Some time ago, there was a movie that exploded in South Korea. The title was "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982" .
This movie is the third collaboration between the starring actors Kong Liu and Zheng Youmei . The first two were "Travel to Busan" and "The Melting Pot". The two films
, without exception, became the blockbuster works of the Korean film industry that year, and they were both applauded and popular.
This collaboration between the two is also quite eye-catching. It surpassed Hollywood blockbusters "Maleficent 2" and "Joker" on the first day of its release, and became the box office champion, mobilizing millions of viewers in South Korea. Although
is not bad at the box office, the film is given a cliff-like rating on the South Korean film website NAVER. On one side of
is a female audience who gave a super high score of 9.45, while on the other side, a male audience angrily scored a low score of 1.7.
on the domestic Douban, the current rating of the film remains at 8.6. You may be curious about
-what kind of movie is
that can cause such a polarized evaluation? Taking advantage of the recent movie resources,
will come to talk about this movie today-
"Kim Jiyoung Born in 1982"
82년생 김지영
This movie is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name.
In 2014, a new vocabulary "妈虫" appeared in South Korea. It is a new Korean word that combines the English "mom" and "worm" to belittle young mothers who are unable to discipline young children who make loud noises in public.
later, the use of this term was expanded and also used to depreciate-
had no income, relying exclusively on her husband, and a full-time mother with children at home. After the incident of
, South Korean writer Zhao Nanzhu was deeply touched. She experienced the harshness of society towards women, especially mothers, so she wrote the book "Kim Jiyoung Born in 1982".
This book explores the use of an ordinary urban woman named "Jin Zhiying" to discuss more realistic and deeper aspects such as patriarchy over daughters, different pay for equal work between men and women, female employment discrimination, and the marriage and reproductive pressure faced by single women. Social topics. The
novel has been published in South Korea in 2016 and has sold more than 1 million copies, becoming a phenomenal bestseller.
, but immediately fell into a huge controversy, especially in South Korea where male power dominates. This book was scorned by many male groups, and some even claimed:
is simply a book of demons that provoked gender antagonism and disrupted social order. .
Not only the original author has been insulted and abused, but also the actors who acted in the adapted film or the artists who publicly recommended the book will be attacked by various cyber violence.
So, what has Kim Ji Young experienced?
Jin Zhiying is not a girl from a poor family.
She grew up in a fairly harmonious civil servant family. After she successfully studied hard and went to a key university, she married a husband who was able to earn money and was still helping herself in the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. She was at ease in front of a housewife. It is a typical example of a "good woman".
But even so-
one day when he was 35 years old, Jin Zhiying still suffered from depression. In the first half of the
movie, the director presents the seemingly "happy" daily life of the housewife.
We can see that Zhiying has been busy taking care of housework from early morning, sorting out toys scattered around the room, disinfecting her daughter's daily necessities, and calming her crying daughter with an extremely gentle tone.
However, after a busy day in this seemingly perfect model mother, the eyes looking at the setting sun outside the window are only infinitely empty and confused. The director of
, Kim Do-young, spent a lot of space to let the audience gradually understand the process of losing control of the body and mind of the heroine Kim Ji-young, played by Jung Yoomi, through the interlaced editing techniques of time and space.
involves too many prejudice and unfair treatment of women’s status in society. They come from:
's original family extreme patriarchal father, a perfect mother who sacrificed for the whole family since childhood, a sister with a high feminist consciousness, and kindnessA caring younger brother; and a mother-in-law whose in-law’s family is as traditional as her mother, but has a very different attitude towards the married daughter-in-law and her married daughter.
I went back to my mother-in-law’s house during the holidays and watched everyone chatting together, but I was more busy than usual taking care of the children at home;
dreamed of becoming a journalist writer and studying Korean at university, but the pen he bought from his father on a business trip was given to his younger brother;
She was sexually harassed on the bus, but her father reviewed her clothes and blamed her for not knowing how to avoid it when she rolled over a stone; the mother of
, as the youngest daughter with the best grades in the family, was forced to give up her studies to work in a textile factory for her brother to study;
There is a scene in it that is particularly touching.
As a mother, Zhiying brought her daughter to the store to buy coffee. The male office worker at the back of the team seemed a little impatient because of the noise of many children around him. At this time, Zhiying accidentally overturned the coffee because of her daughter's crying. However,
heard the people behind him describe herself as "mother bug", and Zhiying's long-tolerant emotions also broke out.
