I want to open a new pit for pulling the film, remember the last time I did the pulling film series, or the last time. The main reason for opening the pit this time was to receive a private message asking me if I could pull Park Chan-wook's "Miss".
I didn't have much attention at all, and it was rare for an audience to ask for it, so naturally I had to try my best to meet it. Before pulling the film, let's introduce the film information.
"Miss" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2016, and was released in South Korea on June 1 of the same year. The global box office was $37 million, of which South Korea accounted for $31 million.
With a U.S. box office of $2 million, Park Chan-wook's highest-grossing work in the United States. With a UK box office of $1 million, it was the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the UK in 2017.
The reason why it has a relatively high degree of attention in the Uk is that the film is adapted from the novel "City of Thorns" by British writer Sarah Waters.
Sarah Waters had read the script before filming began, and after reading it, she said with high emotional intelligence that it was more accurate to say that "this film was inspired by 'City of Thorns'" than "adaptation".
The film was nominated for the Cannes Palme d'Or, but lost to Ken Lodge's "I Am Black", and the Blue Dragon Award in South Korea was also nominated for Best Picture, but lost to Yu Min-ho's "The Insider".
The director of this film is Park Chan-wook, the director of the three major film festivals who has been running for many years, and has been nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear Award for "Common Security District" and "Robot Love".
He was also nominated for the Venice Golden Lion for "Gracious Gold". In Cannes, in addition to this film, "Old Boy" and "Bat" have also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, but they have not yet won the championship.
This year's Cannes, his new work "The Determination to Break Up" was nominated again, I don't know if I can achieve a breakthrough of 0, right, the star of this movie is Tang Wei.
The screenwriters of this film are Park Chan-wook and Jung Seo-kyung, who have previously cooperated with Park Chan-wook on "Kind Gold", "Robot Love" and "Bat", and the new work "The Determination to Break Up" is also co-written by these two.
This film is directed by Ding Zhengxun, which was mentioned before when talking about "Uncharted Sea". He is a frequent photographer with whom Park Chan-wook works.
Another highly acclaimed Korean film "New World" is also in his charge. In addition, he often shoots English-language films, including Park Chan-wook's own "Stoke" and the horror film "Joker Returns".
The editing of this film is led by Kim Sang-bum and Kim Jae-bum, who have also collaborated on the editing of "Secret Agent" before. Kim Sang-bum also cut many of Park Chan-wook's previous works, as well as many well-known Korean films, such as "If Love Has Providence" and "Lonely Agent".
The soundtrack of this film is led by Cao Yongxu (also translated as "Cao Youngwo"), who has also worked with Park Chan-wook many times, the above-mentioned "Agent" and "If Love Has Providence", as well as Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff", which is also his soundtrack.
In terms of cast, the heroine Xiuzi, that is, the young lady referred to in the title, is played by Kim Min-hee, who is the royal actor of the Korean art film director Hong Chang-so (also translated as "Hong Sang-so"), and the gossip part will not be discussed here.
In 2017, she starred in "Alone by the Sea at Night" directed by Hong Changxiu, which won the best actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
At the Blue Dragon Awards in South Korea, he was nominated for Best Actress in 2013 for the romance film "The Temperature of Love", and finally lost to Han Hyo-joo of "Top Secret Tracking", but won the best actress in 2016 with "Miss".
Playing Shu Ji is Kim Tae-ri, the heroine of the recent popular Korean drama "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One", "Miss" is her feature film debut, which won the Korean Blue Dragon Award for Best Newcomer Actress.
In 2018, she starred in the Korean version of "Little Forest" and was nominated for the Blue Dragon Award for Best Actress, but lost to Han Jimin of "Miss White".
Playing the role of Earl Fujiwara is Ha Masao, a person who many people are already very familiar with. He has been nominated for the Korean Blue Dragon Award for Best Actor three times for "Horror Live", "Tunnel" and "Walking with God: Crime and Punishment", but he has not been able to win.
Playing the role of uncle last month is Zhao Zhenxiong, who was not yet 40 years old when he made this play, much younger than his role. Zhao Zhenxiong often plays a male supporting actor.
