Kim Ji-young in '82: A boycotted film

Title: Kim Ji-young in '82

Duration: 117 minutes

Status: Completed

Speaking of motherhood, I can't help but think of this movie —

"82 Years of Kim Ji-young"

Although it is already an old movie of 2019, the problems and meanings reflected in this film and television work are valuable to every woman.

It is a women's film based on the novel of the same name, which is dedicated to the life of ordinary women in their thirties.

Jin Zhiying, who was born in 1982, is nearly 40 years old in 19 years.

By this time she was already the mother of a child.

As usual, she was alone at home packing the housework: family clothes, children's toys, hygiene in the room, babysitting, from morning to dusk.

Like many stay-at-home mothers, she is fully committed to the life of the family, caring for the children and working hard to maintain the family.

However, even so, just drinking a cup of coffee while taking the children to the park will be ridiculed by the people around her, saying that they envy her, envy that she can take her husband's money and drink coffee leisurely.

When you come home alone, you have to feed your child medicine, bathe your child, and make dinner for your family at the same time, even if it is a meal, you must hold the child who cannot be separated from people with one hand.

Even if the husband proposes to travel, he must worry about whether he will be blamed by his mother-in-law.

Even if the in-laws are very far away, every New Year's Holiday will be very hard to go back, even if it is in labor, they will go back, otherwise they will be gossiped about and accused of not being a wife.

Back at her in-laws' house, she needs to cook the family's meals alone, and when she sorts out the dishes, she needs to pack the dumplings that the whole family eats; the dishes and chopsticks are placed in the sink waiting for her to wash, even if the father-in-law and her husband are just watching TV, no one will do it, even if her husband wants to help her, she will be said by the mother-in-law as strangely, "Our daughter-in-law has a good husband."

Even if it is only in the early morning, after hearing that the mother-in-law is busy, she does not dare to sleep more, and immediately gets up to help, otherwise she will be blamed.

Even when she happily opened the New Year's gift from her mother-in-law, all she got was an apron given away by the bank for free.

When the family was happy to chat and play in the living room, she was just busy alone in the kitchen, and the mother-in-law was distressed about the sister-in-law, saying that the sister-in-law was wronged in the in-laws' house, while instructing her daughter-in-law to do it here and there.

Alone in the kitchen, she contrasted with the laughter behind her.

Finally, she was tired too.

She began to forget what had happened recently, and sometimes she would become like someone else.

At this time, Zhiying remembered the past, remembered his mother, remembered his grandmother, and remembered the independent self who once had a job.

However, she had already given up her job when she confidently said that "even if she gets married and has children, she has the confidence to work well".

Many people who have seen it say that this is the epitome of their lives.

"82 Years of Kim Ji-young" is a novel by writer Cho Nam-joo, and Kim Ji-young is the most common name of that era, and the film was boycotted when it was released and was asked to be banned.

However, there are also many people who support the call to face up to the problems reflected in this work, which truly shows the other side of women's lives to the audience, and some people do not even believe that this is a 21st century woman, but in fact, this is really a portrayal of the lives of a generation.

As a woman, Jin Zhiying was educated to be quiet and well-behaved since she was a child, and was followed when she went to school, and her father accused her of why she went so far to make up classes, pay attention to dress, and the skirt should not be too short; when she was a child, she was reprimanded by her grandmother just by eating some milk powder to feed her brother; she should be careful not to be photographed at work.

Even at home, the boys in the family are the ones who are favored, the father buys gifts for the children, the daughters only have notebooks, and the boys have pens.

At work, the same promotion opportunities are only given priority to male employees.

Male employees will unscrupulously make jokes about female employees, and even if they are successful at work, they will be said not to take good care of their children.

This is "82 Years of Jin Zhiying", and it is the story of a generation.

Although the times are progressing, these problems should not be ignored, and for the mothers who pay silently, it should be said that it is hard.