His films have always been difficult to understand, and perhaps it would be easier to watch them with the answers in mind.
Watching "The Bow" with longing, because I like Kim Ki-duk's extreme, love, pain, silence, all appear in front of Kim Ki-duk's camera in a posture of rising to destruction. "Bow" lived up to expectations, and played another scenery game. Jin's lens beauty was only slightly inferior to Iwai Shunji, but this time the picture should be regarded as the best of Jin's films I've seen. Yan red, primrose yellow, oil green, indigo, the color blocks with traditional Chinese colors are particularly eye-catching among the vast water colors that have always appeared.
Eye-catching is like the girl the old man loves deeply, with the bright smile on her face. She was picked up from the shore by an old man at the age of six and never left. The old man let the water surround her with this God-given grace, and carefully gave her all the good things she had - the enchantingness of water and air, the soft lethality endowed by bows and arrows, the pure and pure rhythm of erhu, and the isolation brought by the world. Talents are different... Maybe, from the first day he met a girl, the old man was an idealized lover who began to cultivate his dream lover with love?
Ten years have come to a dream. For a 60-year-old man, ten years may be a long wait for love, but for a little girl, after ten years, her youth blooms like a chrysanthemum, and her years of growth are the fatal clue to changing her life. .
When a girl grows up, the person in front of her is the person who gave her all the good things in the world. He is still strong, full of warmth, and takes care of himself all the time. In the process of growing up, the middle-aged uncles who came and went on the boat brought inexplicable unease and uncomfortable enthusiasm. Therefore, they are not important, they are all passers-by in front of their eyes. Even when they have bad intentions, the toy "bow" in which girls and old people live can be the best weapon for teaching them that when the bow is drawn and the arrow is pointed at them, they are not guests for their own livelihood, and they are transformed into The enemy of the small world on this ship. Of course, the bored middle-aged man escaped from this other's territory under the threat of arrows, and the enemy disappeared naturally.
Another skill that girls and old people rely on to survive is fortune-telling. When the swaying swing hangs down from the edge of the old ship, I believe people will be amazed by the cleverness of the old man's mind. The girl dancing in the sea breeze is tied with five-colored ribbons on her wrist. Behind the girl is the mottled Buddha statue on the ship. The picture shows Strange beauty. However, this is not a fairy tale. When the arrow shot by the old man on the boat at the girl flies through the girl's hair, everyone will realize that all this is a carefully constructed fortune-telling ritual, where life is exchanged for unpredictable others. future calculations. Three arrows were pulled from the Buddha, the girl whispered to the old man, and the old man whispered to the commissioned fortune-teller, and the mystery was achieved in the ceremony. I don't know if such fortune-telling is justified, but other fortune-telling methods are equally unreasonable. The trajectory of fate has always been, whether there is faith or not.
Girls, old people, bows and arrows, erhu, boats are all the elements that make up a peaceful world. But if it continues like this, the marriage ceremony will be completed on the seventh birthday of the girl. Telling this story has no meaning. Life is bound to fail to satisfy anyone's wishes. People's wishes are more precious because they are difficult to satisfy.
On an ordinary day, another group of anglers boarded the boat. The difference was that a young boy's sunny cheeks were mixed with the middle-aged men, shining with an irresistible light. The girl was naturally attracted by the light cable from afar. Therefore, what seems to be an ordinary day will also be a turning point in no longer silent life. The boy had earphones on his ears, and the girl who only heard the old man's erhu voice grabbed the boy's earphones and listened to herself. How different the world is outside, how limited my own world is, how bleak the old man who took care of him for ten years, and the boy in front of him is so different... The life of repeating ten years is gone forever, the old man watches from the glass frame in the cabin The intimacy of the girl and the boy, the gray face mixed with the hideous. The old man's repeated activities in the past, shooting arrows at the man who harassed the girl, and then taking the girl away from them like a knight, was no longer effective. When the old man's arrow threatened the boy this time and took the girl away, the girl's eyes were full of resentment.
The girl has changed, the intoxicating beauty is gone, her rebellion against her existing life has sprung up...
After that, the old man expels the boy, who wants to drive away the source of evil. Before the boy left, he was determined to take the girl away from the life of the old man. The boy left the headset to the girl, and another hope was planted in the girl's heart.
The sound of the erhu's strings rose and fell, echoing on the water.
If this is not a Kim Ki-duk movie, but Hollywood, then the rest of the story is very simple and will be the plot of Prince Charming's successful rescue of the princess. But that's not what Kim Ki-duk wants to say.
