Like most people, getting to know Kim Kidd starts with "Drifting Bathroom". This film, which was ignorantly used by the media under the banner of "erotic" to attract the audience, made me stunned and speechless, who was not very rich in movie watching experience at the time, so that my mind was circling the scenes in the film all night. At last, she shed tears in the darkness. After watching the film, there are not many directors who can make the audience feel physically and mentally uncomfortable. Maybe I have a natural liking for movies with rare lines. I first met Cai Mingliang and then Jin Jide.
Kim Kidd was born in an unfortunate family and experienced a lot of twists and turns. The final education is junior high school. Although he graduated from an agricultural college, he did not obtain a degree because the school was an informal school. I have lived in the army for 5 years and have not found a long-term job with stable income after changing jobs. At the age of 30, he went to France alone to pursue his art dream. The two years of studying and living in Europe made his life experience more complicated and fulfilling. I started writing scripts in 1996, and it was just a whim to be a director. Although his debut "Beast City" has quite violent elements, it is not a shocking work. Until the appearance of "Crocodile", the name of the so-called "problem director" began to shine on him.
Kim Kidd’s films are basically depictions of the unfortunate and miserable low-level characters, but they clearly surpass South Korea’s country and nation in terms of expression, revealing boldness and uniqueness that cannot be easily imitated. The selection, material and details of each film all reveal his artistic skills, as well as the different outlook on life, values and self-contained philosophies displayed, all of which remind us of this internationally prolific one all the time. (One and a half times a year, there have been 16 feature films since 1996) The life history of a high-quality Korean director.
"Spring Goes Spring Comes Again" after seeing it for the second time, I realized that it is actually only the appearance of Buddhism, the essence of which is still the thinking of life and destiny. The themes of "desire", "reincarnation" and "salvation" were originally dedicated to Lao Jin. The young monk used stones to tie fish, frogs, and snakes, but the old monk used the same method to tie himself up. Many people think this is a punishment for "killing". In fact, the old monk is teaching the young monk how to be himself. Redemption; the relationship between the young monk and the female donor was within the expectation of the old monk. At the same time, it is the only effective way for the old monk to cure the serious illness of the female donor. There is no difference between right and wrong, and there is no Buddhist concept. Fettered; the little monk leaves the Buddhist school for a woman as if he has broken away from the general Buddhist ethics. Lao Jin wants to explore more deeply the entanglements and repetitions hidden in human nature: weak and strong, honest and violent, peace and bigotry, good and evil. In the overall narrative process, it deviates from the original story archetype of "being a buddha on the spot", and emphasizes the difficulty and twists of human nature contest with narrative variations.
Like Cai Mingliang, "water" is still Lao Jin's main use image. First of all, it can be seen from the selection of the scene. A large lake surrounded by mountains, although slightly different from the seawater containing countless energy in Lao Jin's previous films, it still has a shocking feeling that is not inferior. The arrangement of the scene is very interesting. A small temple floats on the calm water all year round. "Water" is a symbol of desire. Buddhism emphasizes desirelessness, but Lao Jin's arrangement obviously implies that desire is human instinct, and nothing can hold it. Young monks like to swim in the water for joy. When facing a girl's benefactor, they also use swimming to vent their physical fitness and desires. On the way to secretly go up to the mountains and wilds with the girl, the water rushes out of the way, and the desire erupts. And the old monk who has gone through the world has never known how to control the distance between himself and the water, and will not easily cross it.
Similar to "water", snake has become synonymous with "desire" from the beginning of the Bible. It also appeared many times in the film. The young monk also sprouted his first sexual consciousness under the scene of two snakes mating.
Another interesting scene is that the compartments in the temple have no walls but doors. It is easy to understand that the "door" is a regular passage, and it is against common sense to cross the wall without going through the door. The behavior of the young monk "crossing the wall" was only because he couldn't stand the temptation of the girl.
There are three scenes of people in tears in the film. The middle-aged monk returned after killing his wife and tried to commit suicide. Lao Jin used paper and cloth to cover their tears, but he could clearly see the tears they shed. Tears are the sorrow of the heart, and with Lao Jin’s philosophy, the sorrow of life comes from his own desires, so tears can be directly understood as the flow of desire from the body, and thereafter it is liberation.
It can be said that in this film, the use of Lao Jin's imagery is the most abundant and complex, which may cause the film to look mysterious and mysterious. He borrowed from the Buddhist doctrine and applied it to his own understanding, which I have to say is very clever. In the final part of the film, the middle-aged monk is burdened to climb to the top of the mountain to practice is a very ultimate way of self-salvation, all completed by Kim Kidd himself, he is indeed a practical filmmaker, excellently unified the artistic and social activities of the film.
Borrowing the four seasons to express life is a very good choice. Regarding summer and autumn as the most turbulent period for people, all the elements of eroticism and violence are injected into these two gatherings. After experiencing the universal love and hatred in the world, it was frozen in winter and gave birth to the next spring rebirth. This time, the theme of "reincarnation" became very clear. And this kind of reincarnation is not just about a person, a season is a stage of life, and every appearance of a little monk can actually be regarded as a different person at this stage.
I’m used to watching Lao Jin’s previous films, especially for fans of me who have named "The Recipient" and "Empty Mirror" as "God's Works". They were very uncomfortable when they first watched "Spring Comes and Spring Comes". . The film was released in 2003. Before that, it was the works of extreme tyrannical heart represented by "Drifting Bathroom", "Recipient Unknown" and "Empty Mirror". Later works seemed to be obviously calm, especially "Empty". "Room" is representative. Therefore, "Spring" has the effect of connecting the past and the future. But he never makes it easy for people to watch movies, and his deep excavation and artistic expression of human nature never disappoint.
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