——The inscription
"Bow" is the second movie directed by Kim Kidd that I have watched. Buddha statues, isolated islands in the water, boats floating in the deep sea, and the sweet smile of the girl blurred. From "Spring" to "Bow", Kim Kidd has always spoken in his own accent. Time, place, and background are drastically cut off. The constricted space, simple or even non-existent lines, and music throughout, all have been transformed into symbols, refined, precise, and symbols in one sentence.
On a large mottled ship, the old man raised a girl in isolation for ten years, with the purpose of waiting for her to marry her when she was 17 years old. The girl grows up like a red cherry, sweet and inviting. The old man takes care of bathing the girl, combing her hair, holding her hand to sleep, and marking the wedding date on the calendar every day. She is his crop, and he works hard every day to water, fertilize, and catch insects, looking forward to the crops harvested in autumn. But the young man on the boat suddenly brought news about the outside world to the girl, and the girl's eyes became more restless. The chess game that the old man managed so painstakingly was dismantled, and he furiously crossed out the numbers on the calendar board, and it was difficult to change the fact that the girl was about to escape. The girl finally got on the boat with the young man and left. The old man put the rope connected with the boat around his neck. The girl found that she returned to the big boat and cried with the old man. In the end, the old man's wish was fulfilled, and he married the girl on a big boat wearing traditional Korean costumes, and then shot an arrow into the sky and plunged himself into the deep sea. The girl intersects with the falling arrow strangely, completing the process from girl to woman...
I always like pure things, pure to simple, pure to luxurious, pure to stubborn, pure to hypocritical, pure to black, pure to white , Pure to nothing... "Bow" is a movie that strives to be close to pure, gentle and violent, merciful and murderous, without a trace of white space or transition, seemingly abrupt but unusually reasonable placed together, making people take a bite Cool air.
This reminds me of a Zen case "Nanquan Slashing Cats". The word "Zhan" violates the basic Buddhist precepts of "precept to kill", but it awakens everyone. This slash with a knife broke people's inertia of thinking and gave a sense of enlightenment. . And the indecent love between the old man and the girl in "Bow", in the horrified eyes of the young man trying to rescue the girl, does it also mean "cutting"?
Of course, the film expresses more than that. Desire and destiny are like fog on the sea, covering the story from beginning to end. Many times we borrowed the name of love to ignite raging desires. This desire is like a bow that is gradually full, painstakingly managed, slowly laying out, aiming, positioning, shooting an arrow, and then we smile at the dying prey. "Bow" depicts such a process of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow with delicate and heavy brushstrokes, penetratingly on the back of the paper.
How selfish I love you. In order to get you, I exhausted all the decisive ways, even at the cost of my life, but I finally took possession of you, the bargaining chip in my hand was lost, empty, empty, I can no longer consume you, so I fell to ashes at the peak. You are the end that I have already considered. I am waiting for you and meeting you in this life to repay you. At this moment, everything has been completed. I am addicted to the deep sea of desire and smile in the sea.
Bowing and archery are probably the most untiring game for men and women on earth.
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