text: Diandian
April 16, 2014, South Korea's Sewo shipwrecked. After the accident, the captain and lifeguards abandoned the passengers and left first. The South Korean government covered up the facts and did not launch rescue as soon as possible. The tragic ending resulted in 304 deaths and 172 injuries. After the Sewol incident, Korean society fell into a long period of "introduction" and accused the government and the president of inaction. Film and television producers used this to shoot documentaries such as "The Sea", "The Country That Is Inaction During the Golden Rescue Time", and "Diver Bell", revealing the cruel real reason why the Sewol incident evolved from natural disasters to man-made disasters.
Recently, another film and television work related to Seyue has appeared in front of the public, and it is also a movie released in theaters, called "Birthday".
Compared with the "accusation" meaning contained in the documentary, the emotions of this movie tend to be relieved.
story starts with the Sewol incident. Many people died after the shipwreck, and the victim's family was in a state of pain and did not want to believe in the cruel reality of "the relatives are dead."
The protagonist is the family living in memories.
Son Xiuhao left due to an accident. The mother chose to forget that her son had long been dead. Every year, she would buy new clothes for her son and keep her room as it is.
The fact that the mother lost her son made her feel extremely painful, so she ignored the growth of her youngest daughter in the family. Many times, the daughter goes to the kitchen to make breakfast for her mother to eat.
After the accident, his father, who had been absent from his family for a full 8 years, came back: he worked in Vietnam and was in jail for three years. The scene of my son imagining the trip to Vietnam seemed to happen yesterday, but he could no longer feel the warmth of his son embracing himself.
Compared with the mother who lived in the past, the father is more rational. The accident has already happened, and everyone should bravely get out of the pain and not ignore other beauty in life because of this.
The father didn't understand his wife's attitude towards his daughter: "The daughter is still a child, why should she mature early and live in the depressed atmosphere of life after her brother's death?"
But the daughter is sensible to comfort her father-
"If you have experienced that kind of thing and it's okay, it's called something wrong."
Like all real-life movies in South Korea, "Birthday" focuses on social tragedies, restoring the painful life of the families of the victims of the case, so as to achieve the purpose of reflecting on society.
was attracted by the theme of "Sewol" but never expected: there is no shot in the story that denounces the government, but is taken from the warm perspective of relatives, which is even more cruel in gentleness. It makes people even more unforgettable about that painful history.
Mother is played by famous Korean actor Jeon Do-yeon .
In 2007, she won the Best Actress in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival for the movie "Miyang". " Rogue Han " even won the Best Actress in the Korean Baeksang Art Awards.
In the movie "Birthday", she perfectly presents the image of a painful mother, always muttering to herself: The light is on, is it my son back? Just a few words made the audience in front of the screen cry like rain.
Father is played by male actor Xue Gengqiu. With his father role in " So-won ", he won the Best Actor of the Korean Baeksang Art Awards. Compared to the collapse and tears in "Su Yuan", he is more restrained in "Birthday". Hide the pain after losing your son and lead your wife and daughter to a new state of life.
In addition to the living conditions of the victim's family after the accident, "Birthday" also spent a lot of writing to describe the lives of the survivors of the accident.
——Siuhao died because his life jacket was given to a weak girl. The girl felt guilty because of this and often went to Sooho's classroom to put chocolate in Sooho's desk. Recently, I am preparing to fulfill my dream of "Suhao traveling to Vietnam".When the camera of
was brought to the girl, she was carefully hiding in a fast food restaurant to work, not daring to admit that she was a survivor, and not daring to tell the story of Xiuhao's death because of herself. The director conveys the idea that survivors are also victims, which makes them even heavier.
In addition, there are many scenes in the film where the families of victims gathered together to hold a birthday party for the deceased children.
Xiuhao's mother is very resistant: How can we sit together and chat? How can we bear to laugh?
But slowly, Xiuhao's mother recalled the trivial matters of her son's life in the praise and evaluation of her son's son, and felt the memories and longing of the living for the deceased.
At this moment, she finally felt relieved and accepted the fact that her son had left, and the audience outside the screen burst into tears.
is just like the name of this movie.
Birthday is the day when a person is born, and it is also a memory of the deceased by the public. Even though life has passed, the beautiful memories remain in everyone's hearts.
Compared to living in pain forever, continuing to live with beautiful memories is the best choice. During the
Sewoku incident, the victims left regretfully. But they will always live in the memories of their relatives and friends, and will always be fresh.
-END-
