Author| Film Lady (Headline Signed Author)
For Korean movies, Madame's first impression is - raw.
They're so daring to shoot!
This is especially represented by Kim Ki-duk.
This "crazy" director always tells the most cruel and terrifying stories in the most extreme way.
Moreover, his style has influenced many people.
When the Young Korean Jang Chul-so was still studying in Japan, he noticed Old Kim's famous work "Drifting Desire Room".
He intuitively realized that the film would be his artistic goal.
Later, he long served as Kim Ki-duk's director's assistant.
In 2002, when he participated in the filming of "Coastline", he became very interested in the story background of "Lonely Island".
Since then, a vague idea has often patronized his mind.
In 2010, Jang Chul-so finally achieved the goal set 10 years ago.
"The Beginning and End of the Murder of Kim FuNan" was released.
The film was shortlisted for the "One Kind of Attention" section of that year's Cannes Film Festival.
It has won 7 awards in Korea.
Today, Madame will work with everyone to "observe" this Douban 8.5 high-scoring debut.
See how raw and terrifying it really is?
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The place where the heroine Jin Funan (played by Xu Yingji) lives is called Wudao.
There are 6 families and 9 families on the island.
Jin Funan was with her husband Wanzong, her younger uncle Tiezong, and her daughter Xiaoyan.
Her aunt, and three equally widowed aunts, each had a family.
Grandpa Widower, who had never spoken, guarded the house alone.
In fact, the isolated island has not always been so sparsely populated.
Due to a huge storm, many people died.
At that time, Grandpa was often invited to the house by the aunts to eat.
Nominally eating, it is actually satisfying their selfish desires.
Grandpa gradually lost his voice.
When the camera is given to him, he is always chewing on something like a leaf called stupid grass.
It is said that the more you chew, the more stupid you become.
Perhaps, only stupid enough to forget the pain and survive on this island.
Kim Funan's situation is similar to his grandfather's, but it is more tragic than his.
In the eyes of her husband, she is like a pig and a dog, she can scold at will, but the other party cannot resist at all.
Enduring domestic violence is a compulsory course in life for Kim Fu-nam.
Although they had a daughter, Wanzong did not admit that they were biological.
He felt that the woman had been spoiled by many people on the island, and he was not sure who the child was her father.
He would even rather recruit prostitutes to do bad things in the house in a blatant manner than get close to his wife.
At this time, Jin Funan actually pretended to be indifferent and squatted in front of the door to eat.
At night, her husband and daughter went fishing, and she became a machine for the little uncle Tiezong to vent his desires.
In addition to enduring the inhuman treatment of the family, the aunt often gave Jin Funan so-called women's morality.
To put it bluntly, it is to make her a fool and a fool with peace of mind, and she must do it:
He did the farm work tirelessly, obediently waited for the family to eat, drink, and sleep, and was always ready to be beaten and scolded.
The three aunts brushed together as accomplices, as if they were standing on the moral high ground.
She also thought about running away, but she didn't have money to buy a ferry ticket, and when she was caught, she was beaten up.
If it weren't for this film, it would be hard to imagine that there would be such abuse of women on Earth in the 21st century.
Born as a human being, why is society always full of prejudice and harshness towards women?
Despite being in the depths of the water and stealing life, Jin Funan has always been kind and hopeful.
She was waiting for the arrival of her good friend Zheng Haiyuan.
Escaping from the isolated island, she is all her expectation.
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Who is Zheng Haiyuan?
She was Kim Fu-nam's childhood playmate.
The difference is that she works hard in the financial industry in Seoul.
There is no need to live a life like Kim Funan's pig and dog.
However, the high pressure of the metropolis made her physically and mentally exhausted.
In the end, because a loan was not properly handled, it was robbed of his job by a younger colleague who won the favor of his boss with beauty.
She also had a week off as a result.
Haiyuan decided to go to Wudao to visit her "nasty" friend.
The reason why I hate it is that Kim Fu-nam always writes to her, calls her, and tries to get some kind of help.
In Haiyuan's world, career is the only thing she cares about.
Apparently, the city's brutal survival dilemma was on the verge of draining her.
She didn't open the letter once, and she often hung up in a hurry to answer the phone.
Haiyuan never realized that there was something wrong with her cold selfishness.
Even so, Kim Sensei understood her busyness and reverently awaited her visit.
Finally, I had the opportunity to take this vacation.
Haiyuan's arrival seems to have set off a "huge" wave for Jin Funan's dead and silent life.
Her joy is indescribable.
However, Haiyuan is quite lukewarm.
It was not so much that she came to see her friends, but rather that she hid on the island to recuperate.
In fact, Jin Funan was no different from before, and he was still scolded and ridiculed for no reason.
They also have happy moments in the film.
Soak in the hot springs where you were playing as a child, lying head-on-head on a wooden board basking in the sun.
When Kim Fu-nam asked to take her and her daughter away from the island, Hae-won flashed her words and never gave a positive response.
Until she found out that after her perverted husband had infiltrated her daughter's body, her patience bottom line was completely broken.
