Text | Mia
"Well, girls, you don’t need to read too many books. You can have a beautiful college diploma as a dowry, just be a housewife." A long time ago, a Korean girl in the same class told a friend of the author Said. It is an art school ranked within the TOP20 in the world. At the moment when I heard this sentence, as well as the moment when my friends relayed it, each other was shocked: in the 21st century, will anyone still believe in such a view? But she is not the only Korean who holds this view.
When reading and watching the books and movies of "Jim Ji Young Born in 1982", this question was answered: Korean women, they are sacrificed and shaped, and gradually believe in the patriarchal discourse system, such as "good wife Motherhood is the ultimate value pursuit of women" "Women depreciate with age and appearance" "women in the workplace need to return to their families after all", and take it as truth. When
was released recently, many Korean women sobbed in theaters because of empathy. Although gender discrimination and even gender-based violence are not uncommon in China, Japan, and South Korea, South Korea is clearly the country with the most serious problems, and this has triggered an endless stream of female star suicide tragedies in Korean entertainment circles.
This is a phenomenon-level movie on Naver website, "Korea women give 9.12 points and Korean men give 1.45 points". The same score on Douban is as high as 8.7 points. When women's films are reflected in the social reality of patriarchy, the endless controversy and derivative discussions that have caused social influence have already surpassed the significance of film as an entertainment carrier itself, and has risen to the social significance of the agenda of film as a mass media. And how to create explosive styles with realistic themes, Korean movies have also made a model for reference.
Cui Seolli and Goo Hara behind Kim Jiyoung...Gender violence and Korean entertainment curse
Kim Jiyoung, this is the most common name of Korean women born in the 1980s, representing thousands of daughters, wives, mothers, and them Known as "Mrs. XX" and "Mother XX", they lost their name, self and career, and became a group with a high incidence of depression.
In the workplace, no matter how capable they are, they cannot get the title of a male colleague of the same generation, and an invisible ceiling hangs over their heads. A camera was installed in the women’s toilet. Jin Zhiying’s friend was secretly photographed, and the male boss did not call the police but circulated the picture. At family gatherings, they become "transparent people"-busy in the kitchen, no one cares whether they are tired or not. When the children were crying, they became targets of public criticism again.
Patriarchal patriarchalism is everywhere: my father is on a business trip, my younger brother gets expensive pens, and Jin Zhiying gets exercise books. During the festival, he can only go back to her mother-in-law's house and can't go back to her mother-in-law's house. The younger brother visited Jin Zhiying and his niece, and asked his father Zhiying what he likes to eat, and his father answered with red bean bread. When she arrived at Zhiying's house, she smiled and said, "My daughter is with me. She never eats red bean bread. She can eat it, but she will cut off the red beans. What I like to eat is butter bread."
Whether it is reasonable, the situation will change immediately if the roles of the two parties are reversed. The hostess has been responsible for the main housework for a long time, which is taken for granted, and the husband does a little dishwashing work, and is immediately regarded as "perfect" "How lucky is Zhiying to find you". The talented heroine Kim Ji-young (played by Jung Yoo Mi) had to quit her job to take the children at home for several years, and when the husband played by Kong Liu, Jeong Da-hyun, said that he could apply for a vacation to take the children at home and let his wife go to work, the mother-in-law scolded Kim. "My son's career has just started. Do you want to ruin his life?" The
movie is partly based on plots experienced by the author Zhao Nanzhu. For example, Jin Zhiying broke a coffee cup and was scornfully called "Mom Chong" by passers-by (Internet term, "mother + bug" coined a derogatory meaning, refers to a full-time mother who has no income, depends on her husband, and brings children at home, or A full-time mother who cannot discipline noisy young children in public) is the insult that Zhao Nanzhu himself once accepted. The most shocking thing about
is the setting with a hint of fantasy in the film: Jin Zhiying, who has depression, is occasionally "possessed" by his grandmother and transformed into another person. Through memories, the audience saw that this inequality between men and women can be said to be passed down from generation to generation: Jin Zhiying's mother had a good grade, but she became a female worker in order to support her elder brother. She was pregnant with her third child and was forced to abort. Through the "transformation", Zhiying used the words of Zhiying to shout out the aspirations of grandma from the future: "I also want my daughter to go home.what! "Daughter, I'm sorry..."
