breathless

Tate 2022-11-01 09:40:11

Flowers on the roadside, mint candies, bicycles that keep going in circles, crazy military training, fake guns without bullets, are you watching the rain? Let's watch it together.

Willing to give the embarrassing process, the indifferent process, the distorted process, and the naked frankness to the audience.

Many times when the train is moving forward, the car is driving backwards, the bicycle is driving backwards, the tricycle is driving backwards, and people are walking backwards.

Life is beautiful, right? It seems to be far away from me, it seems to be very close, I don't know, it's still very strange, I shouldn't dare to watch it again in the future.

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  • Elsie 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    Koreans have made so many movies about "things that can't be said in China". I thought it was just a film about a personal situation, so it was a bit of a surprise and a shock when it suddenly appeared; besides, the film was a great example of a structured narrative in flashbacks.

  • Jeffery 2022-04-23 07:04:13

    #Review# How my life is destroyed step by step. The flashback structure is not completely deliberately dazzling, but a kind of deep suspense. There must be a deep cause that leads to decay from the root. Therefore, at the closed loop of the narrative, we can see how the political climate and institutional fixation have brought a once-filled The ideals and pure fresh individuals were ground to rotten and shattered, "Mints" witnessed the darkest depths of the whole life; it is also a chronicle of South Korea in the past 20 years, and a kind of violent and self-destructive national mood is vaguely visible. At a time when the wheels of the era are turned to dust, the delayed echoes of the Kwang/Chou event traverse the hurdles of history. Two scenes of miserable crying: Coming to her hometown, experiencing the same rain, calling strangers beside her in her name, burying themselves with broken regrets and nostalgia; a picnic accompanied by youth, they look up with longing Sky, "I don't believe you can guess our ending" - "I don't believe the sky is blue, I don't believe the echo of thunder, I don't believe the dream is false."

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.