"Do you think life is beautiful?"
With an uncomfortable viewing experience, I watched the Korean movie "Mints" for more than two hours. I have to admit, it was really unpleasant.
The movie captures the life of the actor Kim Yong-ho in fragments. When the train passes by, a person's life is presented on the screen. The flashback method, the train is the symbol, shows his life scene by scene. At a class reunion decades later, Kim Yong-ho appeared at the class reunion as a frustrated loser, disregarding other people's eyes, shouting "I'm going back" on the rails.
At that moment, his whole life might be in his eyes. Is unwilling, disappointed, angry, sad. When these emotions are mixed together, it becomes a person's despair, a despair to live to death. So when he greeted the train with open arms, it was equivalent to welcoming his fate, which used to be the train whizzing towards him, crushing him silently.
When I first watched it, I actually hated the male lead. In the film, he is irritable, indifferent, surly, selfish, and has some great distortions in his character. However, after watching the movie and reading the relevant movie reviews, I realized that what destroyed the original him was the imprint left by history and his own cowardice.
A person's life is not only his personal life, but also a microcosm of social change. This is especially true in "Mints". The male protagonist of the film, Jin Yonghao, was once a pure young man twenty years ago. Have a romantic heart, take pictures of flowers, and be shy when facing the girl he likes. At that time, the time was as sweet as the mint candy given to him by his first love. A group of young people sang together with innocent smiles. .
What was it that killed that innocent boy in the past little by little? Is it the time for cherished mints to be spilled all over the place? Was it when he didn't recognize the girl he liked because of his identity in the car? Was it the cold-eyed and hidden ridicule of others when he started out as a police officer? Was it his loss of control when he accidentally killed the innocent girl? When the gears of history drive through that land, the individual's destiny is no longer under his control.
Then everything collapsed like dominoes.
That dark night, the famous Gwangju incident in Korean history, the mistake of history made him lose a pair of healthy legs. And the girl who was accidentally killed made him feel that he was dying in character. This double blow has become the reason for him to tease his life from now on.
so. When the girl he liked came to him, in his heart he couldn't face her for a long time. It wasn't because she was bad, but because he was already so unbearable in his eyes.
Kim Yong-ho will not be alone. When history moves forward, no matter if its steps are correct or if it steps into the quagmire because of ignorance, there are bound to be some people who, as victims of the times, are forever abandoned in that era. It cannot be changed or surpassed. And individuals like this are not in the minority. The ones we can't see are the majority of them.
The details of two shots in the movie show the kindness and beauty that remain in his character. One was when he threatened the underage girl in the tavern to stop her from coming to this kind of place, and the other was when he was on a mission, and when he slept with his back to the waitress in the tavern on a rainy night, he called out his first love. name, but couldn't say anything else, just called her name. The rain outside the window was continuous, and what was falling outside was also full of guilt.
Is life beautiful?
When his first love was lying on the bed and dying, he took a mint to see her for the last time.
Is life beautiful?
Who should all this be attributed to? Who do you want to kill? He questioned the man in the film. It's like talking to yourself. His wife, who had long been disheartened by him and finally did not open the door. business failure. cheat. loss of power. Nothing at the end. Who pushed him to the rails?
Is life beautiful?
He questioned the democrat. He looked ruthless, as if trying to prove that all this was not good, and the freshness of the mint was not enough to resist the filth of adult society. Nor is it enough to support the shaky real life. Under the torrent of the times, he is just a pawn on the big chessboard of society. When he is pushed around and discarded when he is useless, all this is not good.
If the director wants us to know, how the kindness and beauty in a person's nature will be killed a little by the world, time and his own cowardice, and eventually lose himself and become a man with a beastly heart. Then there is no doubt that he did.
Twenty years ago, when Jin Yonghao was lying on the grass on the outing, he was singing simple songs all around, the girl he liked was not far away, and the young and vigorous man who wanted to take pictures of all kinds of flowers, could he? Thinking about your future? Like a derailed train, heading for an unknown direction.
This is also shocking. In the face of a powerful destiny, if you are not strong enough, it is extremely easy to go to destruction. Kim Yong-ho in the film was destroyed, and so were the other people in the film. Personal life is never isolated. When a wall collapses, many people around you are also affected.
But I can't help but imagine. If, if he had forgiven his unintentional mistakes in the first place, if he hadn't half pushed the girl he didn't like, it would have led to the tragedy of the marriage. If you choose to be with your first love girlfriend, if you are not willing to degenerate after being deceived or fail in business, even if you just choose to be ordinary, will it not lead to so many tragedies in the future.
The name of the movie is "Mints", which means the male protagonist's past. The past is like the freshness of a mint in the mouth, so beautiful and warm. In the memories of many people, there is actually such a cool mint, which is a small world that has not been polluted. How important it is to protect it, not to lose it, not to be destroyed, not to be assimilated, not to become a person who one day you won't even recognize yourself.
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