In 2013, he was nominated for the Korea Blue Dragon Award for Best Supporting Actor for "HuaYi: The Child Who Devoured the Monster", but lost to Lee Jeong-jae of "Guan Xiang", and finally won the award a year later with "To the End".
Playing the aunt is Wen Suli, who had a very hardcore performance in Li Cangdong's "Oasis" in 2002, and even people can't recognize her.
In 2017, she wrote and directed her own short film collection "Today is also an actress", nominated for the Korean Blue Dragon Award for Best Newcomer Director and Best Actress, but failed to win, and won the Blue Dragon Award for Best Actress in 2020 with "Three Sisters".
Playing the butler Sasaki is Kim Hae-sook, "Mother Professional Household", who played a psychologist in "Suyuan" and won the Korea Grand Bell Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015 with "Si Mourning".
Before officially starting, let's say two things, the first is to explain according to the convention, I am not a film practitioner, this is just a casual non-hardcore pull film of ordinary movie fans, only for entertainment.
If you come with the mentality of watching professional pull films, I am sorry that my ability is limited and I cannot be satisfied. In addition, the film should be classified as 19 in South Korea and NC-17 in North America.
Therefore, in order to prevent technical reasons, some pictures can not be described too bluntly, and you can only make up your own brain, here is a preventive injection. Let's start pulling the film, note that here is a 168-minute extended version.
The opening subtitles are not finished, you can hear the background is a group of children singing, it is said that this lyrics are to hint at the relationship between the two heroines, but unfortunately there are no subtitles, can not understand. In addition to the song there was the sound of rain, and then the sound of stepping was heard.
At this time, a group of Japanese troops appeared in the picture, and their footsteps overshadowed the children's songs, and the background of this story was the Korean Peninsula in the Japanese occupation era, and this section reflected the disparity between the strength and weakness through the contrast between the voices of the army and the children.
The Japanese army walked into the alley, behind which was a group of children, after the children walked by, pay attention to the distance, the heroine has appeared. Then I heard the sound of a knife being drawn. Here the child runs to the heroine's side.
Then take a frontal shot of the heroine, the child runs from right to left, the orientation is consistent with the previous shot, here note that the sign on her head is written on the オイル, that is, oil, is it implying that she is a flammable?
The heroine took a look at the group of children, and it could be seen that she was not a good bully. In addition, she holds the child in her hand, and the first time she looks at it, she will subconsciously think that this is her child.
The next shot shows three adults and four children, which is actually a nursery.
Here the heroine kissed the children in turn, and it seems that she has a good relationship with each child.
A prop appears in the foreground, which is a good opportunity to insert symbols, which will be mentioned later. At this time, the girl in the back cried and said that she should have gone to the Japanese devil's house.
This is the reason why this scene happened, the heroine should have replaced this girl, suspected of being forcibly requisitioned by the Japanese, and it seems that the righteousness is awe-inspiring at present.
They wore Korean costumes, spoke Korean, and were at the bottom of this society. At this time, the old mother asked the heroine not to miss the train.
After saying this, she switched angles, and there was a train passing in the distance, and it seemed that she was going to a far place.
Then the scene turns, the picture immediately becomes very comfortable, there is a car on the road, which is very different from the previous scene, which is also a class difference.
Look at the hue, the time should be dusk. At this time, the subtitles appeared, the film was divided into three chapters, and the British drama "Finger Craftsman Picking", which was adapted from the original novel, was exactly 3 episodes, of course, the two works were very different.
When the heroine opened the pastry, she heard a "Zla", listening to the sound was stuck, the pastry should have been wet by the rain, and then dried again, indicating that she had spent a lot of time from the nursery to the present place, that is to say, the distance was very far.
Then the heroine took off the hairpin given by the old mother, at this time the picture gave a close-up, we can finally see the hairpin, is a butterfly with folded wings, the first feeling is that it is unable to fly freely, freedom is restricted, and it will be mentioned later.
