The importance of the freedom and openness of "Bible Genesis" to cultural prosperity can be seen from the history of the rise of Korean films: with the political thaw in the late 1980s, Korean filmmakers In just two decades, he completed a book-worthy catch-up and leap in the history of film. The 20 years of hard work have made Korean films today a major town in Asian films, and they have attracted more and more attention from the international film industry.
The South Korean movie "Mother" represents the depth of a typical Asian filmmaker in the weirdness of the script and the psychological portrayal of the characters. This movie tells a story that is not easy to read: Sixteen or seventeen-year-old Tai Yu is a somewhat mentally handicapped boy who lives with Qing Yang as a friend of a selfish and somewhat scornful little bastard, and lives with a single mother. But often because of the danger, the mother's anxiety and fear are aroused. Hanmen often suffers misfortunes. Once Tai Woo was caught in a murder case for following a high school girl after being drunk. Although his mother and Taewoo firmly believed that they did not kill anyone, Taewoo was finally caught in jail because of the objects left on the scene. A small climax of the movie is also here. In loneliness and helplessness, Taiyu’s mother embarked on a arduous and exhausting road to redress the grievances. She sneaked into her son’s friend, Qingyang’s house, visited the house of Qingyang, complained in tears at the police station, and mourned for an expensive barrister. It was Huangtian who had finally paid for it, and the plot hinted that a tramp might be the real murderer of the girl. Just as the audience waited for Taewoo’s mother to visit the tramp and the truth came to light, the plot took a turn for the worse. The candid memories of the tramp revealed a possibility that has been ignored by people who know the case, including Taewoo’s mother. That is, Taewoo, who is slightly demented, does. Because of anger and inability to control herself, she killed the girl without waking up, which means that Tae Woo was the real murderer. Under this situation, Taiyu's mother, who had insisted on her beliefs for a long time, finally lost control of her emotions and moved on to a path of murder and destruction. The case also changed strangely at this time. A local Japanese mentally ill teenager was arrested and convicted because he had blood on his body. Tai Yu was also "washed" and returned home safely.
If the hypothesis that the essence of the film is a dream is correct, the film "Mother" has been very successful in this dimension: through the seemingly plain and slightly suppressed script, the director will The audience who enters the mirror introduces a dreamland full of metaphors. In this world, the "people" represented by Taiyu and Taiyu's mother have become the most important objects of concern. The insights in many places are so profound that some shots of this film even have the nature of allegories. From a textual perspective, movies are of course also important representatives of texts, and after they are created, they have vitality independent of the creator. The author will take four shots to erode the profound aspects of this movie:
Shot 1: Mother and son stand under a high wall.
You can see the life history of a woman from a drop of water, because every woman is behind her. Standing a piece of history. Such a movie title of "Mother" easily reminds the audience that this is a movie that describes the love between mother and child and praises the greatness of mother. In any case, this is indeed one of the very important themes of this movie.
A hard-working single mother, an ineffective mentally handicapped child, coupled with a poor and helpless life, makes the life of Taiyu's mother in the movie reflect the inexplicable sadness between the most ordinary gestures: this mother We never knew her name, we only knew that her son had a common Korean name "Yun Tae Woo". Taiyu's mother lives by selling some herbal medicines and getting needles for the neighbours to treat illnesses. The shortage of food and clothing has long been unreservedly reflected in the daily life of firewood, rice, oil and salt and her thin body. The mother and son huddled in a small workshop. However, his son, Taiyu, was never a poor child who was headed early. His intellectual disability made him play and spend his days, and it was easy to get angry when he was called "mentally handicapped" by others. Taiyu’s only friend, Qingyang, is a selfish and scheming gangster. After Taiyu’s misfortune in a small car accident, he led Taiyu to seek revenge from the owner of a Mercedes-Benz car, and he never forgot to blame for kicking the rearview mirror of the Mercedes-Benz car. To Taiyu.
