Among a large number of Korean film and television works, there is a type of subject that is often difficult to ignore by the audience, that is, "the love story between men and women."
looking back, maybe these works are not lacking in dog blood and sentimentality, but it cannot be denied that Korean film and television works are really good at constructing bridges between men and women, creating romance or beauty, and they are also very delicate in emotions. Expression and display, even through love, enter into the ambition to explore the human nature, morals and ethics, social status and other levels.
directed by Li Yinji in 2016 is a very ambitious movie. On the surface, this is a large-scale love movie, but in fact, it has been explored in many ways, although It's not deep enough, just tasted, but still has enough delicate expression in taboo love and family life.
actor Kihong met the heroine Lee Sangmin in Finland. At that time, their children were participating in a school camping. They also got acquainted because of the weather conditions, so they stayed in the same hotel.
In the early morning of the next day, we took a walk together and met an unmanned sauna room. The two stopped to rest, but they had a relationship.
In the beginning of this encounter, the story did not give too much information about the identity of the two people, so that the audience would think that they are two single foreigners with the same root and the same origin, and each child has a little problem, these similarities Make them attractive to each other. Even through the snow scene, the beautiful melody creates a sense of romance, which makes people mistakenly believe that this relationship is just the mutual comfort of two people with similar sorrows.
But in the following story, we will find that neither of them is single. The protagonist Kihong and the heroine Lee Sangmin both have their own families, and in the movie, they both take on more family responsibilities, especially taking care of their children.
returned to Seoul, South Korea, and the two met again. Since then, this forbidden love has continued to develop. During the time they spent together, they both temporarily let go of their respective identities and family responsibilities, become unscrupulous, and give and take each other emotionally and physically.
They went from being a husband and wife in two families to a simple man and a woman, and a pair of simple lovers.
until, Li Shangmin confessed to her husband when he was out late at night that he had met someone who had to meet, but Kihong flinched because he considered his daughter and wife. This forbidden love of
ended, and the two also lost the possibility of another life.
does have a lot of sex scenes in the movie "Men and Women", which may indeed attract attention, but the real power of is that even if this movie is full of such passages, you will not feel this Movies have colored emotions and a sense of obscenity. Even if the couple betrayed their marriage and abandoned their morals, you might not be so disgusted with them.
and this is the magic of audiovisual language!
The film framing environment, shooting lens and the use of the soundtrack create a sense of purification. Finland’s sense of emptiness and snow, as well as the exquisite selection of Seoul’s sceneries, all reflect the loneliness and depression that these men and women face in their lives. They bear the identities of husband, father, wife, and mother, but they cannot see themselves and are emotionally impoverished. The environment and shooting techniques like
build up the beauty of the lens, and the beauty purifies the relationship. The
soundtrack is even more so, repeating a soft and beautiful melody, through changes in rhythm and level, to help the development of the story and the expression of emotions, making people willing to believe that there is a deep emotional connection between them, not just the flesh relationship.
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director Li Yinji showed this taboo story poetic, and made the image into music , and in this movie I also saw the shadow of the movie "Sweet Honey", which is also a taboo love, and also a melody coordination A good example of making movies into music through images.
(By the way, the most unsuccessful case of using music with images recently seen is Feng Xiaogang's "If Yun Knows", a lot of light music is used in the movie, and every time the actor starts to remember, the music will sound. This kind of blunt play The technique makes the male protagonist seem to have his own BGM, which is long and redundant. For the first time, I feel that light music is so harsh and irritating.)
as actors, Jeon Do-yeon and Kong Yoo have advantages in face and body, but in performance Both seem to maintain tolerance, restraint, and calmness, just like ascetics and monks. This is a deduction of repressive advantages. They are also purifying the immorality in the story, as if the extramarital affairs also have a sense of ritual.
But we also need to know clearly that no matter how beautiful or romantic the relationship is, it is essentially the two people's betrayal of the original marriage and family.
There are some moments, as viewers, we will be moved by this pair of lovers, and we even hope that they can finally get married. The subject of extramarital affairs inevitably challenges society and morals, but if the two people are allowed to stay together smoothly, then the marriage relationship and its ancillary constraints are completely uncountable, but there are very few directors shooting like this.
These men and women bear the original sin of betrayal. In any case, they will not be together in the movie. Even if they are together, the director and screenwriter must set up various barriers and barriers for them, so that the two suffer in the story. We can regard this as a "punishment" for them.
The punishment for the movie "Men and Women" is that although the man and the woman in the story find peace and love in each other, when the woman is overwhelmed by thorns and thorns, the man becomes a cowardly deserter, and the woman finally divorces. Other countries live alone, and men continue to bear the responsibilities of their husbands and fathers in their original marriages, continue to live under depression, without self.
untie the coat of society and morality, the two finally become a kind of beast called human beings, staying in emotion and desire for a moment. In this regard, we should be tolerant.
While watching men and women suffer their own suffering, it is difficult for us to blame who is right and who is wrong, who should be, and who should not be, everything is their own choice.
We can only be fortunate that they have released themselves in this taboo, expressed themselves, enjoyed peace and love, and have been sincere and sincere for this love and desire.
This is the charm of movies and the charm of human emotions.
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