I watched "Miryang" at night. I watched it before, but unfortunately I was too young at the time. When I saw the female main church praying and crying, I mistakenly thought it was the theme of religious redemption, so I didn't continue.
It was not picked up again until today, a few years later. The reason is that I watched "Burning" a while ago, and yesterday I watched "Mint" until today's "Miryang". I understand and like Director Li Cangdong's quiet, restrained and restrained on-camera language.
From the plastic shed and well in Burning. To the sore legs in Mints. Or it can be said that the hair of the heroine in "Miryang" has become the projection of the hero's emotions in reality. In fact, the pain of the heroine has always been there. After her husband died, she came to her husband's hometown to start a new life. She went to perm the curls, as if bending and folding her emotions, trying to hide her sadness. Until his son was murdered, he committed suicide and was discharged from the hospital. Finally, at the barbershop, she no longer chose to perm her hair, but finally cut her hair in the yard to face her inner pain.
People are fragile. People invented clothes to protect their skin from scratches. Facing the fragile soul, we have a series of tools that can heal wounds, such as religion, family affection, love, friendship, etc. Two days ago, I saw the book written by the Buffett partner. Young people are advised to "live in the love of friends and relatives". Or maybe God told you to learn to forgive. And love is a panacea or something. There is no shortage of beautiful things in the world. And director Lee Changdong is the one who tore open the package and grabbed the product to try it out. Tell you when tragedy strikes. All chicken soup can only be chicken soup.
After the heroine's son was killed. The heroine experienced a broken faith (religion), church friends celebrating birthdays, all-night prayer meetings (friendship), and the images of her younger brother and mother-in-law are actually negative and absent (family affection). These are all the weapons we can think of that can help the female football hero. But in the face of reality, everything is so pale and powerless, just like the songs in the CD. It's all fake... The only thing that doesn't change is the silent company (love) of Boss Kim. However, how does this help the heroine's psychological trauma? At the end of the film, the heroine's hair still has to be cut by herself. This implies that the role of all foreign aid is limited, and only one's own confrontation is left in the end. This does not mean that he can redeem himself, just like the male protagonist of "Manchester by the Sea", he has been lost until the end. Sometimes the trauma is there and never goes away.
What the film is trying to explain is that when we encounter spiritual trauma, we may not necessarily choose to forgive, and we do not necessarily have to try to dissolve the hatred and darkness in our hearts for the so-called political correctness. What we can do is face it and perceive its existence. Because after all, some hatred is "the heart wound that Yunnan Baiyao can't heal."
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