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In 1999, a group of friends who hadn't seen each other for 20 years went on an outing by the river, and they happily sang songs on the shore. Jin Yonghao, a down-and-out man who was a little crazy, also joined in, but he was on the verge of collapse and was out of tune with everyone. Finally, he walked on the rails and shouted to the oncoming train: "I want to go back", and then his life ended here.
Three days ago, after experiencing the financial tsunami, losing all his property, borrowing a lot of loan sharks, being deceived by his partner friends, and his wife and his divorce, he had already spent all his savings and bought a gun, ready to commit suicide, and wanted to pull The back was too late to let go. A mysterious man visits him and brings him to his dying first love. He gives the mint candy that he has treasured for 20 years to the first love, and the first love gives him the camera that he bought for him 15 years ago.
In 1995, Jin Yonghao's business was booming. He committed adultery with his secretary and was quite indifferent to his wife and daughter. He caught his wife and driving school coach for adultery and beat and kicked them both.
In 1987, Jin Yonghao was still working as a police officer. In the police station, his methods were very brutal, and he tortured pro-democracy activists in every possible way. He was very indifferent to his wife. He didn't even look at her when she gave birth, and he didn't allow her to call. He and his colleagues went to the hometown of their first love to arrest the pro-democracy activists, but they were very reluctant because they kept thinking about their first love. On a rainy night, in a shabby hotel, he slept with a girl he had never met, talking about his first love.
In 1984, Jin Yonghao, who had just joined the police, looked weak and weak, but he used extremely brutal methods in his first confession. The hotel waitress liked him very much and often asked him to teach him how to ride a bike. This woman was his future wife. The first love came to him after all the hardships, and missed his gentle hands, but he touched the waitress's ass in front of her. The camera that the first love saved money to buy was returned by him.
In 1980, Jin Yonghao, who had just enlisted in the army, was still a mere egg. He often received letters from his first love, and each letter included a mint candy, and he was scolded by many superiors for this. That day, the first love went all the way to the military camp to find him, but was closed by the military camp. On the way back, Jin Yonghao and his comrades saw the first love on the truck that was preparing to carry out the mission. Soldiers of the dictatorship government hunted and killed insurgents in the streets, and the weak Kim Yong-ho was injured and accidentally killed an innocent schoolgirl.
In 1979, First Love, Yong Hao, and a group of people were on an outing by the river. They played guitar and sang songs by the river, and Jin Yonghao glanced at First Love from time to time. The first love worked in a sugar factory. Jin Yonghao said that he liked to eat mints, and the first love gave him one. Jin Yonghao saw some unnamed wild flowers and had the idea of taking pictures. The first love silently wrote down and caught the flowers that Jin Yonghao picked. Kim Yong-ho, who walked out of the crowd alone, looked at the railroad tracks and cried under the scorching sun...
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1. This is a movie about time , which is what Li Changdong himself said. Over a period of 20 years, the life of the protagonist Kim Yong-ho is highly related to Korean history : the Gwangju incident, the student movement, the economic boom, and the financial tsunami. He participated in every event: he represented the dictatorship in the suppression of the Gwangju Uprising and shot people to death. , In the student movement, he represented the violent suppression of the police, in the economic take-off he became a big boss, in the financial tsunami, he lost all his property. The movie is not a historical drama. It does not tell the beginning and end of these events, but only tells about the personal experience and mood changes of the little guy Jin Yonghao under these historical torrents.
2. The torrent of history is mighty, the small person Kim Yong-ho was weak and gentle in the early days, and was wiped out in his military and police career, leaving only cruelty and pervertedness. Treating prisoners like this, treating his wife is extremely indifference; when South Korea’s economy took off , he went to the sea to do business and made some money, but he became arrogant and extravagant. And the first love and her mints are his most precious, tender and eternal memories.
3. 20 years later, he stood on that railway and said to the oncoming train: "He wants to go back"; 20 years ago, he was facing the scorching sun and burst into tears at the same railway. Why was he crying then? It may be that the sun is more dazzling, or it may be some kind of prediction in the dark.
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