The theme of the film is probably inseparable from the word "war", although the war in the film has long since become a thing of the past. The film has three protagonists: Zhang Wu (I call him A), Enluo (B), and another young man (Zhang Wu's friend, C). If you add the American soldier (D), there are four main characters. The story takes place in a remote and wild countryside where some American troops are stationed.
A lives with his mother in an abandoned car with an English word --- Free printed on the red body. A was born to an American soldier and his mother during the war, a mixed-race child. Later, the soldiers returned to the motherland, but they were not able to take them. A is called a hybrid. His mother often wrote letters to the United States (with pictures of her son that she secretly took), hoping that the family could be reunited, but the address was incorrect. The letters were returned again and again, but the mother sent them again and again Contains all her hopes. A grew up and hated his mother gradually. He didn't let her take pictures of him or write letters. When he saw her quarreling with others in English, he picked her up and left. In the car, he hit his mother with both hands.
B is beautiful and beautiful. The only downside is that one of her eyes was blinded by her brother when she was playing a shooting game when she was a child, and she looked very white and scary. Because of this, people looked at her differently. She felt lonely and miserable. B only has a mother and brother, an ordinary mother and a brother who only knows how to scold people and spend money. Her father was awarded a medal for his death in the war and therefore the family has a monthly pension. Later, government officials came to the door and said that her father was not dead, but defected to North Korea, and all honor seemed to be lost immediately. B became D's lover in order to heal her eyes, and she went further and further away from the person she really loved. In the end, the American lover wanted to tattoo her on her body so that she would always remember him. She suddenly understood something and stabbed the healed eye with a knife.
C is handsome and gentle, looking thin and introverted. He was often bullied by two hooligans and never knew how to fight back. He loved B deeply and peeped at her window. When he and B were making out in a greenhouse with only weeds, he was bumped into by two hooligans, and he watched B being raped and could not do anything. C's father killed three enemies in the war, often proud of it, and resented that he had no medals.
D is an American soldier. He is lonely in a foreign land. He gradually hates war and does not believe in "maintaining world peace". He was on drugs, tired of training, and sometimes cried and called his mother's name.
What is this film about? Love, hate, affection, sorrow... It turns out to be about life. Bring a little more, that is, war (war is also a part of life) Although the war has passed, its shadow is still there, and many things are left behind, which are engraved in people's hearts like inscriptions. It also tells us to treat people with disabilities with love; it tells us to love animals; and so on.
A works with a butcher who kills dogs (also his mother's lover), he is kind by nature and doesn't want to beat dogs, but the butcher forces him to do it. He locked A in the iron cage on the back seat of the motorcycle like a dog, A beat his mother, and the butcher vomited blood from his beating mouth when he found out. A only calls C a friend, and the butcher bought C's dog and let it go. In the end, A hanged the butcher like a dog, freeing all the dogs that were attached; cutting off her mother's breasts while bathing her; Half wire rod. The mother found her son in the vast fields and heavy snow (she never let the butcher beat her son). After she dug up the body of her son, she locked it in the car and never came out. The postman finally sent a reply, But she didn't open the door, the letter stuck in the crack of the door and was blown away by the wind, and finally she set herself on fire by setting the blanket wrapped around her son's body on fire.
I haven't seen many Kim Ki-duk movies. But you will be shocked when you see it. In today's numb world, it's not easy to be moved. There is always a touch of sadness in his films (the film and the background music in "Bow"), incomprehensible violence, a little cruel (A cuts mother's breast, B pokes his own eyes, C swallows it when he goes to prison Iron wire, and the heroine of "Drifting Room" stuffed a fish hook into her lower body, etc.), and even a little weird (B stripped naked and let the dog lick her lower body in the dead of night, and the plot in "Empty Room")... ...Maybe this is the golden style, so hysterical and unforgettable.
However, there are also things that make people laugh in such movies. For example, when three people are walking on the road together, B is in front, A and C are behind, and both of them have gauze on one eye, which makes me laugh when I watch it. . There is also the ending of the movie. The soldiers are all crawling forward. One of them saw the letter that was blown away by the wind, and he opened it and read it...
What touched me most was A's mother, who persisted in writing letters, she believed that the person who was far away could receive her letter, and that belief was a kind of power, even if it was stupid, it was an indestructible power ( There is also Xu Qinhao's grandmother in "Spring Die", grandpa is already dead, she still often goes to the train station where he works to wait for him). But I thought this film could end after A died, and nothing else needed to be explained, which gave the audience room to imagine. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the acting skills of the young actors in the film are okay.
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