old boy, as well as the meaning of old classmates.
In this sense, for the first time, this movie, which was a big hit in South Korea last year, subverted the warm feeling of the word "old classmate" in my heart: cruel smile, bloody punishment, who can predict the old school incident, To pay the price of 15 years of time, and the last cut tongue is just to not let the arrow of incest sting the daughter!
The various elements of the film are familiar with faces, superimposed and shuttled, the emotions are explosive, the lines are rough, and the intentions of various directors are vividly interpreted by Cui Minzhi. . Watching "Old Boy" is actually more about watching Choi Min-sik's super performance.
Anyway, old is old. In the end, before the "bad guy" Li Youzhen shot himself in the elevator, the shots were interlaced. The boy's crying face and the arm of his beloved sister who was about to fall into the river tightly, Heartbreaking and forgiving, it turns out that all cruel and devilish actions stem from love and hate in youth and are the end of a lifetime. Suddenly I feel that old is wrong, fifteen years, twenty years, no matter how long it is, it is just flying ashes.
2. Deja
Vu There are too many familiar faces, so we can subdivide them into the following:
(1) Theme:
The first is revenge
The protagonist Wu Daxiu was imprisoned for no reason. After 15 years, he began to despair, smashed doors, and threw plates. . How long did this take? Compared to the long 15 years, it was just a moment, we soon saw him pulling out the wire from the mattress, making a scar on the back of his hand to write down the past year; seeing him practicing fists against the wall, imagining an enemy, Waiting for it to be available one day; he dug into the wall with steel chopsticks, hoping to be free sooner. . By the way, he also watches TV, eats fried dumplings, and makes a montage of news updates, but fried dumplings are the only food that never changes. Each time, as the hallucinogenic music and smoke rose, he lay in bed waiting for his coma, and for the last time, he smiled as his time of freedom and revenge drew nearer. .
What a common theme: revenge.
From Shakespeare to Dumas, from Jin Yong to Gu Long, from The Godfather to the Shawshank Redemption, Kill Bill, and even count Dogtown and Infernal Affairs. . . Countless people have enjoyed it countless times and revenge. Only revenge can set off a big wave of love and hate. After that, the plot is easy to construct, the characters are vivid and easy to shape, action guidance, stage art, fights, violence and bloody, and many things are easy to follow.
Forty minutes into the film, I feel like "The Shawshank Redemption", but the more I watch it, the more wonderful each one is. "Redemption" is good in the process of preparing to escape from prison. This film makes people feel more and more comfortable, and finally has a happy ending; while this film is based on imprisonment and escape, and the highlight is revenge and the pursuit of the source of hatred, the more and more pathetic film atmosphere, the more and more strong handcuffs Ask the audience's audiovisual: Do you also have such hatred? His wife was killed, his daughter was separated, and he was suspected by the police to abscond in fear of a crime. 15 years of good times are gone forever, ,, escaped, who is it! Who brewed such a poisonous wine behind the scenes and ignited such a noisy flame of revenge! Of course, Wu Daxiu also seems to have a moment of warmth: love, he fell in love with Mei Tao, a young and beautiful woman, and had sex in a gap on the road of revenge, but, the hatred reached its climax! ! Li Youzhen smiled and gave Daxiu a photo album, which recorded the growth of Mei Tao - Mei Tao, Da Xiu's daughter! All of this, even the generation of love, is under the careful planning of the enemy (using hypnotism), what a huge hatred! How to eat and then quickly ah? However, the revenge stopped. . . Daxiu humbly knelt down, cried, and kissed the enemy's shoes and the ground under his feet. It wasn't enough. In the end, he cut off his tongue, just so that the other party wouldn't tell Mei Tao the truth. . . .
What an intriguing revenge and counter-revenge. The director let the dark boss Li Youzhen play with Wu Daxiu's hatred. Just when the viewers followed Wu Daxiu's subjective hatred, all this came to an abrupt end. In the secretly recorded Daxiu and the sound of her daughter's sex, Daxiu, who had broken his tongue, looked at the departing Li Youzhen's back. Formed, powerless. . However, Li Youzhen, a villain who looks noble and gentle, also cried in the elevator, all love and hatred are gone, some are just teenagers, holding on to the hand of her sister on the bridge, her sister is beautiful and calm, struggling to use The camera on the teenager's neck took a picture of his last face, sank his hands, and fell into the water. . .
Is there still hatred? Is there any more revenge?
there is none left. That's the beauty of the movie: no vengeance. For those who died, the kingdom of heaven reunited with my sister, and for those who were dumb, the world continued to embrace her daughter.
One said incest
Incest, in fact, is an enduring literary theme that can be used to make a big fuss. In psychologists, this is again a big set of sexual consciousness. What Oedipus, Electra complex, childhood shadow, Freud. . I have seen very few film and television works about incest or even involving incestuous love, "Judou" and "Wan Niang", at most "Thunderstorm".
Incest, a sexual relationship between family members who are related by blood (close relatives). As soon as this word is mentioned, evil comes to mind, but it is full of curiosity.
