"Mother" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2009, and began to be released on a large scale in South Korea 12 days later. However, there was no finalist in the main competition unit in Cannes, and it was only assigned to the "One Kind of Concern" unit. In Asia, it was quite admired and won the best film of the Asian Film Awards .
10 years later, director Bong Joon-ho returned to Cannes with " parasite", won the Palme d’Or , and won the Oscar for best film the following year. Now he has become internationally renowned Great director. Of course, as early as 2003, Bong Joon-ho received attention because of " Murder Memories ".
"Mother" also won the Best Screenplay of the Asian Film Awards, jointly won by Bong Joon Ho and Park Eun Kyo. This is the most well-known work in which Park Eun Kyo participated, and the TV series "Sea of Silence" starring by her independent screenwriter, Bae Doona and Kong Liu will be broadcast next year.
"Mother" is in the hands of Hong Lipiao, whose Chinese name is also translated as Hong Jingbiao. After the film, he collaborated with Feng Junhao on "Snow Country Train" and "Parasite". In 2018, Li Cangdong 's " burning " is also his photographic work. In 2016, "Cry", which worked with the director of Luo Hongzhen , won the best photography of Korean film .
In addition, the people behind "Mother" are very active in the Asian film scene. For example, Liu Xingji, who is in charge of art, participated in Ning Hao’s " Crazy Alien", and Li Yongji, who was in charge of visual effects, participated in Tsui Hark’s " Outsmart Tiger Mountain". Zheng Douhong, who is in charge of action stunts, participated in Zhang Yimou's " above the cliff".
Part of the audience in the three countries of East Asia often black out each other on weekdays, but the creators are not limited to their national identities and communicate frequently.
Next, I will introduce the cast. The title "Mother" refers to the role played by Kim Hye-ja. In the 1980s and 1990s, her acting skills were recognized by the audience. In the interpretation of this film, she won the actress of the Asian Film Awards.
Incidentally, in 2010, " Late Autumn " starring Tang Wei was a remake of the 1966 movie of the same name directed by Li Wanxi. In 1982, there was also a remake, in which Tang Wei's role was played by Jin Hyezi.
"Mother" plays the mentally retarded son Yuanbin . The Chinese name of this character is translated as Daojun and Taiyu. However, there is a saying that in order to make Yuanbin more involved in the role, the director specially chose a role name that is similar to his original name Jin Daozhen, so this role will be collectively referred to as Dojun in the following.
Yuan Bin’s works are mostly concentrated in the first decade of the new century.In addition to this film, there is also the "Tai Chi Flag Flying" in 2004 with Jiang Di Kyu. In 2010, he won the Korean Film Big Bell Award with " Lonely Agent". This film also includes One translated name is "Uncle".
The role of Dojun’s good friend Jin Tae is Jinju , a familiar face among Korean actors, and it is always difficult to be the male number one. But he participated in many well-known works, such as the movies " Despicable Street " "Only You", and the TV series " Mr. Sunshine ", "The City That Never Sleeps", "Descendants of the Sun" and so on.
Spoilers ahead
Bong Joon-ho has proficient genre creation skills, and he can also add personal expression to it. His movies always give people a more neat feeling.
For example, in the scene at the beginning of "Mother", Keiko is in the medicinal material and looks to the opposite side. At this time, a burst of light flashes. When the lens cuts to the opposite side, we can't see the moving light source, which produces the light just now. When a car passed by, we saw the light reflected from the car window, and then we understood how the light just came from.
emphasizes this kind of flashing light so as to pave the way for a sense of crisis, and light is dangerous.
cut a close-up of the mother’s face for the second time, no light flashed, and then cut the road surface, a car passing in the opposite direction, no light reflected, because Dojun is on the other side , So the car here is not dangerous to him.
has been laid out twice,The third editing speeded up. There were three shots of flashing on the face, cutting fingers, and Daojun being hit by a car.
The two foreplays are neatly structured, and the event happened cleanly and neatly, which is the result of careful management of audiovisual.
There is a scene that echoes it after the design. After the mother killed the old man who picked up the tattered old man, she returned to the pharmacy and went back to the pharmacy. It was clear that Daojun was in jail, and no light flashed on her face this time, implying that there was no crisis.
Then the camera switched. The policeman who was familiar with her was standing on the street. There was no car passing by in the whole scene. The police even walked in and blocked her mother directly, so that the light could not shine on her face. Dojun's danger has been removed.
As mentioned above, Bong Junhao can add personal expression to genre films, and in his expression, portraying class differences is an eternal topic.
If the plot of the group of professors in the first half of the film is to lay out the life and mental state of the protagonist, the section where the mother seeks a lawyer has relatively weak effect on the plot, even if it is deleted , Has little impact on the story.
