Zhong Jiang Film Review
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Everyone wants to get ahead, and the only one who has no background is on their own...
His wife, Wu Xiuyan, is the deputy director of an art museum and is bent on taking the position of director. In order to enter high society, he did not hesitate to sell himself; Her husband, Jang Tae-joon, is an economics professor with ambitions to become a member of South Korea's parliament and a high-profile political newcomer.
Because of a chance, in the assembly to promote his political ideas, an old man set himself on fire and was saved by Jang Tae-joon. It just so happened that this scene was filmed by the media, and the head of the People's Party as the running party saw it, and felt that the good image of this boy could be used as a façade, so he recruited him. The two hit it off, and Jang Tae-joon also saw hope of becoming a member of Parliament.
The couple also began to go to various high-class gatherings to raise contacts for their husband's campaign. The two people who tasted the sweetness were naturally a little fluttery, and they were still a loving couple in front of them. In the blink of an eye, both betrayed each other. The husband got together with his campaign secretary, and the wife rolled up the sheets with the painter in her own gallery.
When the two thought that everything was going well, the owner of the gallery gave the two a hard blow. It turned out that the patron of Jang Tae-joon's party was this big chaebol. Zhang Taijun's small secret love affair and Wu Xiuyan's marital infidelity are all arrangements of the chaebol. What the big chaebol needs is an obedient agent.
After Zhang Taijun learned of the original commission, he found that all this was much worse than he imagined, and the chaebols were unscrupulous for money and power, and even the old man who set himself on fire was deliberately arranged, and was eventually killed by them. These things seem to exceed Zhang Taijun's bottom line! Zhang Taijun, who did not want to be condemned by his conscience and even more unwilling to be controlled by the chaebols, collected the criminal data of the chaebols and the evidence of the chaebols' collusion with the interests of the political parties.
The couple also finally understood that they were just a pawn in the struggle for money and power in the upper class, and it was not so easy to enter the upper class.
High Society is a feature film written and directed by Bian Hyuk, who directed Five Senses, Park Hae-il / So-ae / Yoon Jae-moon / Ro Mei-ran / Kim Kyu-sun / Lee Jin-woo / Han Joo-young / Park Sung-hoon / Jang So-yeon / Nam Ki-ae / Hamasaki Masao / Kim Kang-woo, and was released in South Korea on August 29, 2018. The director of this film said: "Through such a film, I want to reveal the attitude of ordinary people facing high society, which I believe is also a common point with many existing high society films." What I want to tell you is why people yearn for those things. ”
As a person among ordinary people, I believe that many people should be full of curiosity and desire for the 0.01% of the upper class at the top of the pyramid of this society. Because introspection always feels that if I can reach such a position, I will bring a lot of different colors to my life. But is that really the case?
"High Society" answers this question well to the audience from different angles and different understandings. Movies can not only bring us more topicality, but also cause thinking and flogging of the most fundamental desires and greed of people in today's society.
High society is the interested interested person in society who holds political power and the right to distribute social resources and natural resources. High society is not society. The so-called high society is a description, a way of life, not a social form. Ideological and cultural propaganda in high society: In the so-called "fair society", the people can have appropriate ways, through struggle, to strive to rise from the lower social classes to the upper class. But whoever enters high society can only be a small part of the whole society, and the majority of the people are still reduced to cheap labor of high society, even slaves. So as long as there is a high society, there is no real sense of fairness, and the interests of the majority cannot be guaranteed.
The film tells us that the original driving force that underpins people's yearning for "high society" is desire: the desire for power struggle, standing in a higher position and stepping on more people, thus desperately redeeming themselves to desire itself. So we can see the marital state after cheating that others do not know that there is no sense of guilt, money laundering with clever methods, even if the crime is committed, it is an arrogance to take me, to treat the two people from each other's pursuit of dreams without interfering with each other, to one party thinks that it is affected by the so-called negative impact, in addition to asking for a relief from the cigarette, it can only be more obviously carved "you are you, I am me" The dividing line.
