In 2007, a "Color, Ring" almost let everyone know About Tang Wei.
Appreciated by Li An, entangled with Liang Chaowei, the three bed scenes from the corner of the eyebrows to the liver and intestines are broken, Tang Wei is Wang Jiazhi, Wang Jiazhi is Tang Wei.
Later, the film that put Tang Wei on the altar also made her career quickly fall to the bottom and completely stopped.
Two years later, she miraculously became popular through the films "Late Autumn" and "Full Moon Hennessy".
After that, Tang Wei successively starred in "Beijing Meets Seattle", "Golden Age" and "The Last Night of the Earth", but it always seemed that he was not as good as Wang Jiazhi and not as good as "Color, Ring".
But after fifteen years, Tang Wei and director Park Chan-wook jointly played a king blow and won the best director of the 75th Cannes Film Festival in one fell swoop.
"The Determination to Break Up"
Many things in the world are like love.
The most fascinating thing about this thing is that you can't define it, it's like an unscrupulous wind blowing everything in your world, turning day and night upside down, making mountains melt into seas, and making seas solidify into mountains.
Cats and mice will fall in love, and lust can be rubbed between the police and the murderer.
"The Determination to Break Up" was blended into a love film cloaked in a criminal investigation film in Park Chan-wook's long-term black atmosphere.
However, there are detectives who swim on the boundaries of the law, but there is no snake and scorpion beauty who is moving but eventually brought to justice, only Tang Wei.
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Like many Park Chan-wook films, such as "Miss", "Old Boy", "Kind Gold", etc., "The Determination to Break Up" still has a seemingly complex story.
One day, Hae Joon (Park Hae-il), the youngest-ever criminal investigation team captain in the bureau, is sent to investigate a death case in which a middle-aged man, Chido-so, is found dead at the foot of a mountain.
When the deceased's young and beautiful Chinese wife, Ruilai (Tang Wei), arrives to identify the body, she is particularly calm and does not see the slightest sadness.
After the police investigation, it was found that Qidu Xiu had abused the domestic violence Ruilai for many years, had a strong desire to control, and even tattooed her name on her private parts.
And As a Chinese woman smuggled into South Korea, The reason why Ruilai married Qiduxiu, whose age difference is large, is very simple -
Because he didn't hate her. At that time, Rayleigh was hiding under the stowaway boat, floating on the sea for a long time, unkempt, and the feces and urine were all on his body.
After arriving in Korea, only Qiduxiu did not abandon her.
In fact, from this reason, we can see that Rayleigh is very lacking in love, because only people who lack love will regard politeness or perversion as a preference.
After investigating all this, the object of suspicion quickly turned to Rayleigh.
After all, when the wife dies, the first suspect is always the husband; And when the husband dies, the wife who has been abused for many years is also likely to be the murderer.
However, under the interrogation and surveillance of Hai Jun's almost magnifying glass, under the detection of the lie detector, Ruilai did not show the slightest flaw.
She even had perfect evidence of her absence: On the day of Chiduxiu's murder, as a nurse, she went to the old man's home to do nursing.
Hae-joon, who has always been regarded as a genius inside and outside the police station, is like a crime-solving machine monitoring and simulating Ruilai's every move.
It was as if he didn't need to sleep, didn't need to eat, was absent-minded even having sex with his wife, and the unsolved case was like a persistent temptation that drove him to the truth.
He said: "The last prisoner I saw in those eyes, I promised to arrest and bring him to justice."
But this time, Hae-joon fell in love with the infinitely fascinating criminal suspect in front of him, Ruilai.
He imitates her life, but not to investigate her; He bought the wine she drank, with a pen; When she buried a crow, he clipped the black feathers into his page; He knew she didn't eat dinner but ice cream and would often smoke...
Surveillance is gradually no longer the police on the suspect, but the voyeuristic desire of an ordinary man to the woman he loves.
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"The Determination to Break Up" is a very "movie" movie, its story is not only told through characters or lines, but through a variety of wonderful scene scheduling.
In the film, there are a large number of various ways to break the time and space, and the camera is oblique or everything, and the story and emotions rush forward.
For example, hinting at Hae Joon's feelings for Ruilai, let him come to her from the car in an instant, and let him imitate everything about Ruilai in his own home.
