The title of the film, Alone on the Beach at Night (2017), has a sad poetry in itself. Think about it, who would have fun alone on the beach at night. Those who are alone by the sea are destined to be addicted to their own world. They may not be likable, they may be self-pity, but they will never follow the crowd. Alone, at night, by the sea, three situations and images are mixed into one, alluding to the vagueness, emptiness and fragility of the Son of Man. But it cannot be said that the film itself is poetic, even if it is poetic, it is still hidden in it, a prose artistic conception composed of more fragments. But there is the openness of Chinese ink painting here, and it has a different mirror image from the Houmai film that many people say to compare.
Kim Min-hee won the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for Hong Sang-soo's film, making her affair with the famous director even hotter, mostly in South Korea. It just so happens that the film discusses the topic of love, including extramarital affairs. It doesn't matter if this is what the director wants. The key is that Young-hee, played by Kim Min-hee, is immersed in the capture of his own emotional world from Hamburg to Gangneung. All the men and women she interacts with are both a bystander and a participant in individual emotions, only to say that there is an implicit element in this participation.
In Hamburg, Young-hee had several long talks with Ji-young, who lives in Germany, outside the street shop, on the balcony and in the park. Zhiying cares about Yingxi's emotional life, which naturally involves her falling in love with the director who is married. Yingxi said that he will come on Saturday, and his hair is about to fall out. Zhiying said that there are still a few days on Saturday. Fortunately, I came out. Of course, I also yearn for love, but my heart is calm. Their conversations were ordinary, nothing to do with turbulent waves, it was just a heart-to-heart talk.
In the empty theater, Yingxi felt lost after watching the movie alone. This kind of loneliness and loneliness constituted the main theme of her life. In the few chats Young-hee had in Gangneung, all she met were friends who had fled from Seoul to live here and were related to movies. They called Gangneung the most beautiful and livable city in Korea, reflecting the director's preference for Gangneung. Gangneung is located on the seashore in the east of the Taebaek Mountains. The town is quiet and the climate is mild.
Yingxi met her old friend Tianyu at the entrance of the theater. She thought that the famous celebrity was arrogantly ignoring him. In fact, she didn't notice, and she didn't expect him to come to Gangneung from Seoul. After a brief conversation between the two, he took her to the "Fengfeng Mill" coffee shop and met Mingxiu (played by Zheng Zaiyong), who was afraid of the cold and his girlfriend. Zheng Zaiyong is quite happy in Hong Sangxiu's films, a little cowardly, a typical man who runs away when he sees difficulties, but it is always better than a scheming man.
As soon as Tianyu left, Yingxi chatted with Mingxiu. The woman in red at the counter was busy. Only when Myung-soo was asked by Young-hee if he was married, he said not yet. It should have a girlfriend. Not really, just friends. This annoyed Duxi, the woman in red. She immediately came over and told him not to talk nonsense. He quickly picked out the coffee beans and brought a basket of coffee beans. Yingxi made an excuse to go out, and Mingxiu was honest. pick beans.
Outside the store, Yingxi squatted on the ground, staring at the blooming group of winter chrysanthemums by the wall, and then couldn't help kissing. Isn't the flower that no one wants to see blooming in the corner of the wall exactly the portrayal of her life, youthful and beautiful, yet unclaimed. This kind of self-pity scene is by no means the director's random.
In the evening, Young-hee was chatting and drinking with Mingxiu, Do-hee, Tianyu and Jun-hee, and Young-hee became angry. She told Do-hee to shut up, saying that she was not qualified to talk about love, which obviously meant that she was in love with her during the day. Mingxiu's bossy attitude. In order to avoid the embarrassment of this scene, Junxi, who has the demeanor of a sister, sat next to Younghee and comforted her vigorously. She said that all the people who couldn't get along in Seoul were because they couldn't produce good works, and joked that let's love each other. The two of them actually kissed on the spot.
