This article was first published on the movie public account "Yunhe Movie", and there are a lot of spoilers. It is recommended to read the movie after watching the movie. The overall score is 8.5 points.
What I want to introduce today is a Korean film "International Market". Maybe everyone saw the title and thought it was a commercial film about the twists and turns of the fate of the little people under the changes of the big financial structure. Thinking of the Korean version of "Forrest Gump", we follow the experience of the male protagonist Yin Dexiu for most of his life to see the changes in South Korea from the Korean War to the new millennium and a half century.
During the Korean War, the teenager Yin Deok-su boarded the rescue ship of the U.S. military with his parents, but suffered an unforgettable parting of his life. Although the war ceased, the Korean peninsula was divided into two, and the northern hometown, which was ravaged by artillery fire, was far away. After growing up, Deok-soo (played by Hwang Jung-min), who became the mainstay of his father, worked hard to make money. In order to prepare for the tuition of his younger brother and sister, he and his childhood friend Qian Da-gu (played by Wu Da-su) went to West Germany to work as miners. Thousands of miles of home and country, nostalgia is like a thread, the lonely Deok-soo accidentally meets Youngja (Kim Yoon-jin), a Korean girl majoring in nursing in Germany, and her life as black as coal shines brightly since then. Happy times and the ordeal of death go hand in hand. Fortunately, after experiencing the test of life and death, Dexiu returned to the home where he was longing for and won the heart of Yingzi. In the long and bumpy road of life, Dexiu struggled forward with the company of his wife, relatives and friends.
However, unlike "Forrest Gump", Yin Dexiu does not have such a legendary experience as Forrest Gump, on the contrary, it is more like a history of suffering, but at the same time Yin Dexiu has the representative experience of the suffering people of that era, so it is easy to It makes people feel empathy, and all this has a sense of fate in it, which makes people sigh.
Three stages of life
Yin Dexiu's life can be roughly divided into three stages. The first stage is when he was a teenager. Yin Dexiu, who was still a child, fled with his family during the Korean War. He was responsible for pulling up his sister, and the family boarded the US ship and fled from Xingnan to Busan, when he finally got on the boat, his sister Mo Shun accidentally fell off the boat. In order to find Mo Shun, his father got off the boat again. Before leaving, he entrusted the whole family to Yin Dexiu. The eldest son is the "parent" of the family. Dexiu and his mother The younger brother and sister went to Busan to seek refuge with their aunt, and they had a hard time living their lives, but the father and younger sister Mo Shun were never heard from again.
The second stage is the youth period. Deok-soo’s younger brother studied very well and was admitted to Seoul University. He himself was admitted to the university, but his family couldn’t even afford the tuition for one person. Deok-soo silently gave up his studies and decided to Go mining in German coal mines and earn money to support your family. In the German coal mine, they lived a very hard life, but they found love in Germany unexpectedly and met his wife Yingzi, who was majoring in nursing. Everything was going well, but a mining accident happened in the mine, and Dexiu and her friend were buried. , was rescued by Yingzi's efforts and saved his life.
The third stage is middle-aged. Dexiu returned to South Korea and earned money by mining. The family bought a house and took over the aunt’s small shop. The days got better day by day. After my aunt died, my uncle, who had been drinking and doing nothing all day, planned to sell the shop. Dexiu was very annoyed and decided to buy the shop by himself. , Dexiu decided to take another risk and become a technician, and set foot on the land of war and blood in Vietnam. Dexiu first experienced a human bomb attack in Vietnam, and then was hunted down by the Viet Cong. In order to save a The little girl, Dexiu was shot in the leg and left disabled. Dexiu returned to South Korea and bought up his aunt's shop. From then on, he lived in peace and stability. At this time, South Korea launched an activity to find relatives lost in the Korean War. Dexiu, who has always been concerned about his father and sister, participated immediately. After some twists and turns , Dexiu successfully found her sister, who was rescued by the US military and adopted by an American couple. After the family was reunited, her mother died suddenly.
The foreshadowing and details are handled very well
The whole film is told in the way of interlude, using the daily dialogue between Dexiu and Yingzi, who are in their twilight years, to draw out paragraphs of past events. Several foreshadowings have been recovered very well. There are three obvious places:
1. Deok-soo said that his dream was to be a captain. Yingzi said that he had never heard of you. Dek-soo said that I said it once, and the only time was when Deok-soo, who was new to Busan, gave a surname to a man named Zheng on the street. The president wiped his shoes, Dexiu said that he wanted to be a captain, and President Zheng said that we will build our own ship soon. You will be the captain at that time. Dexiu was skeptical. President Zheng finally got into a car. Chairman Zheng should be Zheng Zhouyong, the founder of South Korea's Hyundai Group, and Hyundai Group is also the earliest enterprise in South Korea to set foot in the shipbuilding industry.
