Poke the red "follow" not to get lost
This year's Korean films always feel a little lacking in meaning.
"1947 Boston", "Unofficial Action", "Smuggling", ......
There are explosive points and emotions, but if you are used to watching Korean movies, you will know that these are basically jobs.
Is there really no film recommended from the bottom of my country?
This is coming, and I started to get hearty.
Sir cried into a little tearful person-
3 days off
Look at the poster, the Korean version of "Lee Hwan Young"?
Douban 8.0 points.
The starring role is South Korea's "national mother" Kim Hae-sook, who once became popular in Japan with "Winter Love Song" and won the best award for playing a mother.
The director is Yoon Sang-hyo, who has filmed "My First-Class Brother", and the style this time is also a bit similar-
It made countless people cry so much that their brains hurt.
Tearjerker movies can't escape sensational routines, but this time only two words are used-
Everyday.
Because of daily life, it is no longer a floating false emotional catharsis.
Because of daily life, the director captures the common memories and hidden pains between parents and children in East Asia.
Awkward and caring, the more you love, the harder it is to speak.
01
The beginning of the story is very ordinary.
Mother Fuja (played by Kim Hae-sook) unexpectedly won an award in a writing contest and got the opportunity to take a 3-day travel vacation.
The place is up to her.
Faced with this kind of good thing, she offered to see her daughter, who was a teacher at the university.
Can it be located?
乌克兰（Ukraine）还是UCLA？傻傻分不清楚。
Stunned the guide in charge of claiming the prize.
But when she finally found her daughter, she found that her daughter was not in college at the moment.
Instead, he is living alone in a remote Korean village.
Just when Fuzi was excited and ready to go up and hug for a long time.
She wore it.
That's right.
The movie has a high-concept setting:
Fukuko is a ghost.
The so-called writing contest is held in the underworld, and the so-called reward is also from the office of the ghost world.
The so-called vacation means that ghosts can return to the world to visit, but they cannot touch, nor can they be seen or heard.
The theme of the movie is a "ghost (family) love is not over".
Why not?
In Fuzi's memory, her daughter Pearl (played by Shin Min-a) is a university professor at UCLA.
It is also Fuzi's biggest concern in the world.
But Fukuko can't even think of being a ghost.
The daughter of a university professor who shows off everywhere with others has become a small restaurant owner and lives in seclusion in the remote countryside of her hometown?
And, on closer inspection, it seems that her purpose is not to make a profit.
Restaurants don't have a set menu, they serve food according to the season, and meals that look hearty and fresh are incredibly cheap.
For two people, it only costs about 53 yuan.
Even more confusing.
In the eyes of Fuko.
Once upon a time, pearls were meticulous elites.
I have never cooked, and my fingers do not touch the spring water.
But now?
Not only skillfully cooking in the countryside.
Wash the dishes, wash the rags.
And he is skilled in carpentry, and he can skillfully repair bad chairs with a hammer.
It can be said that this daughter makes her proud.
At present, the only difference between rural women and Fuzi's eyes.
Maybe she'll be after she's busy.
Start with fried beans and slowly make a cup of pour-over coffee, then drink it in the sun.
The quiet appearance of the years is like the same style of "Little Forest".
The first half of the movie is all about showing Pearl's life.
Accompanied by Fukuko's spit as a ghost.
A daughter she was completely unfamiliar with and couldn't understand.
Let Fuzi feel dissatisfied, angry, and confused.
Until the evening of the same day—
Pearl woke up in the night and ran to the river in tears.
shouted out the sentence:
Because of you, Mom, I feel like I can't live.
Depression.
It turned out that my daughter was sick.
Whenever the mood bursts, Pearl is like a helpless child, looking for her mother everywhere.
But in Fuzi's eyes:
Obviously, in order to provide her with education, she worked hard to earn money.
Why is it that now that I am dead, everything has gone back?
Moreover, it has reached the point of dying or living?
Fukuko Sou Unknown White.
But in the parent-child relationship in East Asia, what you can't figure out, why not just a lucky child?
02
In the eyes of pearls.
