A very interesting film, found this movie because I saw other friends' video commentary on the Internet, I came to watch it early, but I was used to solving the problem within two hours, and suddenly saw this movie of nearly three hours, the pace was relatively slow, the front section was laid out for a long time, there was the longest prologue in Korean movies, and the title appeared more than 10 minutes after the picture began.
So I didn't get into the situation right away, so I had the urge to turn it off in the first ten minutes! But, in fact, this is a very fascinating movie, you can't help but want to watch it in one breath, want to know, what is good and evil here?
"Moss" is the name of this movie, at first I always thought, why take this name, on the one hand, this movie is adapted from the manga artist Yoon Tae-ho's popular work of the same name, on the other hand, the story is about a moss-like dark and damp village for 30 years of changes as the background, and his father has been missing for a long time Liu Hae-kook (Park Hae-il), one day received a phone call from his father's death, in order to take care of his father's affairs, Liu Hae-kook came to the village where his father settled before his death, but from the moment he stepped into the village, Sensing the strange behavior of the villagers and the strong hostility of the people, he began to suspect that his father did not die of natural causes.
Moss: Mainly grows in a dark, wet and cold environment, living in groups and dependent on it.
Who is moss in the movie? Or who? Or are we all mosses?
Regarding the creation of God, worship because of faith, when there is a question about that perfect worship? It may collapse. The person who becomes God himself does not know that he is God, but only believes that he is God, and finds that he is like us ordinary people, and the blow may not be something you can bear!
The film is more than two hours long and nearly three hours, but in fact, you are easily caught and attracted, hoping to quickly know what the ending is, so it will not be boring at all, after watching the movie, I found that I was from beginning to end because of some nervousness that I did not feel, shaking my fist to watch it.
The movie does not clearly say the answer from beginning to end, in the end, the appearance of Liu Haiguo is Teacher Liu's judgment of everyone? Or is it a coincidence? Or who is it that has the intention to take advantage of it?
Until the end, Yingzhi stood on the high platform of the village chief's lord, and the look in his eyes when he saw haiguo seemed to indicate that the so-called heavenly machine may be artificially manipulated, but it cleverly made people feel that it was destiny! The so-called is not to report, but the time has not yet come, not because of the apocalypse retribution! Rather, it is the result of a long-term premeditated approach when the time is ripe.
After reading it, the back spine is cool, making people think, the dominance of all this is in the dark, or there are arrangements of people with hearts to rationalize everything.
Korean films are always very bold in assuming and acting on such controversial social issues. Regardless of the protection of religious people, to be honest, what in the end can not be talked about in this kind of thing? If we all blindly do not talk about it, can we cover up the facts? The director just wants to ask questions and make everyone think!
Teacher Liu feels that as long as everyone truly repents and has faith, they can get salvation! Just after redemption, can you sincerely continue this new life? Or is it actually difficult to move? Whether or not there is a guide, it is the cow that leads the cow wherever it goes.
The dirty things in the prayer house, the collusion of the police and the people, the random marriage of the stolen goods. Frankly speaking, I also believe that whether there is faith or not, it is possible to do such a dirty thing for self-interest, but I can't understand, if your faith is really so religious, you take a sentence because Satan is around, you are confused for a while, so doing this kind of thing, I really have no way to identify with being persuaded.
People of faith really follow their teachings like this, not stealing, not robbing, not lascivious, not killing. Or are they also human beings after all, and when they can't bear it, they also commit killing precepts, stealing when they are about to starve to death, and still can't control it when they have desires? However, they can say aloud that this is a kind of judgment of society, where two moral standards are developing vaguely and alternately, silently making you think.
All the protagonists, except for Yingzhi, are all men. Take the oppression and dictatorship of a patriarchal society! The village chief who retired from the criminal police to control everything, Teacher Liu who did not contact his children for devout faith, the asshole who raped the woman on the left and right hands of the village chief, the hardware shop owner who said that he was cheated of money by his friend and shot and killed his friend, the current sheriff of the village chief's son, the son of Teacher Liu who exposed everything, and the righteous (?) Prosecutor.
The whole story is dominated by the village chief who holds real power and controls everyone? Is it the divine teacher Liu who is as inviolable as God? Or is it Liu Haiguo, who is frustrated by divorce and comes to investigate his father's death? Or a hidden version that you simply can't imagine.
The story begins with Liu Haiguo's father, a cleric, who led some marginal people who had committed crimes to the village many years ago with a policeman, and the police officer also became the head of a village, the power and political and business resources were unexpectedly huge, and the village chief had tens of billions of real estate and ultra-luxurious houses.
The more Liu Haiguo traced down the cause of his father's death, many strange things and invisible resistance also followed, and the villagers also tried to put him to death, hoping that he would be as quiet and harmless as moss and not to trace the truth of the matter.
Who did the murder in the prayer house? The village chief thinks it is Teacher Liu, but Yingzhi hints at the village chief with the blood behind the village chief's ears and the blood stains on his clothes. The truth? What is it? Tell the story in a vacuum.
Who is the real leader? What is the so-called atonement? Very reflective, this movie is very good!