A very moving film, to be honest, has not been described so externally for a long time. Female Er Haiyuan, selfish, cowardly, indifferent, lives in the modern city of Seoul, feeling the warmth of all human feelings, the world is cold, and she also reciprocates with the same attitude.
Between people, there is no trust, no love, some are just using, cheating. After being frustrated, return to a closed, ferry-only island where you lived as a child to recuperate. The heroine Jin Funan appeared like a ray of sunshine, dark skin, untrimmed, enthusiastic, thick, simple, kind. She warmly received Haiyuan, who was still defensive, because in her heart, everything was the same as when she was a child, nothing had changed, and the feelings of her youth, the feelings of the two were still warm. Haiyuan slowly let down her guard, but what appeared to her was Funan's life--a life she had never thought about.
She met the people of the island: the aunt: a nearly perverted mother-in-law who had survived for a hundred years, a victim of absolute patriarchal obedience, living like her ancestors. Vitriol and mean village women: a group of hateful and poor women who have been created by a similar way of life. Funan's husband: Animals are not as good as animals, and beating Funan is a common thing. Funan's little uncle: It seems that there is only one thing in life to have sex and vent. Xiaoyan: Funan's daughter. Overly mature children. The first half of the film is like the darkness before dawn, overwhelmed by people. Funan's face was always too dirty to see the facial features, the endless farm work, the endless beatings, the endless ridicule, she still smiled, because of the arrival of Haiyuan, her heart was warm.
The little uncle could come in in the middle of the night and rape her in a venting manner, after which she could continue to do her own thing, apparently not once. Her husband could bring the prostitute back and make a lascivious sound inside the door, and she could eat like a pig outside the door with a basin and listen to her aunt's lessons. Her husband could throw a nest with bricks while she was keeping bees, leaving her to run wild in the fields to dodge the bee stings for fun.
She can also get her husband to beat his head with a brick and bleed. Because she was used to this way of life. But she couldn't let her daughter go the same path as she did. Because she knows that there is another kind of woman's life in this world that can live in Seoul, like her haiyuan, haiyuan is all her hope, but her "hope" is so cold, as cold as when she was a child. When she saw her daughter's little bunny panties, she knew that everything was over, and her daughter was also possessed by her husband, and her daughter felt that as long as she could get her father's love, she even hoped to develop faster, maybe she cutely felt that her father liked women with big breasts.
Xiao Yan will become Fu Jin instead of Hai Yuan, which is the reason why Funan decided to escape. After being caught, the daughter was instructed by her husband to make her crazy, but she still did not lose her mind. The police came to investigate, and her only "hope" Haiyuan was so indifferent, just like when she was a child, she collapsed, she killed everyone, the second half was naked killing, but there was no imagination and pain, there was a tangled sadness, for Funan. I would like to say that Funan loves Haiyuan. Funan's letters to Haiyuan were thrown in the trash, and it was full of misses. Funan takes care of Haiyuan's life, which is all love. Funan and Haiyuan would not be able to resist scratching her breasts when they took a bath, that was desire. Funan still guarded her Haiyuan before the killing, and drove away the little uncle who wanted to rape Haiyuan, which was a concern. In fact, when he was a child, Funan was gang-raped by a group of bad boys in order to protect Haiyuan, and the indifferent Haiyuan just ran away on his own.
This is just the beginning. At the end of the film, Funan leaves the boat to Seoul in the white dress of the fleeing Hae-won. Snow-white clothes, dark skin, maybe at this moment they really combined. Funan's heavy makeup could not hide the despair under his eyes. There are only two people in her life, her lover Haiyuan and her daughter Xiaoyan, and now they are gone. Dirty blood spilled on the white skirt, and the sound of Funan's inner tearing seemed to be audible. A lifetime of humiliation erupted in despair. Haiyuan finally ended Funan's life with their two original relic flutes, and at the last moment I saw peace and happiness in Funan's eyes, her broken life ended in the hands of her lover, and it was the two who sent herself to heaven.
At this moment I felt that she had never thought of hurting Haiyuan, nor had she ever. Haiyuan picked up the letters from the garbage can, and each letter was written in the same clumsy handwriting: Haiyuan, I miss you! The title of this film is very good "The beginning and end of the Murder of Kim FuNan", everything has a cause and effect, 120 minutes in a condensed form shows a woman's tragic life, and in the end, life is torture, only death is liberated.
The film has very few sunlight, and the reference tone is dim, only appearing when Funan is in the field, as if it were the light of Funan's diligence and kindness, just like the feeling she herself gives. Xu Yingji's performance is also impressive, running barefoot, on the land, in the field, on the seashore, all of which behave naturally and realistically, as if she is really a rural village woman. I personally like this talented way of telling, Zhang Chi has a degree, the front of the foreshadowing will not make you feel lengthy, but just right, will be to the emotional burst where everything suddenly erupts, blood will not make you feel disgusted but a long breath, with funan's fate and emotional ups and downs. The final picture is profound and thought-provoking