Hae Joon stares at Ruilai through the telescope, but this gaze is no longer just a pair of eyes to find out the case, but a pair of "blind" eyes, and he is immersed in his own enjoyment - Ruilai.
He was touching Rayleigh with his eyes, and she enjoyed the touch.
In addition, there are a variety of eyes and viewpoints in the film: the eyes of the dead, the eyes of the Buddha, the eyes of the fish, and the eyes of Relais, as well as the ants on the eyes of the dead.
In the interweaving of all kinds of eyes, there is a long flow of desire.
In this web of desire, it seems that Hae Joon is always in the active position, but in fact, Park Chan-wook announces who the winner is with a scene: Hae Joon uses a telescope to monitor Ray Lai, but in the end, the camera is fixed on Hae Joon and is suddenly pulled away.
Therefore, it is actually Haijun who is monitored and disadvantaged.
In "The Determination to Break Up", it is always Rayleigh who dominates the relationship.
Whether it was for the purpose of exoneration or simply wanting to be loved, she looked resolutely at her prey, Hae-joon, even in a seemingly passive way.
She has always longed for love, she is the embodiment of desire, so she smuggles, kills, smokes, drinks...
And Hae-joon, a restrained criminal police captain, carries too much baggage on his back that only death can stimulate him from a life that seems to be a pool of stagnant water.
As he gradually fell into the fog of Relais, he lost the battle, took the initiative to shield her, let her go, and finally said things like "As a criminal policeman, I am so fascinated by a woman that I have now completely collapsed." ”
"The Determination to Break Up" has a sentence that runs through the whole thing: "The wise man enjoys the water, and the benevolent one enjoys the mountain." ”
Thus, the first half of the film is a mountain, a tall building of the city, a telescope surveillance, a black and white distinction between good and evil; The second half is water, a mist of transpiration, a wet and secret desire.
Haijun is a mountain, Ruilai is a sea, and the beloved mountain and sea can be flat.
Raythea understands what desire means, it does not mean reachable satisfaction, but the untouchable impossible.
So, when the two separated after the Case of Qidu Xiu was closed, when they met again, it was another murder case, and it was Ruilai's husband again.
She said: "I want to be your open case, plastered with pictures of me on the walls, unable to sleep all night, just thinking about me." ”
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Remember the film's screenwriter CHUNG Seo-kyung said in an interview:
"I think in The Determination to Break Up, the most important thing is the human heart. More meaningful than the question 'Who is the offender' is 'Does that person love me', and as any new evidence or testimony emerges, the key is not 'does that mean that that person is guilty', but 'does this mean that that person is thinking of me'. ”
So, this movie was never a movie about the police catching murderers, but a romance film.
This does not mean that the crime plot in the film is not important, on the contrary, it is important, because only in this way can we show the strength and irrationality of love, the turbulence and chaos of love.
Police and suspects, which represent two levels of social order, but when orderly turns into panic and sinking, the fact that people are emotional animals will stand out.
Hai Jun's tense appearance and the appearance of order that he tried to maintain finally collapsed at the moment when the sea rose.
Ruilai is like a crazy player, playing Haijun's emotions. But she herself could not sustain herself, so much so that she became one with the sea.
The most fascinating thing in "The Determination to Break Up" is still Tang Wei.
She broke the scale to star, no longer a passive so-called "snake and scorpion beauty", but a mysterious and fickle desire incarnation, beautiful and fragile, dangerous and charming.
She longs for love, but she is resolute and decisive, and the murder and solving of the case are almost perfectly planned; She is calm and meticulous, but she is sincere and desperate in the face of love.
Rayleigh is no longer the stereotypical female image created in the movie, they are either in love with their brains, or hysterically crazy, or pure love for the girl next door...
She was intelligent, calm and sophisticated, but pure and hot, regardless of return.
With her charm that seems to flow forever, Ray-rae enters the list of unforgettable female characters created by Park Chan-wook: Hideko Watazumi in Miss, Mido in "Old Boy", Gold in "Kind Gold"...
Finally, fifteen years later, Tang Wei once again proved himself with the role of "Ruilai".
And when we are impressed by Rayleigh, we may have to think about why our films have not created such vivid and three-dimensional women.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Tong Yunxi
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