A scene at the beginning of the movie became a huge reflection of the lives of the mother and son: Tae-woo was rubbed by a Mercedes-Benz and fell to the ground, but he was not injured. On the other side of the road, while working while looking at Taiyu's mother, she was cut with a small guillotine in her heart because of a horror in her heart. When her mother rushed to Taiyu's side, she mistakenly thought that the blood in her hand was caused by Taiyu's car accident, and wept bitterly in her heart. She never knew that the blood in her hand was her own blood. However, life in the future did not become dull because of Taiyu's mother's hard work. The storm that Taiyu had to pay for beating the car owner just ceased, and he was involved in an unexplained murder case because of his alcoholism. A single-parent and helpless mother embarked on a path of confrontation with the indifference and prejudice of the entire society.
Ten fingers connected to the heart, how can it not hurt? Therefore, I had a lot of thoughts about the scene where Taiyu was bruised by the car. At that moment, my mother ran out of her small workshop, ignoring her blood. Which ignorant boy in the world is not Taewoo, and which mother in the world panicked because of concerns is not Taewoo's mother? In other words, which son in the world who frightened his mother because of being in a dangerous situation is not my own, and which mother in the world who is willing to jump for her own son is not my own mother?
When every child in the world looks at this movie, maybe they should have seen that they have lived in many similar scenes: In this movie, Tai Yu’s mother was shocked and worried because of the pressure of life. His son has a faceless face and a little smile, his facial expressions are always in a state of restraint and fright. Occasionally, a frown and a smile, but also because of the wrinkles on the corners of the mouth, it seems to have a sad taste. However, there are only certain moments, when she is feeding Taiyu medicine, when she is eating with Taiyu, when she looks at her son, there is no longer the bleakness and fear in her eyes that make viewers cry, but Become warm and loud. Like all mothers in the world, a son born and raised by herself-even if this son has a congenital mental retardation and acquired ineffectiveness-has become the source of all her happiness and joy.
The last bright scene before the murder was born, under a high wall, Tai Yu's mother brought a bowl of medicine to Tai Yu who was hurried to go out to play. The shot at that moment was full of meaning. Taiyu was urinating by the wall while drinking the medicine brought by his mother. The director then pulled the camera back, and the high wall gradually expanded. The composition of the two mothers under the wall appeared depressed and small. At that moment, Taiyu continued the ignorance and fearlessness of an ignorant son, but his mother was clearly smiling softly.
And in that soft smile, the ultimate power of all redemption is conceived: love. Apart from it, who can give birth to two, two to three, and three to give birth to everything?
Therefore, I dare say this: If you have ever paid attention to any scene that is not so bright due to Taiyu’s mother’s hard work and sorrow, I believe you know the most precious feeling in the world; if you have tried to retain this feeling And pay attention to every smile and frown of Taiyu's mother, I believe you will love your mother as much, and I believe you also have the same delicate heart as the director of this film.
Scene 2: In the rainstorm, the mother is walking alone.
If Tae-woo is not involved in a murderous murder, although she is frightened and frightened, although the life is hard, the life of Tae-woo’s mother and her son may continue like this. Therefore, when the body of a girl named Wen Huizhong was exposed on the roof of the corpse the next morning when Taiyu was drunk, the whole movie ushered in a climax in the fog: Taiyu was found at the crime scene with a golf engraved with his name. The ball went to jail and was identified as a murderer because of his mentally handicapped answers during a simple questioning.
The scene of the movie on the night of Taiyu's drunkenness gave people including his mother and movie audiences such a hint: Taiyu was ignorant by nature. Although he did follow Wen Huizhong because of the drunken spring, he left the scene because he did not succeed. I have also witnessed the boulder being thrown out of the darkness, but it has nothing to do with the murder. With this recognition, the audience will be entangled with Taiyu's mother: this mother who firmly believes that her son is retarded and kind and involved in this case must be framed by the police will embark on a difficult path to redress.
What Taiyu's mother confronted alone was the entire dirty society, including the chaotic and sloppy detectives and the judicial system. Everyone who followed this film had witnessed how far this thin mother had gone on her own path: Taiyu The community where he lives is a society of acquaintances. The policemen responsible for investigating the case and even Taiyu’s mother watched them grow up, but they were ridiculously convicted on the basis of a golf ball found on the spot—because the golf ball was engraved with Yin Taiyu's name. In the process of questioning the prisoner, the police did not have the slightest right to inform, and no lawyer was present, and because of the mentally handicapped Taiyu’s mentally handicapped answers to the police’s questions, the police was convicted in just a few minutes. Before his conviction, Taiyu was even subjected to physical punishment and abuse in disguise. A system is so chaotic, ignoring the hoarseness of a mother, and killing human life is so easy.