When the storm is coming, the explosives are hidden under the tablecloth, and the fire players, onlookers, instigators and instigators of fire make our male and female protagonists despair, fear, and lose everything they get temporarily. We see the lives of the more absurd upper classes, including the users of primitive harm means hiding in the darkness, the faces of hypocritical ugly politicians, the upper leaders with sexual perverted hobbies, so that a design to exploit, frame threats, many participants are trapped in the inescapable desire and oppression of the upper network is woven and hung, trapping all the people involved. In the end, our protagonist cut off the tail of desire that used to pull him forward, and dashingly left this upper-class net that had been painstakingly pursuing and wanting to climb higher, and even punished the evil on behalf of goodness, and became an ordinary ordinary person who pursued truth, goodness and beauty again.
The choice of politics and art as the entry point of "High Society" shows the creator's understanding and irony of this theme, especially the use of the roles of a man and a woman and two couples to lay out the story separately is also a place that reflects its special intentions. The male protagonist aspires to become a member of Parliament, and the female protagonist fights for the position of the curator of the art museum, but in the process, the male protagonist and the female assistant and student fall into confusion, and the female protagonist also becomes the master of desire with the young artist in Paris. At this point, a piece of dog blood drama in which the husband and wife cheated was fully presented, and the development of the next plot basically revolved around the conflict between the heroine and the young artist being blackmailed, which was far from the film's previous laying out to show the intention between the politician election and the chaebol shady scene, so that in the end, after the cheating male and female protagonists forgave each other, they chose to use the way of publishing this beautiful video to fight back against the black hand behind the scenes, which made people see the power of feminist consciousness awakening.
The uniqueness of the film lies in several passionate male and female scenes, the performance is bold and explicit, and it appears to be extremely rampant under the rendering of the whole film's desire, which can be called ups and downs, tactful and bizarre, thousands of turns, complex plot, graceful posture, colorful eroticism, peak circuit turning, very infectious and impactful. But from the perspective of the whole plot, it is mainly about the dirtiness and corruption of the representative enterprises and political power circles in the upper class of South Korea, and behind the hypocritical faces of the people are all monster-like mouths, greedily sucking away all the benefits that are needed and unwanted, which really makes people feel shocked, sighing the complexity and change of human nature, the unfathomable hearts, or to read well and long dim sum eyes...
The film satirizes love, satirizes politicians, satirizes plutocrats, satirizes the middle class, and satirizes art. Wu Xiuyan chatted with the chaebol artist, who said that there was time to create, but the physical strength was not enough. When the heroine does not know why, the film uses cruel facts at the end to prove what is "art". It turned out that the works made by the artist were nothing more than the sheets under the mattresses that were cushioned under the body during sex with different women, and after solidifying with glue, they became the so-called "works of art"; and at the end of the play, the chaebol artist was imprisoned, and the girl who had fish and water with him copied this creative method, and even shined and was sought after by many "upper-class people". When asked about her understanding of art, her answer was: Art is shit!
Actually she is honest!
There are a lot of golden sentences in the movie that are also worth recalling:
1, Jang Tae-joon said to his wife, Wu Xiuyan, "You are becoming more and more like Hillary", and Wu Xiuyan responded, "Then you have to become Clinton first."
2, chaebols: this country is good because everyone is not satisfied, no one thinks that they already have enough money, if there is a chance to make them more money, then they will not hesitate to borrow money to block it. Jang Tae Joon has no problem, right?
Party leader: The good thing about this country is that everyone feels that they have been wronged, no one will be satisfied with their identity, and everyone believes that they should stand at the top of the pyramid. Zhang Taijun could not take charge of the teaching whip, after all, he had already tasted the sweetness...
Chaebol: That's the power of this country! Everyone is hungry for the things of the people around them.
Each class and circle has different living conditions, methods and ideas, and faces different dilemmas. I think that the most comfortable life may not be how much money you have, but the habits and freedom in a circle of interpersonal and materialistic desires, and the degree of freedom and comfort determine the happiness and comfort of the individual.
The inferior people dream of the upper class, and the upper class people do the dirty things! To be the master of desire, not to be a slave to desire, but is it really possible?
The Bible says this: Do not covet the wife of your neighbor! Maybe no matter what you do with your desires, some things can be done, and some things can't be done!
The heart has no desire, so there is no terror...
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