This year's Korean film winner is undoubtedly the "Parasite" which swept the Blue Dragon Award and won five awards including best director, best film, and best actress.
But something surprising is that the much-watched Best Screenplay Award was picked up by a little-known movie-
"Hummingbird"
In addition, this film also won the Busan Film Festival KNN A series of international awards such as the Audience Choice Award and the Jury Prize of the New Generation Youth Unit of the Berlin Film Festival.
This is just the first feature film of director Jin Baola . Naturally, it is even more curious. What kind of charm does the film have that has won the favor of so many judges?
Let us start with the story of the film. ————I’m the spoiler dividing line————
Middle school student Jin Eun-xi, looks ordinary, has ordinary personality, and has ordinary grades. There is nothing shining when thrown in a crowd.
went to school every day step by step, ran a small run, was picked up by the teacher to read the textbook, and squatted.
is like the evaluation of people around you: if you don't study well, you can't get into university.
Is that spoiled by parents at home?
is obviously not. The Enxi family has serious patriarchal thinking. In front of the father, who is the absolute authority in the family, the three children, only the son is his focus.
As for the daughter who is often injured by her son's domestic violence, she doesn't care about it, and even thinks that is just a normal fight between children.
In addition, despite his violent tendencies, his elder brother is a high school student, and he still hopes to be admitted to Seoul National University, so Eun-hee is bullied and can only admit that he is unlucky.
is treated like this as the daughter of Eun Hee, not to mention the mother who worked hard for the family and the older sister who was ignored by his father.
is obviously a family of five, gathering at a table for dinner, but there is no atmosphere of fun and harmony, but it only gives people endless depression.
The relationship between parents and children is so indifferent, and the relationship between husband and wife is extremely depressing. After
was found cheating on the two people, they would beat you to death at night, but
even pretended that nothing happened during the day, pretending to be quiet.
But from the perspective of the introvert and delicate Eun-hee, it feels even more uncomfortable.
In the gloomy life, it is the girlfriend and boyfriend who act as the light of Eun Hee.
laughed and joked with your girlfriends;
strolled in the woods with her boyfriend, bathed in the youthful sunshine, and felt the sweetness of throbbing;
or be a big sister's hairstyle, painted brightly Lipstick, smoking, and dancing, you can also get a school girl to become a fan.
The happiness of adolescence is like fireworks, gorgeous but short.
was regarded as a good friend's best friend. When he was found stealing from a stationery store, he could immediately betray Enxi;
talked sweetly to himself, and his boyfriend who sent text messages on a pager between classes could turn his head and put the same words, and then right. The other girls say it again;
is a school girl who is a gift to herself and a confession to kiss, and she can become indifferent like a stranger when she turns around.
The betrayal came too fast, and before he even had time to taste the sweetness of these feelings, there was a bitter, short-lived sunshine. Now what is left is just a haze.
Enxi can only watch the people around him come and go coldly, even if he is reluctant, he can only accept it calmly.
To make matters worse, Eun-xi had a tumor under her ear. The doctor said that surgery must be performed, otherwise there would be a risk of facial paralysis.
What surprises Eun-xi is that her parents, who usually seem indifferent to her, care about her at this time. When
heard about her condition, he always scolded her father at home and cried loudly on the spot;
accused her of embarrassing her mother and gently told her to eat on time.
The warmth from the family, because of Enxi's surgery, came slowly, but it made people feel more uncomfortable. If
is not ill, will the parents continue to ignore her, no longer care about her, and think she is ashamed?
and this attention is also limited. Even when Eun-xi had an operation, his brother could still slap his younger sister unscrupulously.
It is the female teacher Kim Young-ji of the cram school who relieves Eun-hee from the depressive life a little bit. When
met for the first time, Eun-xi's impression of the teacher was not good, and she also went to her friend to gossip how she smoked,
But as she got along with the teacher more, she began to fall in love with this mysterious, gentle and individual teacher.
Whenever Enxi is wronged, the teacher is always by her side, listening to her quietly, and telling her how to get out of these shadows. Teacher
made tea for her, taught her how to resist her violent brother, and how to not yield to life.
Accompanied by the teacher, Enxi, who was ill, finally found his own happiness and smiled.
is like the teacher is a beam of light, shining her direction, she likes her, trust her, in the confusion and dilemma of youth, relying on her guidance, a little bit of her own brilliance.
However, the good times did not last long. In October 1994, the Seongsu Bridge across the Han River in South Korea collapsed.
The teacher who was 100% trusted by Enxi was also on the list of victims.
Before learning of the teacher’s accident, Eun-hee carefully asked the teacher in his letter: "Will my life shine someday?"
The appearance, family background, and grades are ordinary, but they are unique in the world. Me, will there be a chance to shine? There is no answer at the end of the
film, but this answer is probably already written in the hearts of every viewer.
is like a little hummingbird, with its wings flapping rapidly when flying, flying for a long time among the flowers, soaking up nectar, with a shining luster on its body, always a scenery. Even if
is ordinary like a bird, through its own shaking wings, people can still see their shiny side. When asked how to conceive the relationship between characters,
director Jin Baola said frankly: "I hope this is a seemingly plain but delicate and rich movie."
A "Hummingbird", as simple as a prose poem, has no ups and downs plot, and no emotional rendering of great sadness and joy. It is just an ordinary female middle school student's faint thoughts, a dark and revived youth story, but countless people see themselves .
Youth is cruel, why not we are trying to find the shining points in life again and again, and again and again be defeated by the impermanence of fate?
But until now, I am afraid that everyone still cannot give up easily, because even if no one knows, they have to shake their wings in the corner and struggle to find their own way. This is the meaning of our existence.
