If someone asks me, "What is the meaning of life," I'll answer, "There's no point, we're here to suffer."
Today I'm going to talk about a suffering movie called Ghost Town.
Douban scored 7.4, which is a good result. Although the film was released in 2016, the actual production cycle is ten years long. Not because its technology is difficult to achieve, but in this era of entertainment to the death, the production team has difficulty finding a filmmaker to invest. Fortunately, the production was completed under the crowdfunding of netizens. This not only reminds me of the domestic film of the same theme "Twenty-Two", its birth is also a twist and turn. Suffering people, painful memories, should be recorded in some way.
Due to the length of the film, the two lines are parallel. The director brings out the story through the memories of the protagonist, and because it is a human memory, it will automatically delete the file, with fragmentation and embellishment. But we can still feel what the protagonist has suffered, and we will still subconsciously think of the cruel truth.
In 1943, the Japanese army went around arresting young girls to satisfy the desires of animals and animals, and Jeong-min of Gyeongsangnam-do in North Korea was unfortunately among them. The image of Zhen Min is derived from Jiang Sunrise's grandmother, who is one of the survivors. China also has such a special group of people, they can't look back on this past, and the encounter is really helpless, but the crowd always has a bad eye for them.
The opening of the film is a simple description of Zhenmin's childhood, she has a group of partners, a loving father and a strict mother. Although her mother always scolded her, she always touched her wounds after she was asleep and said what she expected of her. Sew an exorcism charm for her, hoping that she can find a good family safely, but all this can only be an expectation.
This is the expectation of many ordinary families, but at that time it could not be realized.
This peaceful affair is about to be broken, and the Japanese army is going to take Zhenmin away, and it is still impossible to tell where it is going. Zhenmin's mother told Zhenmin over and over again where her home was and the names of her parents ,,,,,
It turned out that her home was called Juchang Yizi Valley, but she could not come back after all.
The Japanese eventually took her away, leaving her parents to cry bitterly.
She, along with the girls of her fate, boarded the train to hell. I can't guess their hearts, or confused, or helpless,,,,,,, the carriage is bound and sealed, but there is also sunlight coming in,,,,,,,,
It's just that they gradually left their hometown and came to China - Mudanjiang, Jilin Province, China.
Then came the journey to hell.
They were asked to communicate only in Japanese and not in their native language. This is the usual trick of the Japanese army, using simple culture to invade ideas. Like the Prueu soldier described by Tudor in The Last Lesson.
The beasts impatiently brought the girls into a small and closed space to satisfy their animal desires. The director chose to avoid this scene, using voiceover, rapid editing, and the technique of taking panoramic shots, which still gave me a great shock. Perhaps this is also in line with the selective memory of the human brain.
Words are no longer enough to describe the shock it has given me, and I can't imagine how sad they really are when they have been poisoned.
While satisfying their animalistic desires, they were also treated inhumanely, and their mental pain was perhaps even greater, and they became the playthings of the Japanese army to vent their fear of death, and the perverts found the only remaining sense of superiority in the weak them.
The ugly image is beyond words.
And this perversion also made me deeply understand what is an inner distortion.
However, they also rebelled in the darkness.
They would gather together to sing a family song, they would speak their mother tongue when no one was there, and they would want to escape from the cage. They have the belief to live.
The greatness of human nature may lie in this, people who do not want to be oppressed.
The Japanese will shoot and burn the women who can no longer receive guests, wantonly mocking them who are powerless to resist, and the devil is no longer enough to describe this group of beasts.
They were finally to be punished, and they finally ushered in the dawn. The Japanese army was defeated, and when they were about to kill them, anti-Japanese reinforcements arrived and the gun battle was in a group.
In the midst of the chaos, Jeong-min and Young-hee escape, thinking they can return to their homeland. However, they were discovered by the Japanese officers and pervertedly wanted to use them to accompany them to the funeral. Jeong-min shields Shadow Hee from bullets and ends up in the wilderness of his hometown. Leaving Young-hee to live in the world, all her life, she said: "Her soul will always remain there"
The film ends in the Soul Festival, and Zhenmin returns to a jar valley in the fantasy. Finally the family reunion.
The whole film is finished.
In the process of watching this film, I shed tears several times, forgive my sensitivity and the clumsiness of my words, and also hope to forgive the suffering of life.