Fukuko abandoned her very early.
Fostered her at her uncle's house, who was a teacher, and only came back a few times a year, and each time, the memories left for her were not very good.
In addition to eating, food.
Korean dramas are good at using food to carry feelings.
For example, in "Please Answer 1988", everyone in the play is eating almost all the time.
Cheng Dongri's birthday cake from the small supermarket at the entrance of the alley is the family's guilt and compensation for Deshan.
Sunwoo's mother, who is financially constrained, will ruthlessly buy expensive banana milk for her child.
The stomach is an emotional organ, and those inexplicable feelings will be hidden in the food and felt.
Food is closely related to everyone's daily life, like a slice of life, and it really involves the joys and sorrows of people.
In "3 Days of Vacation", the food is not only photographed fresh and healing, but also presents Korean food to a surreal level.
Moreover, as a connection between mother and daughter's emotional exchange, it constitutes the concretization of memories.
Switch back and forth between the two perspectives.
Doubts are gradually revealed, and the story of the past begins to fill in completely:
When Pearl was very young, Fukuko remarried to her second husband.
The second husband promised to pay all of Pearl's tuition fees to support her to study abroad, but asked Fukuko to take care of his two children wholeheartedly.
In order to keep the pearl from looking at people's eyes, Fuzi fostered her at her brother's house, and remitted her living expenses every month, but rarely met.
Until—
Once Fuzi took advantage of the family outing, brought pearls to her new home, and secretly cooked a table full of sumptuous lunches for her.
But as soon as the meal was served, the husband came back unexpectedly with the child.
The rare meeting of mother and daughter was suddenly embarrassing.
A detail.
Fukuko desperately asked Pearl to leave with the packed meals.
Because Fukuko's way of expressing love is to cook for pearls.
In the meal she had carefully cooked all night, there was unspeakable love and guilt.
And the second time Fuko cooks for Pearl, it is when Pearl has grown up to work in Seoul.
But this time, Fuko, who came all the way from the countryside to Seoul with all kinds of side dishes, was rejected by Pearl.
I know that I live in a one-bedroom apartment and bring a lot of them
Are we sleeping under the same roof?
Refusing Fuzi's cooking is Pearl's accusation and revenge for being "abandoned".
That night.
Fukuko went out on the streets alone and stayed overnight at McDonald's where she ordered one of the cheapest cones.
was obviously accused by his daughter.
But the mother, who had a word of suffering, still told Pearl not to worry, she had caught the car home.
The cone that melted in his hand was sticky and cold.
Like those irreparable rifts and regrets.
But doesn't Pearl know?
She actually saw everything in her eyes, but she could not open her mouth to forgive.
I can only look at Fuzi from a distance through the glass of McDonald's.
Once, twice.
Hide your distress and let the hatred flow.
This is where the movie is ruthless:
The mother's hard work and dedication for the family is real.
But the feeling of being abandoned in her childhood and the long-term lack of emotion in her growth process are also real.
And the two truths cannot cancel each other out.
It can only be repeated sawing, stinging, hurting.
It ends with the departure of one party.
So after hearing about Fuzi's sudden death, Pearl immediately left behind the professor's work and achievements and returned to his hometown in the countryside.
Try to replicate the taste of Fuzi over and over again.
Looking embarrassed?
What did you do when you were alive?
Just as Fuko, who is a ghost in the movie, can't let her daughter hear her heart, in the family structure of East Asia, this kind of aphasia is actually the norm.
In the growth of pearls, Fukuko is speechless.
Pearl was once aggrieved that she couldn't have her favorite food, so she could only eat her cousin's favorite egg rolls.
In the process of Fuko's aging, Pearl lost his voice.
obviously cares about Fuzi, but he just secretly puts the tonic bellflower juice at the door of the house at night.
Those negative feelings of love that are unwilling to express openly have finally turned into a spike, pierced in the depths of memory with guilt.
The so-called regret is created in the aphasia, misses and self-damage again and again.
Even when Fukuko's ghost returned to the world, she was still speechless.
