Song of Agnes

Elliot 2022-04-24 07:01:23

The light is attached to the water, reflecting the scorching heat of the hot summer. The river was surging, and there was a young corpse floating. An image "poetry" that symbolizes beauty and ideals, written in Korean, is as sharp and cold as the tip of a knife, just like the two lines of light and dark in the film - Meizi uses "poetry" as a representative of her poetic understanding of life, and her understanding of life. The exploration of the pure ideal spiritual world forms a contradictory contrast with the realistic and cruel background revealed at the expense of a young life, pulling a huge dramatic tension.

"Sex"——Metaphors and Criticisms for Patriarchal Society

Li Cangdong uses "sex" as the link to link the male images of the old, middle and young generations, showing the fact that women are eternal objects and others in "sex" and are forever oppressed, and the morbidity of the patriarchal structure is fully exposed. The ruthless numbness displayed by teenagers after committing heinous crimes is a powerful contrast to the innocence with which they live and play, creating a feeling of extreme eerie and unreality. The TV and music that are turned on all the time seem to be their real world. When reality and illusion are intertwined and occupied, the value of the real world seems to be gradually being eliminated. Can this also be seen as Li Cangdong's criticism and criticism of the era of pan-entertainment? reflection? Games and television entertainment rob the younger generation of seriousness. As middle-aged men who bear the dual responsibilities of society and family, they show their ruthlessness under the image of success and hypocrisy. Kindness disappears in the contemptuous questioning and oppression of victims, and morality is in the evasion of the elderly and the Under the pressure of layers, it collapsed quickly. The boy's father, the school leader, the TV reporter, the group represented by them is the majority of the country and society, holding the vast majority of wealth and absolute right to speak. Compared with the uneducated stupidity of teenagers, the silent majority are more aware of the essence of patriarchal/patriarchal society-that is, the infinite struggle against the weak and the absolute power. Nested one by one, forming a huge system of cannibalism. Silent life, silent victimization, silent death, and silently becoming the nourishment of others, our self-proclaimed high civilization is no different from animals to some extent. The dying old age has returned to the nature of animals, linking up a sexual desire that is highly similar to that of adolescence and is based on implicit violence against women. A stingy old man who was paralyzed in bed and couldn't take care of himself might still be a little affectionate when he secretly shoved 10,000 yuan to the nurse, but when he took the pills and asked to have sex with her, he wrote tremblingly on the paper "You are threatening. I", everything turned into a naked monetary measure in the blink of an eye. Against the backdrop of warm family photos and happy children and grandchildren, primitive and dirty desires are especially dazzling.

"Poetry"——The Road of Atonement Returning to Pure Ideals

Contrary to the dark line of the murder case, it is Miko who is constantly pursuing this bright line in order to write poetry. An old man who relies on the government's subsistence allowances and protection workers to earn cheap wages and lives with his grandson in middle school, Miko is undoubtedly a marginal person in this society, but she adds a poetic light to the dark and cruel reality. Meizi has a pure and keen feeling for ideal love and beauty, and "poetry" has become a path for her to escape from the obscurity and cruelty, which makes people think of Xiangling's poetry. Meizi likes to look at flowers, she likes to say strange things, and always keeps a slight lag behind, just like Xiangling's "Stay". Xiangling was sold into Jia’s residence after several turns. On the way, he saw a few trees and ashes from cooking. What he thought was, “The sun is still setting, and there is a lonely smoke in the market.” Have an intuitive sense of the beauty of life. Miko attends a writing class, carefully observing the food trough, watching apples, and observing the light spots flowing from the branches and leaves of the treetops, but when she learns of the crime committed by her grandson, Miko can no longer write poetry. She looked at the flowers and wrote down - "Blood, red flowers like blood." The meaning of poetry lies in aesthetic pleasure, but in the face of a life that suffers torment and pain, who has the right to cultivate a flower under the water of blood. a beautiful flower? Adorno said: "After Auschwitz, writing poetry is barbaric", and Lin Yihan wrote "literature is eloquent." Similarly, it is precisely because Miko is a real poet that she can't write, she can't Dissolving and consuming the sufferings of others to complete illusory self-indulgence, hypocrisy such as Hu Lancheng and Li Guohua can do it, but it is impossible for the pure and honest Meizi. Sitting on the playground, watching the children playing football, she wrote "the song of the birds, what are they singing", this is her question to the world after thinking. What are the birds singing? After those children hurt others, why can it be like it never happened? She went back on the girl's path, leaning over to see where she had jumped, the wind blew away her white hat, white like a newborn lamb, white like a young girl's fresh body. The rain fell from the sky, and the rain was also tears, which wet the paper, and Meizi left in a hurry. Under the rain all over her body, she also had involuntary sexual acts under the insults and damages of men. She went back to the girl's road, the road of redemption, not only the current road, but also the silent and painful mental road. In the end, she left only a bouquet of flowers and a poem, a song of Agnes.

Mom/How are you over there/Are you lonely/There is still sunset in the evening/Are the birds flying to the forest still singing/Unsent letters/Can you receive/Unspoken words/Do you hear/Time goes by /Will the roses wither/It's time to say goodbye/Like the wind that stays and flies/Like a shadow/The promise that didn't come true/The love buried forever/The grass that kisses my weary ankles/The little footsteps that chase me /It's time to say goodbye/Darkness falls/Will the candles be lit again/I pray/Hope no one cry/Hope you know/How much I love you/The long wait in midsummer/Old alleys like a father's face/And shyness Look away the lonely wild flowers/I love it all/your soft singing/make my heart beat/I bless you/before crossing the black river/with the last breath of my soul/I start to dream/in a certain a fine morning / wake up again / sleepy to see you / by my side

Forgive me I don't have five million, only one poem.

As a creative director, Li Cangdong once again conquered me with his exquisite design and strong control over the text. His text is full of very powerful tension, and the story of "Burning" is even better than Haruki Murakami's own text. In this "Poem", it is risky enough to be able to use Miko's poems as a bright line. What is even more excellent is his reflection on himself and the entire male society after experiencing public opinion, which is rare among male directors. And the shaping of female characters is extremely excellent. Various subtleties depict the conflict and opposition between female social identity and female itself, and the complex, three-dimensional and textured beauty presented by her different social attributes and id is a real beauty. , the heights that can be achieved by female characters who break away from the template.

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  • Sigrid 2022-03-20 09:02:44

    Amazing. Lee Cangdong should be one of the few directors in South Korea who is unwilling to play with the audience, knows how to tactfully express violence, and tries to hide his sensory excitement. The needles in the cotton are intertwined with light and dark, which reflects the infringement and squeeze of women by the patriarchal society. It is more convincing than the hard-core feminist preaching. A series of empty mirrors at the end are used too well.

  • Stan 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    "Don't kick the burned soot rashly. Have you ever... been burned to ashes?" The not-so-complex story was filmed for more than two hours. It was a bit procrastinated, and many branches could actually be cut off properly. Some passages were slightly omitted. Obviously contrived. The movie is more particular and poetic as a whole, especially the ending part. It needs to be experienced with great care, otherwise it will feel dull and tasteless and make people fall asleep. ★★★☆