But Bong Joon-ho seems to be more interested in class differences, so he still has to intersperse various classes into the story as much as possible, wanting to also depict the environment in which this incident occurred.
At the beginning, after Dojun was hit by a car, his good friend Zhentai took him to the golf course to take revenge. In this section, there is a scene where Zhentai emerges from the grass. He used to avenge Daojun in an arrogant state, but he was so small on the court.
Zhentai makes a living selling fishing gear,Like Daojun, he is the bottom class. After that, there was a close-up shot of the club on the rich man's car, and then Dojun came out to block the road, but he was holding a tree branch in his hand.
After several pushes, Zhentai took a branch and came out to chase the car. We can see that he threw the branch in his hand, hit the cue, and was immediately bounced away, a very intuitive interpretation of " "Strike a stone with a pebble".
Since then, the film has brought out representatives of other classes. For example, the wife of a civil servant, she persuaded Keiko not to practice medicine without a license, but she was not worried about losing her life, but because she was afraid that a scandal might occur in the area under her husband's jurisdiction and affect her career.
She herself should be a businessman, because she asked Keiko to declare that some of the inferior medicinal materials from other places are local in order to increase the price, and the lawyer just mentioned is also a profit-only image. .
In addition, the local police depicted in the film not only extorted a confession, but also made a hasty decision. According to the golf at the murder scene, it was concluded that Daojun was the murderer. Later, it was only on the clothes of another mentally abnormal person. With blood stains from the dead, the previous sentence was overturned and another murderer was locked.
As for the motives of the murder, they actually didn't care about them. They believed that these people were mentally abnormal and would definitely not do good deeds, so they were convicted of any crime.
So, does the lower class strictly adhere to the moral bottom line? Obviously not.
The bottom layer of the film seems to have a conscience, but everything has a preset condition. Zhentai did not forget to hide his golf clubs when he helped Dojun revenge. After being falsely accused by Dojun’s mother, first Ask for compensation, and then promise to help Daojun investigate.
They may have justice in their hearts,But it’s not in the first place. There are always other things in the front. For example, in Zhentai’s heart, money is the first place, and in the mother’s heart, the son is the first place. Therefore, in order to help his son get rid of the crime, he committed more. The big sin.
Most adults, in fact, can understand this phenomenon, but at the same time they can't completely care about morality and justice. Because this is the education that most people received when they were young, but when they grow up they find that the reality is often different from what the adults said before.
Dojun is an adult with a child’s brain in his body. His motive for killing was because someone called him mentally disabled. After he went to the golf course to get revenge, although he was blamed by his mother, before the blame, his mother thought he was revenge. It's fun.
It is possible that his mother taught Daojun not to be scolded for mentally handicapped since he was a child, and to know how to resist. This is a very basic view of right and wrong and a sense of justice.
In Wenya that Dojoon killed, only the grandmother is left in the family, and her livelihood depends on this middle school student. Contrary to Dojoon, there is an adult in the body of a minor. Brain.
After her death, the police discussed that the town had not had a life case for a long time, indicating that the class here has been solidified and people have accepted their own destiny, busy calculating their own interests, and have no time to resist.
After so many years, someone finally resisted, but the result was initiated by an immature person, and it was still a killing between the bottom. It is really ironic.
Although the code of ethics cannot restrict the behavior of adults from time to time, it lingers in their spirit. My mother killed someone to protect Dojun,And she knew in her heart that Daojun had not been wronged. If she has no moral code, she will not be tortured mentally, but all her immoral memories at this moment are the source of pain.
There is also a special way of shooting memories in the film. Soon after Daojun was in jail, his mother brought a lawyer to see him and asked him to carefully recall what happened that night. There are many windows behind Daojun here, from the perspective of depth, they are arranged in descending order, like a well.
Dojun tried his best to recall, but he thought of things that were not related to the case, such as rear-view mirrors, and the most important thing seemed to be at the bottom of the well farthest away from him. He couldn't think of it.
Finally, the police caught the so-called "true murderer", and Dojun's mother came to see him. After talking to him, there was a shot that was shot back at the other end of the scene. We saw that my mother seemed to be at the bottom of a well, she was trapped in those painful memories, surrounded by sin.
The mother had seen Wenya's delirious grandmother, but after the murder, she didn't realize that her granddaughter was no longer there. This is a blessing for her. In the end, the mother also chose this path, acupuncture the thigh acupoints, and joined the carnival of passers-by.
The professors, civil servants, businessmen, and policemen in the film have forgotten the sense of right and wrong and the sense of justice that only children can insist on, and they manage their own affairs with peace of mind. They had pierced that acupuncture point long ago.
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