"Miryang", as director Li Changdong's fourth work, continues to inherit his realistic style of focusing on small people and marginalized groups in society. But compared with "Mints" and "Oasis", Li Changdong obviously began to pay attention to marginalized people in the general sense, thus showing a more universal connotation.
"Miryang" is also a very realistic story, about hope and belief, and the realization of personal values.
From the motives of Shin Ae to Miryang, the origin of everything comes from the hometown of her deceased husband, and the details of her son can tell that Shin Ae came here with a longing for the future. But the mockery of the neighbors and the empty social scene made her feel the pressure to fit in.
Vanity drives her to buy land to gain access to the local community. Unexpectedly, the dirty hands of the greedy and greedy reached out to their children.
At this time, she collapsed. Her rejection of President Jin made her give up all assistance and face it alone. Unfortunately, it was useless to look back. She hopes hopelessly in her faith and longs to forgive the criminal, but Shin-ae breaks down a second time when she finds out that the criminal is also a Christian and calmly says that he has been forgiven by the Lord.
From these two things, Shen Ai is essentially a very competitive person, with a certain paranoia about life, but also very self-centered, which essentially represents a common problem of marginalized groups in society, that is, the coexistence of fraternity and resentment.
Once an individual loses the sense of existence in the group, this sense of alienation will be infinitely magnified, and this kind of self-consciousness will also be stimulated from it, so that she cannot fully accept the existence of another God from her heart - she thinks that she is herself of God.
Shin Ae couldn't accept the gap between herself and the world, so she chose the most extreme and self-reliant way to take revenge (strictly speaking, it should be resistance) this cruel reality after two collapses, whether it was seducing a priest or cutting her wrists to commit suicide. At this time, the sunshine returned to what she thought at first - just sunshine, life is hopeless, and self is the cheapest.
But despite this, Shin Ae doesn't admit defeat or his fate. She threw stones at the pastor's house, left the barbershop angrily, looked in the mirror, and cut strands of hair, which were swept away by the wind, and life went on...
(Ps: I love the long shot at the end of the film, and Li Cangdong’s poetic language is frozen in the last scene - the soil half dried by the sun, which I personally think is a metaphor for the drowned son, and the hair is an extension of the body. This shot lasted for as long as After more than 40 seconds, Li Cangdong handed it over to the audience: "Look, the movie is over, and the misfortune and suffering of life are still unfolding...")
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