When others are more expressing the loneliness, loneliness, and sadness of the elderly, Lee Chang-dong brings to the audience an elderly woman who loves life, is independent, strong and lovely. And with her eyes, she led the audience to observe the world around them with a new perspective and discover new meanings of things. This is what children do in most movies. The film embodies, first of all, the care for women. The protagonist Miko's identity is multi-layered. She is both a mother and a grandmother; she is also a student; a servant or a Poetry. Under different identities, she has completely different feelings. These feelings pile up the characters three-dimensionally, making the audience moved by this woman who pursues goodness, beauty and love. She is willing to listen to the Poetry song she wrote with the insight of life.
The poster for the film is a touching photograph.
Lee Chang-dong is the only Korean director who still pays attention to social ethics with a fair attitude.
Compared with Lee Chang-dong 's previous works, this film lacks a bit of piercing pain, but it creates a lot of sorrow. Miko tried her best to find every moment of Poetry's intention in the exhausted reality, looking up at the shade of a big tree, or staring at the cockscomb flower in the window. In these fleeting moments of softness, pain seems to have been temporarily forgotten. Hope is like a sail, inspiring people to navigate through the river full of bitterness.
Artistic creation is not only about creating beauty and pleasure, but also sincere exploration of issues that touch pain. The process of freeing the protagonist from the shackles of family concepts and making moral decisions is an establishment of the director's belief in aesthetics and ethics. The film is driven by the box office and people are accustomed to viewing of the moment, to the ripples in the human heart, and one will be able to identify good works.
Lee Chang-dong ’s films are never suitable for entertainment. The director exuding literary temperament carries too many heavy themes through his lens: pain and helplessness, cruel reality, loneliness and alienation, and the morality of humanity. think. The film is more tolerant and silent about the expression of this trait. There are very few large dialogues in the film. The soundtrack abandons the artificial and uses natural sounds, and allows the slow-moving scene to describe it lightly, just like the white space in Poetry's song. But it is this unsculpted introverted silence that reflects Miko's suffering and struggle tormented by the sense of guilt, making the narrative clear, full and full of tension.
