The sensibility of art and the rationality of reality

The mixed opinions on "The Chaser" just highlight the ambiguous relationship between works of art and real life. While works of art rely on real life to provide materials for creation, works of art are always higher than real life. This kind of superiority is fully manifested in the contradiction between the rationality of real life and the sensibility of works of art. The ambiguity of interdependence and contradiction between works of art and real life creates the entertainment of works of art. The public's debate on "The Chaser" mainly focuses on whether the storyline is logical. Most audiences think that "The Chaser" cannot be regarded as a good film because there are many logical errors before and after the plot, and the portrayal of the characters and their actions are inconsistent. In line with the theoretical logic in real life, etc. As a movie, "The Chaser" has been affirmed by the Korean domestic big bell award, and of course the remake rights bought by the Americans for a lot of dollars. From this perspective, "The Chaser" is a success, and for the recent It was a success for the sluggish Korean film market. But, without that, can "The Chaser" be considered a pure good movie? Some people say it's the best Korean movie I've seen in recent years, some people say it's rubbish and insane. Movies are made for the public to watch, so the public is of course the judge who judges whether a movie is good or not. Of course, to paraphrase a netizen's words, "peasants can judge a movie". It can be seen that the public as judges are in The location is different, the level of appreciation is different, the viewing angle is different, the cultural background of the country is different, and it is even related to national patriotism (for example, the anger of some netizens is mainly concentrated on Koreans’ recent distortion of our country’s history. , which put the fire on Korean movies), and there will naturally be mixed reviews for the same movie. What I want to say is, as an audience, are you really sensible when you are complaining that the screenwriter and director of the film are insane? "The Pursuit" is just an example, there are countless movies in the same situation as "The Pursuit" The saliva of the comments, they are submerged in the saliva of the public, in an awkward gap between the good and the bad film, thus getting more attention. As a result, films like "The Chaser" have received more attention. The reason is very simple, not everyone says it's good, and not everyone says it's bad, then, in this era when everyone can write movie reviews, everyone wants to judge and judge, but no one should say that they are completely Right, because there is simply no standard to judge by. We're not judging a game, and we're not judging a test paper that already has the right answer. The debate on "The Chaser" fully illustrates a problem, that is, the conflict between the artist's sensibility and the critic's rationality is unavoidable. The director, as the creator of a movie, is an artist. The purpose of the movie is to convey the director's artistic creation concept, and to better convey what the movie wants to express in the video language. The core, as to whether every audience can understand, whether everyone can accept it, this is something that the director cannot control at all, and this is a difficult question. As a pure crime thriller, "Chasers" is very successful, from the most basic suspense setting to the setting of the characters and the pacing of the whole story, and it succeeds in revealing the many dark sides of Korean society, making it Both entertaining and profound. Of course, in terms of story, "The Chaser" is very cliché. The loopholes in the plot and the plot settings that are inconsistent with logic and common sense have become a big handle and have been caught by various audience critics. This can only show that the current audience is getting more and more difficult to deal with, let alone spend Money goes to the cinema, and even the large audience who downloads it for free at home is constantly complaining and criticizing a movie that is not to their taste. What I've always wondered about is whether the cast of "Chasers" needs to have a professional prosecutor, a professional criminal lawyer, a professional forensic doctor, a professional police detective, or It also needs a very perverted killer to design the means of committing the crime, in order to achieve a very professional and real story and the plot will not have any loopholes. From a professional point of view, it is very good, so that those who seem to be interested in South Korea's judicial system and How about the audience who seem to be very familiar with the criminal investigation, arrest and trial process all shut up? Then, "The Chaser" is likely to lose the charm of the film as a work of art and its entertainment during such a process. Then, I suggest those "detectives" who are still scrutinizing the details and loopholes of the film, do not After watching a movie, you might as well watch a more professional American drama like "Criminal Minds". Even such a more professional American drama must be fabricated in reality so that it has storytelling and entertainment, so as to achieve the purpose of making people watch it. Then I would rather the director's sensibility is higher than the realistic rationality. Watching a movie or watching a work of art can only fully enjoy artistic enjoyment if you devote yourself to the situation created by the artist. And people who just float outside the works and always stand on the rational height of real life are incapable of enjoying art. It seems inappropriate to me that such a nitpicker always pulls together the sensibility of the work of art and the rationality of real life. This article is not to criticize those mean and cunning idealists for their relentless search for bugs in "The Chaser" and their argument about whether the director of the film is insane, but to explain, let each of us not be so serious Let's be pure. After a day of work and watching a good movie, let's put aside all the rationalities in real life for the time being.

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