For Taiyu's mother, the pressure is not only here. She went to the girl's funeral in order to seek the understanding of Wen Huizhong's family, but was verbally abused and beaten. What's more paradoxical and ironic is not only here. At the funeral of the girl who was victimized, the film focused on the unsorrowful faces of those girls' families. Wen Huizhong's grandmother is still drinking, and relatives who have come from afar talk about life related to them, with cigarette butts in their mouths, and they are not in the slightest bleak that matches her body. In such a community, Taiyu's mother faced everyone's prejudice that her son must be a murderer, and started a tired and thorny road.
In the process of Taiyu’s mother trying to cleanse her wrongs, it was not without a turnaround: at first she thought that her son’s harm friend Qing Yang was the murderer, and after sneaking into Qing Yang’s home, she was pleasantly surprised to find a golf club with "blood stains". , And hopefully got it to the police station for testing. At that moment, walking in the rain, she was so relaxed, thinking that she could use this ball stick in exchange for her son's innocence, although not long after that, the "blood stain" proved to be lipstick; after that, she found a helpless one. An expensive lawyer found that this selfish lawyer who insisted on the credo of “you must stand while eating a buffet” cared about money more than caring about his son’s innocence. When the lawyer offered to admit that Tae Woo was mentally retarded to reduce the crime, she resolutely refused after drinking a glass of wine.
The reason why Taiyu’s mother resolutely refused may be that on the one hand, she insisted that her son is completely innocent. Of course, his complete innocence does not require commutation; Mentally retarded. This is the mental strength of a thin woman. After failing every attempt, Tae-woo’s mother suffered heavy rains on the way home. At that moment, all the rain hit a woman's troubled shoulder.
After she returned home in the rain, with the help of Qingyang at the expense of fees, the case began to turn around. She went deep into the life of the victim girl and found many plots that the police had rashly ignored: the victimized girl’s family situation is also miserable, and she lives with her grandmother. In order to improve his life, he engaged in prostitution among high school classmates in disguise, known as the "Princess Rice Cake". Some boys who had been involved in Wen Huizhong were beaten by Qing Yang and implied that the real murderer was probably one of the boys who had had relations with Wen Huizhong. And "Skynet is restored without leaking", the photos of all these men were kept in her mobile phone by Wen Huizhong without omission.
Of course, the development of the case began to become more and more tortuous. When Taiyu's mother finally got Wen Huizhong's mobile phone with great effort, Taiyu's memories suggested that he once saw an ugly middle-aged man on the scene. Coincidentally, the picture of the middle-aged man is indeed in the girl's phone.
It seemed that the truth of the case was about to come to light at this time. Taiyu's mother mustered up the courage to spy the truth in the home of the middle-aged man—the middle-aged man turned out to be a homeless man who made a living from tatters. Just when the audience thought the story was about to come to a successful conclusion, the conversation afterwards made everything change in an instant: The tramp's memories of that night proved that Tae Woo was indeed the real murderer and indeed killed the girl in drunkenness. At this time, Taewoo's mother finally suffered a nervous breakdown because she couldn't accept the facts, and in the collapse, she killed the tramp with a sharp weapon. In the desperate situation, the police station brought her excellent news: The police found blood stains matching Wen Huizhong's blood type on a local Japanese street youth who was also mentally retarded and convicted her. Tai Yu was acquitted and released.
