From intelligence to violence

"The Yellow Sea" tells the story of a Korean ethnic Korean who worked as a taxi driver in Yanji, China. His wife went to South Korea with a Korean. A gang boss asked him to go to South Korea to kill people, and the story twists and turns. In fact, many directors pay attention to some marginal groups, but most directors treat them with a high-level or curious mentality. Luo Hongzhen is completely different. The realistic style in the film makes people feel that the director is not a superficial description of the living conditions of this special group. By showing his living environment to the audience realistically, he allows the audience to truly feel the hardships of their lives. Although I haven't been to Yanji, many second- and third-tier cities in China are actually very similar, so I can feel the realism of the description of Yanji in "The Yellow Sea", such as mahjong halls, dog markets, and rural areas. These scenes of the village make people think that this is a documentary filmed by an independent Chinese director with DV. This level of realism to the living environment is not something that ordinary similar films can embody through artificial scenes in the studio. Speaking of the hard and realistic style of this film, I have to think that a director in China was trying this style last year, and tried to use it as his mark. This is Gao Qunshu and his "West Wind Lie". Maybe he, like Luo Hongzhen, felt the narcotic atmosphere of a false, weak, sensational, spoofed, and peaceful spiritual opium in the Asian film world today, and wanted to lend a cold and hard style to the voice of Weiwei. The film industry injected a dose of stimulant. Unfortunately, however, Gao Qunshu focused too much on hard-hearted external factors. In the end, he chose the deserted and deserted western China as a place to show his ideal hard-hearted style. I don't even hesitate to make Yu Nan a kind of masculinity, but the masked characters in it and the storyline that follows Hollywood step by step made me almost fall asleep in the rumbling sound of the theater when I saw it halfway through. . In comparison, the storyline of "Yellow Sea" is very well-developed. In two and a half hours, the director is divided into four chapters, which are interlocking and step by step. The single-line narrative that started in the first chapter has developed into two lines in the second chapter. The more clues go forward, the more relevant characters appear in turn, and the various clues are intertwined, but the priority is clear, the relaxation is moderate, and there is no It's not messy, so I admire the young director's ability to control the story. The film has developed to the present, and the story has become more and more difficult to tell, especially the suspense film, which requires higher storytelling ability. Of course, all of these, realistic scenes and stories with multiple clues, are not just to tell the audience a real, vivid and thrilling story to satisfy the audience's sensory pleasure, but to reflect Luo Hongzhen's consistent The theme is to see how this group of marginalized people live and how they are forced to Liangshan step by step. With the gradual progress of the film chapters, the increase of each clue and the appearance of each character seems to be putting a death grommet on the neck of the male protagonist. Luo Hongzhen chose the "Korean nationality", a group sandwiched between China and South Korea. I don't know if it has some political intentions, maybe only the director knows. However, here, I don't want to let the "political intentions" that have not yet been determined cover up the "moral intentions" that have been determined in the film. If we don't pay attention to the living plight of all those marginalized groups, their fate will be like the mad dog at the beginning of the film. The fate of the film, their ending is the same as the ending of the hero at the end of the film. Perhaps only the vast, icy Yellow Sea between China and South Korea is their only destination. Finally, what needs to be explained is the violence in the film. With the development of the story, the film becomes more and more violent. In the end, it gradually turns from intellectual games to violent games. The axe gang-style slashing makes people feel that human life is no better than a dog. How much is your life precious. Maybe the director has his own ideas. For example, he wants to show that with the intervention of various forces, the lives of marginalized groups are becoming more and more sinister. So, for this film, is violence its flaw or its shining point? I can only see different opinions. I always think that using violence to express violence is just as inadvisable as "violating violence with violence". However, in the book "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism", the American scholar Jameson once said with all seriousness that there are actually only two things in movies: violence and pornography. Still, viewers have their own choices. Is intelligence seen in violence? Or see violence in the intellect? Is seeing love in porn? Or see porn in love?

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