama of old tears, and used a romantic mood that happily opened up the disparate classes to send the good sisters to an ideal refuge:
The magic city of Shanghai.
Two girls who did fake dramas and finally turned the fake drama into a real one. We always have to question how a gay couple should call and how they can get along. There is no reason for "Happy Together", as soon as they appear, they are close lovers. "Adele's Life" is even more mythical, it is completely love at first sight on the street, blue and confused. Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae-ri in "Miss" are not perfect when they are naked. They don't have big breasts, buttocks, or the white or pink skin that straight men expect. They only have healthy, natural, and magnanimous body beauty. As we all know, the more obvious a woman's physical features are, the more likely she is to unwittingly please male audiences. Park Chan-wook was able to find the most suitable candidate in the casting, including blind hits, catching up with Kim Min-hee and Hong Chang-soo's unscrupulous love, and it was also a movie good fortune.
I'm just a bad old man who likes dirty stories.
Many people say that this is Park Chan-wook's psychological confession under the guise of a movie character. However, looking at my uncle, who was tortured by uncontrollable desires and described as withered, the image of a character outside the movie that emerged to me was the same Korean director Hong Changxiu, who was also seriously ill but withered in love.
"Miss" is an erotic work that ignores moral precepts and provokes the patriarchal society. From the vampire-themed "Bat" to Hitchcock's "Stoke" to the undressed "Miss", Park Chan-wook's films are obviously moving closer to Western society and mainstream film critics. But as we are easily overlooked, South Korea is already a Christian country, and the number of overseas film students in South Korea has surpassed that of the Chinese in many places. Korean movies may be more westernized and more industrialized than we think. Then, if you still have the benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust of Confucian society, and you still regard "Jin Ping Mei" and "Meat Fu Tuan" as Chinese movies that can be made into 33D gimmicks, no matter what you think in your mind or what you actually do, it's hard to get away. Too slow, maybe even constantly regressing.
The shrewdness of "Miss" is not about revealing fragrant lust and pretending to be a chaotic puzzle, but in the vision of betting. Whether Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho or Luo Hongzhen, they all have obvious problems and shortcomings in their recent works, but the broad vision and higher pursuit shown in the film is admirable for their obsession with making movies. deep. Catch yourself and go beyond the works of the past.
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