"Old Boy" euphemistically recounts two incidents of incest, but in different ways. Brother and sister incest, the use of light and shadow is very beautiful, I can't forget the scene of two brothers chasing in the classroom, the younger brother is chasing the sister with the camera to take pictures, the sister sits on the table, the younger brother comes over and pushes, the younger brother slowly fades away the elder sister The panties in the skirt, panicked, as if hearing the heartbeat and breathing, and unbuttoning the top button one by one, my sister helped to untie it from below, took off the bra,,,,,,,, a long shot of very slow and patient. Finally, the younger brother sucked on the soft chest of the elder sister, elder sister, ha, what do you think about her? He took out a mirror from his schoolbag. In the warm light, a satisfied and happy face was reflected in the mirror. When the mirror moved down, he saw the profile of his younger brother. That mouth was sucking, sweet and greedy. . . The mirror turned again, and outside the window, it was the face of Wu Daxiu who was looking for the root of hatred decades later in astonishment! !
This part is great, ha!
The incest of the father and daughter is a man-made disorder, and it even needs to be assisted by "hypnosis", a pale method used to advance the plot of the movie. Whether the father and daughter are in chaos depends entirely on Li Youzhi. He can kill his daughter in front of Daxiu after the father and daughter recognize each other, or he can molest her with obscene behavior. . The kindest thing he could do was not to touch the girl, just as Daxiu thought his daughter was still in Stockholm, and the cruelest thing he could do was to let their father and daughter re-enact under his careful "matching", Man blames God for it - incest.
In fact, there are many myths about incest in ancient times, but today people deliberately filter out these things that "infringe" on civilized society, but perhaps the more this is the case, the more exposed the "incest complex" in the most secret parts of human hearts, hehe. This is definitely an intriguing film and television theme. It is better to see less than to say less.
(2) Violent aesthetics:
very violent and very aesthetic.
The term I found more used after Kill Bill.
The night I watched Kill, I was done.
I didn't expect those bloody scenes to be so moving and beautiful. I have seen "Born to Kill" and "Seven Deadly Sins" before, and there were scenes that I found unbearable at the time. I saw a Korean movie clip on TV earlier, but it is still unknown to this day. I only remember a killing in the torrential rain. In the stage, the knife passed, the blood sprayed like azaleas blooming in the rain, the best thing is that this killing took place in the square during the day, there was no one around, only the slowed down shot, just right, the killing was silent, the background The music is sticky and gentle, and it sounds amazing.
Let's look at the violence of "Old Boy", nausea? Or aftertaste.
The steel needle pierced the eardrum, the iron tongs pulled the teeth, the disc was inserted into the human, the tongue was cut, the gun smoke came out of the temple that was shot through, and the octopus was swallowed alive and the ant colony emerged from the hole under the skin... The director let the male The protagonist's transformation from a fat, drunk and rapping mediocre man into a murderous and unblinking revenge devil seems to be more painful than the heroine of "Kill Bill" from the beginning to the end. But what is beauty? I think it is that, apart from the front and back, a single scene can also make people read the sadness of violence and the helplessness of being irresistible from the camera lens, light and shadow, music... At this point, Kill Bill is, Natural Born Killers is. "Old Boy," too.
In fact, there are already many masters at this point, such as Takeshi Kitano, John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, and Takashi Miike, whom I have never seen but highly respected, all of them will use the lens of crazy beauty to explain violence, Explain the principles of life and death behind dizzying speed and scarlet color.
Three Korean Movies
Korean movies are not particularly watched.
I used to have a misunderstanding of Korean films, thinking that they started late and had a weak foundation. When I mentioned Korean films, I always felt that they were the representatives of fashion and sensationalism. Wife is the old man" and some Korean dramas that cry to death. Last year, I watched "That Boy Is Really Handsome", "The Temptation of the Wolf", "The Little Bride" and "Naughty Girl's Proposal" from my colleagues, which made this impression even more profound. Now it seems that this is very wrong.
If it is not on the line, there are really many advantages of Korean films. The characters are beautiful, the plot is beautiful, the details are beautiful, and the artistic conception is beautiful.
Although Korean beauties look the same (this is very different from Chinese beauties who are colorful and have different shapes, because Korea is a single ethnic group, China has long been a fusion of ethnic groups), but the forehead is full and delicate, the nose is round, and the lips are soft and curvy. , the eyes are clear and clean (take Son Ye-jin as an example), it looks really seductive. The screenwriters of Korean films (dramas) are very particular about details and environment. In this regard, they have already surpassed Japanese dramas. Why do Japanese and Korean films earn our tears? It's worth asking.
In fact, what I want to say is not the beauty of Korean films, but their progress. Are Korean films just pure and single beauty? Not long. The increasing investment in human capital and the amount of creation has ensured the diversification of Korean films. We have seen more offbeat, violent, bizarre, thriller, suspenseful, and even questioning human ethics films. Old boy, after watching "The Eraser in My Mind", I saw another Korean film. It belongs to the kind of film that I will never forget after watching it once, and it is worth recalling and reflecting on.
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