South Korea's restricted commercial films are hell and earth

Hello everyone, the weather in March is getting warmer, and there are more and more episodes worth looking forward to. First of all, Netflix's opening drama "Dark Glory" returned soon after; The trailer Qiao Mei's road to revenge is also quite bumpy and accumulated, new hatred and old hatred, love and jealousy, selfishness and grasshoppers with ghosts in the same boat, hidden secrets and trappers in the shadows...

The character conflict and horse-grabbing atmosphere have been pulled to the extreme, and it is no wonder that the second season was directly set as nineteen banned by South Korea. As soon as the second season comes out next week, the editor will share it directly with you.

When it comes to the theme of revenge, from "Eve", "Anna", "Black Lawyer" to "The Little Son of the Chaebol Family", Korean dramas have recently become popular again. But how to say, these revenge dramas do cater to the hearts of ordinary people: in the era of involution and high pressure, the little characters in the revenge drama are like the revenge of the upper class and the elite, and can cater to the tired hearts of ordinary workers.

In fact, the real revenge is by no means a simple cool drama, blood, and explosion, but a common depravity of forbearance and head breaking blood.

After all, if it is really like being oppressed to that step in Korean dramas, the heart of the pressed person must be full of holes.

When it comes to the theme of revenge, this is a genre masterpiece in South Korea, such as Park Chan-wook's "Revenge Trilogy" series, and today's editor wants to introduce to you: "Seeing the Devil".

It is co-starring Korean actor-level Choi Min-shik and literary and acting god Lee Byung-heon.

Kim so-hyun, a young police officer working for the National Intelligence Agency, is about to enter the palace of marriage with her beloved girl, Zhuyan, but on a snowy night, Zhuyan, a girl who drove home alone, was brutally killed and her body was divided. Soohyun was in pain, he found photos of the four main suspects and began to independently track down the murderer. After some investigation, the target was finally targeted at Zhang Jingzhe, a middle-aged uncle chartered by a college.

Zhang had a rough life and an extremely distorted personality, and he often attacked women who returned late at night and killed them ruthlessly and ruthlessly. So Hyun finds Zhang's stronghold and punishes him cruelly, but eventually his subordinates show mercy. Zhang who survived by luck instead stimulated all the bestial nature, and a beast-on-beast Asura battle gradually became fierce.

The film also became the first commercial film in South Korea to be restricted because some of the shots were too bloody.

Today, "Seeing the Devil" is still a very avant-garde and bold, even physically and psychologically uncomfortable revenge movie.

Why is revenge cool all these years? In fact, there is quite a template-like meaning: holding back the counterattack of the little people, the bottom layers who were framed and bullied finally broke out, pretending to be pigs and eating tigers to climb up step by step, isn't this the "dream" of our oppressed little people?

However, such a so-called "explosive" and "hot-blooded" revenge lacks a deeper thinking about the so-called revenge: it must be painful, because it is lost to take revenge;

And the Avengers, step by step on the road of "stepping on the snow to find plum", must be full of thorns and can not turn back.

"Seeing the Devil" is such a story. The large number of violent, bloody and intimate images made it the first commercial film in South Korea to be restricted.

What are demons like? I have to say that the portrayal of demons in many revenge themes is unrealistic after all: the chaebol who catches the blood of horses and dogs, the heart of a beautiful and mysterious ordinary woman, and even the chaebol lady who loves the brain in "Eve".

And Choi Min-shik plays the perverted demon who makes us creepy in the real social case:

At the beginning of the story, there is a real thriller of social case online: snowy night, cold and lonely, as if there is a beast hidden deep in the distant forest, staring into the distance with a pair of hunting eyes without knowing it, but the sixth sense has told it that it is not very good prey.

Zhuyan met her car breaking down in the snowy night, so she called the towing company and notified her fiancé by the way. When she met the strange uncle who took the initiative to help herself by driving a small school bus, she chose to close the window and wait for the school bus. Just as she thought, the danger was over.

That feeling of being hunted is here again... The school bus in front did not leave, but stopped straight in front of itself in the snowy night... Suddenly, in the next second, the weirdo directly raised the stick and smashed into his car window...

The perfect fusion of reality, animality and artistry, it can be said that "Seeing the Devil" helps the fear of the crime scene and the extreme despair of the victim who cannot escape, all perfectly displayed.

Years later, in Lee Jun-ki's "Spy", Lu Jinjiu's "Monster", we can all feel the tribute to "Seeing the Devil".

An almost perfect blend of art and authenticity in crime films: a poor prey with nowhere to run on a snowy night, including a head in the riverbed, slowly turns over.

If you just characterize the theme of revenge as: cool and burning, it must be too superficial. And "Seeing the Devil" captures the essence of the theme of revenge: sadistic and sadistic, undisguised violent and bloody pictures let us intuitively feel the victim's desperate and forced psychology when encountering a perverted murderer;

And the darkest side and hatred that directly hit the deepest part of people's hearts are the most shocking to the indescribable.

Zhuyan's fiancé, Li Bingxian, began to take revenge after learning everything that happened to his fiancée. The principle is also very simple: just let the murderer feel the pain that Zhuyan endured.

Dressed in black leather, with sharp and cold eyes, and swift and sharp hands, we feel the extreme pain and anger inside this avenger.

What is the end of revenge? It is to see the other party's trembling begging for mercy and confessing his mistakes, so that the other party can feel the pain that Zhuyan has endured.

And the Avengers? Or after seeing the devil, he becomes a demon; Or, after completing the great task of revenge, live this life with physical and mental pain that will never go away.

"If you fall into hell, from the beginning of your entry, to a hundred thousand calamities, one day and one night, ten thousand deaths and ten thousand lives, you will not be allowed to live for a year, unless the wilderness is exhausted, you will be born, and so on, so it is called uninterrupted."

The essence of revenge is not only revenge on the wicked, but also the incurability of one's own body and mind. Like falling into hell, the pain continues. So the revenge of "Django Rescued" and "The Count of Monte Cristo" is romantic, while "Seeing the Devil" is the depravity and helplessness of "Seeing the Devil".

Choi Min-shik once again subversively performed the thriller of a perverted murderer, and his acting skills can be described as pure: hearing Zhuyan "When I was pregnant", there was no pity or even impatience and mockery, and knowing that Lee Byung-hyun's revenge on his prey was not fear, but funny and interesting.

It makes me feel that this cold-blooded and dark antisocial personality is so chilling. And we know that this is just the interpretation of actor Choi Min-sik, but he still has a cold back and physical discomfort when watching.

Revenge should be a ten-year plan to sharpen a sword? Or romantic: real men never look back when they explode.

"Seeing the Devil" actually made revenge a desperate animal trapping play very innovatively: in previous crime films, the protagonist locked up a few suspects and began to follow the clues to hunt down the murderer;

And Li Bingxian learned of the murderer at the beginning, loaded him with monitors and GPS, and when he was perverted, he suddenly broke in and tortured the other party, and then left. Before he knew it, he returned gloomy and continued to torture and take revenge. It is not bloody or meticulous revenge, but animal prey play, but more novel and cruel.

In the final scene, he finally completed his revenge, but after the prey died, he lost everything. Even hatred passed with his death, and it was impossible for his lover who was tortured to death to return to him.

He walked alone on the street, this resolute and cold man, actually left tears, he lost from the beginning. He saw the devil, confronted it, tortured the demon, but could not change it at all, and even hunted the devil.

Because, when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss is also gazing at you; When you see demons, demons have long become a part of you.