talked to you about in the past were mature commercial genres, such as self-blacking and tearing. I believe you are already familiar with it.
The new Korean film I'm going to talk about today is different. It takes the perspective of a girl as the starting point and tells the details of her daily life. Although there are not many conflicts and conflicts, the delicate capture is especially good. Resonate with the audience.
This film is the debut work of director Jin Baola. It has received multiple nominations at domestic and international film festivals, and won the Jury Prize of the New Generation Youth Division of the Berlin International Film Festival in one fell swoop.
As for the highlights, let's take a look at "Hummingbird" today. The protagonist of the film
is a second-year girl who is the smallest in the family and lives with her parents, brother and sister. If
can only use one word to describe her state of life, "invisible" is the most appropriate. Because no matter what happens to the heroine, it will be selectively ignored by the parents.
For example, she had a disagreement with her brother at home and was beaten. Finally, she mustered up the courage to file a complaint at the dinner table. All she got was a simple sentence from her mother, "Don't fight anymore."
For example, when going to the hospital for a minor operation, from diagnosis to postoperative recovery, the hostess is alone, because mom and dad need to look after the business of the rice cake shop and can't take care of her at all.
Even when she and her girlfriend were caught stealing on a whim, when the store called her father for compensation, the hostess could not get her father’s attention. Instead, she was indifferently replied: then hand the person to the police station...
at the parents In the eyes, the heroine is the best filial piety as long as she studies hard and is admitted to university and does not let others look down upon.
However, at this age of confusion and anxiety, the heroine can't stand the "little transparent" life at all.
She became rebellious, she fell in love, smoked, sang K, danced dick, and basically violated the school rules all the time.
In the eyes of the hostess, only by the side of her little boyfriend can she feel that she is cared; only in the eyes of the school girl’s worship, can she feel the pleasure of being cared. The rebellion of
made the heroine become a "pusher" in the eyes of her classmates. Everyone felt that she "cannot go to university and can only be a nanny" in the future.
However, even the heroine's rebellion is so short-lived. The little boyfriend of
looks loyal and honest, but in fact he is secretive, and later this love affair was directly beaten by the "quasi mother-in-law". The school girl
originally admired her, she would visit her when she was hospitalized, and she even burst into tears in the ward with distress.
did not expect that after a holiday, the school girl suddenly turned indifferent and said that she was no longer "the self of last semester"...
can say that even if the hostess has family members, teachers and classmates passing by every day, she has been living in one Without relying on the dimension, everything she does is to arouse the attention of the surroundings, but what she gets is always a "humiliating" evaluation-it is ashamed to fall in love, it is ashamed to steal, and it is even ashamed to leave scars after surgery...
In the life of the hostess who is almost unable to turn over, the only thing that can comfort her is the teacher Jin who teaches Chinese in the cram school.
is different from other teachers, Mr. Jin looks taciturn and independent. She doesn't explain too much truth to the hostess, but always gives comfort and help when she is confused.
For example, she would use the phrase "get acquainted all over the world, know how many people you can know" to tell the hostess the simple but profound principles of making friends;
, when the love affair of the hostess ends, she will use simple and understandable metaphors to enlighten the hostess that he is experiencing Growing pains;
and discovering that the heroine is often beaten by her brother, Mr. Jin will seriously advise the heroine to fight back anyway.
It can be said that "Hummingbird" is not a fast-paced film. It is pieced together from the heroine's daily life. The emotions of the characters also seem to be erratic, which requires the audience to calm down and experience it slowly.
However, it is worth mentioning that the heroine's state of cheering for one second and feeling lost in the next second is a true portrayal of everyone in adolescence.
When she vented to her family on the verge of collapse, she could clearly feel that in the seemingly calm life, she actually concealed a suffocating sense of powerlessness.
The most intuitive feature of this age is that he becomes extremely sensitive and fragile in the process of forming the Three Views, and always wants to find someone who can truly "understand me."