She hopes so much that she can return to the workplace. She always casts envious glances at office workers in uniforms on the road, and recalls all kinds of work experiences in the past.
The reality is that no one really understands Zhiying's tears and helplessness. The most ironic part of
is that the heroine goes to the doctor.
due to heavy housework and childcare work, caused the heroine’s wrist pain to go to the doctor. Unexpectedly, the doctor said something puzzling and she couldn’t help complaining to her husband:
"Do you know what makes me sad the most? Dr.
asked me, the rice is cooked in an electronic pot and the clothes are washed in the washing machine. Why does my wrist hurt?”
So the reason why the movie will impress the audience so much is that what is shown in
is extremely real. In everyday life, it seems to see the real life of himself or the women around him.
It finds women's inner grievances in ordinary conversations, and presents them in what we men think are warm and considerate behaviors, their unspeakable bitterness and helplessness. Through a lot of details, director
led the audience to follow the eroded heart of Kim Ji-young, and saw the general male chauvinism environment in Korea, whether it is the general public, the workplace, or even his own family. Deep-rooted gender stereotypes.
If you look at novels and movies calmly and rationally, surrounding the protagonist Jin Zhiying, most of the pressure she endures comes from the same female elders and peers, even the daughter who still doesn't know about human affairs.
But in addition to the traditional men and women with annoying faces, the husband Daihyun played by Kong Liu, the younger brother, and the arrogant sister Jiyoung, as well as the senior female director who appreciated her all the way in the workplace,
, they also represent the film director's Hope, a perspective trying to understand this female plight.
In addition to being a considerate and caring husband, who is always worried about his wife and his wife, and knows how to adjust himself, Kong Liu also shoulders the responsibility of communicating with his family and his family in the film.
Faced with the elders and colleagues who have repeatedly spoken insults to the female employees of the company, as well as their own mothers, they are all good at communicating to resolve unnecessary misunderstandings, or even stand up to fight back when necessary. It can be said that many married The perfect male in the female mind.
The super capable female supervisor in the film broke free from the shackles of marriage and family children, and the rising feminist power was calling out to her younger brother and sister. The existence of these characters
is also to reflect Zhiying's physical and mental plight, but also to tell her-
as long as you dare to persist, even in the traditional patriarchal and strict etiquette society, you can live. In the photo, the capable female executive who fearlessly criticizes in front of others, or the defiant sister.
In terms of performance, Zheng Youmei and Kong Liu both performed calmly in the movie, fully interpreting the physical and mental suffering of being a wife and husband.
But what impresses me the most in the whole film is that in addition to the hero and the heroine, it is the actor who plays Kim Ji-young’s mother in the film. The old actor is a drama in every gesture. It is a drama where Zheng Youmei’s tearful eyes are opposed to the parent-child embrace, which is fully interpreted. No one can match the strength of the aura.
Besides, back to the videoIn itself, although I can feel that the director has dealt with women issues very carefully, and some sections have also added some jokes to lighten the conflicts between the characters, but "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982" has made such a bloody presentation of the disadvantages of women. It is bound to become a sharp criticism in the eyes of many men.
So it is not difficult to understand why the film is so different from men and women.
However, after careful consideration of the film’s creative intentions, the author believes that the
film is not intended to provoke conflicts and contradictions in the relationship between the sexes, let alone belittle men, but to eliminate the established impression of gender, through mutual respect and mutual understanding. Let society be less confrontational, so that everyone who is oppressed can get the rights and treatment they deserve.
And most importantly, whether it is watching a movie or judging a thing, holding a broad mind and a diverse and open attitude, I think it is a topic that we must always pay attention to and learn from.
So the core of the problem that "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982" points to is the word "default".
is just like the quotation in the original book:
a girl has to go through many invisible ups and downs before she staggers and grows up. The point of
is not roughness, or even men and women, but the "not seen" in gender labeling.
However, neither the original author nor the film director can actually give a solution to this problem. Changing this kind of female plight requires long-term hard work and hard work, and there is no shortcut.
is like the line in the postscript of the novel: daughter
said that she wants to be an astronaut and a scientist when she grows up. I hope, I believe, and work hard to find a way to make her daughter grow up with a background that can compare to my past. The environment is better.
sincerely hope that every daughter in the world can have greater and more infinite dreams.
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