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Similarities: From the perspective of the plot, the plots of the two films can be summarized as follows: The mother who bears the humiliation and bears acts in order to protect her daughter from the violence of her father. What's interesting is that the image of the sun appears in both films as a testimony. I will mainly analyze this point here.
In the movie "Scars of Hot Tears", a 6-minute solar eclipse occurred when the mother took action: We can see that the mother, Dolores, seemed to decide what was finally decided. She bought wine and bread, and replaced it with beautiful patterns. Clothes, tried to negotiate with her husband, and confirmed with her husband the fact that she least wants to see. After confirmation, desperate and angry, she took the initiative to lead the accident. The picture here is like this:
The main content of this passage is that Dolores understands that her husband has indeed violated her daughter, and the injury may continue. She deliberately angered him, and her husband was beating and chasing her. She came to a hole she had discovered a long time ago, and jumped past her. fall. Then her husband called for help, and she watched him fall.
Before analyzing this picture language, it should be noted that the clever lighting in the film can produce unexpected effects, such as the Rembrandt light used in the 2011 remake of "Jane Eyre" that Mr. Dai Jinhua once said. , Mainly using astigmatism and foot light, to bring a historical reality by imitating the reality of 19th century oil paintings. Another example is the passive light in "The Killer Is Not So Cold". When the girl walks through the body of her brother to the neighbor's house, and Leon opens the door, the girl is bathed in gentle light, almost a sense of religion, although Leon is a killer, but his meaning in that picture is positive.
Going back to the above picture, the first thing you can notice is that the picture of the solar eclipse has been emphasized many times. In the conversation with the husband, the audience will see the different stages of the solar eclipse in the process of the murder step by step. The solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon. The audience has the psychological expectation that this phenomenon will continue, and the murder behavior is synchronized with it. The effect is as if we know that the murder will continue step by step. It will not end and is irresistible. When the protagonist's behavior and this natural phenomenon occur at the same time, her behavior is visually affirmed to a certain extent.
Furthermore, when the moon passes by the sun, the entire picture dims, bringing great visual shock, but this is not just a show of skill. In many cultures (Greek mythology, China, Japan, etc.), the sun is often used as a masculine symbol, while the moon is a relatively feminine symbol. So at the moment of a solar eclipse, the moon covers the sun, the feminine power covers the masculine power, and feminine resists A moment of masculine. And if combined with thematic lines that often appear in the film, "It's a depressingly masculine world we live in." "sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang onto.
In the lens below, Dolores was bathed in sunlight, as if it were a kind of washing. We can see that the golden light covering her face here is soft and sacred. Gold is usually considered the color of the sun, the color of gold. In medieval paintings, gold is usually an improvement to white light, and it is an extraordinary light. If you compare this scene with the murder scenes we have seen before, you will find that the processing is indeed different. Murder was originally sinful, but when the mother chose to do so in order to protect her daughter and for her safety, she was spiritually understood and forgiven in the film.
Look at "The Beginning and End of the Kim Funan Murder" again. By the time it happened, her daughter had been killed by her husband. The women on the island lied that her daughter was killed by herself. Funan’s only friend, Haewon, shook her head when she saw everything, and said that she hadn’t seen anything when she was sleeping. In the next scene, Jin Funan is doing his best to make a perfect grave for his daughter, but he is called unlucky, "Don't do anything," and is ordered to collect potatoes as soon as possible. So Jin Funan, whose daughter had just died, was harvesting potatoes, and a bunch of old accomplices who had just been helping the abuser were drinking, singing and dancing alongside the supervisor.
Take a closer look at this passage. If you don’t know the plot, the audience may think this is a happy scene. The weather is hot, young women harvest, and a few older women sing by the side. It’s almost a harvest carnival picture. When I got here, I even thought of this:
his name is Dionysus, the god of wine, and he can see the vines entwined with him. He has the power to harvest grapes, protects agriculture, and symbolizes emotional indulgence. Therefore, the Western Bacchus is often associated with carnivals. Nietzsche refers to the state of Bacchus as "the whole emotional system is excited and excited", which is the "total excitation and total release of emotions." There is a picture of the Greek god of Dionysus above. In this kind of ceremony, people break all taboos, liberate individual shackles, and return to primitive nature.
Looking at the above picture again, first of all, the audience knows that the tragedy happened before (the heroine’s daughter was killed). In fact, they are nervous at this time. We know what is about to happen, but we don’t know when and how it happened. . Then there is such a peaceful picture presented before us. On one side, there are a bunch of old women enjoying drinking and singing, and even dancing. On the other side, Jin Funan, who has just suffered the pain of losing her daughter, is driven by continued enslavement. Sad, the evil ones are happier, and the bitter ones are sorrowful. The cross-editing of this paragraph brings out this strong sense of contrast. Originally, Jin Funan had been working all the time. She acted as if she really looked like an animal, not knowing sorrow, joy and anger, but working with great strength. Suddenly, her movements stopped abruptly, giving her a pause here, and the picture Composition becomes simple. The joyful rhythm stopped suddenly, and we saw a figure of Jin Funan who was photographed from above. The purpose of photographing from upward was to make the subject appear tall and seems to have a sense of control over things next to him. We saw a close-up of Jin Funan’s face. Sad, tortured unbearable eyes. Staying and close-ups are for explaining information. Such a face makes us even more unaware of what is going to happen. It has a defamiliarizing effect that attracts attention. After such a scene appeared for a while, Jin Funan suddenly resumed her swift movements. She strode to the shade, picked up a bottle of water, drank it, and said, "The sun is talking to me." The women started again. While laughing at her, she picked up a scythe next to her and killed someone.
