The story adopts the method of flashback and interlude, one side is the current life of the protagonist Yin Dexiu, and the other is Yin Dexiu's memories. The first story takes place in 1950 when the Korean War broke out. The 625 Incident forced people on the border between South and North Korea to leave their hometowns for refuge. The scene of the refugees desperately cramming on the big passenger liner reminds people of the "Taiping Wheel" set in the Chinese liberation war. It was because of the war that the people who had to leave their hometowns were all holding on to the idea of when they would be able to return to their hometowns. , The feeling of reuniting with relatives. Yin Dexiu accidentally lost his sister Mo Shun who was on his back while climbing the passenger ship. His father had to disembark to find his sister, and he never came back. Before disembarking, his father told Yin Dexiu to go to the international market in Busan to find his aunt, who runs a shop called "Powen House".
At the beginning of the film, Yin Dexiu told his wife Yingzi that his ideal was to be a captain, the captain of a particularly large ship. But he was born in the era of war and was forced to live, and only desperately could earn money to support his mother and younger siblings, because he was the parent.
When I watched this film, I kept thinking, what if the protagonist of the story was an old Chinese man. To a certain extent, the history of war in China and South Korea overlap, that is, the overall social environment in which the Chinese people and the South Korean people lived in the same era was homogeneous.
Here I have to mention the "Taiping Wheel" mentioned above again. Because of the capital's strategy, this sinking film is really regrettable. Compared with this film, "Tai Ping Lun" is a historical film with a larger pattern, and it is a portrait-style portrayal of millions of people who have been buried in history, while "International Market" is drawn from that era. An old man as a representative, starting with an old man who had ideals but could only live for others, reviewed the life that was hurt by the war in that era. This may also be the difference between the ideas of Korean creators and Chinese creators. Korean creators prefer to start with individuals and gather the microcosm of society in one person, such as the previous Korean version of "Xu Sanguan", the story finally fell on Xu Three views of the individual, but lost the context of the entire era.
How to look back on the trauma brought to us by history is a question worth thinking about. What kind of life attitude the film should convey to the audience living in today's peaceful era is also a question worth thinking about. Yin Dexiu in "International Market" has always been stubbornly reluctant to sell the store. I think not only is he sticking to his father's promise to find the "Poly Fen House", but also because this store followed him through that era. The ups and downs, and the fact that this shop once supported their family, and he also gave up the long-awaited opportunity to enter Ocean University for the shop - not so much that Yin Dexiu guards the promise, it is better to say that he guards the memory and ideals. In the end, Yin Dexiu agreed to sell the long-outdated shop. That is to say goodbye to the past, and it is also a hint that a new era has come. We cannot indulge in history forever, we must look forward.
Movies about Chinese history and war are always criticized. I think there are three reasons. First, most of the time, the main theme is the theme, the characters created are distorted and too red, and the characters and characteristics are lost. All heroic characters look the same. "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" may be the best historical war theme movie in recent years, but it also uses the creative techniques of commercial genre films. features, making it an outstanding performance at the box office. The second is that the pattern is too large, and people themselves are not paid attention to. In many cases, creating films from the perspective of interrogating history will make the audience lose their sense of substitution. The third is too much bitterness. All people who have received a patriotic education will remember a word that remembers history. Then we who live in the Taiping era, especially the post-90s, post-00s and even the post-10s who have not suffered at all, what are their memories of history, and are they willing to bear heavy historical memories, and how should they bear them? A friend once said that the biggest difference between watching foreign historical dramas and watching Renyi historical dramas is that Renyi's dramas always have a feeling of bitterness and hatred. History should be remembered, but sometimes we may be able to recall it in a more positive way.
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