The car came to the door of a Japanese-style building, and it was late.
Picked up a close-up, which was the name of the host.
It seems that the time is very late, the heroine fell asleep in the car, and then was woken up by the sound of the car's horn. She found herself at the door and was ready to get out of the car, but the driver told her to sleep a little longer, and it was still a long time before she arrived.
The heroine held the burden on her chest, this is a subconscious protective action, she is a little uneasy in her heart, obviously entered the door, how to let her sleep for a while.
The next few shots explain that it turned out to be a large manor house, highlighting the identity of the owner.
Next switch to the subjective perspective of the heroine in the car, the picture is a bit shaky, but also a portrayal of her inner uneasiness, here you can see a Western-style building, but the housekeeper is Japanese clothing.
Moving the camera forward in a panorama, the whole building comes to the fore, and with the dim lighting, it feels very strict. The heroine said in Japanese that her name was Yuju, but the housekeeper began to introduce the structure of the house in Korean, and she was also Korean.
In the following paragraph, the housekeeper became our guide, and she said that there are three buildings here, and the main house is a mixture of Western-style buildings and Japanese houses, because the owner worships Japan and Britain.
This means that the owner is not Japanese, but he has taken a Japanese name "Kazuki Jiaoming". Here they wear slippers and enter the Japanese model.
The housekeeper went on to introduce that the second building is a study, and a study turned out to be a separate building, indicating that there are many books and the owner's enthusiasm for books, which is an important scene.
The third building is inhabited by the lower person, and it is easy to understand that the next person lives alone in one building, that is, the hierarchy is clear. However, the housekeeper said that Yuzhu did not live there because she had been hired to take care of the young lady.
The housekeeper continued to talk about the rules of the house and said that if he found a theft, he would leave immediately. The emphasis here on stealing is a signal to the audience.
When the butler looks back, the window is used to draw us the key point in the picture, and we can see that the fire of the candle is reflected on the side of the jade bead, which seems to be weak compared to the lantern in the butler's hand.
However, the butler's lantern is covered, the fire on the side of the jade bead is not, and the location is behind the jade bead, which is the side that the butler cannot see, combined with the hint of "oil" before, will this be a potential danger signal?
The housekeeper gave Yuzhu a Japanese name, "Bead", and instructed her to speak Japanese with her master and missus. In this place Japan and Britain are superior, and Korea is low-level, ruling from reality to spiritual omnipresence.
The buildings along the way are all Japanese-style lattice doors and windows, and in this scene, pure white walls appear, and they begin to wear shoes and enter British mode.
The housekeeper, who claimed to be named Sasaki, said that she could not believe the newcomer, and if the house was on fire, she did not know what the newcomer would do. Hearing this, I couldn't help but think of the reflection of the fire behind Yuzhu just now, would Yuzhu become an arsonist?
In addition, the housekeeper originally belonged to the class of the inferior, but she seemed to say this from the perspective of the master, and her identity was a little suspicious.
After entering the house, Sasaki said that the young lady's daily life mainly does two things, one is to go for a walk in the back mountain, and the other is to practice reading with the owner. These will all appear later.
When going up the stairs, use the overhead view to photograph the jade beads.
Then I took a portrait of the lady with an upward perspective, or a class difference. Here added a strange sound effect, with reflection, mystery is full, the picture of the lady holding a doll, which is also a detailed foreshadowing.
Sasaki said that the owner had connections in the Governor's Palace and could divert the electricity to use. Electricity is something more advanced than candles, before they passed by the place is lit candles, when they arrived at this house began to have electric lights, presumably the master lived.
If the candle corresponds to the next person, and the electric lamp corresponds to the master, the position of the butler's station in the picture has an electric lamp disguised as a candle, which once again makes people doubt her identity.
The butler asked Yuzhu to work hard to become a capable servant and then turn around. The camera gives Yuzhu, the sound effect appears again, and at the same time Yuzhu shows a strange smile, we can feel that this person is not simple.
This room, and everyone in the room, is very weird. This issue will talk about here, the next issue, another heroine will appear, goodbye.