A powerful game that brings back the dead

Jerrell 2022-01-13 08:03:01

In retrospect, Park Chan-wook's "Recreating Love of Humans" was the movie that brought me back to life the most this year. Everyone is afraid of commercial taste and don't want to watch Arain, but I said I can trust Park Chan-wook-seeing him fight against the commercial film Jie Jie in detail one by one, it is simply a must-have, and I feel happy. Think about RAIN fans. It takes a long time before the movie opens before you can really see Arain’s handsome face (I bet your parton). RAIN’s strong muscles are still covered by the uniform of the loose body mental hospital, so I can’t help but laugh. . Some comments pointed out that I certainly agree with the taste of the playground of the mental hospital, but for me, play should include and especially point to the play of Park Chan-wook himself. In the climax of the hot kiss scene in the whole film, Rain stretches her tongue violently and can be regarded as over-commitment. On the other side, the heroine is curled up in a bunch, her head and neck are twisted 360 degrees, and the hot wheels are still stepping on her feet (Imagine the distortion and runaway in the body. Traffic congestion), looks stiff and weirdly panicked. And who can say that this is not an accurate expression of a girl’s true feelings? For contemporary rotten women, the most critical turning point in love is whether they are determined to face a certain kind of man who has a good impression of themselves and see their inner self. The panic of loneliness and weird; and this kind of imaginary panic of others is always projected on his face. Seeing these many turning points, I feel relieved to express my touch to the audience around me.

The mental hospital of a metaphorical prison is often conceived as a playground in the opposite sense, and this is not enough. I've seen Shunji Iwai's "Dream Traveler" before, and it is also about the kind-hearted and innocent young people who were being detained in the mental hospital and were hurt. They walked along the edge of the wall, going to the end of the world and waiting for the world to be destroyed. They thought it was an outing (PICNIC), and they thought the world would be destroyed. At the end, the heroine is dead, but the world is not destroyed. The hero angrily hugs the heroine's body and shoots at the sunset continuously (don't remember whether he committed suicide).

It is generally believed that mental illness is "escape from reality," and the frustration at the end of "Dream Traveler" lies in the fact that the mental patient's disorganized fantasy construction, the energy of running away and resistance, collapses when facing reality. Comparing "Dream Traveler" and "Recreating Human Love", you can see Park Chan-wook's strength. Park Chan-wook uses this disparity between patients and hospitals, prisoners and jailers, reality and fantasy as their creative background.

The problem with the heroine (Lin Xiujing) in the movie is that she thinks she is a cybrog (so she doesn’t eat). In order to realize the existence of cybrog, she wants to kill all the doctors and nurses in the hospital; but she has compassion (and others) Some weak emotions), so I still can't start, very sad. How much she hoped her grandmother would tell herself what the "meaning of existence" was, of course she never got the answer. For the heroine, her problem of existence is, since I am a cybrog, why do I have sympathy? But the real problem in the eyes of the audience is of course that she is clearly a human but thinks she is a cybrog. She constantly raises questions about the meaning of existence and constantly fights (including rain calling the whole hospital on a hunger strike to ask the hospital to respect the heroine’s right not to eat. ), struggling between desire and perception, is completely wrong direction, will lead to her destruction. There is a double sorrow in it. And when Rain stole the heroine's sympathy, she turned into a machine gun rebuilder, using her finger as the muzzle, shooting frantically at the doctors and nurses, constantly spitting out empty shells. After a bloody and bloody shooting, of course the reality has not changed. In other words, the survival meaning of the heroine's pursuit, the struggle between her compassion and desire, and her pain are clear and have no influence on reality. This is the disparity between strengths and weaknesses. When confronted by the police, many demonstrators often need to make a psychological struggle first, asking themselves to what extent they should respect the police. To what extent should we fight? Cheat or cheat? Curse or curse? Hit or not? However, it is clear that if you respect, abuse, deceive, persuade, fall in love with, knock down, or lose a policeman, or even kill a policeman, it has no effect on the structure of the entire state apparatus. This is the disparity between strengths and weaknesses. However, we still have to think hard.

Then Park was once again incomparably strong here, persuading you and inviting you to play with him. The heroine's machine gun transformation function, exaggerated recoil, jitter, and comical shooting violence effect, accompanied by the beautiful music of Waltz, was repeatedly shown Jane directly and complacent. Park Chan-wook is so confident in the pleasure of "repetition." Pu’s creativity, which is the source of the vitality and resistance of the prisoner, is to conceive the interaction of individual patients’ conditions with hospital regulations. In other words, it is inside the mental hospital, not the world “outside the hospital”. Therefore, Park Chan-wook doesn’t need the exodus structure like "Dream Traveler" in exchange for breathing space for autism. Instead, he constantly invents new symptoms and corresponding rules and methods, although the result is only some disturbance of the state apparatus-he tried to Convince us that the most important thing is the process. Perhaps this delay of stopping and turning into a little magic makes Lang Tian feel that this movie can be described as "a pornographic film that is like a fake, which extends the process of sex indefinitely." My Bataille didn't read it well, only I remembered one sentence: Porn is pure waste. Indeed, these disturbances, delays, and magic are as volatile as alcohol and non-cumulative, but isn’t it just the phrase “give up hope and continue to exert force” in life in the film — this is not necessarily reality (maybe disturbances can be accumulated It's), but it's like a fairy tale in the disparity between the strong and the weak. I hope to teach you to be a human being to solve life problems, comfort. In terms of pure reason, comfort is not necessarily false.

"Recreating the Love of Humans" was left to be written three months later, and as a result it encountered a relatively easy-to-understand interpretation opportunity. Remember why Lin Xiujing went crazy? She could not accept that her family sent her grandmother who was feeding rats to a nursing home, and was guilty because she did not give her dentures to her grandmother and prevented her from eating. The grandmother symbolizes the origin of oneself, and the combination of one's own origin and dirt and uncleanness is totally repulsive. Because of the imagination of maintaining a clean and normal family order, the grandmother must be excluded and sent to the nursing home. Containing mental illness, Zizek’s colloquial subject of the revolution: "Sorry to mark and (identify) the inherent exceptions/exclusions in the concrete order of existence, that is, the "abject", which is regarded as truly universal The only place of sex. "The heroine is because she can’t accept rejection of others (to completely expel part of her self), can’t accept machine violence (the medical staff’s rudeness to her grandmother), can’t accept her own powerlessness and negligence, and finally Think of yourself as a cybrog. In the future central planning of the military and political trinity, Queen’s Wharf is of course an obnoxious object that has to be eliminated (government thugs articles are sometimes really ugly), even if its spatial pattern itself is engraved with the colonial history of the city, it is also Will be excluded. Excluding is certainly not polite, and it is already rude enough in parliament. Let's be Lin Xiujing together.

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Extended Reading
  • Alana 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    "Beautiful Miss Switzerland", the lyrics are memorized properly, I sing it every day, now I only remember you oh la~dy

  • Alberto 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    In a weird and witty way, it criticizes the modern mental hospital system that only focuses on external physiotherapy rather than the patient's soul, and the indifference of the entire human social group dominated by technical rationality. The lost structure of being needs to be projected into the realm of inter-soul interaction and communion in order to be truly healed.

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK quotes

  • Park Il-sun: Psycho.

    Cha Young-goon: I'm not a psy-cho. I'm a cy-borg.

  • Cha Young-goon: Mom, I think I'm a cyborg.

    Young-goon's mother: ...What is that?

    Cha Young-goon: I think it's kind of... like a robot?

    Young-goon's mother: ...Have you missed your period? Because you're a 'sy-bor'?