Fassbender's famous work "Fear Eats the Heart" tells a story: a sixty-year-old cleaning lady and a thirty-year-old Arab worker Ali fell in love, and their love was so sincere and sincerity, so that despite the discrimination and prejudice of friends, neighbors, family members and even the whole society, they still resisted with all their strength. In such a small gap, the life of love between the two has grown vigorously, and finally they have come together and become lovers. . Unexpectedly, just when all the bystanders changed their attitudes towards their miraculous romance (although some of them were not sincere, but lucrative), a crack appeared in their love, and finally the two ended tragically, Tears.
After watching Fassbender's film, I suddenly realized that Li Changdong's "Miryang" is actually a love movie with turbulent undercurrents. Although Song Kanghao doesn't have many roles, this character is the core of the film. Even the tragic woman Shin Ae played by Jeon Do-yeon and the pain and suffering she experienced were sublimated and redeemed because of the role of Uncle Pancake Face.
The film tells the story of a beautiful woman who has experienced ups and downs because of the unexpected death of her husband, and she is determined to take her child back to her husband's hometown - a small town called Miryang, to cherish the memory of the past life of the person she loves deeply. . But Shen Ae is actually a timid and stubborn woman. Her husband had cheated on her before his death and had no love for her, but she still coaxed her husband to still love her after her husband died. She made the decision to go to Miryang. That's why. Compared with her inability to let go and forgive her husband for hurting her, she is even less able to accept the fact that she has never been loved. She even deceived herself into thinking that returning to her husband's hometown would save her love with her husband. She thought, my husband is dead anyway, even if I deceive myself like this, and I am the only one in the audience, it must be much better to live happily in a lie that only I know, than to live in the painful truth that is inevitable.
When she entered the country, she pretended to be an intellectual from the city, hypocritically rejecting the good intentions of others. In this way, she turned her pain into worthless dignity, thinking that this would make herself stronger, but this was just another self-deception trap. She acted like she had a little money in front of people, but she didn't expect to be in trouble -- her son was kidnapped and ripped off. Such a blow must have been a surprise to a hypocritical coward who pretended to be okay. Panicked, she became embarrassed for a while, that is, she lost her dignity, her son was not rescued by herself, she was powerless and self-pity. At this time, everyone in the town thought she was pitiful, while Uncle Song went to the side as much as possible. Give her comfort, but she has no special ability, so she can only stand by and be dispatched by others.
If you can’t deceive yourself anymore, just go and trick God and let it give me love. That kind of love is guaranteed, because there is a bottom line for self-deception, and God’s love, like God itself, seems to have no bottom line. She said to people: Believing in God is like falling in love, what a sweet taste. People don't know what to say, and they can't say anything. What do they know about you? Besides, why would they want to understand you?
Shin Ae felt a little stronger in her heart under the radiance of God's love. Relying on the "strength" that God gave her, she even shamelessly forgives the prisoner. In fact, from an objective point of view, this kind of shameless self-deception has reached the realm of daring to touch the bottom line. Although it looks silly and naive, it is actually a very kind of behavior. Of course, she did this not out of real courage, but because she was really stupid. She thought the world revolved around her because she had God as her backing. But it surprised her again that while God gave her strength, he actually carried her behind his back and had an affair with the vicious prisoner who killed his son. Forgive me, my Big Book will memorize several pages now!" She felt powerless to death again, no different from a grasshopper who was about to be crushed to death.
She took revenge. Not because she really wanted to go, but because she was cowardly and threw herself to revenge again, just as she threw herself to God and deceived herself before. She was so timid that she didn't even have the determination to start over, and she had to torture herself blindly. But the object of her revenge is indeed too powerful. They are God, and you are just an ant. what can you do? She really didn't do anything, she went to fight with the priest, and they ran away in a hurry; she went to the opportunity to sing karaoke, and wanted to announce to the world: "Everything is a lie". But people didn't take her seriously, they should believe in religion when they go home, and what should I do. After getting it around, Shen Ai finally became a chatterbox for people after a meal, and all of this has long been her last cup.
What happened to the cup at the end? The cup is not because she tried to commit suicide, but because she was timid as a mouse until the end, and she didn't have the courage to break out at all. She wanted to commit suicide. A person who wanted to challenge his courage failed in the end. This is the biggest cup of a person as a person - she was completely defeated by herself. At the end of the movie, Uncle Song serenely took the camera for Shen Ae and helped her comb her hair. A very Lee Chang-dong ending.
Yes, that's it, a woman who was cowardly to the point of death, was born in a disorderly panic. But the truth is not so simple. What Li Cangdong wants to say is much more than a rough and tragic life tragedy. The purpose of his film is to let you see a thriving tree of hope in the darkest soil of human nature. And this kind of hope was pinned on Uncle Song Kanghao, who had little role in the show, or more precisely, Uncle Song's most selfless love for Shin Ae.
Shen Ae has never loved Zong Can, and the most amazing thing is that Zong Can himself knows this.
Compared with Shin Ae, Jong Chan himself is actually not a strong man. When he has nothing to do, he will schmooze with his friends, chat about pornographic jokes, or eat instant noodles and drink karaoke songs at home alone. He is not a literate person who reads a lot, but he is just a simple town next door weirdo. But when he saw Shin Ae for the first time, he saw something that even our audience could not perceive in our own experience of the movie. What he saw was probably what was said in "Poem" The beauty that came naturally, without any elaboration, attracted him deeply. In our eyes, Shin Ae is a bitter and cowardly woman, and we may sympathize, but we really can't see anything worthy of people's hope. And this is what Li Cangdong wants to say, will you fall in love with such a person? Will you see light and hope in her? Even when she doesn't love you at all and is full of contempt for you.
Just like the disabled couple in "Oasis", if they appear in front of you so plainly, how can you be sure that you won't hate them as much as you hate Shin Ae like other characters in the movie? In the chaotic darkness, if you look at the world with such simple and crude eyes, how can you fall in love with life and discover the beauty of life? If this is the case, how can we truly live our lives with integrity and honesty?
Zong Can may not be able to fully understand Shen Ai's pain, but he has been standing by the side. He supports Shen Ai who is about to fall into the abyss with his eyes and actions, and maintains the integrity of Shen Ai's encounter with his unwelcome love. Let audiences who look at life with the same sincerity as Li Changdong can realize the complex and changeable yet simple and clear poetry of the world of happiness and suffering, love and hatred, light and darkness.
Shen Ae did not reject Zong Can in the end, I think it was still not out of a change in attitude towards Zong Can. She still doesn't love him. But she was still cowardly and timid. Perhaps throwing himself to Zong Can is the next choice, but this choice may be a little less fantasy and a little more practical. And Zong Can's fundamental driving force for everything he did still stemmed from the simplest point - his love for this woman.
The story changes, develops, and ends, but nothing has changed between these two. What is the difference between this mystery and our most simple life?
PS I like this movie very much, but I don't know how to write my feelings about it. Now that I realize some truths about my life, maybe my perception of this movie will be clearer.
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