When Du Xi on the opposite side saw this scene, he was also obsessed with kissing Ming Xiu, and Tian Yu was the only one standing aside. Tianyu said frustratedly that you also sent me benefits, and Junxi smiled and said that you should kiss the table. Junxi took Yingxi out to smoke, and Mingxiu came out later, repaying the 400,000 yuan owed to Yingxi before, plus 100,000 yuan in interest. That's why I say that Zheng Zaiyong's role is cowardly but not bad, just a little cowardly.
Later, Jun-hee helped Young-hee open a hotel room, which just faced the sea. Interestingly, when they and Tianyu were in the hotel room, there was a man in black outside the window who kept cleaning the glass, as if no one was there, like an invisible man. Inexplicably, the Man in Black appears four or five times in the film. When they were chatting in Hamburg, a man came from a distance to ask them the time, which made them scumbags. Later, when they were walking on the street, they met again and ran away in fright. Then they went to a bookstore and listened to the owner of the bookstore who was suffering from cancer playing the piano.
The man in black of unknown origin also appeared in Gangneung. This implantation must have been considered by the director. In my impression, this has no precedent in his previous films. It really reminds me of Apichatpong's films. Of course, this is not supernatural, just a fun gimmick. This also shows that the director intends to expand the medium space of the film. Think about it, the people in black keep wiping, this kind of mechanical labor, like our busy and futile life, makes people rethink the meaning and value of life.
Since it faces the sea, how can you not walk by the sea. It's just that Yingxi didn't sway, but just lay down and fell asleep. The night was as dark as iron, the waves were rolling, and the cold was terrifying, but fortunately there were still glimmers of light. Most people are unlikely to notice such a person lying on the ground, a woman wrapped tightly in winter clothes. This kind of loneliness is poetic and full of the desolate taste of individual emotional helplessness, which is exactly the sadness of life.
Fortunately, she met a man who knew her and called her up again and again. In a trance, she came to the side of director Shang Yuan (played by Wen Chenggen) who was filming at the beach. At the dinner party, everyone regarded Young-hee as an idol, and the director was full of praise for her personal charm, but in Young-hee's view, this was all false. She asked the director what kind of movie he wanted to make. The director had to explain to her that he wanted to make his own movie, and read a Chekhov novel to explain his thoughts.
But the director's statement was rejected by Young-hee. In the face of individual emotions, it seems that these are all useless. As for extramarital affairs, the man from the filming crew next to him fought for the painful Young Hee, saying that there are real feelings in this world, as long as they love each other, who cares. This may be the helpless voice of director Hong Sang-soo. As for the director Shang Yuan, of course, it is not Hong Shangxiu's "show field", it can only be said to be an explanation of the opportunity.
Interestingly, Young Hee was also lying on the beach in Hamburg. In the long night, someone also called her up, and she left alone, as if someone in black was carrying her away. The inner hustle and bustle of this sense of loneliness will also set off three-foot waves. It is not as simple as loss that dominates Yingxi's heart. It must have a secret emotion that is not told to outsiders. It's just general, and it's far from the kind of communication that goes into the heart. Talking very happily is just a joy, and there is still a distance from refreshing.
In the small town of Gangneung, we saw that wherever Yingxi went, there were people he knew, which showed that her space was small and she had not many choices. Even if she ran to Hamburg, the sound of the air was cold and lonely. Also with her. This seems to be the fate of all emotional loners, with nowhere to run and nowhere to put. A film that is clumsy in narrative, still eating, drinking, walking and chatting, complete prose, wandering and reverie, so that the film has the imprint of Hong Shangxiu's palm.
Rather than saying "On the Beach Alone at Night" is an emotional one-man show, it is better to describe the general helplessness of individual emotions in the world. This kind of loneliness that accompanies shadows is difficult for all men and women who truly face sincere emotions to escape. of. The so-called high place is too cold, or the high and the low, all illustrate the pain and sorrow of the emotional thinker. This isometric relationship with reality is cruel and incomprehensible, which is why his films have infinite life interest. place.
2017, 5, 9
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