Diligently enter into the narrow gate. - "Luke 13:24"
The razor is sharp, and it is not easy to get more. - "Blade"
1. On the way to Miryang, Miss Shen Ai asked Boss Jin, where is Miryang? Boss Jin scratched his head and said that he can't explain this well, it's just an ordinary small place, no different from other ordinary small places. Miss Shen Ai told him that the place name Miryang was taken from Chinese, which means mysterious sunshine. "Mysterious Sunshine" corresponds to the words of the proprietress of the pharmacy later: "Even this ray of sunshine contains the will of God." Whether Miryang is an ordinary small place or is full of mysterious sunshine, this is what the film will explore The problem.
2. Miss Shin Ae came from Seoul, a big city. It is very strange that she yearns for a small town like Miryang. It is not reasonable for a person to settle here with a child just because he misses his deceased husband, not to mention that the deceased husband had betrayed before his death. When a person goes to a foreign land and takes a different path, there is usually a deeper reason. Miss Shen Ai wants to seek redemption and wants to start over in this place where no one knows her. But it is impossible for a person to become another person in the snap of his fingers, and to change to a new way of living. This is impossible. Life is always heavy and breathless for most people.
3. Miryang does seem to be a bland town, it is a typical small place, a society of acquaintances. The aunts get together and chat about other people’s parents all day long, and the young people are all urbanization of the countryside, lamely imitating the fashion of the big city. The only difference is that Boss Jin, this doomed follower, but not her food, can only be regarded as turning a blind eye. The obsolete and backwardness of the small place has aroused Miss Shen Ai's sense of superiority and vanity. She began to instruct the proprietress of the clothing store how to decorate, and the matter of buying land has also caused troubles in the city.
4. After the child's vote was torn apart, Miss Shen Ai's desire to find redemption became stronger. Before, she never believed what the pharmacy proprietress said, even though the sunlight contained God's will, but now she believed in the mysterious sunlight. But it is such a simple thing to get the Dao and fly over. This is a narrow door. Since ancient times, there have been few people who have crossed it. Human nature is inherently vulgar, and everyone is trying their best to cover themselves and wear coats of one kind or another. Even in this Christian group, the vast majority of people just huddle together for warmth and make more friends to soothe their lonely and hurt souls. Even the pastor is a hypocrite. Who can be truly enlightened?
5. Miss Shen Ai was not influenced by Christ, she was just acting in a pretentious manner, but she was moved by herself. She still treats Mr. Jin like a bull and a horse, with a heart of stone. The murderer's daughter was bullied by the gangsters, and she never mustered up the courage to stand up for justice. She almost hit a passerby and was scolded, she glared angrily, unable to suppress her anger. Can human beings be changed so easily? So the scene where she went to prison to forgive the murderer was also a fake. When she heard that the murderer also believed in Christ and claimed to have been forgiven by God, she was furious and never believed that God had forgiven the murderer early without her will. She began to deny God, deny everything, stop pretending, and return to a life of sadness and mediocrity, or she would be better off.
6. In the barber shop at the end of the movie, she exchanged a few words with the murderer's daughter, but she couldn't hold back her anger and slammed away. This is the real self. The aunt, who is annoying and likes to gossip in the clothing store, was renovated according to Miss Shen Ai's plan, and the business has improved. She complimented Miss Shen Ai's taste, and Miss Shen Ai laughed like her. This is the real self. We are not saints, we cannot enter that narrow door, we can only be mediocre and return to our true selves.
7. It's over, Miss Shen Ai cut her hair by herself, and Mr. Jin helped her hold a mirror so that she could see herself more clearly. As soon as the camera turns, the close-up of the garbage, weeds, and puddles on the ground is a long shot, and the movie ends. We ordinary people are just garbage, weeds, puddles, ordinary and dirty, and we can only live like this. If you can't become a saint, you can't be a fool, you can't go back to the beginning, and you can't reach the other side.
8. Miryang may be the mysterious sunshine, but for most people, it is just an ordinary small place, no different from other ordinary small places. Razors are not so easy to cross.
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