"Assassination": a love story, a love movie

Vaughn 2022-01-23 08:05:42

Six years ago, there was a movie called "The Wind".
In the movie, the coquettish and sincere "old ghost" Zhou Xun took his life to protect information. It was extremely tragic. After many years, Li Bingbing took out the cheongsam with Morse code to understand Zhou Xun's last words. :
"I am not afraid to die
I'm afraid I do not know why I love the people who died
because of the survival of the nation has been the occasion of
my generation can only desperate
to save and in case
my body is about to fall from the sky
soul shift with you,"
Li Bingbing looked cheongsam She cried and lit a cigarette while crying, big tears fell, her hands trembled and her whole body twitched, as if she had lost all courage. In the end, the camera returned to the old days. Li Bingbing smoked on the balcony. Looking back, Zhou Xun sat in the room with a cheongsam sewed, smiling.
After exhausting the effort of the whole movie, I remembered the affectionate stare at each other.


In my opinion, "Assassination" is a love movie.
It contains action, war, suspense, history, etc. or heavy or dazzling elements, but it makes this film look exciting and magnificent, and the most moving ones are Jun Ji Hyun and Ha Jung Woo Naruo. The love that is endless but endless.
As a mission-oriented story, the plot line of the movie is multiple and complicated. There are members of the assassination team (Jeon Jihyun, Jo Jinxiong, etc.), government agents (Lee Jung-jae), bounty killers (Ha Jung-woo, Oh Dal-soo), and the Japanese army and Traitors, these forces entangled in a game, killed each other, and finally broke out in the climax of the assassination. From the perspective of perception, this movie can be scored 8 points. It has all the necessary elements, complete and hearty, but there are also unavoidable flaws, that is, the director's control is a little weak, the plate is too large, and he wants to express There are too many characters but lack of control. The drama of the plot is given to coincidence. There are too many characters, which lead to superficiality, unclear motives, and the characters are slightly facialized. Among them, the most difficult thing for me to understand is the character of Jun Jihyun’s father, which is so sinister. Wife murders daughters, but lacks the support of the character's character.
Lee Jung-jae once again played a multi-faceted role. Although the role is not as good as Jun Ji-hyun, he is the only protagonist of the whole story. Because the whole assassination happened because of him and ended because of him, there are some in the film. A picture of Lee Jung-jae's staggering back after being shot. He is still struggling to run into the distance, just like what he has done in his life, climbing up in the tide of history by opportunism, and escaped the verdict of the court, but he is no match for fate. Trial.

Then, back to the topic, talk about the love between Jun Ji Hyun and Ha Jung Woo.
To be honest, this time, Jeon Ji Hyun brought too many surprises to the audience. First of all, she starred in a pair of twins, one is a warrior in a sea of ​​swords and guns, and the other is a pampered wealthy daughter. There is a great contrast in personality. The main character in the film is a sniper. With "An Woyun", this chaotic female heroine flies off the wall, born to death, unsmiling, and all the scenes are in the eyebrows and eyes. On the other hand, Ha Zhengyu has a strong romantic atmosphere all over, mysterious and charming. His name is "Hawaiian Pisto". His biggest wish is to make enough money to travel to Hawaii with his partner. He walks on the beach and takes money. Killing people, helping others to eliminate disasters, until they meet Quan Zhixian, just like a knight meets a chivalrous girl, the armor has a weakness, Jianghu Road is different, "Hawaii" is so tender.

Ha Jung Woo and Jun Ji Hyun met at Mirabeau Café in Shanghai. Like all the first encounters in the movie, they ran into a big crisis. The police came to investigate, and both of them were unidentified, so they became each other's. In the safe fortress, he performed a "pretend husband and wife" scene. After a thrilling pass, Ha Jung Woo left a scarf for Jun Ji Hyun.
The plot advances like a wheel. Jun Ji-hyun can't remember the aura on the scarf, he must bear the hatred of the country and the family. At this moment, "Hawaiian Pisto" appeared, he was like "Zorro" in the dark night. , Wearing a trench coat and shooting people wantonly in the street, but facing the sight of Jun Ji-hyun who is peeping, in love, what can move you most is not the clouds and rain, but the concentrating look at the window, thousands of times, but a moment.
Finally, when fate was crossed, at the scene of the first assassination, the Independence Army was frustrated, and only Jun Ji-hyun was left to fight alone in a desperate situation. At this time, Ha Jung-woo, who had collected the money, aimed his gun at her, but recognized With that face and that scarf out, the Hawaiian killer was in conflict, not knowing how to choose. When the two were arrested by the Japanese soldiers, in order to escape from the prison car, they once again "pretended to be a couple". Jun Ji Hyun Ha Jeong Woo left a light kiss. That forbearance and sadness made people tremble. What mission, destiny, and future , The country, if it all disappeared, how great it would be.
After another battle, Jun Ji-hyun got into the Japanese military mansion and pretended to be the fiancée of a Japanese officer. He unexpectedly met Ha Jung-woo again. The first thing Quan Ji-hyun said to him was:

"I heard that there is a house in Shanghai. It’s a very good cafe called Mirabeau. Have you

ever been to it?” The most romantic love story in the world is nothing more than that. Recalling the flames of war and smoke that you rushed through with you, under the gaze of the enemy Next, An Woyun and "Hawaiian Pisto", all the affection can only be like a dragonfly.
However, the most tragic climax will finally come, separation and death will eventually come. At the scene of the wedding assassination, Jun Ji-hyun wore a white wedding dress and was noble and elegant. Fight until the last strength is exhausted, and the wedding dress is stained with blood. At the last moment, with a farewell heart, Ha Jung-woo sent Jun Ji-hyun to safety. Here, every look of Jun Ji-hyun has infinite lethality. At a glance, you once thought it was just a chance encounter, but they influenced each other. For the whole life, you have imagined the future, but it's just the extravagant hope of a flash of light.
Tenderness, sadness, depression, restraint, sadness, moving, and embarrassing...... This is all the love between Jun Ji Hyun and Ha Jung Woo in "Assassination".

For me, this kind of love is the most fascinating, just like watching "Like Fog Like Rain and Like Wind" when I was a child. What is unforgettable so far is Sun Honglei's feelings for Li Xiaoran. That repressive and restrained love is strong and unabated.

In fact, I have expectations for the end of the film.
How I wish for another long shot. Returning to the Mirabeau Café in Shanghai, Jun Jixian sat there stirring coffee, just like yesterday, An Yunwo raised his head, and Ha Jung Woo walked in under the dazzling eyes of the backlight. , Hawaiian Pisto has an unruly smile on his face, just like the end of "The Wind", Zhou Xun and Li Bingbing can look at each other again, traveling through time and space and life and death.
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  • Kole 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    What's more, the main theme of the anti-Japanese film can only be shot like this. Taking into account the main theme, commerciality, and the reality of the current peninsula, and who inherits the legal system of the Provisional Central Government of the Republic of Korea is all sensitive. But the whole goddess played quite hard in it, and it is worth watching, and then the old man next door Li is really handsome.

  • Adelle 2022-01-23 08:05:42

    The assassination was screened in South Korea on July 22. Occupies all time periods in major theaters. The movies are interlocking, with the laughter to grasp the rhythm, the whole journey is thrilling, and the 2-hour movie is completely tireless. Chungmuro’s first brother and sister Quan Goddess, Ha Nam God and Lee Jung Jae, the collection of big names plus the luxurious setting, is definitely the biggest Korean movie of the year! !