Li Cangdong’s personality may be very restrained. Just like his movies, he always tells the lives of others lightly, even if the kind of life is so extreme and sharp so you can’t forget it, but the shallow colors and the sense of reality that seem to happen around you always Will tell you "this is a fact, this is a fact" over and over again, until you start to believe that these are really facts.
I guess these two people may be about the same age, because many changes in Korean politics will be mentioned in the works, and they have suffered greatly. When extended to the characters, they have also become the culprits of innocent victims. I didn’t know much about them. As a person of Korean history, I was forced to watch some of the vigorous anti-authoritarian democratic movement in Korean politics in the 1980s. The result was very incredible. It was as if foreigners had seen the feeling of China’s Cultural Revolution. Sure enough, Asian countries’ The democratic process is difficult and tortuous, and the culture of non-plant roots can easily be used by dictatorial rulers with other intentions and become a tool for restoring dictatorship. (It seems to be a long way...)
According to the chronological order, I should look at "Herring"-"Mint"-"Oasis", but because of the download speed, I can only appreciate it in reverse. In fact, there was once an issue of " When I saw the introduction of "Mint" in "Watching Movies" magazine, I started to look for it. At that time, downloading movies on the Internet was not so popular. Moreover, such a niche movie didn't seem to have any resources, but now I am fortunate to watch " "Oasis", if you watch "Mints" first, I'm afraid I won't be in the mood to watch other things.
It is also the tragic fate of the little people in the world. "Oasis" finally carries a glimmer of hope, and "Mint" strangles this light as soon as it comes up. What is left to you is always despair, and the best things are always thrown away. At the far end of the space-time tunnel, only before dying can you release the depressed feelings of a lifetime. This is the sorrow of being a social person and the only opportunity for a small person to make a personal cry. Unfortunately, you are dying and can't do anything. I can't do anything anymore.
What can you do while you are alive? The Gwangju Incident in 1980, we now call him the Gwangju Incident. There may be a variety of more radical statements in South Korea, just as we have changed our name for the Cultural Revolution, it is also an Asian country, and it has also experienced a politics sweeping the country. Catastrophe, South Koreans have always regarded themselves as extreme patriotism. In that turbulent era, there was no shortage of passionate college students and citizens. What happened in Beijing was copied to Guangzhou as it was. Those who grew up in that generation did not suffer from emptiness in their hearts. Filling is the turmoil of blood, but the price of blood is inevitable, and the erosion of the spirit spreads unconsciously.
The protagonist seems to occupy both the front and back. What kind of suffering does a person have to slowly hide the tenderness from the epidermis, leaving the darkness and bottomless violence and ravages? There is no doubt that Li Cangdong chose a sensitive, delicate and fragile man as the victim of the wave of this era. The transformation from sheep to wolf did not happen overnight. The long molting period experienced the indifference of the crowd, persecution, cunning and cruelty. After joining the army, he was brutally cruel. Trample the mints in one place, suppress the democratic movement and kill the female students, become the police and be forced to torture confessions, and in exchange for it, no matter how reckless you are, you can enjoy the pleasure and fill your chaotic and chaotic life with money and women. The emptiness and loneliness, sad and irritable whine.
Peppermint is a symbol, symbolizing the pure character, pure dream, pure first love and pure life in the hero's heart. In the army, this purity has been completely defeated, and the protagonist's life is distorted. It began to break, and began to oppressive and repressed pain, the mint that could only quench his thirst but could not save him quietly faded from his vision, only in the dead of night reminiscing about the road the first love woman walked, the rain and the watch The sea, and then embraced others crying bitterly miss.
There is nothing else but nostalgia. When his hands are stained with innocent blood and he bears a lifetime of guilt, he already knows that he who has fallen into a beast is not worthy of his first love, pure feelings, and even less worthy of an innocent soul. , That is actually shame and low self-esteem for the scars and stains that can't be wiped away in one's life. As time progressed slowly from 1999, in the past two decades of life, I only saw the confrontation between hidden pride and the coldness of reality. While letting my life degenerate, I cursed all the people who disliked. It’s a challenge to his arrogant morality, a war against himself, but unfortunately, regardless of success or failure, he will never get the happiness he wants, because the despair of the world began long after the gunshot. , And can't stop, until the acceleration hits the other side of life.
What impact can chaotic public power have on a person's life? If you want to survive in such a world, you can only overcome all obstacles that lie in front of you if you are more violent and cunning than the other party. The protagonist resolutely gave up the relationship with his first love, worked in a violent and bloody police station, and set up his own company in the sea. What did these seemingly adaptable behaviors bring about? Marrying a woman who doesn’t love and being indifferent to the family, allowing herself to be troubled, but violently confronting her wife’s red apples; first forcing herself to face the reality, and then immersed in the torture of inhuman abuse, seemingly ambitious Wanton trampling on the lives and dignity of others, called "mad dogs" but extremely hate all dog-related things; 1997 financial crisis swept across Asia, deceived by friends, stocks worthless, usury unable to pay off, once in a blink of an eye The available glory and wealth disappeared. When a person who pursues perfection in essence but always repays fist and curse to the endless cruel world, even the basic life security has been lost, what else is he worth showing off and disguising?
A person's emptiness will never disappear due to matter and vanity.
Before he died, he met his first love. Mints appeared again as a special signal between the two. Even though the person was old and unconscious and breathing on the catheter, he was still the most inviolable holy place in his heart. , The beauty that will never be forgotten no matter what, that is infinitely yearning but can't be touched, the train that passed by with that roar finally emerges strongly and clearly.
I want to go back to the past, back to the past when I was carrying a camera to take pictures of unknown little flowers in the world, back to the past where everyone sat and sang warmly together, back to the gentle one who gave me mints and asked me if it was delicious In the past, back to the past that was so happy that he was lying under the railway that seemed to be familiar with.
Cut your heart, not just bloody flesh, is there a small weathered stone? It may have been a beautiful and flawless diamond.
PS: Those who have watched Li Cangdong's films will definitely surrender to Xue Jingqiu and Wen Suli's acting skills.
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