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A 65-year-old woman with shyness and weakness in her eyes. She stood in the park and tentatively asked the elderly men who came and went: "Shall we fall in love? I will be nice to you."
This is a drama film made by South Korean director Lee Jae Rong in 2016. With bold and taboo themes, it uncovered the pain of , a marginal man in society.
The role setting in this movie uses a "contrast" technique. A 65-year-old prostitute, an idle disabled youth, and a watery woman. The director uses these three characters as a "positive image" ". So decent people in suits and shoes will naturally become "hypocrites." Many literary works like to use such contrast to express characters.
As Soyoung in the play said: "No one cares about what is true, people only listen to what they want to hear."
Who is a good person? Who is the bad guy?
This is a sentence I often asked when I was watching TV when I was young. Children must distinguish between good and bad, so Cao Cao became "bad guys", and Liu Bei is naturally a "good guy". As I grew up, I found that people cannot distinguish between good and bad, good and bad. This definition is too narrow. People should distinguish between good and evil.
Xue Baochai is a good person. She is knowledgeable and considerate. She seems to be unable to fault her body, but she is not a good person. Just like the old prostitute Soyoung in the movie, she is a bad person. She abandoned her son when she was young, and went from North Korea to South Korea to ask for a living. She was still in the meat business at the age of 65. But she is kind-hearted and compassionate, not a wicked person.
So,A person's good and bad, good and evil are not clear at a glance. The movie "Span9span Miss Bacchus " has an in-depth discussion on the lust of the elderly, the warmth of human nature and social issues.
The lust of the elderly is not only the desire for “sex”
Standing in the park every day, chatting with old men in the past, this is So Young’s daily job. She has no relatives or friends, and no social security. She is 65 years old and still has business to do. Two years later, there will be nothing left to wait for death. However, the misery of life did not make her complain, on the contrary, she loves life more than many so-called successful people.
Soyoung is well-known in the industry, and even has guests coming here especially. For the lust of the elderly, they want more than "sex", but more to prove that they are still strong. The primitive instincts of this male animal did not decline due to old age. The director used this as a starting point to show the hardships of the elderly.
Some of them are widowed, some are sick, or their children are gone, or they are helpless. They are a group of people who are excluded from society, and even if they disappear suddenly one day, no one will notice. So they have to struggle, to prove that they are still alive powerfully.
Human nature is not determined by career
So Young was treated in the hospital for gonorrhea and witnessed a farce between doctor, lover and illegitimate child. The gentle doctor obviously didn't want to be responsible for the mother and son. The woman was put in a detention center for her extreme behavior, and the boy who took in the boy turned out to be an old prostitute. Isn't this a kind of irony?
Suying got gonorrhea and was stabbed by a woman with her. She cannot continue to "do business" in the original area. In desperation, I can only go to other places. When she saw an elderly man working out in the park, she stepped forward and said, "You are so good, can I touch it?"
The man proudly said, "Of course._P2p
Soyoung touched the man's arm lightly, and then said, "Are you in love?" _P2p
The man realized Soyoung’s true purpose, turned and walked away. Before leaving, he insulted Soyoung viciously. Soyoung continued to walk forward with a frustrated face. I think Soyoung’s frustration may not be because of that. An insult, but a shame in the bag. I’m afraid I won’t last a few days without business.
For her, what is there to be ashamed of? Just like her own Say: "I rely on this to eat, there is nothing to be ashamed of. Gotta live. I don’t want to live by picking up rubbish anyway. _Strong28strong This doesn't sound pleasant, and I believe it will receive a lot of contempt. However, it is so sympathetic to say it from Soyoung's mouth.
Soyoung often can only walk back and forth in the park in a daze. Because of gonorrhea, her business is getting less and less. On this day, she met a former customer and friend, called Jae Woo. From Jae Woo’s mouth, she learned that she used to take care of So Young and used generous "change Song". It has been more than a year since the stroke was hospitalized. Soyoung decided to visit Lianqian Song. She saw that Zianqian Song was paralyzed in the hospital bed. According to Lao Song, she couldn't die if she wanted to die.
