Exquisite story structure, sharp point of view, and absurd encounters with a character who happens to be a North Korean fisherman who happens to drift across the border to rip apart lies about the country. So-called democracy and so-called dictatorship are inhumane in front of one "person". And with the exact same hypocritical face "The state existed before we existed, and we can never go back to the state before we didn't have the state." The old man commented on politics angrily through the mouth of the character ( Especially Western Democracy), its attitude is the same as Kim Ki-duk, who is getting older, and it seems that the older he gets, the more straightforward he becomes.
The film also echoes this change in visual style and narrative processing. Simple and straightforward to some places There is a suspicion of being too forceful, but the tension of the story setting and the narrative technique itself make this film still a good work. The ending may be wishful thinking. The romanticism has lost Kim Ki-duk's usual rigidity, but there is only one thing in front of this subject. The tone of romanticism can allow "people" to preserve a little bit of human dignity and a little bit of good wishes in front of the huge state machine.
After all, we are not stupid, but we just want to keep life as it is.
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