The stench of dirty hands

Alexis 2022-04-19 09:02:45

"That smell is not easy to get rid of."

The first time Jin was tortured to extract a confession, sweat was on his forehead, and he whispered in the ear of the bound man, "Please." He began to beat him, "Say, who do you think you are." The prisoner was incontinent , he was panting heavily, his right hand covered with golden shit. A colleague said to him when he was washing his hands, "That smell is hard to get rid of."

His first love girlfriend said to him, "Your hands are very special, thick and short, and a little ugly. But they look very gentle. A person with such hands must be a gentle person." He looked at his hands, Hands that have been glued to shit, smiled awkwardly.

In front of her, he slipped his hand into the other girl's skirt, rubbing it up and down. Later, the hands that were glued to shit, beat the pro-democracy activists, touched the body of a strange girl, beat up the cheating wife, and skipped the waist of the subordinate.

This hand had pointed a gun at himself and others before being crushed to pieces by a train.

In the days before the shit, he took the girl's mint in his hand and posed for a camera click to take pictures of wildflowers. The hands took a lover's letter in the barracks and collected a bottle of mints she sent. It was the same hands who accidentally killed the female student on that night when "water was in the shoes", and his own blood was mixed with the female student's blood and flowed on the rails.

At times, King had no choice, he had to go to the military, he had to take a gun and take part in "organizing action." He had the desire to choose, he shouted to let the female student run, but accidentally killed her. When he has the ability to choose, he chooses to return the camera to his first love, choose to participate in torture to extract confessions, choose to marry a woman he doesn't love, choose cruelty and calculation, choose a pistol, and choose to lie on the rails.

The whistles of the era roared and the forked railroad tracks were cliché images. Looking back at King's life in this way, we can attribute many factors to his so-called depravity, linking politics, society, fate and choice. The client does not have an omniscient perspective and lacks the spirit of self-examination. Before committing suicide, the ones who want to blame are loan sharks, friends who took their money, and divorced wives and daughters.

Like everyone in the torrent of the times, he walked along the river like a boat, occasionally limping with a shot in his leg, accompanied him through various occasions, and his sticky hands had an aftertaste, constantly touching noble and lowly things.

If he is a little luckier, no business fails, and his wife and children are separated. Then he may not go to the track, saying that he will not necessarily continue to sing during outings and become "President Kim with a successful career".

Most people are not as tragic as him, and the marks of the times and the nicks of life make everyone have a little aftertaste of the above. Either self-contamination or unintentional contact.

Back at the beginning of the movie, Kim faced the train, crying with tears in his eyes, "I want to go back to the past." If he can really go back, go back to the moment when he believed that "life is beautiful." At that time, teenagers didn't know anything. , can't do anything, but at least he still has the ability to praise a flower.

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Peppermint Candy quotes

  • Yongho: Do you think life's beautiful?

  • Yongho: I don't want to die alone. I need one bastard to come with me. Just one bastard among all that ruined my life. But then... Who should I kill? It gives me hard time, you know. To pick just one is hard thing to do. The fucking stock broker who made me go clean broke? The vampire like loan shark that charged the ridiculous interest? Or... how about the business partner who run away with my money? Or should I take my ex-wife and my kid to die with me? There're so many fuckers in my life that it's hard to pick just one.