In this movie, Taiyu’s mother walks along the roadside scenery as a mirror image of the sickness of the whole society:
The investigative agency that hastily convicted and handled casual affairs has never considered the joys and sorrows of the families involved in the case. Such a sloppy system initially convicted Taewoo by virtue of a golf ball alone, and did not take into account the shouts and cries of Taewoo's mother. What's even more paradoxical is that just after Taiyu's mother realized the true facts of the case, she fell into the abyss. The detection and judicial system used the same method to impose charges on Japanese youths who were also mentally ill. In the process of Taiyu’s mother confronting this system, the weakness, sloppiness and chaos of the entire system were exposed at a glance. It was discovered that the truth was not considered, and the protection of the rights of the parties in the case was not considered. The cry of the relevant parties. It is to be ignored. The climax of the whole movie begins with the police station rashly handcuffing the handcuffs to Taewoo's hand, and ends with the police also rashly removing the handcuffs from Taewoo's hand and handcuffing to another person. A small police station is used to insinuate the entire detective system and even all the political systems of mankind. The director's allegorical power is admirable.
The well-dressed lawyer Yufeng was the first and only lawyer invited by Taiyu's mother. The lawyer owns his own law firm, is extremely busy, and appears well-informed in many places-his creed of "you must stand while eating a buffet" outlines a lawyer's profit-seeking life philosophy. When the lawyer first saw Taiyu, he laughed and seemed to think that the mother and son in front of him were very interesting. And his last appearance was in a feasting KTV, surrounded by local judicial elites. These judicial elites hugged the ladies to the left and right, and casually pointed out that the only way to save the law in this case was to identify Tai Yu as a mentally ill patient in order to reduce his sentence. As mentioned earlier, Taiyu’s mother quietly left after drinking a full glass of red wine. Her departure pointed out the basic fact: in a legal world where the legal elites are profiteering and have no good values The way is always farther and farther away from the real way of redemption, "it's harder than a camel through the eye of a needle."
The world is so vast, and the small people in the ordinary lanes and villages are the most important part of the entire human society. In the process of searching for Taiyu’s mother, we saw from some of the most inconspicuous details the world the director tried to build for us: Taiyu’s only "good friend" Qingyang sneaked into Taiyu’s home after being framed by Taiyu’s mother. Extorted Tai Woo's mother, who was covered in rain and exhausted, took away her only money and used it to buy a private car; Wen Huizhong’s classmates were talking about the tragic death of the "rice cake princess" There is no feeling of compassion, on the contrary, he takes pleasure in it and even salivates his fragrant things; and perhaps more typical, it is the wretched boys and men in Wen Huizhong’s mobile phone, who have truly become morals to the local citizens. A great metaphor for life: In this world, men rely on some millet to have a relationship with the poor Wen Huizhong, and leave their own misfortune in Wen Huizhong’s mobile phone photos; Wen Huizhong’s relatives include her grandmother, There is no sorrow for the girl's tragic death. In the eyes of her grandmother, her granddaughter has long been selling her sex in exchange for food.
It is in such a world that Taiyu's mother walked step by step, changing to a Chinese language, "asking for an argument for her son." Along the way, she saw the detective agency that didn’t care about the lives of Kusuga, the legal elites covered in copper, and saw the "good friend of Taiyu" who was blackmailing herself-this "good friend" was handsome, and saw it The indifferent eyes of Wen Huizhong's family members also saw the naked men in Wen Huizhong's phone...
Along the way, Taiyu's mother saw a lot of scenery. Just like when the "bloodstain" on the club was proved to be lipstick, she walked into the downpour. Along the way, she walked alone in the solemn rain. She is just an ordinary mother, with no soldiers hidden in her chest, and has never tried to fight against any kind of ugliness we mentioned above in a real sense. However, the facts are established, these roadside scenery forms a thorny road that is not glorious, Tai Yu's mother walked in, covered with scars, she described all this with her muddy footprints, and finally deconstructed all this.
Shot 3: Taiyu's numb smile
If this movie merely embodies everything the author stated above, then we have reason to think that its ideological nature may not be so important. However, many aspects of the director gave us a lot of hints-we can not guess whether this hint is intentional or unintentional, because the film itself has independent vitality-these hints prompt us to think about the possibility of this film after a long script. The ultimate concern of existence. These ultimate thoughts have been eroded by some of us that may seem wishful thinking, and begin to appear deep and even terrifying. There may be a large number of metaphors in the film—maybe used here because it is impossible to predict whether the purpose behind the use of such metaphors exists. These metaphors describe many aspects of human society.
