Thousands of people

Johann 2022-11-06 11:52:33

"You said your daughter is still alive?"
"........Yes, my daughter....she is now trapped in the sewer of Wonhyo Bridge."
"Oh my God Why didn't you notify the military or the police?"
"Because no one..."
"Did you try to communicate with TV stations or human rights groups?"
"No one believed me... ..don't interrupt me, why doesn't anyone believe me?"

"...As expected, the virus has invaded his brain."
"I agree." I

remember watching it for the first time in junior high school At that time, it was just that Uncle Song with the big cake face and the explicit metaphors in the story were not known at that time. In fact, even now, all I can understand is the unemployed uncle in the story, and the South Korea he represents in the 1980s: dictatorship and student movement. I always think that the interpretation of a story is doomed to thousands of people. Shakespeare's just gave us an outline, an image, and a marker, and we filled this outline with countless personal contents, and put countless personalized labels on this image, putting the This marker expands or shrinks infinitely. When we listen to a story, we always “personalize” the story, incorporating our own emotions and experiences into the story, thereby forming our own view of the story. This process is the process from the story to your story. I came up with the Great Celestial Dynasty, and there will be no country that regards "Avatar" as a story of forced demolition and nail-biting households.
If you look at it from Hollywood's eyes, the monsters in the story are obviously unqualified, not big enough, fierce enough, and scary enough. How can a monster movie be called a monster movie without explosions and a whole bunch of high-level-looking officials? The same story would be fun to shoot in the hands of Americans, but boring. I have always felt that Korean films have a core focus. No matter who is speaking or who is performing, this "core" has never changed. This core does not refer to a certain picture or a certain slogan, but more like a way of thinking and a specific perspective. This core is: "people". Everything is to highlight the theme and core of "people", which is what Korean films have always told, in different environments, under different circumstances, and in different stories, you can also regard it as human nature and feelings. Because of its limited understanding, it cannot be described in very specific language. In short, it is such a feeling, like a smell, which is invisible and cannot be grasped but always entangled in front of you.
Like I said earlier, if you're used to Hollywood-style telling, you'll feel like this whole story is constantly "derailing." It is always accompanied by night, rain, darkness, and monsters appearing in the wild appear in the downtown area in broad daylight; the old man resolutely stood in front of the monster and raised his gun to shoot, only to find that his son had given an empty gun: the friend the second uncle found was also Instead of supporting him with unconditional hands like in other stories, he sold his second uncle to the police: American experts learned that the protagonist's daughter was still alive, and after inquiring in surprise, did not symbolize justice to save the protagonist, but concluded: He did have a sick conclusion. The whole story has been going on in this paradoxical atmosphere, and you will suddenly find that the monster is not the protagonist. In the monster incident, all kinds of talents are the real protagonists. Lazy doctors, public officials who demand bribes righteously, old classmates who sell their friends after turning around, powerless policemen, irresponsible experts, and the ubiquitous irony are more eye-catching than monsters. That's why so many people think this is actually a satire. And that monster is ZF. At the end of the TV, the experts and officials are still talking, and the answer to them is just a toe.
The narrator is only responsible for telling the story, and what you can see from the story is up to you.

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The Host quotes

  • Park Gang-Du: Is it the virus that's making me sleepy?

  • Park Gang-Du: Dad, am I dying?

    Park Hie-bong: Don't say that! Just do what the doctors tell you.