has just passed the 92nd Oscars awards ceremony that has not diminished. It is the biggest winner of this year's film circle-the highest honor recipient of the Cannes Palme d’Or, and also the winner of the 4 Oscars including the best film "Parasite" Comments are also overwhelming.
Korean movies are hard-working players, and their achievements today are by no means achieved overnight, but step by step after years of hard work.
Among them, Korean independent films have stormed the battlefield for Korean films both in avant-garde and profoundness, and have contributed to the international popularity of Korean films. What
is going to introduce to you today is a Korean independent movie "Princess Han".
Lee Soo-jin's debut film "Han Princess" is a Korean independent film released in 2014. The film is adapted from the collective sexual violence incident of female middle school students in Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do. By focusing on the living conditions of female victims, it exposes the unreasonable and unethical modern South Korea that survivors of sexual violence are oppressed and marginalized. Social atmosphere.
The commercial and artistic "Princess of Han" attracted more than 150,000 viewers after 12 days of release that year, breaking the record for the largest number of viewers in the shortest period of time in the independent film field, and became a refresher in Korean independent film history. Ten million movies.
But this is not the first time that film works based on real events have attracted great attention from the society. For example, "The Melting Pot" directed by Hwang Dong Hyuk in 2011, "Don't Cry, Mom" directed by Kim Yong Han in 2012, and "So Won" directed by Lee Joon-ik in 2013... Each of them has created unprecedented attention and attention in the local Korean society. Influence.
These film works adapted from real events, most of them restore the cruel social violence incidents, bring a huge emotional impact to the audience, and extremely strengthen the reality and authenticity of the film, so that they have to have a great resonance. Sense and crisis.
This film starts with the victim’s female middle school student, Princess Han, who moved to another school to start a new life after the sexual assault. It tells the story of being a victim of violence and being subjected to social prejudice and unfair treatment, and finally lost hope and voted into the river. The tragic story of suicide.
"Victim guilt"
Like sexual assaults, special and sensitive violent incidents, in addition to the violence of the incident itself and the responsibility of the perpetrator, social morality and ethical irrationality also cause tragedy. A reason that cannot be ignored.
Whether it is the ineffective protection of victims of sexual violence, or the accusations and cold reception they have received in the society, they have suffered even worse "secondary injuries when it is difficult to survive as a weak person." ".
The so-called "secondary injury" generally refers to the mental damage suffered by the victim due to negative reactions from the judiciary, public opinion, medical institutions, family members, friends, etc., after being injured by a crime. The second injury of sexual violence is also called "social rape". The difference from other crime hazards is: Compared with external attributes such as race, class, and nationality, it is more inclined to use gender. Personal internal attributes such as sexual experience are used as the basis for value judgment. The most typical one should be the guilt of the victim. The victim's guilt theory is based on the gender-discriminatory words and deeds based on the "gender awareness" established in the society, which has brought another serious injury to the victim.
"Why do you only harm you and not others?", "Isn't your own behavioral disorder" and other comments, as well as malicious speculation on victims by mentioning "usual behavior style", "empirical theory", etc. "Secondary harm" brings mental violence to victims. In the
movie, the "endorsement" for the victim's guilt theory is to accuse and criticize Princess Han’s interrogation, the police, the school principal, and the parents of the perpetrators....... They continue to use language or words against the survivors of sexual violence Physical violence, because their starting point is that they consider the identity of the victims of sexual violenceThe body carries an original sin. During the investigation of the
case, the school clearly showed its attitude towards the students who were victims of sexual violence. The school also stood by the parents of male students who had committed violence, and carried out most violence against the minority. Teacher
’s attitude is to calm things down: "Just go to the court to investigate right and wrong. In the world where people are alive, the idea that doing something wrong is a sinner is not wrong, but it is not completely right. In short, this kind of thing makes It’s no good for others to know."
The attitude of the criminal police in charge of investigating the case is contempt and disgust: "The two little girls have lost the face of the entire community."
Under such oppression, the princess seemed to have committed a crime and could only defend herself in a low voice, saying "I was not wrong."
People who should have committed crimes should be blamed and feel ashamed, but in this movie the opposite is true: the injured are forced to transfer schools, hide and be humiliated.
