Peppermint Candy Comments

  • Jeffery 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    #Review# How my life is destroyed step by step. The flashback structure is not completely deliberately dazzling, but a kind of deep suspense. There must be a deep cause that leads to decay from the root. Therefore, at the closed loop of the narrative, we can see how the political climate and institutional fixation have brought a once-filled The ideals and pure fresh individuals were ground to rotten and shattered, "Mints" witnessed the darkest depths of the whole life; it is also a chronicle of...

  • Krista 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    Years later, he returned to where she lived. The unfamiliar naked girl lying beside him asked him to treat her as his first love to confide in his heart, he could only call out her name aloud, and then cry, without saying a...

  • Evalyn 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    A classic cowardly character, cowardly, selfish, illiterate, and low in emotional intelligence. It's a shit about the Gwangju incident. Even if he is still a little strong, he won't cry so easily. A man who puts his emotions on his face at any time is not worthy of sympathy. He is going to be destroyed. It's all right, self-destruction is too embarrassing to blame others, this kind of Luther, who eventually committed suicide, actually has a first love for him, which is really a great irony in...

  • Lue 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    Every time I read Li Cangdong's stuff, I want to...

  • Darien 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    A/ After paving the way for most of the ecstasy, the scenes reveal the trauma of history and the alienation of people, returning to the lost origin like a foxtrot. The retrospective connection of each image in the forgotten lines is like a needle through painstaking efforts, and the follow-up time constantly repairs the previous fragments. The flashback script really has a sharp sense of cutting time and space, and the audience's thoughts are completely caught in the director's palm. A very...

  • Kenton 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    8.5 is both a flashback and a closed loop. The rewinding of the train connects the reappearance of the near-death past, as well as the chronicle of Korea in the 1980s and 1990s. The structure and content are highly unified. Both ends are beautiful. The train carrying Kim Yong-ho is South Korea, the departure station is Gwangju, and the final station is...

  • Polly 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    There is actually a problem with the flashback structure with a strong literary flavor. The selection of important fragments breaks the coherence of time and space. This is also an important basis for portraying characters and empathizing with the audience. Maybe I can accept a narrative similar to "The Summer Palace". Secondly, the "front" is stretched too long, resulting in top-heavy, emotional ups and downs, and easy to make people tired. But that familiar emotion or feeling lingers...

  • Sheridan 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    This flashback is a process in which the "emotional field" is slowly released, which is in line with the memory mechanism. However, with the dilution of the "emotional field", the weight-power (time pressure) of the event is getting heavier (butterfly effect). It is also the winning rule that Li Cangdong has insisted on so...

  • Elsie 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    Koreans have made so many movies about "things that can't be said in China". I thought it was just a film about a personal situation, so it was a bit of a surprise and a shock when it suddenly appeared; besides, the film was a great example of a structured narrative in...

  • Zachariah 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    Every step back is a new self-loathing, always backing off, always self-loathing. |Review of the archive on the last day of 2021, the cowardice of the male protagonist makes him the one who is most affected in society after...

Extended Reading
  • Zelma 2022-12-27 00:33:41

    How time can destroy a man without surprise.

    The whole film is a flashback. It takes about 5 years as a segment. The time follows the old train running backwards. The connection of time is relatively soft, and the film is very well edited. At the beginning of the film, a man with a nervous breakdown meets a After a group of people danced,...

  • Shana 2022-12-17 23:55:27

    "Mints" - The day when humanity fell

    A personal epic about Kim Young-ho's important experiences over the past 20 years. We shared with him the sweetness of his first love, experienced the savage years of military service, witnessed how he shot a girl, and the great torture he suffered when he became a police officer, and we also...

Peppermint Candy quotes

  • Yongho: Do you think life's beautiful?

  • Yongho: I don't want to die alone. I need one bastard to come with me. Just one bastard among all that ruined my life. But then... Who should I kill? It gives me hard time, you know. To pick just one is hard thing to do. The fucking stock broker who made me go clean broke? The vampire like loan shark that charged the ridiculous interest? Or... how about the business partner who run away with my money? Or should I take my ex-wife and my kid to die with me? There're so many fuckers in my life that it's hard to pick just one.