2. Deok-soo argues with Young-ja in the market, who is the most popular Korean male singer in the 1960s, even though everyone said it was another singer, Deok-soo insisted that it was Nam Jin, and Nam Jin was from Korea at that time Pop singer, joined the Navy in 1968 and participated in the Vietnam War. When Deok-soo was in pursuit of Vietnam and the Viet Cong, a South Korean naval unit appeared to rescue them. The captain was Nam Jin, and Deok-soo was behind to rescue the little girl who fell into the water. Just as he was about to climb on the retreating ship, he was shot in the leg. He was about to fall into the water, but Nan Zhen grabbed him and pulled him onto the boat. He was Dexu's savior, so Dexu tried her best to protect Nan Zhen. Others just thought he was just a weird and stubborn old man, but they didn't know there was such a story behind it.
3. Dexiu insisted on buying the shop and risking his life to go to the battlefield. The whole family disagreed, especially his wife Yingzi. His apparent reason was to earn a dowry for Moshun, but Yingzi understood that he was doing it for the sake of She bought the shop "Pollen House" left by her aunt, but Yingzi didn't understand why Dexiu was so obsessed with this small shop. Even when she was old, a group of people came to discuss compensation for demolition, but Dexiu ruthlessly kicked her out.
At the end of the film, this secret is revealed to us. Before getting off the ship, my father instructed him to go to the international market in Busan to find a small shop called "Han Fen House". My aunt is there, and I will come after I find Mo Shun. meet you there. Dexiu, who has always kept in mind his father's entrustment, is ready to stick to this small shop, looking forward to the day when his father can come back to meet them. This wait is fifty years.
The fate of the eldest son
Throughout Dexiu's life, it can be said that it is a life of dedication and sacrifice. When his father put the burden of the whole family on him on the boat, his life was doomed. He was at the age of school, but he had to go to the roadside to shine shoes for people to pay for his family. He also went to university, but went to Germany to dig coal for his younger brother's studies. His younger sister did not have a dowry. My sister, he also ran to Seoul alone, posted a message on TV, ran before and after, and was finally seen by Mo Shun, who was separated by oceans, and the family was reunited.
When he took over the burden of the family, he was only a child of six or seven years old. As the eldest son, he not only had to bear the burden of the family, but also had to be very optimistic and cheerful in front of the whole family, so as to avoid too much psychological burden on the family. , but no one could tell his pain and pressure, so he had to tell his father's photo in the room late at night. This habit was maintained until his old age.
The only one who really understands Dexiu is her mother. When Mo Shun was ignorant and asked her to sell the house to collect her dowry, her mother was furious and cried about the sacrifice Dexiu had made for the family, but her mother and Dexiu were usually forbearing. If you don't, even if she is concerned, she never expresses it. After her mother was reunited with Mo Shun, she died immediately. It can be said that although she never mentioned Mo Shun and her husband for so many years, she never forgot them for a moment, and she was with Mo Shun. Mo Shun was reunited, his wish was fulfilled, and Dexiu was the same. He refused to share his inner concerns with others, but just insisted silently and stubbornly, making it impossible for outsiders to understand.
At the end of the film, after Dexiu was choked by the child, he kept silent and returned to his room on the excuse that he was uncomfortable, and burst into tears at the portrait of his father, "Dad, I kept the promise, and I found Mo Shun, I It's been a good time, but I'm really working hard", a simple sentence that makes people feel moved, for that responsibility, for the whole family, in order to fulfill the promise to the father, but also because of the self-blame of losing my sister , Dexiu sacrificed his life, his life, almost never for himself, seems to be fate, or a joke made by God, but the price is too heavy, this is a person's fifty years, is one's life.
Dexiu's dedication to his father, in addition to missing his father, actually contains a layer of meaning, as if his father returns, he can no longer be the "big parent" and relieve all the burdens. He found his sister, and after the dialogue with his father ended, Dek Xiu also completed his reconciliation with himself, no longer clinging to the family, no longer clinging to the guilt of losing his sister, no longer clinging to his promise to his father, no longer clinging to Being obsessed with her father's return, no longer obsessed with "the pollen house", and selling the shop, it shows that Dexiu feels that she has fulfilled the promise of the year, unloaded all the burdens, and from now on, only lives for herself.
Everyone's life is a book.
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