So this review is actually not for the film itself but for the director.
Mints have religious elements in them. But the structure of the mint is very special, with the full flashback structure and the Gwangju incident as the background religious element, which was almost completely ignored by me when I watched it for the first time. The two episodes that made a deep impression are the male protagonist's wife offering to pray before dinner, thanking the Lord, wishing the family to be safe and healthy, and wishing the Lord to forgive the family's shortcomings. When it comes to the end, I was so sad and cried that I couldn't speak at all, but the camera was not aimed at her, but very restrained and indifferent towards the male protagonist who was doing nothing and doing nothing, forming a great contrast. Before this story, the director knew very well To tell the audience: they have been divorced.
It seems, then, that prayer is of no use at all.
In that 1987 story, the name was Prayer. In that story, the male protagonist was lying with his future ex-wife for the first time. At that time, they were not married. The girl came out of the bathroom and lay on the bed half naked. He started praying in earnest.
In the oasis, religion is also the background. The family who gave up the kind-hearted male protagonist and were indifferent in nature also believed in religion, and even brought the pastor to see the male protagonist when he was wrongfully imprisoned. As a result, the pastor sat down and prayed, and the male lead ran away and went out to cut trees for the female lead.
The part about sawing a tree branch is really touching and romantic.
But if there is no priest to pray, it doesn't seem to make sense that the male protagonist can undo the handcuffs, and if he does not undo the handcuffs, he can't run out to cut trees for the female protagonist, so the plot of this section is both ironic and very motivating. After thinking about it, Simply divine.
In Miryang, religion became a background with a strong sense of presence, which greatly promoted the development of the heroine's storyline. But from the looks of it, like the first two, religion seems as useless as ever.
Watching Li Cangdong's films has always been tortured, physically and mentally devastated every minute, good things are always torn apart, or a little bit is left, but it's such a little bit of truth, goodness and beauty, which is particularly eye-catching to remind the audience of fake and ugly .
Is it because the appearance of religion is always very beautiful, and the believers are all people who are burdened with false ugliness? The heroine actually has something in her heart, unwilling to accept the fact that her husband is having an affair, seeing the girl being bullied and leaving indifferently, and the crazy revenge after she can't find forgiveness.
However, there are many Christians in Korea, and the madness in the movie is actually quite realistic. In real life, I have seen people who believed in religion to the point of becoming obsessive, and even went to South Korea to participate in religious activities. After returning to share miracles, people fell into fanaticism and split. The hysterical collapse of prayer, the real scene is even more shocking than the movie. .
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