In fact, the heroine's life configuration can be regarded as a "highly-matched player". She has not experienced domestic violence, cheated, and has a "perfect husband". More Korean women who are not as lucky as her Living in a darker world. The common phenomenon of
focusing pens and inks on daily life, making the original works and movies met with fierce resistance from many Korean men: the original work was published and was rated as the most important in Korean society in 2017 In one of the incidents, over one million copies were sold and won the top spot on multiple lists, and was recommended by President Moon Jae-in. However, the idol group Red Velvet member Irene published this book on ins PO and was labeled "feminist" Labels, Anti, burned photos by male fans. Female protagonist Zheng Youmei (Zheng Yumei) encountered group online violence. Some netizens wrote a book "Jin Zhixun Born in 90" after copying the original work, telling men's military service, wedding gifts and marriage Housing and other heavy burdens-but this happens to be just another shackle that gender inequality brings to men. According to a poll by the "Korea Herald", more than 76% of South Korean men aged 20-30 hold "anti-feminism" This film explains to a certain extent the reason why “South Korea is expected to set the world’s lowest fertility rate in 2019”.
and "Kim Jiyoung Born in 1982" were hotly discussed at the same time as a Golden Globe Award The popular work, "Marriage Story" starring Scarlett Johansson. The latter chose to divorce because he gradually lost himself in marriage. However, the latter was unimaginable in everything Jin Zhiying encountered. Social differences , Leading to different stages of ideological expression.
contrasts the movie with the reality of the Korean entertainment circle, which is shocking gender violence and the victims: the chaebol capitalists control politics and materialize women, and Li Shengli’s nightclubs are exposed to sexual entertainment, A series of scandals involving drugs, reported in May this year that her detention order was rejected, dozens of days after Cui Xueli suspected of committing suicide due to depression, her artist friend Goo Hara suspected that she chose to commit suicide for the same reason.
Revelation
realism is the most eye-catching banner of Korean movies that have risen rapidly in recent years. This has nothing to do with the creative environment.
In the 1980s, Korea launched a wide-ranging democratization movement, and the film industry will revise it in 1973 The film law was regarded as a "bad law" to protest. In 1985, the fifth film law stipulated that the "licensing system" was changed to the "registration system" to protect the free activities of independent production companies. The number of film production companies increased rapidly from 20 to 120. In 1980, the Association of Film Makers and the Association of Film Critics put forward a proposal to "cancel the prior review of film scripts". In 1987, the "Film Industry 101 Contract Resolution" required further liberalization of the subject matter. In 1996, the pre-censorship system for films was sentenced. Unconstitutional. In 1990, the Blue Dragon Award was restored, and the Busan National Film Festival was launched in 1996. In addition, the struggle against direct distribution of imported films is also conducive to the rise of local films .
When politics, crime, law, sex and other sensitive realistic themes that are easiest to dig into complex depths are no longer taboos, coupled with the support of the national government and the people, despite the small disadvantages of the market, the rapid development of Korean genre films Not surprising. In this context, in 2011, "The Melting Pot", adapted from the real incidents of sexual violence at Inhwa School of the Gwangju School for the Deaf and Mute, was released. The film promoted the introduction of the "Partial Amendment Law of the Special Act on Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes" (also known as "The furnace method").
In 2013, after the release of "Sowon" based on the sexual assault incident of minors, South Korean people held many rallies and parades. The film and "The Melting Pot" jointly promoted the progress of South Korea's Anti-Sex Crime Act.
In the same year, after the release of "The Defender" based on the "Bulim Incident" during the period of the former President Roh Moo-hyun as a lawyer, the five character prototypes in the film were finally acquitted in February of the following year.
Although there is a big difference in the creative freedom between South Korea and my country, the dance with shackles can also resonate with the whole society. It is the most likely type of potential explosion that will have both high reputation and box office. From "Dear", which reflects the problem of child trafficking, to "I am not the God of Medicine", a milestone score of 9.0 on Douban, which became the box office champion last year, to the youth film "Dog Thirteen", which reflects the problem of family education, to 11 this year Released this month, the dark horse "You are a teenager" reflecting school violence and education problemsRealism has always been a good medicine for creating collective empathy from the suspension and returning to its essence. It is the force that tortures social problems and promotes the reform of social mechanisms, and it is also the creative direction advocated by current policies.
So, what enlightenment does the realism creation of China and South Korea bring? Throughout the above-mentioned successful works, most of them combine realism with other elements such as healing, black humor, or package commercial genre films, which brings them the guarantee of commercial performance; "main theme realism" may become Future mainstream security options, such as "Captain China", "Operation Red Sea" and "Operation Mekong" adapted from real events. The
movie may be weak and weak. A realist movie cannot fundamentally change social reality, just like "Kim Jiyoung Born in 1982" triggered discussions across Asia, but it will not fundamentally change the inferiority of men and women in Korea. The status quo, but at least, the seeds have been sown; movies may also be powerful, time passes, unreasonable laws will change, leaders will change, and movies with artistic and social value will still exist for a long time.