Behind this is the shackles of the deep-rooted traditional virginity and the male-centered patriarchal society on women.
We have got rid of feudal society for so many years, but this kind of feudal thought is still left in today's gender outlook and values.
"Regardless of whether the victim is guilty or not, the victim itself is the original sin" This is the logic of the victim's guilt theory.
The female characters appearing in the film can be roughly divided into two types. One is Ms. Zhao, the mother of the princess who represents maternal love, and the mother of the teacher, and the other is Hwayu and Eunxi, who symbolize friendship.
Here, the female characters show a little sense of association as women, but from the results, they did not play a substantial role. The support and understanding they gave to the princess was too fragile and powerless, and finally they marginalized the helpless princess again under social pressure. The situation of Princess
's biological mother and Ms. Zhao truly reflects the situation of middle-aged women in the male-centered patriarchal society of South Korea. The process of
’s mother and Ms. Zhao’s isolation of the princess is very similar, and the cause is the intervention of male characters.
According to the film's narrative, the biological mother mainly depends on her husband after remarrying. She does not have independent financial capacity and can only survive on the pharmacy opened by her husband.
The princess who transferred to school and started a new life experienced setbacks at school and went to her biological mother for comfort. The mother didn't show any longing and care, but showed evasiveness and alertness, but in front of her remarried husband, she showed the little woman's coquettish posture.
finally saw her daughter turn around angrily after venting, she also looked at her speechlessly. At this time, the mother's expression was not only silent, but also full of surprise, disappointment and helplessness. His eyes were cold and distant, full of distance.
is different from the biological mother, Ms. Zhao who runs the supermarket alone can be regarded as a capable and financially independent woman.
However, her condition is not much better than that of the princess' biological mother. Princess
lives in Ms. Zhao's house, takes care of the work in the supermarket, and relies on each other with Ms. Zhao, not a mother and daughter but better than mother and daughter. But this relationship ended when Ms. Zhao remarried with the director of the police station.
The economically independent Ms. Zhao also needs a husband, and their relationship also follows the husband-to-wife relationship model. After
was exposed to an extramarital affair, the director of the police station threw Ms. Zhao away and ran away alone. Ms. Zhao, who was insulted and injured, only worried about the man who ran away. After remarrying, he completely obeyed his husband's wishesZhi: In front of her son, she also looked at her husband's wink and acted; when the husband said that the princess "maybe the victim or the suspect", Ms. Zhao chose to be silent just like the biological mother.
Ms. Zhao's silent expression is so familiar.
She couldn't help her husband's will, so she had to default to the princess's departure.
Regardless of the economic situation, the biological mother and Ms. Zhao's dependence and submission to men seem to be the same.
Eun-hee, who appeared as a friend, approached the princess proactively from the very beginning. In the new campus life, Eun-hee's presence brought great hope and vitality to the princess.
But in the end when the princess fell into despair, Eun-hee avoided the princess.
saw the video of the princess being sexually assaulted on the Internet, Eun Hee and her friends were greatly affected.
was shocked, Enxi's cell phone rang from the princess, but she did not answer.
At this time, the camera shot close-up of the call notification of Enxi's phone. It was a princess with a sweet smile, but the ringing of the phone sounded like the princess's sobbing.
Eun Hee is the last hope of the princess. With the last hope shattered, the princess walked towards the Han River.
Han River is the place where friend Huayu ended his life. From the very beginning, the princess had a foreboding that she and Huayu would have the same fate. So, while she was afraid of water, she continued to learn to swim. I was afraid that I would regret my decision at the last moment after throwing into the river like Huayu.
Before Huayu was thrown into the river, she also asked her friend princess for help for spiritual comfort and support.
Huayu compared her pregnancy to becoming a vampire, and kept asking the princess: It’s not my fault, right? The question of
is similar to the princess’s desperate phone ringtone.
But the princess at that time made the same choice as Eun Hee. To Huayu, who was also a victim, she did not say the phrase "it's not your fault" after all.
Finally, Huayu cast Jiang desperately.
We can't help but recall the tears from the corner of the princess's eyes on the movie poster and the question in her eyes:
Is it me or the world that is wrong?