The old man hurriedly wanted to continue his wish. He couldn't wait any longer. Days passed, and the heart of his beloved girl was about to fly out of the boat. I can't wait to marry a seventeen-year-old, and the arrow is on the line. The calendar was torn one by one, and the old man felt that he was the master of the world, and that time, characters, and plots had to develop according to his wishes. On a choppy night, the raised beds were pieced together into a huge wedding bed, and the old man and the girl seemed to be fighting like a raging wave. The result of the struggle seems to have not been as the old man wished, after all, the woman in his arms is all he has cherished for ten years.
On a sunny day, the boy's Prince Charming appearance seemed to bring hope, and the girl was ecstatic. The boy held the girl's relative in his hand to find evidence of the girl, and let the old man who had kidnapped innocent girls for ten years release him. In order to honor the ceremony on the ship, the boy even proposed to use fortune-telling to understand the girl's whereabouts.
At this time, the old man's bow was full, and the arrow moved with the girl's swing. After two arrows were almost fatal, the third arrow was more like a shooting. Boy, pull the rope of the swing, but the calculated fate has already been seen in the arrow of the Buddha's body. Hidden in the dark night, the old man manipulated the only boat that could leave the big boat. Could it be that Kim Ki-duk wants to repeat the method of "Spring and Winter Comes" to punish young men and women?
The next day, the boy got up and took the girl away, and the old man returned to the cabin silently. The struggle of an old man was to tie him to the ship that carried his beloved girl away. When the boat was far enough away, the rope around the old man's neck had locked him for life. When the boat was restrained by the rope and could not move forward, the more determined the boy was to start the boat, the closer the old man on the rope was to death. This is a kind of visualization of helplessness in life. Jin Ji-de is good at showing the most painful emotions of human beings more sharply and directly. The plot of "The Drift Bathroom" has been blurred by most people, and the classic fish hook is creepy to think of.
Girls and old people always have love, right? One-dimensional love cannot be called love. Ten years of tacit understanding, let the girl turn around, and the boat that cut the rope returned to the big boat. When the girl felt distressed for the old man, she found a reason for her to stay and get married. Love, what is it? Is it ten years with the old man, or the moment when he sees the boy? Or neither? Or both? If so, how to measure? how to choose? Is the girl's return a helpless choice? However, from the return of her sweet smile at the wedding ceremony, we cannot see helplessness.
People are complicated. Human desires, desires and dispositions are complex. When we cannot balance everything that happens in our life, especially when our desires conflict with the kindness deep in human nature, it is the old man and the girl who are faced with the challenge of fulfilling ourselves or others. choose. No matter what, the final weight that you can decide is still only yourself. Old people and girls, the final decision is also their own.
The end of the movie is the most trance of the plot. The old man and the girl who held the wedding ceremony left the big boat in a small boat, leaving the boy, the third party of their emotions and the only witness of their wedding, on the big boat. They sailed the boat away, as if they were going to perform the final ceremony of the wedding under the witness of heaven and earth. However, when the girl's wedding dress was taken off and she was lying quietly on the deck waiting in white clothes, the old man just pulled up the erhu on the boat, and everything was frozen on the water with the same scenery. In the song, the old man draws a full bow, and the erhu bow is placed on it, shooting towards the sky. The arrow disappeared, and the old man jumped into the water. The girl was still asleep on the boat. The unmanned boat drifted down the river.
The small boat returned to the big boat as if it were homing. The erhu bow fell from the sky and shot at the girl's snow-white skirt, as if helping the old man to complete the final ceremony. Boys and girls finally leave the ship where they lived for ten years. All wishes of all have to come to an end. The old man's wedding and the girl's repayment are completed in a seemingly bizarre plot. The water boat sails out.
Leaving Kim Ki-deok's conclusion that "strength and beauty are like a taut bow, it cannot be forgotten until death" is a confession for the elderly.
Such a summary makes everyone's most lustful wishes feel desolate. The bow of our life may be opened anytime and anywhere, and the size of the wish becomes the driving force, pulling the bowstring, the arrow is on the string, and there will be damage after it is shot. The purpose of the injury may be our enemy, perhaps our lover, or passers-by. But who is responsible for the power and purpose of the bow of life? Behind the injury, behind the force, stands a lonely shadow, waiting to bear the result.
The old man's bow and arrow were finally replaced by the music-producing Hu Gong, and his injury was caused by the harmony between strength and beauty. The giving and receiving of love, he finally chooses the ritualized acquisition, and let the loved one be reborn. And the girl has already paid for her first love, which may be the most precious thing the old man thinks.
The end of "Bow" perfectly completes Mr. Jin's twelve works. Compared with the agility and weirdness of "Empty House" and the philosophy of life of "Spring and Winter Comes", I love the former two more. "Bow" is the third in my mind.
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