The sun is here, both inspiring and instructing by nature. The carnival scene here is not only the last carnival of the women next to them, but also the beginning of Jin Funan's emotional indulgence.
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Later, let's analyze the difference between the next two movies. In fact, due to the different backgrounds of the story, although it can be summarized as an angry mother killing her father in order to protect her daughter, the narrative methods, the content of the story, and the results are very different, which are determined by different cultural cores.
First of all, there are differences between the subjects of revenge. Dolores has always been very tough in the play. Whether it is work or people, she is soft and hard, and the key point is that she has financial independence and she makes money to support her family. All this makes her not so weak after being bullied. bully. It’s more exciting to
look at the picture: a domestic violence in the film:
the lesson she taught her husband after her daughter went to bed at night:
Jin Funan lives on an uncivilized desert island, and her situation is much more miserable. Her husband beats and scolds her, and all men on the island can play with her. Her husband summons a prostitute home. She turns a deaf ear at the door, eats a lot, and eats ugly, unlike a person, and she does not live like a human being.
(Look at a distorted scene there, taken from Funan’s perspective, probably her world has always been so crooked.)
She is stubborn, even if she is not educated, she will resist stubbornly, but she can’t beat the whole island, probably I usually don't bother to fight with those old women who help the abuse.
She cares so much about her daughter's education and never wants her daughter to repeat her destiny. Delores is the same as her.
Second, the battered daughter:
Although Selena looked a bit mentally sensitive when the film appeared, when she was young, she could be seen as a well-behaved and sensible daughter. She helped her mother share the housework and went to the hotel to work to supplement the family, with good grades. When her father hurts her, she may not be able to accept it, so she falsifies and forgets it from her memory, as she said, if something hurts her, "she leaves". At the end of the film, she is learning everything After that, he finally reached a reconciliation with his mother and chose to walk out of the shadows.
Yan'er was only ten years old when she appeared in "Jin", and her mind was immature. Her situation was even sadder and thought-provoking. In fact, many times Jin Funan’s husband may have beaten and abused Jin, but Yan'er may have accepted it. In the film, she was given a shot:
Much like her mother, she turned a deaf ear and concentrated on eating.
But what’s more frightening is that Selena did not take the initiative to accept the wrong values, but Yan'er took the initiative to accept the decadent value orientation in her childhood. After her father called a prostitute, she quickly entered the ranks of grabbing her father’s love. The way, greased and powdered, and red nail polish horribly painted, watching her mother be beaten.
Yan'er is still the only one in the world who cares about Jin Funan, and is willing to leave for her mother. It's a pity that this little girl who just said that it is better to live in a place like shit is worse than dead, and died in a place where shit is worse.
Third, the bystander group. If the male victims in "Scars of Tears"-Vera, Delores, and Selena, when they discovered what they had in common, were cooperative and conspiring to understand the relationship of reconciliation, then "Gold" is just the opposite, with the woman in it. Most are called bystanders or even accomplices.
"Scars of Tears" Vera
does not judge from the point of view of values. Vera appears in the memories of Delores' extremely rough and terrible hands. She is arrogant, harsh, and severe, which makes Delores have such a hard life, which seems to be a negative role. But we saw that when Delores was upset because of her daughter and couldn’t help crying, the woman asked someone to make tea and asked her gently the reason. For the first time, she didn’t need to be called Madam, but Vera, her The given name, this more familiar name is also used till the end. We were surprised to see that Vera had personal concerns about Delores's experience, and she did make rational suggestions that running away is not the way to solve the problem. Even a showdown of his own past. Since then, Delores and Vera have formed an alliance. Maybe Vera is still harsh and terrifying, Delores is also cursing her constantly, but in fact they are the only people in this world who care about each other. When Vera was old, Delores took care of her; Vera could not bear the taste of her own aging and insisted on asking for death. Delores even planned to help her make her, without considering what this action would bring to her; after Vera died, Delores passed her At the door of the house, you still have to put the foot pads like Vera likes. I can’t accept that the police officer actually kept Vera’s urinal as physical evidence. She is an old person who wants to wear silk pajamas. How can she bear her urine People watching. Delores respects Vera's independent choice as a human being. Vera left all of his inheritance to Delores as early as 8 years before his death. They have become a complete alliance.
The female groups in "Gold" make us even more desperate.
