First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Dai Jinhua, because after listening to her film class, I learned to observe the film by examining the position of the camera: film is an art that hides the position of the camera. world. So, obviously, the film is also divided into three parts based on where the cameras are. They are Liu Yaren's perspective setting the mystery, Ben's perspective revealing the mystery (it can also be said to be the perspective of God), and returning to Liu Yaren's perspective again.
From the appearance of Liu Yaren, the camera followed the goods he carried through a long and narrow market space, and walked to a lottery shop where beautiful women were stationed. Afterwards, Liu Yaren met and talked with the heroine, and returned to her hometown in Paju. She took care of the cat in the hut where the heroine lived many times during her travels. She also brutally experienced the story between the heroine and Ben. We all follow Liu Yaren. experience and feelings. The story tells that Liu Yaren sneaked into Ben's apartment for the second time. He suddenly understood the truth and left. It stands to reason that the story is complete so far. The camera from Zhongxiu's point of view cannot fully grasp the truth. Whether Huimi disappeared in hiding or was killed is still in the director's layers of hints. Of course, if the director skipped the portrayal of Ben at this point and went straight to the scene of the last murder and the burning of Porsche, it would not be incoherent at all, and could even end the film completely.
But between these two parts, we somehow saw Ben's wicked smile in the bathroom of the apartment, took out the makeup box in the cabinet, went to the room and applied lipstick to the girl who was selling things in the duty-free shop, and the girl's face was still hanging With a simple smile. This picture should never and is completely unreasonable to appear in front of the audience. This is definitely not something that Liu Yaren can see. The director seems to use God's perspective to deliberately and forcefully let us see, in such a delicate and pale noble Living the dark side of the next Korean Gatsby, with box jewelry lying in a bathroom drawer as perverted booty. Therefore, this suspenseful film itself is not really suspenseful. The answer was revealed in just a few minutes, and instead it projected some kind of perversion and evil of the upper class, and the confrontation between the lower class.
Speaking of metaphors, it is a coincidence that when Liu Yaren visited Ben's house for the first time in the film, Ben was cooking spaghetti and Huimei said that eating his own dishes was like a sacrifice to eat himself. , Emi didn't understand, Ben said, it's just a metaphor. Emi asked, what is the metaphor, Ben said, then you have to ask Zhongxiu. Let me jump to Ben and Zhongxiu telling each other stories about burning in the blue morning. In Zhong Xiu's story, what he burns is the mother's clothes that his father ordered to burn on the day his mother left. In Ben's story, what burns is an inconspicuous "plastic" that will not be noticed by the police, and that does not require judgment and is only acceptable. shed". After that, Zhong Xiu ran all over the plastic shed in the area close to him, but found no signs of being burned. Is this a metaphor?
What I want to say is that the metaphor creates multiple meanings. The "plastic shed" as the ontology is not only the story told by Ben, but also the objective existence circled on Liu Yaren's map for observation in reality. As a metaphor, the "plastic shed" can be understood in multiple ways. 1. We can understand it as Hui Mei herself, representing a group of people who are easily overlooked; 2. Ben's final ending was ignited just like the plastic shed. It was Liu Yaren. The "plastic shed" in my heart. 3. The deepest metaphor, burning the plastic shed, represents the completion of inner venting and revenge.
A metaphor is a cunning puzzle, a game of unspoken words. What is real? Is it true that Emi said she fell into a dry well and was rescued? Is it true that she has a cat that is very afraid of people? Is the habit of burning plastic sheds real? Is the opposite of the phone ringing at night real? Is it true that Emi appeared and disappeared? Like a pantomime twisting between Emi's wrists, everything seemed like nothing. Liu Yaren was looking for this kind of truth. He kept asking Lichang, Huimei's sister, and his mother about the existence of the dry well. He kept running between the lines of the plastic shed, and he was trapped in a world of metaphors and lies, at a loss. The experience of a certain kind of hopeless possibility of falling into the bottom of the well.
In addition, I think dreams are also a way to echo metaphors. Dreams are like metaphors, and multiple projections will give the film a sense of overlapping hazy, adding a sense of uncertainty.
The two places belong to Liu Yaren's dream, but my friend and I have objections here, which can still be discussed. One is a teenager facing a burning plastic shed, which happened after Ben and Hui Mi left Paju. This scene is almost a fusion of the stories they narrated. It is very scary to think about. The father's anger at the mother's running away from home is passed on to a man. The child is grafted with a twisted and perverted psychology.
The second is a track through a winding mountain road, and it has been tracked to a slope. When I climbed to the top of the slope, I saw Ben facing a lake. The picture was quiet. Reasons for thinking that this place is a dream: the blurry camera shot the rugged mountain road, and the Porsche was shadowing on the road (this reminds me of seeing Hitchcock's "Psycho" a while ago, when the heroine absconded with $40,000 , driving alone, endless roads and uneasy moods.) Porsche disappears on some flat road, then bursts out of the mirror, but drives around his wrecked truck and drives up high (there is also a The overhead shot is great, as if someone is watching over it). Facing the calm lake at a high place, Zhong Xiu did not continue to hide behind the car and peeked, but stood behind him and watched. If the two of them had an opposite scene, they should not be pinched by the director. After that, Yoo Ah-in woke up from the dream and received a call from his mother. So this part seems to me to be a dream. There is a deeper reason, I think Yoo Ah-in woke up from such a peaceful dream because he was called out by his inner fear, which came from his not believing in the "real" reality, the South Korea in front of him. The connection between Gatsby's gentlemanly noble temperament and a perverted murderer. Good people and bad people are just a difference between a certain possibility or an imaginary thought, and the huge contrast is like a nightmare.
(As I have discussed in depth with my friends, there is a possibility that rich people are really good people, and the driving force behind Liu Yaren's burning of cars is the deep hatred of the rich in his heart. My friends are particularly bold and put forward a corroboration. : The three ignitions in the film were all done by Liu Yaren! Once he lit the plastic paper, once the child burned the plastic shed, and once the Porsche ignited. The real murderer didn't burn anything, did he? I want to say, even if it's just A hypothetical possibility, the story is about to turn around.) (Away from the text of the film, I still want to applaud the black-bellied us.)
Let's go back to the crime of burning the "plastic shed". If the metaphor holds true, then it can be said that Ben's crime is a wanton trampling on the lives of a specific group of people. Zhong Xiu finally murdered and retaliates with his own way. The opposing existence of "plastic shed", Porsche, may be thinking, if such a person disappears in the wilderness, will anyone care, care, and discover it? Burning has become a denial of values and also contains anger at social injustice. Needless to say here. One more thing to mention, thinking about the crime of my father, where did the unstoppable anger and unfriendliness come from, and everything came back together.
In the end, I still want to know, what is it like for boys who love to read Faulkner?
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