Patriarchy and Patriarchy

Theodore 2022-03-21 09:03:07

Kim Ki-deok's "Bow" and another work, "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring" can be intertextualized. The former protagonist is a girl on the vast sea, while the latter's protagonist is a little monk in the vast mountains. The two are film texts that refer to each other, and the tipping point is that the arrival of the interloper breaks the original order of life, thus triggering the tension between the internal space and the external world.

People are the sum of social relations, and the field of "Bow" takes place in a lonely sea isolated from modern society. An old fisherman attempts to complete the possession of a young girl. This incestuous and deformed love follows the intrusion of outsiders. , with an inquiring function that Althusser said, aroused the awakening of the girl's consciousness as a human/woman, and thus began to resist the patriarchy and attempt to kill the father.

There are few lines in the film, but it is rich in connotation and diverse in meaning. It is full of film symbols of "the elephant is invisible, the sound is loud, and the avenue is simple".

At the end of the film, it is said that the tense bowstrings rub out the music of strength and beauty, and I wish I could live with this for the rest of my life. However, Kim Ki-duk died in Latvia on December 11, 2020 due to complications from the new coronary pneumonia. The Korean film industry lost a unique presence, and the world film industry also lost more music that is both beautiful and beautiful.

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  • Kole 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    The only thing I think is good about Korean movies is this one. Others have no effect.

  • Earl 2021-12-30 17:18:17

    King's film style is a masterpiece: minimalist scenes, few dialogues, clue props, fascination with spiritual religions, and the inseparable complex of sex and violence, sacrifice and salvation. The bow and the piano, the arrows of prophecy shot on the face of the Buddha, bathe each other, and film. The old man: the irreversible Chinese feudal dynasty; the young man: the emerging but unconventional American culture; the young girl: the Republic of Korea that is swinging left and right trying to establish a fragile balance.