I don't know if you miss this old friend

Jamir 2022-04-20 09:02:36

"This film is dedicated to my close friends and their families."


Both parents are high school teachers, and most of their childhood memories are accompanied by that place called "Family Home". Because parents are basically colleagues in the same unit, the children in the compound naturally form a group. When computers, mobile phones and the Internet were not as ubiquitous as they are now, after dark, the most common thing heard in the yard was: xxx came out to play! And the most common words after that are: After eating, go out!

"Junshuo! Junshuo!"
"After eating, go out to play!"

Outsiders look like a labyrinth, and I look like a backyard-like alleyway; rough telephone poles are stuck with equally rough slogans and advertisements; vertical and horizontal Intertwined wires and clotheslines cut the sky into pieces; and every neighborhood, every yard, every place is sure to have a bunch of dirty little kids. This is where the story takes place, and this place has the people in the story and us who are not in the story.
The film pulls us to that era in the shortest possible time, or to that memory that everyone holds deep in their hearts. Just when I thought I was going to keep being innocent, the car and the people on the car slowly pulled out the theme.

Dongzhu: "Who is he?"
Rong He: "Isn't he your father's subordinate? What a beautiful car."
Junshuo: "gangster".

Pushing the timeline to middle school, the similar school uniforms and atmosphere always make my thinking jump to "The Cruel History of Horse Porridge Street".
The heroine in gang films generally has only one role: to cause contradictions to cause contradictions to intensify contradictions. Hundreds and thousands of times, I still can't get rid of two words: contradiction. The appearance of Zhenshu triggered the contradiction in the group of four, and ignited the first lead that detonated the bomb. There are generally two ways to deal with conflicts: to resolve the conflict or to transfer the conflict. Just like the daily news broadcast, in addition to saying that the leaders of our country are very busy and that the motherland is very good, it also mentions how dire the people of capitalist countries are living in. The internal contradictions brought about by chastity were quickly alleviated and covered up by the external contradiction of fighting, but the relief and cover-up of the contradictions were only temporary after all, and the longer the delay, the stronger the impact when the conflict erupted.
The fate of the four-member group, after all, will come to an end in an extremely beautiful runaway section and an extremely bloody chaotic battle section. Rong He transferred schools, Jun Shuo suspended classes, and Dong Soo, the most sensitive and violent, was expelled after a declaration-style vent, or should be said that he dropped out of the school.

"FUCK all the schools in Korea" --- "The Cruel History of Horse Porridge Street"

ended the story line of the four-member group entangled with Junshuo and Dongzhu. The two can be said to be the most similar and most different partners in the group of four. There is a leopard print suit in the first half of the film, but it's never worn on a single person. Shirts and trousers are always worn on Junshuo Dongzhu's body separately. It's just a pity that this is not a gay article. Even if you are so iron-clad, you can't match the words "Why did you do that?" "What are you doing?".

How can it be said that Wuyi shares the same clothes with his son, Wang Yuxing, the teacher repairs my armoured soldiers and walks with my son.

Push the timeline again: Junshuo, who was addicted to drugs, was placed under house arrest in disguised form. When he saw Rong He and Shantai visiting him, he even showed off to his wife like a child: "See, my friend will definitely come back to see me." ; Shan Tai was walking on the street with Junshuo who was oppressed by drug addiction and cold, Junshuo said like his last words: "Will you send me a taxi when I can't move when I'm old? I don't want to live on you. lifetime". "Okay."
I believe that Junshuo really felt that he might live like this disabled forever in the future, that's why he said such words. I also believe that Shan Tai said "good", not to give Junshuo a taxi, but to say that if you really live like this maimed, I will support you.
At least it was.

The death of Junshuo's father completely entangled the two story lines into one. The fate of Junshuo and Dongzhu is like the scene when they met for the last time at the funeral: the former squatted and watched silently under the street lamp. The man walked step by step to the depths of the road and was engulfed by darkness.

Time is a butcher's knife, it kills not only the pimples on your face, but also some things we once thought were eternal. Like love like friendship.
Seeing each other again after many years, even Shan Tai, facing the handsome and prosperous Junshuo, would say something half-drunk and half-awake: "The gangster is the gangster, why are you pretending to be a philosopher." Advance Dong-soo, who already belongs to opposing interest groups.

People always like to say that the times make heroes, but to put it bluntly, you have to do something if you don't want to do it in that environment. You are thinking of the grace of the old master, and your subordinates are still thinking of being the hero of the founding of the country and enjoying the merits of the dragon? The yellow robe is added to the body, either wear it, or you die and wear it for someone else.
Dong-soo's extreme sensitivity and suspicion were greatly magnified after an "accidental" assassination, and his former brothers still had to fight each other and never die.
Under the opera-style BGM, Dong-soo covered the wound on his stomach and muttered to the killer, "Have you stabbed enough? Let's go!" In his eyes, besides the rain and the dying fish on the ground, there seemed to be Jun who had just parted. large.

Enough is enough, Junshuo, let's go!



During the summer vacation when the kindergarten was promoted to the first grade, the neighbors downstairs had to move to another province. One sunny and lazy afternoon, the furniture was loaded into the car, and my mother asked me to say goodbye to the children in the car. I ate the snacks in my hand and said "goodbye" without raising my head. I can't remember now whether he heard it or not. Just thinking about it now, the kid in the car seems to be my first friend.

When I think about it now, Dong-soo and Jun-seok at that time seemed to be the same.

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Friend quotes

  • Sang-taek: I'm sorry.

    Lee Jeong-suk: You don't need to say that to a friend.

  • Lee Jeong-suk: Sang-taek, I planned on seeing you and Joong-ho at the airport. Sorry I couldn't make it. Sang-taek! In high school, when you ran away, and then I sent you back home, I bet you didn't know how proud I was of you. Honestly, I wished I was you back then. Isn't it funny? I was home all day today after a bad experience with Dong-su, thinking about what the word "friend" means. I didn't know what friend originally meant until our teacher wrote the definition on the board. I remember he wrote 'a long and close companion'. Doesn't it sound great? My father always told me that loyalty is a man's life. But I'm confused about that now. In fact, I'm not sure what loyalty is anymore. Sang-taek, I'm planning to travel for a while, like you. I'll send this letter to Joong-ho's address. Take care of yourself until you get back. Your friend, Joon-suk.