The performance road left by the Chinese film industry for actresses is not spacious.
When the actress of the same age was still worried about whether to play her mother, the forty-three-year-old Tang Wei opened the Korean film market because she married her own Bole, and gained the favor and favor of a number of directors.
No, even director Park Chan-wook is willing to erase the traces of her past and spend six years to customize the top resource allocation of the role for her, not because of her acting skills, but because of her unique characteristics -
"The Determination to Break Up"
Decision to break up
This film, which won the best director in the main competition unit of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, finally launched a streaming platform recently after satisfying the public's appetite.
For audiences familiar with Han Ying, Park Chan-wook is a name as familiar as Lee Cang-dong, Bong Joon-ho, and Kim Ki-deok.
As a Korean national treasure director, whether it is the classic theme of the north-south confrontation "Common Security Zone" or the Japanese occupation era with the theme of same-sex love as the topic of "Miss", he has always been a creator who insists on breaking through in a free environment.
And Park Chan-wook's six-year-old sword-sharpening and Tang Wei's dimensional-breaking cooperation is not out of thin air.
In fact, as early as after "Color, Ring", Park Chan-wook wanted to cooperate with Tang Wei.
And just after Tang Wei won the Green Dragon Award and opened the window of a Chinese actress, this fate really came quietly.
The director who is the most capable of making actresses in Korea is beautiful and high-energy every time he portrays a role, and the performance space for the actors is also large, from Lee Young-ae to Kim Min-hee, which proves this.
It is worth mentioning that this film surpassed "Parasite" and set a record for overseas copyright sales in the history of Korean films; After its premiere in Cannes, it received a standing ovation from the audience for up to 8 minutes.
What is even more interesting is that it is such a well-known new work, but Park Chan-wook modestly called it in his acknowledgment:
"A long, tedious and clichéd love movie."
The story begins with the death of a male climber.
As the investigation progresses, the deceased's wife, Seo Lai (played by Tang Wei), is locked as a suspect by the head of the case, Officer Hae Joon (Park Hae-il).
This Chinese woman, Xu Lai, is a nurse.
Euthanized her seriously ill mother for violating the law, and after she was sentenced, she chose to take refuge and smuggled her to South Korea.
In the stall where the living was very awkward, he met her husband, who now loves mountaineering and is much older than himself, so he chooses to marry and settle down.
But after marriage, the husband soon exposed his character, and this extremely possessive man liked to vent his emotions in a violent way, which made Xu Lai deeply persecuted.
As a family escort, Xu Lai basically only comes to the door every Monday to take care of an old lady with amnesia, and the rest of the time is more hidden at home.
I pass the time by watching Korean dramas and learning Korean, and I also like to take care of the stray cats downstairs, and write the fragmented emotions in Chinese in my diary.
Although Xu Lai has many doubts on her body, at the same time she also has a reasonable alibi.
As a case-handling officer who excavates the truth, Haijun, who has long monitored the suspect's every move, was unconsciously attracted by the mysterious and gloomy nature of this woman.
Both in terms of rules and regulations and ethics, the police should keep a distance from the suspects in their own cases.
But apparently, this restrained and decent man could not stop the man who was out of control.
In fact, his marital relationship with his wife is not very good.
The two live a life of gathering less and leaving more, and the wife even has "intimate friends",
But in order to maintain the already precarious superficial relationship, the two sides still make a commitment to each other that "even if we hate each other, we will love once a week".
When dating his wife, Haijun always thinks of Xu Lai involuntarily.
In order to clear his suspicions, Xu Lai also directly called Haijun to his home, handed over the evidence and suicide note of her husband's fraud report, and confirmed the fact that he committed suicide.
Due to the change of subjective will, Haijun began to subconsciously favor Xu Lai.
Coupled with constant pressure from the top, the murder was eventually closed by suicide.
After this, Xu Lai's contact with Haijun became more frequent.
Xu Lai uses his expertise to treat Hai Jun's sleeplessness, and Hai Jun also gently cooks for Xu Lai to get along closely.
They ate a sumptuous sushi set meal together in the interrogation room, and after eating, one of them cleaned up the dishes and wiped the table, and then they threw the paper that wiped the table into the bag that the other party had set up.
Full of tacit understanding, full of a sense of damn fatalism.
But this ambiguity is soon broken, and in the process of an inadvertent return visit to the old lady, Hae-joon discovers Xu Lai's hidden earth-shattering secret.
The movement software in the elderly's mobile phone has appeared to travel distance, but this is impossible for an elderly person who has been paralyzed for many years.
Therefore, Haijun restored the scene at that time through criminal simulation:
It turned out that on the day of the incident, Xu Lai stole the old man's mobile phone while he was working, and sneaked to the scene of the incident while he was asleep, and used the mobile phone to call the intermediary company to forge the alibi.
As for the murder, she studied a hiking route that would completely avoid meeting her husband, and pushed him off the cliff before he was ready.
The person was killed by Xu Lai, and the evidence was also forged by Xu Lai, and everything was carefully premeditated by her.
An arrogant police officer was deceived by a prisoner and toyed with by a woman,
In the end, he could only lose the battle and say in despair: I have completely collapsed.
And after he left, the prisoner was moved by the collapsed man in hindsight.
A long time later, Haijun received another murder, and the deceased was actually Xu Lai's new husband.
Like the previous murder, Xu Lai was full of suspicions, but he had a perfect alibi.
Just as Haijun was preparing to dig deep into the testimony provided by Xu Lai, the murderer revealed himself.
It was Xu Lai's husband's enemy who killed the murderer, because his property was occupied, so he killed people to vent his anger.
But outside the case, Haijun still has doubts - what did Xu Lai, who had appeared at the scene of the crime, throw into the sea?
(Here to leave you a suspense, go to the movie to find the answer)
At the end of the film, Xu Lai chose to sink the sea.
Wait for the sea to come by relying on the warm sand before the high tide, and finally turn into a white grain of sand on the beach.
She said, you love my recordings, because I like it too much, so I listened to it many times;
And the man asks, when did I say I loved you?
He didn't get a positive answer until he found the recording on the woman's phone called Destruction that he actually found the answer.
It is true that I did not directly say how much I love you, but talked about the word destruction.
How much love do you have to be willing to betray your professional beliefs to shield you and be willing to be destroyed by you?
Putting aside the shell of film noir, "The Determination to Break Up" is a love drama without compromise.
The woman kills her husband on the mountain, showing her unkindness; He searched for her by the sea, showing his unwiseness.
But love, in itself, is not the product of benevolence.
The ultimate winner of love is to make yourself your unsolved case — I love you, so I disappear, disappear into the depths, you can't find me, you can never forget me.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is a film that exists because of Tang Wei, and she has also become the muse of the whole movie.
Park Chan-wook integrates Tang Wei's charm, mystery, danger, innocence, tenacity and vulnerability into the story and lens, and pushes into the sea of all things and unpredictable in the foggy crime.
Here, Tang Wei becomes the love and original sin that a man wants to have but is afraid of, and finally decides to chase but can never get it.
She manipulates the male protagonist and the audience in the palm of her hand, although the other party holds higher power in the process of investigation.
But as things continue to evolve, the foreign woman in the story with innocent eyes is the real master of emotional development.