Different from other films of the same genre, "Happy Family", "About the Incident That Became Family with the Ghost" or "Hello, Li Huanying", the protagonist can always interact with the deceased family and dissipate some regrets in the interaction.
But Fuzi is a transparent ghost, who can only watch from the sidelines, and his heart is like a knife.
Finding a way to communicate is Fuzi's efforts in the second half of the film.
It is also the only way to fill or prevent regrets, both on and off screen.
03
It is true that family tearjerker movies are the comfort zone of South Korea.
Similar plots, I always feel like I've seen it in other Korean movies.
The image of a bitter mother without regrets, "Love Home", "Mother's Mother", and "Harmony".
Children who have hurt their family's feelings when they are ignorant, "Love Home" has, "The Most Beautiful Parting in the World" has.
The accidental illness and death of relatives are available in "Happy Family", "Wedding Dress", "Dejiu", and "Beloved Son".
Korean-style tear gas canisters have been around for a long time.
Family affection, misunderstandings, and death, "3 Days of Vacation" is not lacking.
It can be said to be the "canon" of Korean genre film creation.
But.
can't deny the routine of Korean films, just like can't stop the tears when watching the movie.
The tear strategy has been tried and tested.
The reason is that films can always touch the softest places in people's hearts and evoke universal resonance.
In particular, China and South Korea, which are culturally similar, share a common discourse.
For example, this one in the movie-
Always busy in the kitchen, cautious phone calls and afraid of being disturbed, showing off the child's filial piety to the neighbors everywhere.
This is the mother that many people remember.
Almost every detail in the movie points to the real daily life.
And the image of the mother is the embodiment of all daily life.
Hence at the end.
When Fuzi sprinkled and rolled, he finally got a chance to meet the pearl.
Pearl's first reaction was to make a bowl of kelp soup for Fukuko.
Obviously suppressed the whole scene.
This meeting across yin and yang is handled so simply and plainly.
After all, in the implicit East Asian culture, every meal and vegetable in daily life is not full of affection.
And tears also burst in this touchable daily life.
The reason why Korean-style family films have such a wide audience is also because of the right blend of genres.
In addition to tear-jerking, it is often a comedy.
In "Happy Family", only the male protagonist can see the ghost family, and the people are all ridiculous.
"Strange Her" Luo Wenji's grandmother rejuvenated, amplifying the comedy elements in the cultural collision and contradictory family affection.
Fuzi, also contributed a lot of laughs in the way of "not being present".
And the angel guide as a supporting role is serious and funny, which impresses Sir the most.
As an angel, you have to deal with difficult customers (Fukuko) while dealing with headaches from your superiors.
Being bitten by dogs, threatened, and ignored is more social than a social animal.
But in this banter, the seriousness of death is dissolved.
That's what the movie really wants to do.
It's all about how to make up for regrets, but the real core is how to let go of regrets.
Death can be seen as a trivial matter.
Departed relatives can also be by their side in another way.
is just like the popular "Hello, Li Huanying" in the Spring Festival in 2021.
"3 Days of Vacation" implements the function of movies to create dreams.
We jump into a dream where our loved ones never leave.
Therefore, what moves is not the story, but the frankness and resonance of sincere feelings on and off the screen.
But there's more to it than that.
"3 Days of Vacation" still has the common problem of tear-jerking movies-
Unlimited self-giving.
Fuzi first gave up his studies for his younger brother to go to school, and then wronged himself for his daughter's education.
She looks hard and cold, but she is often cautious in front of her daughter.
The absence of fathers and self-sacrificing mothers is the hidden pain of many people's original families.
It's like "Kim Ji-young born in '82".
Mother's love is certainly worthy of praise.
But the radius of a mother's life is not only about children and families.
So compared to the apology of Pearl at the end of the film.
Your flower-like life that you have given up
I'm doing it for you, Mom
I want to end with the words of my son to the mother who returned to her youth and boldly pursued her dreams in "Strange Her".
My son, I'm in charge of reviving him
Let's go
Don't eat what someone else throws away
Don't eat seafood that smells fishy
Don't live like a slave for the sake of your children
This flower-like life, my mother should have been there in person.