In the movie, what supports the mother to go down can be said to be a belief that his son has never been a murderer, but perhaps it can be more said to be a kind of love, a kind of love that a mother has always for her son. However, in the details deliberately arranged by the director, this love has become fragile and full of paradoxes. The story arranges such a paradoxical plot: during a visit to the prison, his mother tried to make Taiyu recall what happened on the night of the crime. Taiyu claimed that he "remembered everything" after a beating, but the scene he recalled was: "Mom, you tried to kill me when I was five years old." His mother was shocked at this time. Get up and try to give Taiyu a needle to comfort him: In this movie, Taiyu's mother keeps saying that there is an acupuncture point on the human thigh, which can make people comfortable and forget all the pain.
If the author did not make false claims, the mentally retarded son Tae Woo in this film is actually a metaphor for humans, at least a metaphor for one aspect of mankind: a mentally retarded boy can remember the past when he was five years old, that year, his mother was because of life Desperate and tried to kill him and then committed suicide. Taiyu couldn't remember the love her mother had for herself, and she couldn't remember the countless times her mother had told her, but she could remember the hurt her mother did to him this time, and coldly told her mother "Don't come here anymore." However, it was just such a young man who was furious whenever others said that he was mentally retarded. For this reason, he couldn't control himself after being drunk and killed Wen Huizhong who scolded him for stalking.
Tai Woo’s selfishness, forgetful love, and good memory of hatred, together with his mental retardation, constitute an allegory of the director’s innate deformity of human personality: Many people on this earth never remember the love that others give to themselves, even their own mothers give to themselves. Love; I never remember the possibilities that life gave me and the rich infinite beauty behind it, I never felt grateful at all, but I remembered anyone's hatred with me, and I remember it deeply, and it will be rewarded. In this movie, Tai Yu, as an ignorant human or a representative of human ignorance, brutally killed his compatriots. And what is even more paradoxical is that after the girl was killed, everything was forgotten because of this wine awakening, as if everything had never really happened.
In the movie audience, there may be many people who are "sorrowing his misfortune and angering him" for Taiyu's mental retardation. However, movie audiences, you turn your vision from the movie to the society around us, the swords and guns that are moved by the hatred of Juju. Are you more ignorant than Taewoo? Those who are clever and hurt others are actually more "mentally handicapped" than Taiyu? Those who ignore the past disasters and have no historical feelings at all, aren't they just Tai Woo who forgot everything after waking up? In this sense, in front of each of our own mothers, we are all ignorant sons like Tai Woo; in front of the entire human society, if we have harmed others because of our ignorance, our ignorance and Compared to Taiyu, perhaps even more disability than his intellectual disability.
Throughout the movie, Taiyu has been "taking medicine" because he has been sick. However, it is human nature that is more pathological than mentally retarded. Taiyu's ignorance, selfishness, tyranny and more terrifying-the unconscious behind all these are metaphorically so profound in the shift of the camera, so profound that they cannot face such words: In the "Bible Galatians", the savior told the world, "The things of lust are obvious. Such as adultery, filth, wickedness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, rivalry, envy, anger, Party formation, strife, heresy, corruption, jealousy, murder, drunkenness, etc. I have always told you, and now I tell you, those who do this will not inherit the kingdom of God." In the face of an ultimate wisdom, we always Everyone is an ignorant Taewoo. The Bible is written for each of us.
Scene 4: The solo dancer on the grassland and the group carnival on the bus. The
life time of people in this movie began to become bitter and long.
The scenes at the beginning of the movie are very incomprehensible: Taiyu's mother walks from a distance on a vast meadow, and after looking around no one, she begins a solo dance that is not graceful. The usually restrained and even slightly fearful facial expressions are inexplicably weird when dancing solo, and this elusive expression is reflected in the monotone of the vast grassland background and accompanied by the rigid dance language, which gives the whole movie a striking view. The person cannot start easily.
And if the narrative of the memories of the homeless man did not appear in the end, the film may have a good night's sleep for many viewers: the homeless man is the real murderer of the girl, and Tae-woo is acquitted. However, this is where the director's brilliance lies. The tramp living in the ruined hayloft does not have an ugly soul that the audience expects. And his memories revealed a conclusion that made the audience thunderous and thunderous like Taewoo's mother, that is, Taewoo was the real murderer. Under the revelation of this fact, Tai Yu's mother finally had a nervous breakdown and was a testimony of murder.
