Hong Sang-soo is hard to say

Greyson 2022-03-08 08:01:46

The beauty is hard to tell, and the difficulty is to say. Even if the words and sentences are thoroughly familiar, there will be times when the expression is stretched. Especially when the two sides of communication are not at the same level of communication, it is even more difficult to tell the beauty.

For example, when you talk to a virgin about the pleasure of hehehe, you think you have exhausted all the words and metaphors, and you can't scratch the virgin's itch. His face is full of pimples that make you jealous, with sincerity and swelling, earnestness and anticipation written on it, and you're so full of enthusiasm you can't tell: try it with a woman, and you'll understand.

There are too many good things in the world, and the beauty of them is probably more difficult to express than women. For example, the autumn leaves in November, the rising spring water, the taste of drinking soju on a snowy night, and Hong Sangxiu's movies.

Therefore, Hong Sang-soo became a joint password. Movie fans test movie fans, men test women, and Hong Sangxiu will know the root cause. When chatting, you carefully mix the name into a common phrase, pretend to say it casually, and then sneakily observe the other person's reaction. If the other party is at a loss, they can calmly classify him as an outsider; if the other party is disdainful, just talk to him about Kubrick; in very rare cases, one or two or nod secretly, or A person with bright eyes and even dancing, whether it is sunny or snowy, must invite him to sit down and drink two glasses of wine.

The function of Hong Shangxiu is about Wang Xiaobo ten years ago and Duras thirty years ago. What you don't have to worry about is that Hong Sangxiu will never become as popular as Wang Xiaobo, let alone reach Duras' popularity. It is likely that he will continue to be a niche player, slowly conquering new fans in this ever-changing world.

The film "Right Now, Wrong Then" is the latest link code for Hong fans.

It is a plot that Hong fans are all too familiar with. The protagonist's identity is still a little director. In the unfamiliar city of Suwon, he and a young female painter had an inexplicable and fruitless relationship for two days and one night. There are about six main scenes, a temple where the two met, a coffee shop with a slightly closer relationship, then went to the female painter's studio, and then switched to a sushi restaurant for drinking - a scene that Hong fans are most familiar with - then, the two came to At the "Poet and Farmer" cafe, the heroine returns home late at night, and the first day ends.

On the second day, there was only one scene. The director communicated with the audience about his film, then showed the film and said goodbye to everyone and returned to Seoul.

Hong Sang-soo, who is good at playing with structure, pushes the structure to the extreme again in this film. The film consists of two sections, the first half is called "Right Now, Wrong Now", which is basically the same as the scene in the second half "Wrong Now, Right Now", forming two sides of a coin. Some people joked: a scene was shot twice, and then edited again, and it was put together to form a movie. Hong Sang-soo’s films are well-structured, such as the black-and-white reversal in Day and Night, the complementarity of the two in Summer Summer, the combination of three sections in Oak Hee’s Movie, the free coupling of time in Freedom Hill, Was Wrong" seems to be telling a story that happened in a parallel world.

The time, process and results of the two parts of the plot are basically the same, the difference is the dialogue, which in turn causes the emotional changes of the protagonist and the loss of the ending. A story that does not contradict each other can be seen as a story in a parallel world, or as a deviation of one person's memory, or two people's different ways of retelling the same story. That's what works of art are like, it doesn't provide a plot interpretation, but provides a variety of interpretation entrances.

The humour and poetry concealed by everyday life are Hong's characteristics that fans relish. Hung's humor, usually consisting of the subtle little awkwardness of the film's men and women. The well-known Hong's poetic passages are mostly related to nature. At the end of the film, there was a heavy snowfall at the entrance of the cinema. After watching the movie, the heroine walked out of the door, stepped on the thick snow and walked into the distance. The soundtrack of the movie sounded. This touching scene is reminiscent of the black and white "North Village Direction", which also has snow and sake at the end of the movie.

In 2013's "We Sun Hee", the autumn leaves in Seoul are either red or gold is unforgettable; "Hae Won who is not anyone" is the wind of the South Great Wall; "Ok Hee's Movie", the story takes place on the hillside of Nanshan Mountain ; When a scene is about to end, he likes to turn the camera to the nearest natural scene, such as a dead tree by the roadside, a clump of dead grass. As the director of the film said: "Every moment, every day, live with the heart to discover new things. Everything here, in this world, there are things to solve, and your fears." Under Hong Sangxiu's camera, he captured every bit of the natural environment in a poetic way, and embellished it in the film, just like the seasons in a haiku.

You see, it's hard to tell people the benefits. Regarding the interpretation of "Right Now, Wrong Then", this film review really can't help you much, you can only see with your eyes and listen with both ears. As for what you see, what you hear, and whether it can scratch your itch and make you scratch your ears and cheeks with joy, it depends on each person's root. Good luck, man.

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Right Now, Wrong Then quotes

  • Ham Cheon-soo: Try to discover something every second of every day, from everything around you.