(Short review written in haste, I can't write it down, so I put it here)
The film begins with a brisk fake cry that looks like a spoiled child, and uncovers a life experience of a heart-piercing cry. "God does not speak," but one after the other, the main male characters in the film, unintentionally, play God—different aspects of God: unwarranted love, false power, self-forgiving evil.
The male protagonist who never abandons his love is based on: "Going to church is like falling in love with God", but it is the male protagonist who really tries to fall in love in the world; the loving kiss that falls like a holy father in front of the hospital bed. The drugstore owner, who is a priest, has a considerable position in the religious group, which is why the heroine chose him to seduce him, in order to blaspheme God and prove the hypocrisy of religion. The most wonderful is the kindergarten teacher. The two scenes of "he led the children to read aloud" and "the priest led a large group of believers to read the scriptures" formed a terrifying echo, and when he took the initiative to forgive himself, he played the role of God and believers. The dual role of the heroine deprives the heroine of the meaning of "forgiveness", which means that the individual's feelings about "what is justice" are no longer important, the individual's power to recognize justice has dissipated, and justice has become what everyone is talking about. False thing. Abstract and illusory things will not expose contradictions, so the injustice of others - bullying, can also be deliberately avoided and ignored. Religious love and individual sacrifice did not ultimately translate into universal goodness, but only created the illusion of a peaceful appearance in this small town.
Arendt once wrote a metaphor about the transition of the Middle Ages into modern times: the round table that people sat around suddenly disappeared in modern times, and people who lost their distance were panicked and did not know how to face each other. But do we really need the so-called round table that religion provides to connect our hearts? Is there really a need for hypothetical dialogue, consensus and forgiveness? Who is forgiving, the injured individual, or the pursuit of a stable society, or the power to represent it? Is it forgiveness or tyranny?
Li Cangdong has already loudly announced his views in the "all fake" pop song played on the stereo, and in Taiwan, Yang Dechang, who also pays attention to the crux of high-speed modernization and intends to satirize the choir, also let the teenagers on Kuling Street stab the A knife, "Miryang" and "Guling Street" show the worst result of two kinds of round tables: turning the knife against oneself or against others.
So, overturn the round table. The round table constructed by religion or whatever. Then we hug, we get angry, or at least flee happily.
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