The first public account of this article [Demon King Watching a Play]
Foreword: To be honest, this movie was not my viewing taste in the beginning. Eighteen bans, dullness, and actors I don’t like. However, the principle of the devil watching a movie has always been that you don’t watch it, and you can see it all. Passionate. After watching it, I found that as the 2015 kimchi country's big hit movie, and it involved the elite group of kimchi country - the subject of prosecutors, its notable points can still be listed a lot. After all, some movies are not to be watched for pleasure, but to break your three views. (It should be emphasized that the three-hour version can tell the story smoothly, and the two-hour castration version will produce a sense of narrative sluggishness.)
And I think "breaking the game" is the biggest proposition of this movie.
(1) Commercial Movies: A Liaozhai Game of Millennium Foxes
At 31 minutes and 58 seconds of the movie, the insider No. 1 - Li Guangxi, a pseudo-wenqing, made a mockery of "little gangster" An's "fox-like guy", which opened the eyes of the fox demons in the three circles of Korean politics, business and culture. The curtain of Liaozhai game. "It's all thousand-year-old fox demons, what kind of Liao Zhai are you playing with me?" In order to make Liao Zhai's games interesting to watch, "The Insider" has a full set of facilities that a commercial movie should have. From the perspective of visual effects, the opening chapter is a huge press conference, the grand-sounding declarations of the bigwigs, all kinds of swear words in the middle, 19-ban restricted-level shots, the interests of the Korean political, commercial and cultural circles. Prison break scenes are full of elements of commercial films.
Aside from the deliberate elements of commercial films, I focus more on the story itself, which is the game, and who is the winner. From the creator's point of view, this story shows that their country is terminally ill, and it is filled with the sense of crisis of the creative team behind their own country.
It may be said that the movie is too dark or cruel and bloody, but this is the social reality of South Korea and the entire East Asian circle. The movie is adapted from another comic "The Insider" created by Yoon Tae-ho, the comic creator of "Weisheng". I just watched "Weisheng" and once praised the depth and vigilance of the workplace content depicted in "Weisheng". This "Insider" also follows the cartoonist's realistic style as always, and follows the confusion and ideals, ridicule and expectations of different levels of society in his works. The two main fox camps in the whole movie are gradually reflected in the middle part. The pimped thugs who were kicked out by the insiders teamed up with an outsider prosecutor who had no political background and was at the end of his career. Guy, the presidential candidate, and the old fox camp of the capitalist three-man gang, as the plot progresses, the filth of power, money, and eroticism are all nakedly displayed, and after a few rounds of PK, it seems that the little fox camp has been defeated all the way. , hit the stone with an egg, but in the middle and late stage came a beautiful carbine, sending the old fox to prison. The plot is ups and downs, and the audience is happy to watch it, but after the game is over, does the winner really win? This is the biggest minus of this movie. The gluttonous dedication of the richness of the commercial plot cannot make up for its lack of criticism. Excessive commercial atmosphere weakens the depth of the film, and even the trick of returning to the carbine - the smooth recording and exposure of the sex scandal video tape is too ideal and naive to make people unconvincing. In this fox demon game, neither side of the two fox camps can represent justice, and audiences who are still looking forward to fairness and justice can only watch the black eat the black, use violence to control violence, and change the game after the big drama. A "puppy dog".
The last temporary victory of the carbine was the temporary victory of the little fox camp, not the victory of the "cheeked dog". This is what makes people feel regretful after watching this movie. The momentary emotional catharsis cannot make up for the lack of emotional resonance of the audience and the disappointment that the movie is not profound enough. A smart director should turn the ridiculed and despised "dog" into the biggest winner of the movie's ending. Obviously, this movie doesn't want to do that. (2) Literary and artistic feelings: the people's yearning for a better life is "Mojito"
To be honest, I don't know if it's a translation error or the original line is like this. The first time "Mojito" appears in the context is clearly a kind of wine we often drink, and the second time it seems to be a place name with the same part of speech as Maldives. , but no matter what kind of context, "Mojito" in the film represents the people's yearning for a better life, and inexplicably goes into "the people's yearning for a better life is our goal" to the creator of the film Maybe they also hope that their authorities will not forget that making people's lives more hopeful is the focus of their work! The ending of the movie is very obscure and pessimistic and gives an assumption that there is no good life you yearn for in your own country or overseas, the ideal country of fairness and justice, and the "Mojito" you may not find.
(3) Grasp the details: interesting details
A glimpse of the wine table culture, did the secretary of the Blue House really say it to the person on the phone? No, he made it clear that he was telling the prosecutor who had no background: What are you, and I want me to pour you a drink! In the end, the prosecutor did not drink the wine he poured.
In the calligraphy and painting of Li Guangxi's office, "Worthy of my heart" appeared many times, which is really a big irony. (4) The Sublimation of Movies: Be an Insider or an Outsider? There are three metaphors inside and outside the game, and it is also a progressive reveal. The first weight: inside the bureau is congruent, and outside the bureau is incompatible. This metaphor is hardly a metaphor, it is a simile. The insiders seem to be two groups of nobles in ancient Korea, who are united to occupy the highlands of interest. Outsiders, grassroots pariahs, must do their best to share the cream.
The second level: inside is desire, outside is looking up. The second metaphor, I thought about it for a long time, originally wanted to write that the insider is desire, and the outsider is hope, but this is actually an optimistic and immature point of view. I originally thought that destroying the desire of the insiders depends on the hopeful people of justice outside the outsiders, but the outsiders do not represent justice at all, so his hope is only his hope, not my hope for justice, and outsiders also have Desire, and his desire comes from wanting to break the look-up mentality of his weaker party. So I changed it to look up later. The insiders are condescending, and they expand infinitely. The outsiders look up to the insiders and then want to break the situation. As for whether they will also become insiders after breaking the game, it depends on each person’s bottom line. The presidential candidate feels that the hot-blooded prosecutor has a shadow of his own youth. Is this foreshadowing actually burying some lines? The little fox defeated the old fox and temporarily stayed away from the bureau, but who can tell the future direction? Human nature is the most untested. The third layer: the inside is hell, and the outside is not heaven. There is a line in the movie: If you go through hell, keep going!
In fact, it is not heaven to continue to move forward. If one game is broken, there will be thousands of new games. The insiders are in hell and don’t know it, and the outsiders are not just arriving in heaven.
The value judgment of the film is actually vague, and the director himself does not seem to be able to condense it. Only at the end came a vague treatment of the view of good and evil, that is, the lesser of two evils. Rather than letting the big villains in the bureau gain vested interests, it is better to let the petty villains and the prosecutors who want to be promoted to the class win. The two evils are the lesser of two evils. In the end, the movie has no point of view. I ask you Show ugliness, and how you judge this ugliness is up to you. The conclusion of the movie ending is: Be an insider or an outsider? Breaking the game is king. If you are already in a high position and have the right to speak in the field, then please be awake and stare at the abyss for too long, and the abyss will stare back. If you don’t want to be broken by outsiders, you have to break your own game first. Whether a strong man breaks his wrist, or scrapes his bones to cure poison, you must break it yourself before your game rots. If you are still looking up to the outside world, then you should not think about being friends with these insiders, breaking their game, and then setting up your own game. Although it is a fierce battle, who makes this world not what you want?” "Mojito"? Go break! Go fight! Go fight! Therefore, inside and outside the bureau is only a relative concept. What is more important than delineating whether you are an insider or an outsider is that you must be good at breaking the so-called "in bureau" obstacles for you! ———————————————————————————
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