"Wish" tells the story of a little girl who was sexually abused. On a rainy morning, the little girl Suyuan (aged 7 or 8) held an umbrella for a drunken uncle on her way to school alone, but was forcibly pulled away by him and suffered unimaginable injuries in her life, including beatings, abuse, and sexual assault. All of this has caused indelible damage to Su Yuan's young mind and body, and her entire family is also under pressure and indifference from all walks of life... However, her young body is full of powerful emotional power, hoping to survive the thorns Slowly rising from the dense cloth, Suyuan and her mother and father finally found the light and heat of life again.
The film is adapted from a true event - a 56-year-old middle-aged man sexually assaulted and maimed a 7-year-old girl by extreme means, but was finally sentenced to 12 years in prison and did not need to make any other compensation. This brutal atrocity and such a sentence angered almost everyone with a conscience. Li Junyi used this sentence truthfully in the movie, which makes the meaning of "Wish" no longer just a movie. To think that such an unforgivable crime is not just on the screen, not just in the performances of the actors, it is impossible to be calm and restrained.
However, Lee Jun-ik adopts a very restrained and calm way of presentation in the film. This is a story of blood and violence, but the director deliberately minimizes the scenes that directly show blood and violence. The injured Suyuan was carried into an ambulance and the scars on her face after the operation were the few shots that directly made "blood" into the painting. In addition, Suyuan's mother guessed that Rongzhi's mother had already known about the injured child. When the girl Shi Suyuanshi said, "If she dares to tell others, I will tear her mouth to pieces" - because she is worried that her daughter will be discriminated against and alienated. In addition, the film always shows a family of three under a catastrophe with a kind of forbearance, and the director carefully controls the restraint so that this kind of forbearance is not excessive to the level of depression. All of this has hit people's hearts even more deeply, because the process of those blood and violence is simply unimaginable and absolutely unbearable to imagine. The audience felt Suyuan's pain as if they had experienced it personally, and they couldn't help but love him, and they hated and questioned the criminals.
In the restrained and calm shots, some details drive the progress of the story and the accumulation of emotions. Suyuan's father, like every long middle-aged man, works in the factory, watching football games and teasing the factory manager (Rongzhi's father) who failed to grab the chicken legs. He was so careless that he couldn't tie his daughter's hair. He had only one sex life with his wife for three years, but his wife became pregnant again, but he didn't know it, and he didn't care about the difficulties and financial constraints of family life... Later, this silent and forbearing middle-aged man finally began to show his other side. Suyuan was reluctant to contact men, so he dressed up as a doll and helped his daughter rekindle hope step by step; knowing that the culprit may only be sentenced It's only 10 years, and he even plans to solve it by himself in 10 years... In the mundane worldly daily life, this boring middle-aged man shows the silent duty and love of being a father and a husband.
There are other details that are more directly touching. When Suyuan was asked by "bad uncle" (as Suyuan called the criminal in the film) if she could help with the umbrella, she could have left, but she chose to help. After being hurt, she endured the pain and chose to call the police directly, because she didn't want to feel that she was no longer a child, and she didn't want to delay her father's work and increase the burden on her mother. After waking up, when the murderer could only be arrested by the victim's personal identification, Suyuan endured another injury and chose to identify. This little girl tried to bear the pain alone, without causing any trouble to anyone, she even wanted to endure this great disaster by herself. She even whispered to her aunt, who was a psychotherapist, in a low voice, without shouting or screaming.
Suyuan's father heard his daughter say that the plastic noise of the defecation bag was too loud and would be heard by his classmates. This dull middle-aged man put a small satchel full of candy on his daughter's bedside. The plastic sound of the defecation belt was covered by the sound of the cellophane candy. When there was a problem with the child, Suyuan was no longer embarrassed. She happily opened the small satchel and distributed the candy to others.
"Why not someone else's child?... I even thought that if every child was treated like this, then Suyuan in our family would be so miserable." In the court, the judge sentenced "only 12 years", Su Yuan's father finished crying, and walked to the defendant's seat one after another, wanting to smash the criminal to death, but was stopped by Su Yuan's hug. The film puts the pen and ink on the families who have been hurt, and tells the story before and after the disaster from the perspective of the victims. The director is extremely "stingy" and gives the shots to the torture of criminal traffickers and the general public. However, the indifference of the whole society is on the contrary. was performed to the fullest.
After media reporters found out that Su Yuan was in the hospital, they frantically scrambled for her to come up for an interview. In court, when facing Su Yuan's mother's crying question, the judge walked out and said impatiently, "Just 12 years." Just this one shot and one sentence revealed the indifference of the whole outside world. Suyuan kept asking herself, "What did I do wrong?" She wrote on the notepad, "What if the bad uncle comes out to hurt people again? It's scary to think about. I hope the uncle judge will convict him of a serious crime." However, the society responded to this A kind little girl has only indifference!
Lee Jun-ik focuses on the process of "documenting" Sowon and her loved ones (family and friends) through the disaster, and almost brushes off social indifference and the cruelty of criminal traffickers, and it is this way that makes people more profound feel the latter two. It is absolutely unforgivable that such a kind person would have the heart to commit such an unimaginable crime!
The director's calmness and restraint in emotions, the presentation of details, and the way the camera focuses on the victim's negotiation make this story a force that touches the hearts of the people, touching the conscience and heartstrings of every audience. This is not a perfect film, it has many flaws - such as the chaos in the court at the end, which is completely different from the actual court order, but when the story has enough emotion, people are always willing to take the initiative but ignore its logic flaws, even loopholes! "Wish" is by no means just a movie. Its practical significance will definitely go beyond the scope of the movie. After laughter and tears, it will make us think about the atrocities in our world and the harm caused by them. .
Suyuan said that when she lay on the hospital bed, she always thought of her grandmother's words: "Oh, I'm going to die, oh, I'm going to die." She added: "I now think that's why people live."
"The loneliest person is the kindest, Those who have been in pain have the brightest smiles, because they are not willing to let the people around them suffer the same pain."
"Wish" reminded me of the feeling when I watched Abbas' "Life and Flow" many years ago. A completely different story, a completely different film, but all about disaster and hope. I feel that all viewers will only hope that Sowon and Sowang (that new-born younger brother, it represents hope) can grow up in the light and heat of life.
To grow and flow, what you want (Suyuan Suwang) is nothing more than that.
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