Kim Min-hee, South Korea's first Berlin actress.
Her most well-known masterpiece is the 19-banned lily film "Miss".
For her, the people who love her may love her to death, and the people who hate her can't wait to scold her to death.
She is such a controversial actress.
7 years ago, she was originally beautiful, not only walked to Cannes, but also won the Blue Dragon Movie, becoming an actress who attracted attention at home and abroad.
However, at this time, she fell in love with the married director who was 22 years older than herself, Hong Changxiu.
At this point, the gears of fate began to turn.
Overnight, her endorsements were withdrawn, her advertisements were canceled, and her career and reputation plummeted.
Moreover, Kim Min-hee and Hong Sang-so also bear the stain of "indecent love" because of this.
However, as directors and actresses, although the two are deeply trapped in the whirlpool of indecent love, they have not stopped creating, but have used one masterpiece after another to usher in the peak of their careers again.
At last year's Berlin International Film Festival, their "Novelist's Film" won the Silver Bear Award Jury Prize, and it was also the fourth Silver Bear Award won by the two together.
This year they have a new film, which has been selected as the closing film of the Directors' Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes.
It's just-
"Our Day"
The whole movie is only a short 84 minutes, but the content is very rich, and there is a sense of pleasure after reading the novel.
The tone of the film is still the same as before-
Hong Changxiu as always, as always, small space dialogue.
Hong Sang-so's film is very simple, a few actors, two rooms, a few bottles of wine, and a bowl of ramen are all filmed.
The film is mainly focused on two rooms, one is the actress's room.
The actress played by Kim Min-hee sleeps at a friend's house, is in a relaxed state, and when she is bored, she lies down to sleep and rest.
When you are interested, get up to tease the cat and enjoy life.
You will suspect that you are not watching a movie, but a vlog that records life, and even the camera does not show the actress's face.
Instead, all the focus is on the cat, which is a scene that is difficult to see in other movies.
And such a scene is very common in Hong Sang-so's lens.
In another room, for example, it's about an aging poet meeting with his adoring fans.
It's also talking.
They are caused by initial drinking problems.
Talk about life and the meaning of life.
"What is life... We can never know because we live in it. ”
"So what is love, do we really need love?"
"If you were really in love right now, I can say with certainty that you would never ask me what love is. ”
"What about the truth, what is the truth?"
"You've been asking the same question, we don't have the power to find the truth, and if we can't find it, it means, it doesn't actually exist. ”
So, what is all this, is everything just there and meaningless?
"Isn't it just there, what we should do is to be grateful for the little things, to do our best, to appreciate what is in front of us. ”
Yes, to experience and feel, not to look for meaning.
That's a kind of cowardice.
Just jump right into the water, don't be like a coward and want to know everything before jumping in.
Compared to the poet's conversation with two fans, the director actually prefers the state of the actress.
In the space of actresses, the movie has added another character, that is, her cousin who came from afar, and she wants to enter the circle to learn acting.
So I want my cousin to pass on some experience.
But what can be done to teach experience?
My cousin changed my way of saying it and wanted to ask my cousin about her acting mentality.
Regarding this question, the actress told her cousin her experience very frankly:
Acting, the most important thing is sincerity.
Not only be open about yourself, but also about yourself.
The "self" you think is yourself has been wrapped in too many veils, including Xi, prejudices, impressions, fears, etc., and you have to remove those veils so that the true qualities of the person can be revealed.
Even as time passes and you get older, you can still naturally reveal the qualities that time has bestowed upon you......
People will also remember your role.
When it comes to acting, you can obviously feel that there is light in the actress's eyes, so why did she withdraw from the circle?
When her cousin asked this question, she said that it was one person who inspired her.
When you see him at work, you can feel what real work is.
It was then that everything about the show lost its appeal.
Every day trying to memorize the ridiculous dialogues that others have written, doing those mental constructions of "believe that I am a proper actor", all of a sudden feeling so empty, losing all interest, all these things drain my energy......
Who is that person?
It goes without saying, I believe everyone may have already guessed that person is director Hong Sang-so, which is a romance that belongs to the two of them.
Confess in the movie.
In last year's "Novelist's Movie", because of her sentence, Hong Sang-so turned the original black-and-white movie into color, which is the most blatant love he gave her.
Some people say that Kim Min-hee is an actor in other directors' films, while Kim Min-hee is Kim Min-hee in Hong Sang-so's movies.
That's true, whether it's "The Novelist's Movie", "The Woman Who Ran Away", "After", or "This Time Is Right That Time Is Wrong", "Riverside Hotel", ......
Kim Min-hee has a unique, exclusive sense of relaxation.
Her natural relaxation and peace with the situation are really unique.
When I laughed, I was still full of aura.
Hong Sang-so is undoubtedly the director who knows her best.
Under his lens, she is undoubtedly more beautiful, like a girl who has stepped out of the world, a love poem without words but surging feelings.
So, what is an actress?
Do you have the idea to become an actor in the circle?
The movie tells us the answer in a very clever shot, when my cousin is eating instant noodles with the actress and her friends.
The actress asked a friend for a hot sauce, and the food was delicious, delicious and enjoyable, with a palpable pleasure to the naked eye.
Seeing this, my cousin also took the opportunity to add a little hot sauce to eat, but unexpectedly, she directly cried spicily, and the whole mask of pain.
But she didn't give up, and insisted on taking the second and third bites......
The actress said, why don't you stop?
My cousin said she thought she could eat it.
But the reality was that she couldn't eat any spicy food at all, and finally ran to the bathroom crying......
A spoonful of hot sauce makes the profession of an actress very clear, and acting really depends on talent.
There are some actors who you can't see that she is acting at all, because her state is like the real us around.
Just like Kim Min-hee.
What she brings to us is a sense of immersion in everyday life.
As the Berlin Film Festival gave Kim Min-hee in its award speech:
"She's both an actress and an artist, and you can't stop looking at her. 」
Regardless of morality, Kim Min-hee and Hong Sang-so are indeed suitable in terms of artistic fit.
They put the artistic and documentary side of the movie through the lens, so that everyone can really feel the charm of the movie.
Art does not come from life, but life is art in a moment.
People probably only live for a few moments, and Director Hong filmed these few valuable moments.