Shortly after the release of "Miryang", the Korean hostage incident shocked the world. 23 Korean Christians were kidnapped while they were preaching in Afghanistan.
Director Lee Chang-dong went straight to the point:
Korean religious people themselves don't realize how strange their way of preaching is to ordinary people. The situation of the believers shown in "Miryang" has a certain relationship with the hostage incident in Afghanistan.
Brother Xun once said: "The result of spurning people is the immortal of credit."
Li Cangdong admired Lu Xun. His doubts and torture of religion reached a climax in "Miryang" after being tested and foreshadowed by the green trilogy.
Shin Ae (played by Jeon Do Yeon) brings the child to Miryang, the hometown of her late husband:
This small town with dense sunshine and simple folk customs is almost impeccable, except that the missionaries and suitors who are inseparable like pyramid schemes occasionally make her unhappy.
Unexpectedly, Miryang eventually became her sad place, the pain of losing her beloved son choked her throat, and it was difficult to breathe.
She stayed away from religion, and went to the church to vent her inner pain.
Faith in God, singing hymns, congregation meetings, prayers...
Shen Ai became a happy sister-in-law of Xianglin, and she told everyone that God saved her suffering soul.
Encouraged by the pastor, she resolved to respond to God's teaching to forgive and love her murderer.
She went to the prison to convey God's love and grace to the murderer, and found that the murderer had obtained God's redemption through repentance, and her heart was quite peaceful, and her forgiveness was insignificant.
Hegel said that the owl of Minerva (the goddess of wisdom) did not take off until dusk.
For Shin Ae, the ease with which sins can be forgiven means the twilight of idols.
In the church, Shin Ae seemed to wake up the sleeping, comatose God, and the audience burst into tears:
The pastor couldn't stand the temptation, Qingtian Bairi and Shen Ai had sex in the wild, and Shen Ai looked at the sky with beautiful eyes:
See clearly?
The pastor got up hastily and said that it was as if God was watching us.
Shen Ai once again had difficulty breathing, and she vomited with nausea as if she was overturned.
Shin Ae's doubts about God, her belief in God and the whole process of making her sick were all played by Jeon Do Yeon, becoming the first and only Korean actress to win the Cannes Best Actress Award.
Uncle Pancake plays the man who likes Shen Ai (why do I like this actor so much), symbolizing the silent majority:
Although they are kind, helpful, and even love you, they fail to help at critical moments, and sometimes they help more and more. Because the only person who can really help you is yourself.
At the end of the film, Uncle Bing Mian held a mirror for Shen Ai, and this time he finally helped.
You and I are both mortals, first of all understand this life, what is this side, the other side, grandma!
The first shot of the film is the blue sky and white clouds:
The last shot is the sunlight on the ground:
The director's implication is about to come out: the meaning of life is not in the sky, but only in real life.
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