Contradiction under confinement, break free from confinement

Dejah 2021-12-30 17:18:17

Lust, loneliness, imprisonment, patriarchy, growth, break free... After watching Kim Kidd’s "Bow", a series of words popped up in my mind. This film of less than an hour and a half contained rich content. The more beautiful pictures and the music with oriental characteristics make people have endless aftertastes after watching them.
An old man and a young girl live on a fishing boat in the vast ocean. This is very similar to the story of a confined space. Although there are waves of tourists who come to the boat to fish with the old man, even if it is the last to take the girl away The teenager is also like an outsider, this is more the story of the old man and the girl, or their respective stories.
The girl in the film is like an elf falling into the mortal world. In the whole film, she doesn't speak, but with a sweet smile at all times, swinging on a swing, predicting the fate of others amidst the swaying back and forth. The old man, with his kindness, is blunt. There is no doubt that living alone on a fishing boat in the sea is lonely, so he needs that girl. In the film, he begins to explain that he found the missing girl on the shore, but later in the narration of the teenager, we can know that the girl's parents have been looking for the girl. This also brought me a "malicious" suspicion. Was the girl really brought back by the old man as a homeless person? Could it be that after meeting a poor girl who was separated from her parents, he brought it back? The relationship between the old man and the girl is complicated. I don’t think his two girls must be a kind of lust or love. People are always easy to pull a kind of close feeling into love, just like the heroine in "King Kong". It is generally boring to talk about the relationship with King Kong about love, and still argue about the possibility for a day. It can be seen that the old man's feelings for girls are more spiritual than simple lust. Although the old people count their "marriage" days on the calendar, it is not so much the old people's love for the girls, but rather the old people's desire to possess the girls. This kind of possession is in fear of loneliness. In his own eyes, it is kind, but in fact it is selfish. From the later weddings, it can be seen that the old man is conservative and old-fashioned, so he also has a kind of The old thought that when he married a girl, he would take her, she would never leave him again, and he would never be lonely again, so when he found that the girl was about to leave, he could only jump in The sea, because he can no longer bear loneliness.
Of course, the old man also has the element of love for girls. In girls, he actually poured all the emotions that men have towards women. There is love, and there is more affection between father and daughter. The "bow" in the film has the meaning of a double-edged sword. The "bow" is actually a symbol of the old man's feelings for the girl. He regards the fishing boat as a space almost isolated from the outside world. Just like a husband, he can't understand any man's closeness to his "wife"; just like a father, he can't understand the pollution of his "daughter" by anyone outside. The old man's affection for the girl is domineering and sincere, so when he glares at any man trying to get close to the girl, he kindly bathes the girl, holding her hand tightly. However, after all, he could not confine the girl's heart forever. The girl gradually began her "resistance" as she grew up. At first, it was more of a rebellion against patriarchy, but later it was a desire for freedom. The old man is painful, and a particularly interesting scene is that when the old man let the girl go away, he seems to be trying to "suicide". People who have fallen in love but broke up may be able to understand his feelings. When you love someone deeply, but the other person insists on leaving you, you will always make performance-based "self-harm" behaviors, trying to Arouse the other's mercy, even though it is a self-deception. The old man was like this. He didn't want to die, so he tried to cut the rope with a knife while the rope was tightening his neck. When the girl hurried back, he quickly concealed his intentions. The old man's desperate "mischief" also made people treat him. Be compassionate.
There has never been love that can be imprisoned, only marriages that can be imprisoned. What's more, the girl has begun to grow up, at the time of an incapable youth, at an age full of dreams, and an intrusive teenager makes her departure seem unwilling to hesitate. Jin Kidd made a good preparation before the appearance of the young boy. The men who appeared before this time were all wretched appearances, and had an indistinguishable desire for girls, and the old man's protection of the girls made the two seem very happy on the surface. And the teenager is undoubtedly a kind of unstoppable gravitational force from the outside world, a silent force that breaks the imprisonment, so the girl has to follow this gravitational force to leave, so the old man finally has to face the reality, after a "wedding", he jumped into The sea gave the girl freedom as well as her own freedom, and when the girl left, she completely broke the boat that imprisoned her. After all, the vast sea swallowed up the environment created by the old man trying to escape from reality, or this environment after all To integrate into a larger environment, there has never been a quarantine, the girl can finally dream of freedom.
The ending of the film is quite special. Just like the flying knife that suddenly appeared in "The Banquet" made people wonder who put it, the arrow shot at the end of the film is also intriguing. What is more intriguing is that the last girl is alone She struggled with a passionate excitement, and her virginity was also "taken away" during the struggle, or she deliberately left it here. I understand this is also her complicated feelings for the elderly. Although the long-term imprisonment made her resent the elderly, the long-term life made her feel compassion for the elderly and difficult to give up easily. Therefore, she would rather leave her virginity here, leave the girl's feelings here, and throw away all of this, she ran to the sea with the teenager to welcome a new life.
"Bow" is a movie full of contradictions, and the old man always seems to be at the center of the contradiction. The old man and the young girl, the old man and the young man, the old man and the external environment, etc., Jin Ji De tells the fable of the contradictory reality with an extreme story. , Can be described as intriguing.

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  • Evangeline 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    I haven't watched Kim Ki-duk since this one. . .

  • Eric 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    But why didn't you take me away, why did you watch me go towards nothingness, towards destruction. Even if this is the result of my choice. You should, take me away. I cried at the end of the movie. The movie I watched before going out tonight, the only movie Kim Ki-duk made me cry.