It is said that Park Chan-wook probably won worldwide attention since 2003. An "Old Boy" is said to "make European and American movie fans surprised to find a director cooler than Quentin almost overnight", many film critics I even call it "the most dangerous director in the world", but my personal feeling is that the excitement is wonderful, but not to that level. Later, I watched "The Kind Gold" after chasing, and I was also very happy to watch it. It stands to reason that, according to personal habits, since these two films are both appetizing, then the "I Want Revenge", which is also called the "revenge trilogy" with these two films, has to do everything possible to get a glimpse, but I don’t know why. , I really haven't watched it. Now that I think about it, maybe it's because God is concerned about my nerve endurance, so he stretched out his hand to block it?
In fact, if it's just the blood and cruelty on the screen level, it's not a big deal. There are actually more fierce B-level films in this world. Just watch a few more, for example, experience several times like "Hitman Yi". After the test of the split mouth swallowing fist shots, the bloody and cruel scenes may at best make the stomach uncomfortable, and there are few that are really frightening.
The real despair of "I Want Revenge" is that all the actions of revenge that move toward extreme tragic step by step originate from trivial, absurd things. When the tragedy was perfectly presented in a humorous way, Park Chan-wook asked the question: What kind of tragedy is impossible in this increasingly absurd world? If the severity of the tragedy is endless, where can this world go? Who is it, with a smile at the corner of his mouth, looking at us in a hot pot like ants in panic all day long? In this context, the title of "the most dangerous director in the world" is really well-deserved by Park Chan-wook.
A digression, the male protagonist with green hair in the film suddenly reminded me of a trivial incident many years ago.
This is the case. I was still in college that year and was in charge of editing a campus literary magazine called "Growing Eyes." There was a poem called "I am a green-haired water monster" in the manuscript one day, not bad; But when the magazine was typeset, a rare word in the poem could not be listed in the font library, so Xinshou changed a word that she thought had the same meaning; after the magazine came out, the poetess expressed great indignation and protest against this, claiming this word The changes reduced the style of the whole poem, and even refused to "claim" it as his own work. For a long time afterwards, my friends and I regarded this matter and this girl's truthfulness as a joke. Now I feel that the little girl is right. Many times we are not in awe of the world. There should be some things, no matter how small or slender, they can't move, otherwise the green hair can turn into a water monster, and it will turn you into a mouthful.
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