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Kim Ki-duk's "Empty Room" is a silent film-like bold attempt
Kim Ki-duk, he is not so much a director, but a philosopher. After reading the entire "Empty Room", the male protagonist is silent throughout the whole process, and the female protagonist has only two lines. It is even like a silent film with color + music/sound effects, There is a feeling in Lu Xun's writings that it does not erupt in silence, but perishes in silence.
Kim Ki-duk talked about the moral of the empty room at the time of the award, he said
The human gaze—from the far left of the left eye to the far right of the right eye—is a 180-degree range. It seems destined to divide our lives in two - the visible is called "the world in front" and the invisible is called "the world behind". Perhaps because there is always an inexplicable fear of unseen things, most people choose to live in the world in front of them. No matter how bad the world is, after all, it is within the visible range.
When the movie transitioned from silent to sound, there were some controversies, and now it seems that these controversies and concerns are not alarmist.
A large amount of dialogue fills the screen, leaving the audience too busy to take care of the screen. Gradually, some directors and screenwriters seem to forget that film is a visual art first and foremost because of their over-reliance on the element of sound.
The appearance of sound should complement the picture to enhance the appeal of the film, not bury the charm of the picture. Kim Ki-duk, who made a brave attempt, filmed the almost silent "Empty Room", which not only won the grand prize of various film festivals again, but also unexpectedly obtained a good commercial return.
Although the characters barely speak throughout the film, the use of sound and music is excellent. At the end of the film, the heroine gave two finishing touches, which made the audience immersed in the picture suddenly feel a powerful impact.
Tai Shi is a young man who has nothing to do. He rides a motorcycle every day to hand out flyers from house to house. The flyers are placed for a few days. If no one follows, Tai Shi will go in and stay for a while, take a bath and cook there, and take photos with the owner's photo. . In exchange, he would help the host with household chores, housekeeping, and repairing simple gadgets. Once, he met Shanhua, a woman who had been raped by her husband in an empty room. He took her away and searched for the empty room together. Once they entered a room with only the body of an old man. After a serious funeral, I lived happily in this house until one day the old man's son came to the door and they were taken away as murder suspects...
Six Empty Rooms - Telling the World
The movie unfolds the plot from the perspective of the protagonist Tai Shi. Tai Shi is a low-level young man who delivers express delivery. He is unknown in his daily life. The way he intervenes in the lives of others is to sneak into empty rooms when the master is not at home, eat, Resting, helping the owner to fix things, taking photos, etc., the movie tells the story of Tai Shi and the heroine Shan Hua through the superposition of each space.
Room ①: An indifferent family of three
The first room that Taishi enters reveals his basic background and personality. The first room is a peaceful family of three, but under the appearance of a peaceful family, there is an element of violence. Tai Shi's repaired pistol wounded the hostess, which also became a hint of the violent theme in the film.
The seemingly peaceful family of three turned out to be full of quarrels and chatter, which led to the child wounding his mother with a repaired pistol.
Room ② The heroine who suffered domestic violence
The second room is the room where the heroine appears. The empty room is actually not empty. When Tae-shik thinks that the master is not there and is doing what he wants to do, the heroine Shanhua observes Tae-shik in a hidden corner. Every move, at first the film looks at the room with Tai Shi's eyes, but at this moment, he becomes the "viewer" again. The wounded woman sets the suspense for the story.
Room ③ Photographer's House
The third room is the photographer's house. At this time, Tai Shi has entered the empty room with Shanhua. Shanhua saw her photo here. Injuries in family life.
Room ④ Boxer's House
Tai Shi brought Shanhua to the boxer's house. The two took pictures of each other, repaired the record player, and drank and listened to music. The emotional exchange reached a tacit level.
However, when the boxers came home, they found Tai Shi and beat him. At this time, Shan Hua thoughtfully fed him instant noodles.
Room ⑤ Quaint folk house
The fifth room is an elegant and quaint dwelling. In this tranquil and quiet environment, the souls of the hero and heroine have been comforted to the greatest extent, and their emotions have reached a climax here.
Room ⑥ Home of a dead old man
A lonely old man who died for a long time without anyone finding out, Tae-seok and Sun-hwa held a funeral for him, turning a gloomy room into a warm and sweet world full of love.
They walked into a total of six empty rooms, each different, but each revealed a sense of loneliness, and a silent defiance.
The director uses Tai Shi's hand to pry open the secret of life. Shanhua is a middle-class family with courtyards and various white plaster statues, as well as a golf driving range. The huge house could not hide her loneliness and pain. Her husband, although he cultivated flowers, plants, and practiced golf with dignity, he would fight against his wife, and Shanhua's artistic photos always reminded her that she was once a famous model. The strong gap made her have the heart to walk out of the empty room. On the surface, Shanhua lived a prosperous life, but in fact she faced a husband who was completely assimilated by the money society.
He imprisoned his wife in that empty room, beating and scolding at will, scarred, or regardless of the occasion or time. He also made a dirty deal with the cops to get his wife back and get revenge on Taishi.
Tai Shi's love has no vows, no sweet words, no villas and prominent status. Some are just you follow me, I follow you, and the two are together. Do your own laundry, cook, watch TV, listen to music.
Look at other stories of empty rooms. The photographer has sex with countless women, but there are constant quarrels and suspicions between the couples in the same bed. The dignified and well-dressed children abandoned their father who had lung cancer in a dilapidated house in a slum area, but they traveled with peace of mind until the old man died and the puppy accompanied her, and a stranger buried her father.
In today's rich material life, people seem to have lost some simple things. The distance between people is getting farther and farther, and communication blocks love and passion.
On the contrary, marginal human beings like Tai Shi and Shan Hua are so warm, but real life is so cold. In modern society, alienated people choose silence in the face of cruel reality.
When Tai Shi was imprisoned, he began to practice a kind of "invisibility".
Kim Ki-duk has said that his film is to let people try to see the world with a "third eye". The third eye sees the invisible.
Therefore, the male protagonist needs to practice stealth skills, and stealth and appearance are also a state of unity of opposites. This is a kind of understanding that the director wants to convey to the audience. Every silent space in the film expresses the character of the space owner. The film uses silent shots to draw attention to details that are easily overlooked.
The scene at the end of the film shows the hero and heroine standing on a scale that reads zero. The first time I saw this scene, I was horrified, what the hell is real? What is fantasy? The end of the film seems to indicate that the hero is not a real existence, he may just be a fantasy of the heroine.
This is not a love movie, it's just a philosophical proposition, like the line at the end of the film: "It'shard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream" Whether the world is real or a dream.) Isn't this the philosophical proposition of existence and nothingness?
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