They look like this most of the time: watching is a kind of indulgence, and lying to be an accomplice is totally evil.
They uphold patriarchy and the idea of male superiority and inferiority to women has long gone deep into their bones. Even though they are women, they must do their best to demean women, rely on flattery and squeeze younger women to survive.
Hearing Funan's husband actually said "kind shit", he showed a sincere expression of surprise.
They indulge evil, eavesdrop on resistance, and
hate whistleblowers who are different from their own choices:
even if they have become poor of the same kind, they don’t stop the perpetrators, and they must do everything possible to seize the opportunity to satirize the victims
even at the last moment of their lives. Looking at the ship in the distance, the man in the distance, looking for a man to kill the disobedient woman in front of him.
In such an uncivilized environment on the island, we do not fully know what is going on, but an environment where men are inferior to women has existed in China for a long time. Once, under the Confucian cultural environment of "monarchs, ministers, ministers, fathers and sons," family relations were extremely strict, and a country was composed of thousands of well-ordered families. Then, a young person with a low status and a female sex seems to have committed the original sin and must endure all kinds of inequality. Maybe it’s not appropriate to comment on a Korean movie with such words, but the fate of the old woman in the movie is also the same. If she doesn’t choose to resist, her only way out is to survive until she is old and bully the new young woman, man. Still the object of kneeling licking and worship. She did this. No wonder Jin Funan was so angry whenever she wanted to change her mind. What Jin Funan opposed was not only the creed of her life, but also probably one of the few pleasures in her life that could be mastermind.
The more important part of the bystander group is her: Haiyuan, this pitted bestie, she who brings hope and destroys everything.
Haewon is a bystander in the city. She lives in Seoul. A girl chased by several people asks for help. She closes the car window indifferently. She is also indifferent to the girl being killed. Naturally, she doesn’t want to be on this island 15 years ago. She just wanted to enjoy the island as a pastime when she was in a relationship with her friends. Jin Funan begged her to take Yan'er to Seoul, but she refused; she witnessed Yan'er being beaten to death by Jin Funan's father, but said that she hadn't seen it; she saw Funan take a knife and slash her wicked husband, she finally made a noise , Tell them to be careful; what’s even more ironic is this:
when she was young, she taught her to play the flute, and a group of boys came over, aggressively and maliciously. The flute was knocked down, and when Haewon returned, the boys used Haewon's flute to open Funan's clothes. Haewon's gift becomes a murder weapon, and Haewon herself is a bystander and does not interfere.
After growing up, Jin Funan also protected Haewon who betrayed her when she experienced the pain of losing her daughter. After killing everyone, she handed her a flute, but the flute eventually became a weapon to kill her.
If the flute represents hope for another kind of life, then Funan probably has no hope. Living in such an environment, hope will take away her little life.
The only person in "Jin" who tried to help Funan was a lovely whore who stumbled, but did not explain her whereabouts is unknown.
Of course, there are also men on the sidelines in both films. The man in "Scars of Tears", except for a police officer who has been eager to convict Delores in order to achieve the perfection of his career, the others are almost well-educated, kind and kind. "Jin" is a complete display of evil in the most natural environment of people:
dead and disgusting uncle:
even if Jin Funan kills, her husband despises her instead of being afraid. This contempt for women makes him finally When he died
, he wanted to make money without forgetting the hurtful sailing boy who
helped the gang to abuse
him. The policeman who rushed to kill his life finally happened in the background. "Scars of Tears" combined with its narrative techniques, the place where the story took place, Selena's hometown is more rendered as old, without motels, no fax machines, foggy, and it takes a long time to get there by boat, and compared with the previous shots, In New York, it is still a scene of blue sky and white clouds. When expressing the current situation of this place, there is usually such a light:
This is a dark memory-carrying place, and it also contains the pain of the past.
In "Gold", it is also a small island. At first, this island gave us the feeling that it was hot and deserted. The residents on the island were almost single-digit, and the elderly accounted for the majority. This is an island that is getting old and dying. In the end, there was only one grandpa who couldn't take care of himself, an island without hope.
But the last shot is more interesting.
At the end of the film, Haewon, who treats everything as an outsider, may be touched by Jin Funan’s incident. She identified the crimes of a group of people at the beginning of the film. She returned home and lay quietly on the floor. Then, the film gave us these two things. Shots:
A shot of an island like this turning into a female body actually appeared in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. There is a symbol of a mother. Here, a woman looks like a woman lying peacefully and suffering many hardships. In the dialogue between the men in the film, we know that there were many men on this island, but the only one who died in a shipwreck was the grandfather who could only shake in the film reviews. Then the grandma beat the grandfather first, and then one after another. Please come home for dinner and tea. The terrible minority is the majority. I don’t know what the grandfather has experienced. She is the only person Jin Funan has not killed. Jin Funan is the only woman among a group of men on the island, and she is also the tyranny of the majority against the minority.
Perhaps this island is also full of painful past, just like Jin Funan who is stuck on the island and has nowhere to go. And Haewon witnessed this in mind.
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