"Mints" - I wish everything was just a dream

Kenton 2022-12-19 09:03:39

Li Changdong is very good at filming male psychological films, and he always starts with marginal characters. Therefore, every time I watch his works, I get tired because he hides all the good things in those heartbreaking forces. in the exhausted story. Although the protagonists are mainly middle-aged men, after watching them carefully, why not think that these are all warnings and salvations to the world? I really hope that the seven episodes in "Mints" are all a dream, a dream that belongs to Kim Yong-ho's fear of the future.

Many people like to use trains as a metaphor for life. "Mints" also uses the train tracks to take us into the life of the hero in different periods, all in reverse order. If I go, I really think the train is moving forward. For Jin Yonghao, from the outing in 1980 to the outing in 2000, his life can no longer continue to walk, and he shouted in tears: " I want to go back!" With a big close-up, sadness boils over my heart.

Every small episode has a lot of foreshadowing, until the last episode when he met his first love, Shunshi, with the simple, innocent dialogue and expressions, we finally know the reason why Jin Yonghao wants to go back. "This place seems familiar." "It must be what you saw in your dream. I hope you have a good dream." This is the dialogue between Yong Hao and Shun Shi when they were students. Then, Yong Hao looked at the train track above and burst into tears. It really echoed before and after. , Twenty years later, he committed suicide on this train track. I hope that everything that happened in the whole two hours in this film is a dream from Yonghao when he was a student, a manifestation of the past fear of the unknown life and the world.

I found that many people now have no passion for life. It should be said that they do not know how to live. What is the purpose of working hard? What are you working so hard for all your life for? What have you gained by watching the passage of time? Too many questions to the end, life will always go through a lot of processes, good and bad, betrayal and regret, gloom and joy, all are steps to slowly unravel the previous doubts, but it is possible for all of us It's Kim Yong Ho, one thing can change a person's life, but what about us? Do you really want to be the defrauded crowd for the rest of your life for what happened? What has deceived us? It's not that my heart, because I can't be redeemed, because I don't know how to let go of myself, is slowly stepping into the abyss of no turning back, we can't have one twenty years ago, really.

Regarding the actors, I only found out that Xue Jingqiu, the actor of the actor Kim Yonghao, was also the actor of "Oasis" after watching half of it. I admire his performance in "Mints" very much. He played the life of a man in different periods. Also, I often wonder if it's the same actor, because his looks are really different each time over time. I wonder if it can be said that Xue Jingqiu is Li Cangdong's royal actor? Ha ha. . . . . .

After waking up from the dream and returning to reality, I am still very confused, but I feel a little more comfortable. "Mints" is my spiritual haven today.

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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.