Taiyu's mother's tyranny during the killing, the fear and crying after the killing, and the kindness and integrity she showed along the way-this poor mother was not even willing to steal a tricycle from the tramp to shelter the rain Broken umbrella, even if the owner of this tricycle does not know it-a strong contrast and irony are formed. Why can a kind mother kill a living life based on maternal love? If the act of killing is acceptable, does the most powerful force of maternal love make humans kinder or blinder? If maternal love is the only power a mother has, and if maternal love is the source of the full meaning of a mother’s life, then why do people take the road of killing other people’s sons? Which man in this world does not have his own mother?
All this deeply troubled the owner of this maternal love, of course, maybe she didn't think so deeply, maybe she was just tortured by the guilt of murder. The torture was so deep that when the police came to tell her the good news of Tai Woo's innocence at the end of the movie, she did not smile much. It was this confusion and guilt that made her face the same innocent convicted Japanese mentally handicapped youth, and finally couldn't restrain her feelings, so she cried and asked: "My child, do you have your own mother too? , Do you have your own mother?” The conflict between selfish maternal love and compassion for the other is so profound.
The last group of shots of the movie gave the whole story a conclusive ending: the mother will take a bus to travel to relax after everything is over, and Tai Yu accidentally left her mother in the station with needles and threads on the burnt ruins of the tramp The box was handed to the mother. This small sewing box may be the most delicate thing in Taiyu's house. All the beauty and delicacy of a woman are carved into the plum blossom pattern on the sewing box. When my mother saw this sewing box, she naturally remembered the story related to the whole case-of course, including her own murder-and then grief came from it, unable to contain her tears, and stepped onto the bus. At this time, the bus slowly drove out, and the sun was setting, and tourists full of cars stood up and danced in the carriages. A ray of sunset hit her mother's worried face, and she finally slowly took out the needle and pierced the acupuncture point at the base of her thigh. As I said before, that acupuncture point is said to make people forget all the troubles and pains, and only give people happiness. Then she stood up and joined the collective dance.
In the collective carnival, my mother temporarily forgot all the unhappiness in the murder storm, including the injustice of the police station, the greed of the lawyers and the indifference of the people around him, and the ugliness and embarrassment of the men in Wen Huizhong’s mobile phone, of course. I also tried to forget my own experience of murder and extinction, and just danced in the carriage. The plot of this dance echoes the weird solo dance in the grass field at the beginning of the movie. The appearance of a social group and an allegory to the whole society also reached a climax in this dance of forgetting the past with acupuncture and medicine. In this dance with needles, at that moment, the mother may have forgotten all the pain and the unbearable life of life, and told herself, "It's better to dance." After having happiness, the mother joined the tourists' carnival. The whole movie also ended here.
Maybe we shouldn't go too far in the way of commenting, maybe all of us above has nothing to do with the original director-the director may just want to talk about a complicated case. However, if the essence of modernity is really wretched, in the movie "Mother", all people appear to be unbearable and wretched on the thorny road of a single mother, and this might not be a great mother, who also kills at the end. Walk into the despicableness of human nature in the extinction card. In the whole movie, no one can get real happiness, no one can get real happiness. People can only dance and use their physical pleasure to conceal their inner unbearableness. This is modern society, this is human beings living in groups. The only difference between a kind-hearted "mother" and them may be that she needs a needle in her thigh before she dances. Maybe because she still has kindness, she needs to dance in shackles.
In any dimension, those who have lost their freedom in enjoyment are the same. So if you have ever witnessed the misfortunes of human beings, if you have witnessed your own misfortunes and suffered because of it, you are Taewoo's mother; as long as you finally try to dance in pain and finally try to escape from this pain, you are Taewoo's mother . We have witnessed pain like her, we have experienced pain with her, in this sense, we are her.
Because in the age of modernity, the lives of a Chinese and a Korean mother will not be fundamentally different. Because in the era of globalization, the lives of people will not be fundamentally different for a long time.
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This article was actually written by me five years ago. The white horse passed the gap and wasted the years, just for memory.
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