The film "Unknown Recipient" is the work of Korean director Kim Ki-duk. As always, it is full of extreme violent aesthetics and a slightly perverted style. What is different from the past is that this film has relatively more lines, which is less than previous works. It is a bit depressing and adds to the integrity of this artistic expression as a film. At the beginning of the film, a boy shoots his sister with a wooden pistol he made (I think the boy is a metaphor for the Korean government, and the little girl represents the Korean people who are being played by the government, which will be discussed later. elaboration). As the camera passes through a yellow field, the film officially begins. This is the fall of 1970. An American flag is raised on the territory of South Korea. American soldiers are training here. American planes are hovering over South Korea. For the Korean audience with personal experience, the technique has a strong sense of time substitution and aggression. The film is set in a small town in South Korea where the US military is stationed. It mainly tells the story of the girl who was shot in the eye by her brother and asked the American soldiers for help at the expense of her own body in order to heal her eyes (yes, there is no free lunch in the world. , the so-called free aid is driven by interests, whether it is American soldiers helping girls, or the United States to South Korea). At the same time, the Korean boy who fell in love with the girl could only watch the girl raped by two foreign-loving Korean boys and taken away by American soldiers. Just like the South Korean government at that time, it was powerless to see its people living in poverty and being oppressed by the invaders. At the same time, in this town, there lives a woman who once married and had children with black American soldiers during the Korean War, but is now abandoned. Letters to her husband have been repeatedly returned. His son Zhang Wu is a descendant of black Americans. Being discriminated against, he hates his mother for giving birth to him and giving him such a miserable life, so he can only express his anger towards his mother. At the same time, the suffering of the people will also devour the country. In the end, the film ends when the American soldier accidentally reads Zhang Wu's father's reply, but it's too late... The length of the film is limited, but the thinking it brings to people is unlimited. The background of the story is that under the world pattern of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Korean peninsula was divided into two regimes, Kim and Lee. The leading role of the film is the life of the South Korean people under the capitalist ideology occupied by the U.S. military. The film reflects the disease of the whole society through the description of the life of this little person. The disabled veterans of China, as well as American soldiers who are in a foreign country with an unknown future, the pain caused by the international political game will eventually only be implemented on ordinary people. At the same time, the present of Zhang Wu's mother in the film is the girl's future, and it is also the confused future that South Korea will face under the influence of powerful country politics. The girl traded her own body for being ravaged by American soldiers in exchange for eye disease treatment, implying that South Korea let the US military in at the expense of her own body (so I personally think that the title of the film should be changed to "Let Me Into Your Body" more appropriate) , South Korean boys who fall in love with girls are like North Korea that was forcibly divided by the Cold War. They themselves may not want to be separated, but due to politics and reality, they have to be divided into South and North Korea. In the film, the government awards medals to veterans who participated in the civil war, which subtly expresses that the authorities have intensified the internal hatred between the North and South Koreans, so that today the two Koreas are still incompatible. (Just as my country's mainland and Taiwan were also divided in the context of the Cold War, so that they have not yet moved towards reunification) I mentioned at the beginning that the girl's brother was secretly guiding the Korean government (of course, I may just think too much) , The girl's brother in the film himself has already made his sister miserable, but he has to steal the money of the American soldier by taking advantage of the fact that his sister is with the American soldier. This also alludes to the Korean government at that time, which itself has It has made the lives of its own citizens very miserable, and at the same time, they have to continue to exploit and oppress their own citizens, and at the expense of national sovereignty in exchange for alms from the United States. In the film, there are countless times in the film that the planes of the US military are randomly patrolling and hovering over the Republic of Korea. The camera, representing a country under colonial rule, has no idea where its future lies. Of course, unlike Zhang Wu's mother, in the end, the girl did not engrave the name of the aggressor on her chest like Zhang Wu's mother, but chose to self-inflict her right eye, which made her return to her original ugly appearance and fell in love with her. The boy also summoned the courage to take revenge on his bullies. Yes, the price to be paid for getting rid of the control of a big country and moving towards sovereignty and independence is painful, but after all, we must learn to refuse and give up, otherwise it will be a cycle of Zhang Wu's mother's stories one after another, and a cycle of national divisions again and again. Of course, unlike Zhang Wu's mother, in the end, the girl did not engrave the name of the aggressor on her chest like Zhang Wu's mother, but chose to self-inflict her right eye, which made her return to her original ugly appearance and fell in love with her. The boy also summoned the courage to take revenge on his bullies. Yes, the price to be paid for getting rid of the control of a big country and moving towards sovereignty and independence is painful, but after all, we must learn to refuse and give up, otherwise it will be a cycle of Zhang Wu's mother's stories one after another, and a cycle of national divisions again and again.
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