"What Time Means"

Makayla 2022-11-07 00:40:16

About Li Cangdong, I don't know much about him. A few years ago, I watched "Poem" and "Oasis". These days, on a whim, I watched "Mint" and "Miryang" again. My favorite is still "Poem".
Regarding "Mints", Li Changdong said that he wanted to remind young people to think about "what time means". He uses the subjective shot of the train moving forward as a metaphor that recurs throughout the film. Human life is like a train moving irresistibly on the track of fate. I remembered that in our documentary, there was also a train that went through the woods when it was raining, the rain hit the window, and the driver yawned impatiently.
Li Changdong added: "The audience who are particularly obsessed with "Mint" are good people, maybe they want to keep some fragile dreams rather than shatter it." I am not particularly obsessed with "Mints", and even a little bit annoying about the movie. The protagonist is cold, mean, and selfish, and I don't want to give him a second look. But as the story goes back and forth, the former Kim Yong-ho is a completely different person. What does time mean?

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Extended Reading
  • Kaleb 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    A movie belonging to a social male: The Gwangju Incident shows the strangulation of nature and dreams by political spurs. Manslaughter of girls means an inadvertent or compelling sin in the system. In the dark-bellied Vanity Fair, we conceal knives in our laughter, and continue to expand the boundaries of means and costs in order to achieve our goals. If we are powerless or unwilling to torture and reflect, we will destroy all the beautiful things with our own hands! At this time, this heart, seeing this film, is very lucky in this life!

  • Darien 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    A/ After paving the way for most of the ecstasy, the scenes reveal the trauma of history and the alienation of people, returning to the lost origin like a foxtrot. The retrospective connection of each image in the forgotten lines is like a needle through painstaking efforts, and the follow-up time constantly repairs the previous fragments. The flashback script really has a sharp sense of cutting time and space, and the audience's thoughts are completely caught in the director's palm. A very literary creation, but the power undoubtedly comes from the contemplative image.

Peppermint Candy quotes

  • Yongho: Do you think life's beautiful?

  • Yongho: I don't want to die alone. I need one bastard to come with me. Just one bastard among all that ruined my life. But then... Who should I kill? It gives me hard time, you know. To pick just one is hard thing to do. The fucking stock broker who made me go clean broke? The vampire like loan shark that charged the ridiculous interest? Or... how about the business partner who run away with my money? Or should I take my ex-wife and my kid to die with me? There're so many fuckers in my life that it's hard to pick just one.