When she told Haiyuan with embarrassment, not only did she not get understanding, but she was considered to want to leave this place, so she shamelessly told a big lie.
Jin Funan decided to escape with Xiaoyan herself, and she contacted Meilan, a prostitute who had served her husband.
Just as he was about to board the boat, her husband arrived.
The boatman Dexiu delayed the start of the ship on the grounds of counting money.
Everyone knows that he and Wanzong wear a pair of pants.
Poor Kim Funan, caught back.
Surrounded by a variety of spectators, they naturally counted the sins of the escapees.
Faced with the brutal beating of the scumbag father, Xiao Yan pleaded and helped.
But he let him fall on the stone, and never opened his eyes again, and Jin Funan roared like crazy.
Everyone saw that Xiao Yan was dead, and only slightly restrained, and Haiyuan, who was watching coldly, saw the situation and walked away.
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Haiyuan did the only good deed she did after she went to the island - calling the police.
The police did come, but Jin Funan only had one mouth, where did she resist the unanimous fingering of the deer as a horse?
This time, even Haiyuan openly stood against her, obviously seeing it, but insisting that she was sleeping at the time.
Obviously, the primitive and barbaric folk customs on the island and the fact that there are no social order norms to speak of, which made her terrified.
Compared with girlfriend friendship, saving your life is the most important.
If the humiliating days on the island directly inspired Jin Funan's determination to flee, then her good friend Haiyuan repeatedly became indifferent until her black and white behavior extinguished her final expectations of humanity and the world.
Although she had endured to the limit, Haiyuan still had an extremely important place in her heart.
It was the light of hope for her to escape from the isolated island and gain a new life.
Therefore, after Tiezong used psychedelic drugs to stun Haiyuan, Jin Funan appeared in time to prevent the tragedy from happening.
But her own incomparably tragic fate, who is not happy for her?
Bai Yang once said: Wear shoes do not bully barefoot, dogs will jump the wall in a hurry, barefoot people can't bear to draw their knives and angrily draw their swords to wear shoes.
In a sense, she was waiting to be called.
One day, several women were digging potatoes in the field.
Just when the aunts were resting and singing, Jin Funan was working madly alone.
Sweat mixed with tears ran down her cheeks, and the harsh sunlight burned her eyes.
After shaving the potatoes, Jin Funan took a big gulp of water, and there was no longer the humility of the previous promise.
Then he said something very strange to them:
I looked straight at the glare of the sun for a moment, and it spoke to me.
Unexpectedly, it caused a hearty ridicule, and they all thought it was stupid.
At this time, a scythe was held aloft, and Jin Funan opened the killing ring.
It seems that most of the film is paved for this "highlight" moment.
The heroine, who was originally obedient, instantly turned into a chilling "devil".
Blood soaked Jin Funan's body, and she defended her long-lost dignity with a painful killing.
Except for the unmoving grandfather and the fleeing Haiyuan, everyone on the island, including the boatman Dexiu, died under the scythe.
Kim Funan finally put on heavy makeup and dressed up like a real woman and left.
No Island became a veritable no-man's island (Grandpa died after burying everyone).
She killed the policeman who had come to the island to handle the case before the police station, and she herself died in Haiyuan's arms.
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"The Beginning and End of the Murder of Jin Funan" bloodily highlights the social environment's reluctance to see women.
On an island where the dawn of modern civilization has not been illuminated, she suffers from all aspects of ruthless destruction.
She is the sex slave of the men of the whole island, and the "pig dog" in her husband's mouth, and can be beaten and humiliated by him.
The aunts and aunts are all loyal accomplices of traditional male power, and they are justifiably ridiculed.
Originally the embodiment of justice, the police, under the double attack of a group of people reversing black and white, and money and material bribes, the so-called case investigation has become an insurmountable formality.
Jin Funan endured and retreated again and again, but when her daughter fell to her death and her only friend Haiyuan still coldly betrayed her, the last straw in her heart completely crushed her.
Only violence is a feasible way for her to seek justice.
However, this price is really too heavy.
8 lives, in exchange for a little sad revelation.
Many viewers hate the female ErhaiYuan very much, why is she so indifferent.
In fact, as an elderly single woman working hard in the metropolis, she herself has also experienced the oppression of cruel reality.
She witnessed the harassment and beating of a woman by gangsters on the street.
For her own safety, she did not dare to open the car door to help.
He was also threatened by the murderer due to the summons of the police station.
Soon after Haiyuan arrived at the isolated island, she received a text message notification that she had been fired from the company.
It was simply because she was clean and self-sufficient and didn't want to get so close to her male superiors.
So, I kept my self-esteem, but I lost my job.
The director's intention is clear:
Although the living conditions of the two women seem to be very different, the general environment is actually the same for their "hostility".
Haiyuan's indifference and Jin Funan's final killing frenzy are all directly related to the current social environment situation - not only worrying!
(The picture originated from the Internet, invaded and deleted)
About the Author: @Movie Lady, independent film critic, headline number signed author. Write about film and television, but also write about the love and hate of the entertainment industry.