The female lead of the second grade of junior high school, who has almost integrated all the characteristics of "Secondary 2", often inadvertently asks some questions that cannot be answered in a few simple sentences, such as "Have you hated yourself?", such as "There will be one day in my life Will it shine too?"...
Because of so many doubts, the appearance of Teacher Jin will make the invisible female protagonist seem to have caught a life-saving straw. All her troubles can be harvested in front of Teacher Jin. The long-awaited response.
But the cruel thing is that the life-saving straw of the heroine is also fleeting. Teacher Jin suddenly resigned from her job. When the hostess found her news again, she had passed away accidentally.
But unexpectedly, this time the heroine did not have the same emotional breakdown as she did when facing her family.
Because at this time she has already realized what the teacher once said, moving her fingers seems powerless, but the fingers can still move.
In my opinion, the most exciting thing about this "Hummingbird" is that it expresses the self-growth of young girls through the detailed description of life. The story may seem trivial, but the whole movie is about our own daily lives.
Because not all youths will have the protagonist aura, the second generation Bai Fumei is full of flowers and grass, most of them are actually the same as the heroine in the film, the family background is average, the grades are fair, and the second generation is rebellious.
In such a mediocre growth process, we gradually understand the abstract concepts of family, friendship, love, death, etc. because of the seemingly insignificant life experiences, and we will also be battered by some sudden changes.
Sometimes the wound is too late to heal, and puberty passes by in a hurry.
Frankly speaking, although this kind of emotion is easy to resonate with most people, it is not easy to capture in the movie. If you are not careful, it will be a defective product full of bloody plot.
However, the outstanding feature of "Hummingbird" is that the film is portrayed through various environments, subtly showing the troubled and helpless state of the heroine during adolescence.
, such as her family, is an unbalanced environment where patriarchal dominates. As the head of the family, the father of the heroine
is a standard male chauvinist. Before eating, he must sum up how he scolded the female customers that day and showed off his "ability" to the children.
Whenever the hostess and sister skip class and play outside, the father always throws the pot to the mother, and commits domestic violence whenever they disagree.
Under such patriarchal suppression, the heroine's mother often endures silently, even if she finds that her husband has cheated on her, she dare not say anything. I was beaten by my husband the night before and reconciled habitually the next day. The terrible family relationship like
directly affects the three views of children. The elder brother of the heroine of
relied on the love of his parents alone, and often punched and kicked the heroine. At the beginning, the heroine was habitually beaten like a mother, and did not know how to resist.
Under the influence of this growing environment, the heroine becomes extremely fragile and confused unknowingly, knowing that she is in a bad situation, but can't find a way out for a while, she will constantly try various rebellious behaviors.
In addition to the portrayal of the family environment, the film also uses TV screens to explain the background of the story-it was 1994, the United States hosted the World Cup, Kim Il-sung died, and the Seongsu Bridge collapsed in South Korea causing death and injury.
These big events with obvious time nodes appear in the film one by one. They seem to have a connection with the heroine, but they have little direct relationship with her.
There are many scenes in the film where the characters and the environment are separated.
For example, the heroine goes through an area that resists demolition every day when she goes to school. The handwritten slogan is full of anger, but all this has nothing to do with the heroine, because she has been immersed in her own troubles and can't find a way out. The way
reminds me of "Dream of Paris", which is also a wanton youth, and also has the mark of the times, but there is no separation between the two. On the contrary, the chaotic three-person relationship in "A Dream of Paris" is unexpectedly essentially the same as the student movement incident outside the window, creating a connection between personal destiny and the times.
But in comparison, this "Bee"Bird" is not so ambitious, it just tells the story of a girl's growth in a delicate and plain way, abandoning the commercialized typified narrative, and presenting a female perspective that is rare in Korean movies. Because of this, it hit countless people's hearts unexpectedly.
Because for most people, youth is spent in the world of this self. After many years of looking back, you will find that you are just a small individual under the background of the times.
always has a period of youth, spent looking for "know me", but the real growth, just after blindly searching, began to understand oneself. Such youth has no aura, but it is worth writing about.
