Singer Li Jian once sang a song called "August Photo Studio", which originated from an old Korean movie of the same name in 1998. Li Jian's "August Photo Studio" comes from the 2003 album "Homecoming", a song from more than ten years ago.
Well, what a Homecoming.
He sang: That summer, deep in my heart, occasionally rippling, the gradually yellowing photos took me back to a certain day in that certain year.
In the summer of 1998, the whole of China was chasing "Huanzhu Gege" in full swing. Young people were looking forward to everything in the love story of riding horses and sharing the prosperity of the world.
That year, the Korean film "August Photo Studio" was launched, and it won many awards in the Korean film industry. After 1998, the Korean film industry broke out with a bald head movement. Directors and many fans were dissatisfied with Hollywood's treatment of local films after Korea's entry into the WTO. After the shock, they gathered together and petitioned the government to protect local films in particular. Under such a background, Korean movies have come back to life, and Korean dramas have gradually become a strong culture in Asia. I believe that people who have watched "Blue Life and Death" still remember the tears they shed in front of the TV screen in 2000. I also remember the tears that I shed when I watched "My Sassy Girl" or the shedding smiles.
But after so many years, when Korean romance films were copied again and again, those cliché stories and labels were repeated again and again, when everyone knew that Koreans like terminal illness and amnesia, when these rotten memes were copied again. When movies such as "Breakup Contract" and "The Five Years Stolen" appeared in China. Can you still be moved by such a light and unintentionally provocative film that just tells a story? Or just take those movie-watching experiences and stop those desires to watch movies after reading the synopsis.
"August Photo Studio" is one of my favorite Korean movies.
I like this story because I have always liked to read prose about life, family, memory, love and other media, and "August Photo Studio" gave me such a sense of film literature. I like the mundane details that show emotion all the time in this movie, and the passing years flowing in this movie.
At the beginning of the movie, the male protagonist Yong Won wakes up from his sleep, and there is a radio sound of the new school year ceremony of a nearby elementary school in the distance. Yong Yuan rode his bike to the hospital to check his symptoms, and turned his head to look at the lively scene on the campus all the way. While waiting in the hospital, he made faces from time to time with the children on the opposite side. The next scene was Yongyuan running to the campus to play the horizontal bar. Then, Yongyuan sat on the side of the playground, and Yongyuan in voiceover said : When I was young, all my classmates left, I was still sitting on the playground alone, thinking about my dead mother, and suddenly realized that we will all disappear eventually...
These three or two shots meticulously outline the tenderness and nostalgia in the heart of this young man.
Yong Yuan is in his thirties and has been living in this small town. He is the owner of a photo studio inherited from his father. Yongyuan was terminally ill, and he knew from the beginning that his time was running out. The whole movie was actually a story of one farewell followed by another, but this farewell only existed in Yongyuan's personal heart, and no one else could know it.
In the last days of Yongyuan's life, he finally got out of an old love that was buried in his heart, and also strengthened the lovely and beautiful girl Delin. When the love between him and Delin grew slowly in the dull and dull days, when the flower of love was about to open, everything came to an end with Yongyuan's silent departure.
It is true that the moving details are removed, and only the outline of the plot remains. This is indeed a common and slightly routine story, but the film is told in a leisurely manner, never deliberately enlarged or recklessly exaggerated. Duan Runwu's silent love, Yongyuan's indifference and peace in the face of death, and the last tenderness and greed he showed when he bid farewell to his father and friends, hit me with ease. , moved beyond words.
When Yong Won said goodbye to his friends, he joked that he was about to die, and he knew that his friends would think it was just a trick he used to trick him into drinking. And he quietly released his fear of death and lingering in the world in the seemingly tacit slapstick. Yongyuan talked about old things with his friends, he couldn't believe it, it was only ten years ago.
Yongyuan said goodbye to his father. His father liked to watch the movie that he watched with his mother when he was young, but he could not use a DVD player. After Yongyuan taught his father several times, his father would still make mistakes, and finally he was furious. Angrily left. It was night, and Yongyuan drew the steps of how to use the DVD player neatly on the paper step by step. On another thunderstorm night, everyone fell asleep. Yongyuan, who did not smoke, stole a cigarette from his father, clumsily smoked it by the window, and then crept to sleep next to his father, maybe just like when he was a child Same.
There are many small details that make people feel very warm when tasting such movingly. For example, Yongyuan and his sister sat in front of the door and ate watermelon, vigorously spit the watermelon seeds far away, and then immediately. The two looked at each other and smiled, thinking that they used to do things like this when they were young. When Yongyuan took the ID photo for Delin, he said that moistening his mouth would make him look better. The next time they met, Delin painted him a light lip makeup.
And in the last scene of the movie, Delin never sees Yongyuan, who has passed away, but sees her picture on the window of the photo studio. That should be Yongyuan's last nostalgia and tenderness.
All the feelings that cannot be expressed in the future are completely left on this eternal black and white photo.
The feeling of love fades, just like the old photos, but you will always be in my heart, forever beautiful, until the last moment of my life. Thank you and see you again. At the end of the movie, Yong Won's voiceover says so.
"August Photo Studio" is a film with photography as an important element, which fully reflects the charm of photography. According to legend, the story of the film was also inspired by a photo of Kim Kwang-suk, a late Korean singer, with a serene and warm expression.
In the movie, there are scenes related to taking pictures from time to time, including a group photo of Yongyuan’s family, a group photo of Yongyuan and his friends, and a lot of shots of Yongyuan taking pictures of other people. When Yongyuan is doing these things, he always It is very serious, and strives to keep the most beautiful side of people. Because this is the most direct and permanent commemoration of beautiful things, and it is also the most powerless but most beautiful record of people and things that will eventually disappear.
Regarding photography, there are two scenes in the movie that are particularly moving. One day, after an old grandmother took a photo with her family in Yongyuan's photo studio, the son asked his mother to take a photo alone, as a posthumous photo. He said it carefully, saying yes Come and take pictures. The grandma took a photo. At night, the grandma came to the photo studio alone, put on her best clothes, and begged Yongyuan to take another picture for her.
On another day, when Yongyuan took a photo of himself, he was facing the camera and arranging it for a long time, hoping that he would stay in his best posture.
Come to think of it, people go through the world once, and at the end, they should always keep their best side.
I have no way of knowing what kind of state a person is in when facing death, but such a calm acceptance and profound lingering as Yong Yuan moved me deeply. When it comes to love that is too late and all the people and things around you, although sometimes it will appear irritable and sad, most of the time, optimism and calmness are so precious.
It's an ordinary but timeless old movie, and the occasionally moving details are enough to entice me to watch it from anywhere in the movie. Like a favorite prose book. Feel free to flip it up and continue reading. And such a simple and detailed plot, a bland and profound story, will become more and more obvious as time goes by.
The fleeting years like water are roughly the same.
The title picture and the bottom picture are the 13-year re-screening posters of "August Photo Studio". The music comes from "August Photo Studio" in the album "Homecoming" released by Li Jian in 2003.
This article was originally written in '13 with slight revisions.
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