On "Mint Candy"

Claud 2022-04-19 09:02:45

Outing Spring 1999

In the first shot, Kim Yong-ho lies under the railroad tracks, sobbing in a low voice with tears in his eyes. At this point, he was desperate and struggling.

The body is up and down, sluggish

Among the crowd who strayed into the riverside dinner, they were singing and dancing happily here, obviously all this had nothing to do with him, dancing out of place, looking funny and ridiculous. Finally, I stepped onto the rails and shouted loudly in the face of the train exiting the tunnel entrance: "I want to go back!"

What made him so desperate?

Then the shot is the locomotive perspective, and every time the timeline goes back, this shot will appear.

Camera three days ago Spring 1999

Jin Yonghao spent all the money in his hand to buy a gun, and took away the villain who wanted to put himself in such a situation before committing suicide, as if he was doing justice for himself.

After his career was frustrated and his wife separated, he lived alone in a plastic shed on the street. The husband of his first love, Yin Shunren, found him, in order to let him see Yin Shunren one last time. After a long life of torture, I have forgotten who Yin Shunren is?

After separating from Yin Shunren, he obtained the camera that his first love kept for him, and sold it for some money. Rogue incompetence, poverty is his current state of life.

Life is Beautiful Summer 1994

Wearing his watch while driving, he was talking business with people on his mobile phone. At this time, Jin Yonghao was one of the partners of a company, and he acted like a successful person. During this period, South Korea was in a period of rapid economic development, and it already had the title of one of the four little dragons in Asia. Obviously, the male protagonist has caught up with this train with the rapid development of the market economy, and the economic conditions of his family are also very good. Material conditions are rich, but people are impetuous. Kim Yong-ho was betrayed and cheated by his wife, and he also got together with his female subordinates. The family fell apart. He urinated in the dirtiest toilet and said to others, "Life is beautiful." The mirror on the wall reflected the other's face. question mark.

Wonderful mirror on the wall

Confession Spring 1987

After returning from military service, Kim Yong-ho worked in the local police station. Interrogating prisoners and solving cases is his daily job. Under the influence of his predecessors and the oppression of the political system, he has been able to skillfully use violence and subjugation. During an accidental mission, I had a one-night stand with a girl in a local town. It turned out that on that rainy night, I remembered my first love, Yin Shunren, and said that I never told her that I had been hiding in my heart. those words. Late confessions over the air can only be told to strangers.

Prayer Fall 1984

At this time, Jin Yonghao had just finished his military service in the army. He was a fledgling man, and he was timid. Finally, under the pressure of the seniors of the police station, he interrogated the suspect. In the process, the suspect became incontinent. Although the hand that touched the suspect's stool was washed with water many times, although the first love came to tell him that it was a pair of gentle hands, how could he respond to the first love with these dirty hands, Bai Yueguang was sacred and inviolable.

These hands are only for rudely touching country girls

Jin Yonghao is pushing Yin Shunren away. Yin Shunren went from the army to his hometown to where the male protagonist is now working. He inquired about the news again and again, and silently saved money to buy a camera for him, hoping that he could stick to his original ideal. But she never thought that the other party resolutely pushed her away, heartbroken and left with the camera.

Meeting May 1980

When the time line was drawn to Jin Yonghao's enlistment, Yin Shunren wanted to go in and visit the male protagonist at the entrance of the army, but was stopped at the door. When going out on a mission, the mints collected by the male protagonist were scattered all over the place and were trampled.

On the way to the mission site, the male protagonist saw the female protagonist walking slowly. At this time, the female protagonist could not enter the military base at all, which was the imagination of the male protagonist before the mission. At this time, he was apprehensive and afraid, and when he thought of the heroine, he seemed to feel more at ease. There is always a certain distance between the car the male protagonist rides and the female protagonist.

The background incident at this time is the Gwangju incident. Jin Yonghao finally killed a female student by accident by the railway. He hugged her body and cried. This incident became a turning point in his life. Where did love come from, and ideals disappeared.

Outing Fall 1979

This paragraph echoes the beginning and end of the paragraph in the first paragraph, Kim Yong-ho and Yoon Soon-ren got to know each other because of this outing. Jin Yonghao is a shy and shy young man. He and the heroine are talking in the crowd. At this time, the heroine learns that the hero likes mints and likes to take pictures, and the two become attached. How fresh, pure and beautiful the last scene is, and how tearful, helpless and ugly the male protagonist's experience will be in the future. This strong contrast makes the audience sigh more and more.

The last shot is in contrast to the first shot. Although the male protagonist is crying at this time, he is moved by the beauty of life.

The head is on the top, the body is on the bottom, a feeling of happiness and contentment

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about sex

There are three sex scenes in total. The two sex scenes between Jin Yonghao and his wife and Gunsan girl are all emotional sustenance for the male protagonist to fall in love. The wife and Gunsan girl are both substitutes for first love. Between the third paragraph and the female subordinate, it is numbness and control, and it is the catharsis after learning that the wife has cheated and betrayed.

The clothes of the male protagonist in the sex scene with his wife and female subordinates are all well-dressed, and his heart is closed at this time;

And when he was having sex with the girl in the mountains, he completely opened his heart at this time, treating the girl in the mountains as his duty, and revealing to her, the girl in the mountains also caught the male protagonist's inner desire and appeal, a kind of sad And romantic.

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Extended Reading
  • Adela 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    The pain is as cruel and cold as a knife. It stabs you in your heart and your flesh with a single knife, making you crouch down again and again unable to get up. Some people gradually become compassionate because of the pain they have endured, while others are taught by the pain to become a vicious dog or mutate into a bunch of viruses. Some people broke with God under torture, and some finally compromised and reconciled their lives. Li Cangdong asked Jin Yonghao over and over again: Do you really think that life is good?

  • Ashlynn 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    All Dongya people will cry after watching it, the violence of the country overwhelms the individual, the mob who survives in the trauma of violence, only has the language of violence, who is the bastard who ruined his life

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.