Life was originally beautiful

Braeden 2022-04-19 09:02:45


In the film, Jin Yonghao asks a gangster who was tortured to extract a confession, life is beautiful, do you still think so? I think at this time he thinks that life is cruel. At the end, facing the oncoming train, he shouted hoarsely, I want to go back! He wanted to go back to the time when he still felt that life was beautiful. He narrowed his eyes slightly in the sun, and was moved by some young people. At that time, life was beautiful. Yes, life should be beautiful originally, but people have the right to choose, they can choose beauty, or they may face cruelty.

In the flashback structure of the film, I slowly understand the development process of everything until I see it at the end. From the initial college days, I will be moved by the beauty of a flower, I want to become a photographer, I have a pure first love, and later in Gwangju In the incident, Jin Yonghao accidentally killed a female college student, and his fate has changed since then. He rejected his first love girlfriend, married a girl he didn't like very much, became a ruthless policeman, and then experienced his wife's derailment, business affairs. Failed, all the way to the final total collapse, suicide.

I don't know if the director's intention is the influence of historical events and social environment on a person's fate. I want to explore the choices in life from Kim Yong-ho's personal point of view. Because of the development of society, the occurrence of various events is beyond the control of the individual and cannot be avoided. Once a choice is made, it must suffer the consequences, good or bad. The transformation of his personality and the psychological imbalance came from his inability to face the manslaughter that had happened, and he did not make the right choice in the face of everything that had happened; his wife's derailment was because he chose to treat her in peacetime his indifference; his final collapse was the result of a series of wrong choices in life, like being cursed by fate and unable to escape. He made the wrong choice time and time again. When facing the manslaughter of a college student, facing the girlfriend of his first love, facing the wife who later divorced, and facing the criminal, he did not make the right choice, so he suffered the wrong results again and again. , the deeper and deeper it gets, the more it can be recovered in the end.

If you choose the right one, life is still beautiful, and everyone is happy. If you choose the wrong one, you will face the wrong outcome and go to destruction. that is it.

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  • Alex 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    This flashback structure is awesome (especially with this upside-down train)! Digging layer by layer is like psychological analysis, but in the end it turned out to be the Gwangju incident! The film will soon become five stars.

  • Rosalia 2022-03-20 09:02:49

    Li Cangdong, you are a true poet

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.