Screenwriter: Chang-dong Lee
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: SOL Kyung-gu / Moon So-ri / KIM Yeo-jin )
Year of release: 2000
Country/Region of Production: Japan/Korean
Language: Korean
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It has been two months since I watched the movie, but I always have some fond memories of the movie myself. This is not an easy-to-understand movie. The technique is also pushed to the next level, and the performance is more tense. I was shocked by what, but I was shocked by what, and suddenly lost the language to Dao Ming. Regardless of whether Jin Yonghao in the film is interpreting the fate of the man named Jin Yonghao, but only if the arc of his fate is transferred to others, there will be overlapping shadows. If what I said can be true, then Director Lee Chang-dong is a man as sharp as an eagle. It can be said that what he reproduced is not just a Kim Yong-ho.
The film is divided into 7 paragraphs, showing the life of the hero Kim Yong-ho through flashbacks. 1. In the spring of 1999, Jin Yonghao went on an outing to the place where he had been with his first love, and shouted at the train that was approaching him, "I want to go back, I want to go back." This scene was so shocking, the film just started At the beginning, Jin Yonghao's death was announced without any explanation. His eyes filled with tears, and the sentence "I want to go back" shows how much Jin Yonghao regrets his life. 2. The camera goes back to three days ago, when he was driven out of the house by his wife when he was down and out. He had only a little money to buy a pistol and planned to kill himself. A camera and a mint led the slow progress of the story. 3. In 1994, when Kim Yong-ho was the president of a company, he discovered that his wife's debauchery was derailed, and the family disintegrated. 4. In 1987, when Kim Yong-ho was a patrol police officer, he always used violence to treat prisoners, and he didn't care about his wives, but he embraced the barmaid and told his lovesickness for his first love. 5. In 1984, Kim Yong-ho was a police officer who just made his debut. He vomited because he was not used to violent interrogation, but he also had his first experience of obedience. He inserted his hands into the prisoner's body, covered with the prisoner's excrement, and because of this, he rejected the confession of his first love and instead accepted his current wife who liked him. 6. In 1980, Jin Yonghao was just a recruit in the front army. He missed his first love who came to visit, and then accidentally killed a female college student, crying bitterly. 7. In 1979, the film went back to the place at the beginning, still making friends, a group of young people still singing and dancing, Jin Yonghao picked the flowers on the roadside and gave them to his first love, he said that his dream was to take pictures with a camera on his back All nameless little flowers. The first lover smiled. Still the same flat stone, Kim Yong-ho carefully covered the sun's rays with his hands, his eyes filled with tears, and in the roar of the train, the film ushered in subtitles.
Li Cangdong's films have always been good at excavating the most touching side of small people, such as the shaping of the character of Jin Yonghao; Li Cangdong's films have always been known for their incompleteness, such as this "Mints". Rather than saying that Li Changdong is a director who is good at using the camera, it is better to say that he is a delicate writer. All of his films are like novels, full of cryptic language, echoes and discontinuities, without the technique of the film and the splendor of the protagonist, they are closer to the most essential human stratum. While narrating Kim Yong-ho's life, "Mints" also hints at a certain part of history. What's more, Li Cangdong's films just can't make you forget. He makes you think about whether the influence of this modern society on people is normal, and whether it is alienation that makes such a tragedy happen. Undoubtedly, Jin Yonghao's life, from pure romance to ruthless, was not born with him. There were so many people in his life that controlled him, causing his thoughts, habits, and life to become "unconscious" step by step. slip. His orientation and downfall may be occasional, but more are inevitable. Jin Yonghao is destined to be destroyed.
Therefore, I think this movie should not be something I can write. I can only try to make myself recall every detail in the movie, including Kim Yong Ho's facial expressions, from his unbearable heart to his numbness, from his Pure infatuation to his romantic relationship, from his power and power to his powerlessness, until a certain segment, everyone spurned him, only a dog he hated so much saw him wagging his tail, this What a sad cycle it is.
I have always thought that Lee Chang-dong's films are worth watching, just like I like Kim Ki-duk's films, I like them but don't dare to go deep into them.
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