film "Time" mainly tells: In order to keep the male protagonist Ji Woo, to keep the time, and to prevent the beloved person from getting bored with the face of her face, she went to think after plastic surgery. Hi, when Sixi made Zhiyu fall in love with herself again, she found that Zhiyu still loved her as she was. When Zhiyu found out that the two people he loved were originally the same person, he couldn't accept everything now. In the end, he could only face Sixi through plastic surgery. The whole film still retains the deep and weird tone of the director's previous films such as "Empty Room" and "Drifting Desire Room", making the love tragedy even more sad, hitting the audience's heart and leaving the film with long-term thinking in the audience's heart . In the film, the director tells a story that the audience seems to empathize through film language like a spectator. At the same time, he examines the world from the perspective of the participants, intertwining seemingly unrelated topics such as love, time, and appearance. In the long sigh, the audience feels that love stays for a long time in time, and love does not need any carving.
Throughout the film, the story takes place in relatively fixed places, such as cafes, sculpture parks, apartments, underground passages, etc. These are, of course, the director's meticulous arrangements. Only in this way can the unrelated themes have a holistic nature and make the film's low and weird tone more oppressive. But when you think about it after watching the film, you will find that the film is intertwined with two main lines from beginning to end, and the fixed locations mentioned above are all emotional sublimation points on each main line. The following will use each main line as a clue to interpret the emotional inner quality of this film. The first main line of
is that Sexi, who has lost her reason, undergoes plastic surgery in order not to lose the love she thought has been fading away. She wants to keep love by choosing to reappear after leaving. During the six-month recovery period after plastic surgery, she always watched the actor in the dark. She approached the actor in different roles. After successfully re-entering the actor’s life, she realized that the actor was still deep. I love her deeply. During this period, she wanted to make the actor forget her original self through hard work, only to realize that everything was in vain, and the current self would never replace her original self. When the truth is revealed, the actor can only accept love again through plastic surgery, but loses his life in the chase with the heroine. Among them, two pursuits are the most worth thinking about. The first time was when Zhiyu chased Sixi, this was the second return of love. Before this, Ji Woo portrayed in the film is the image of pursuing physical love in loneliness. The director wants to express the emotional life of urban people in today's society, that is, physical love and true love have been quietly separated. Love is more and more like a luxury in the chase, love seems to flash and flicker in the chase. The beating of the camera, the wheezing sound, and the endless stream of vehicles all tell a doomed tragedy, and a love that cannot be exchanged has grown in a deformity. The second chase was when Si Xi chased Zhi Woo, it was the same cafe, the same street, and the same elevator, but the ending ended with death, which brought a tragic end to this love. I think the director probably did. Looking for the position of love in time, but finally discovering that death is the best way, because no force will change the beauty of love, love will stay in time, love seems to find no direction, but once it has It will not be calculated by time.
Time can change the appearance, time can make passion fade. However, time cannot change the persistence of love, change the seemingly erotic physical love. Love under scrutiny is destined to not last long, love under suspicion will make people lose their minds. And the modern erotic sculptures shown many times in the film are only the symbols that the director wants to express, and they are a miniature of modern people's open-mindedness. The director is discussing what these have brought us. Is it the liberation of sex, the equality of the sexes, or the indifference of love, the most beautiful topic of mankind? I think this is worth thinking about by every audience. In my opinion, the beginning of this story is the loss of love security, and it is this so-called sexual liberation that erodes the trust of love. The second main line of the
film is that the protagonist Ji Woo, who has been trapped in love, is constantly searching for his love. Among them, he is persevering, lonely, suffering, and deliberately confused. He had a painful and lonely waiting and lost after his beloved one left. Of course, the same cafe, the same apartment, the same street, and the same sculpture park. But they are faced with all kinds of characters, each night who regains love after changing her appearanceThe entangled person. He is inevitably lost in this emotionally diverse society, but the power of time is the only one that cannot change love. He returned to the place where he witnessed his love with the heroine many times. His virgin heroine's surveillance constantly endured the test of loneliness, and he was pulled back to reality on the verge of losing again. When he truly felt that he had found a new love, he was crushed by the truth. These destined him to be the incarnation of a tragedy, his death is not the magic of love, he is the silhouette of various people's tragedies in a mechanized social life. He also chose time to keep love in his insistence, but love was trampled to pieces by this deformed society at the last moment. The director, of course, used the language of the film to focus all kinds of problems on Zhi Woo, and wanted to use bloody tragedies to impact the increasingly numb hearts of people in the current society. Such a thing is destined to be a bit remote in our opinion, but who can guarantee that it will not happen? The director is sneering at this unchangeable society. In today's world where material desires, physical desires, and money desires are flooding the world, he is looking for his sympathizer and our conscience. I think we can’t help but ask, are we only losing the beautiful love? Zhiyu never let the audience see his face after he changed his face until he died, and what was left to us in the end was only flesh and blood. While lamenting the tragic ending of love, we should also think more deeply.
At the end of the film, the scene from the beginning is reproduced. Shixi, who had plastic surgery again, was knocked down at the door of the plastic surgery hospital, allowing the hidden woman to return to the film dramatically. I tried to explain the director's intention, and I kept thinking about the word time. In the end, I think I found the answer to this narrative in films such as "Bad Boy" and "Young Prostitute" filmed by director Kim Ki-duk: Doesn't the last Sexi have deformed love? She was swayed by time for a long time or was knocked down by true love, after all, she was pulled back by time. Her existence is a joke in the director's mind. The director hopes that the return of true love will awaken every audience and let the unthinkable give the audience long-term thinking. This is exactly the style of director Kim Kidd.
"Love stays in time", when I first named this name, I wanted to call out the power of true love. People nowadays can seek superficial emotions in time, but I think time is always a vassal of love. Maybe the film brings us only the superficial image impact, but love may wake up our frozen hearts in silence. In the end, may love last forever, may lovers last forever, may our love no longer be lost, may our love stop in time!
