Most of the comments I have seen are directed at "Old Boy" and "Cut". But I personally think that his most worthy of appreciation are not properly reflected in these two works. Although "Old Boy" has won the most international reputation for Park Chan-wook, among which he has to admit that he has reached almost perfect control of the movie language, but the plot of "Old Boy" is actually flawed. If we think about it in depth It will be easy to find that Park Chan-wook only focused on two revenges in "Old Boy", but the root of the first revenge was very weak: the
first revenge was Liu Jitai's revenge against Wu Daxiu, the reason is only It's because Wu Daxiu once took a peek at the incompetence between their siblings. Even though sister Liu Zhitai committed suicide due to social ethical pressure, how much responsibility should Wu Daxiu bear in this matter? When Wu Daxiu was guessing who trapped him in that room, he said countless names. These people may have a very direct conflict of interest with Wu Daxiu and even kill others, but the person who avenged him turned out to be the most. An unreasonable enemy.
The shortcoming of "Cut" is that Park Chan-wook wrote this "revenge" too naked. I'm not saying that the performance is radical, but that he didn't portray that rich abuser badly and performed badly. Although that person’s conversation is vulgar, but if we ignore his conversation, we will find that the guy standing in front of the director’s family yelling is clearly Park Chan-wook himself; in addition, the movie is not an academic paper, if you put everything you want to express in it. Bai said it, the movie raped the audience in the simplest and most brutal way. From these two points, "Cut" is not an excellent work.
After watching "Revenge", I deeply feel that it is not "Old Boy" that can represent Park Chan-wook's highest level. In "Revenge", we see the suspense molding, plot arrangement and lens application that are more than that of "Old Boy", and the former is more brilliant because it is very logical to bury the roots of revenge. In the complex, when the audience unearths it, everything about revenge is more acceptable, because the killing of each other between the characters in the movie is a tragedy, and when we understand that their revenge is because in addition to revenge on them When I didn’t know what I should do, the tragedy went from personal devastation to the contradiction between the bottom people of South Korea and the South Korean social system.
The drama of "Revenge" is that all the people in revenge are just crickets in the bowl. When they bite each other, no one knows that the ugly face outside the bowl is the culprit who made enemies for them. . Those who died in the movie were the poorest people: Dongjin was a factory owner who had only read high school and was abandoned by his wife and dependent on his daughter. Although rich, he was autistic and pragmatic and found himself in this society after losing his daughter. The reason for survival is gone. He doesn't know who to seek justice from, so he has no choice but to seek revenge; Ryu's sister is a very kind woman, she has no money to change the kidney, so she has to prevent her brother from committing crimes. Cut her wrist; Ryu’s girlfriend is the one who has the longest dead relationship with the little girl. She even allowed her to enjoy the warmest kidnapping in the world, but she was the one who died the worst; and Ryu suffered from South Korea. All the young people at the bottom of society may suffer. As a deaf-mute person, he has no status in society. He was fired by his superiors for his diligent work to treat his sister, and was tricked into getting a kidney when he was in contact with the underworld. And one million won, and even God taunted him. While he was enjoying the brief peace of burying his sister by the river, the cry of the drowning girl behind him was the biggest irony of his natural insufficiency (the last half) The sentence is copied from IMPDB).
The plot of this series of revenge is very dramatic, but it makes us feel that it is full of authenticity. Dong Jin is an honest person. He endured everything that can be tolerated like Ryu, but it is this tolerance and lack of social education that brought him spirit and the lack of concept of the rule of law that made him choose the most direct but most ineffective path. . Imagine that if his spirit is not empty, if he has friends and relatives who can communicate with him instead of letting Dongjin work alone and aimlessly every day to revitalize the Korean industry, this tragedy will not happen. The scene at the end of the film was very shocking. Dong Jin tried to see what was written on the piece of paper with a dagger stuck in front of his chest, trying to figure out who the killer was, but he never saw it clearly. I misunderstand that those who are obviously migrant workers are the underworld sent by Yeong-mi, and I don’t even know that they are unemployed workers because of the sale of factories by Dongjin. Park Chan-wook carried the black irony of society to the last moment.
This cruel and irrational society is destroying human nature in this way, and it deprives the people at the bottom of all the beautiful things. There are two shots like these in "Vengeance" I believe will impress everyone who has watched this movie-the first shot: Ryu bury his sister by the beautiful river with a stone, and then cover it with a blanket Before cheek, Ryu glanced at her sister again, her face tormented by reality showed a serenity that she had never seen in her life; the second scene: the revenge-seeking Dong Jin somehow found the body of Ryu's sister, he The stones were removed one by one, and the moment he lifted the blanket covering her face, a centipede crawled out of her pale and foul face. These two contrasting shots are all the irony of the whole film. Park Chan-wook concentrated it on the contradiction between reality and ideal. The ideals of the Koreans are all beautiful, but we are surprised to find that all these ideals are full of naivety: when Ryu buried her sister, didn't he expect that the corpse would be disposed of by the police even if the body did not rot? When Dongjin honestly gave money to the kidnappers, didn't he expect that his daughter might not come back at all? When the factory workers were desperate to revitalize the Korean industry, didn't they think that South Korea is not a socialist country? Didn't you think that you would be unemployed one day? When Yeong-mi described this warm kidnapping, he didn't think that doing so would violate the law, and would it have nothing to do with the child's final outcome?
No, none of them. But they are innocent, because South Korea has not given them these since they were born, and only the song "Down with the Communist Party" that can be sung while jumping rubber band was taught.
Use the remaining space to talk about two special points of "Vengeance" in my impression. One of the things that interest me the most is naturally those non-linear narrative shots. What is special about Park Chan-wook is that he didn’t use nonlinearity as the overall structure of the story. Instead, he told the story in a sequential manner at the beginning. Later, fragmentary nonlinear scenes gradually appeared (the scenes of making calls, everyone is dialing the phone, all of them are Answer the phone, but the conversation between them has nothing to do. At this time, the audience knows that these calls were not made at the same time, but the director put them together.), and the degree of non-linearity became greater and greater until the end of Dongjin All of his death returned to the previous order. The second is those lenses full of beauty. A director who understands aesthetics does not need to arrange how gorgeous the background, how aristocratic plot can be arranged. In this story composed entirely of middle and lower classes, we still find many beautiful scenes, and the appearance of these scenes under this background is a very good expression of the director’s aesthetic skills, such as: Ryu buries her sister; film one At the beginning of the round mouth with the tongue of fire, how many students have imagined that this round mouth is a steel furnace instead of a gorgeous battleship of space fighters, please raise your hands; Black eyes inlaid on pale cheeks staring at everything in the world from the underworld; in the coffin about to be cremated, the camera is aimed at a hand and the doll next to it, with the flame, the hand burns in the way that protein should burn, The doll's head fell off her body, and her hair caught fire. . .
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