Soyoung was grateful for her old love and sympathized with her .I often come to the hospital to see him. On this day, Lianqian Song’s daughter-in-law and two grandsons were in front of the hospital bed. The daughter told Lianqian Song that they were going to the United States and had no time to take care of him. The two grandsons looked at him with disgust. Their grandfather. So Young came in at this time, and her daughter drove her out vigilantly, and said to her husband: "Father is like this. If there is no other purpose, why should he come to see him? _P2p
The daughter is dressed in decent clothes and has a nice face, and in her heart, Soyoung is a woman with ulterior motives. She does not take care of her father, and says that other people's visits are different. They represent. With the ruthless "successful people". "Successful people" do everything for a purpose.
Change Song begs Soyoung to kill his life, Soyoung agrees. She bought pesticides at the supermarket and poured money in Song Mouth.Suying sat there with trembling hands. Then he crept out of the hospital. Soon, Suying heard that Zaiyu said that Changchun Song had eaten something by mistake and died. The family didn't even do an autopsy and called it hastily to be buried.
Perhaps, the death of Change Song was a relief for his daughter. The paralyzed old man who can't even move, what can he eat by himself?
The daughter in the film and Soyoung formed a great contrast. From a legal point of view, So Young is a murderer, but from an emotional point of view, So Young is noble. This contest between law and emotion is enough to cause the audience to think deeply.
The social problems of the elderly can reflect a lot of things
So Young told Zai Woo about helping Change Song to end his life. Zae Woo was silent for a long time. A few days later, Zaiyu asked Soyoung to help end a friend's life. Suying agreed, and the three of them walked to the edge of an uninhabited mountain. With a light push, Suying ended a lonely life again.
This reminds me of a Swedish movie called "A man named Ovi decides to die". It tells the story of a widow and lonely old man who had just been laid off and decided to commit suicide. He was moved by the warmth of his neighbors and found hope in life again.
The problems of the elderly reflect more than just social security. Just like the Swedish man named Ovi in the movie, he is very rich financially, but he still wants to end his life, because his life lacks warmth. Money can only bring material enjoyment, but not emotional satisfaction.
Why do old people break away from this society? In ancient times, he was still an official at the age of 60 and the head of the family at the age of 70. How come now, 35 years old has become the threshold of the workplace? The elderly in the family are no longer in charge?
Because the world is too anxious,I ran forward in a hurry, forgetting the old people and children in front of and behind him, forgetting poetry and the distance, and forgetting warmth and companionship. If economic development is the so-called human civilization, then this civilization is ridiculous. It is nothing but brutal competition in another way.
At the end of the film, Soyoung and Jaewoo come to a high-end hotel. Here, Zaiyu made his request. He wanted to leave this world, but he was afraid of dying alone. He hoped that Soying could be by his side. Jae Woo asked So Young to take a piece of sleeping pills, but he took a lot of it. Early the next morning, Zaiyu lay peacefully beside Suying.
The police arrested Soyoung through video recording, believing that Soyoung was murdering. So Young did not excuse, but willingly wanted to be jailed. She said: "Prison is in charge of food. That's fine, otherwise you don't know where you will die."
Shi Tiesheng said: There are three fundamental dilemmas in life. First, one is born to live among countless others and cannot communicate thoroughly with others, which means loneliness; second, one is born with desires, and a person’s ability to fulfill his desires will never catch up with his ability to desire. This is an eternal Distance; Third, I don't want to die in my life, but I am going to die in my life. I think this is fear.
So Young has been trapped in these three fundamental dilemmas all his life. I believe the way to alleviate the predicament is the warmth as in "A Man Called Ovie Decides to Die". Because it was not So Young who killed those old people, but the indifference in the world.
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