In the introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia's "Kind Gold", it is written: This is a thriller film produced by Shaw Organization Korean Film Company.
However, this film, directed by the famous Korean director Park Chan-wook and starring "Forever Forever" Lee Young-ae and Choi Min-sik, is not just a "scary" film, which not only reveals the various crimes in prison, but also explores what is crime, what is punishment, what is good, and what is the bottom line.
As the last part of the "Revenge Trilogy" directed by Park Chan-wook, the heroine of this drama is Lee Young-ae, an oxygen beauty known to Chinese for her role in the role of "Dae Jang-jin", and she also dedicates subversive acting skills in the film (even if some people think that Lee Young-ae is too beautiful and gentle, her smoking is sexy and confused, she holds up the knife (gun) of revenge, and her hands are stained with blood and people can't hate it at all); and the bag won the Korea Grand Bell Award (three times), the Blue Dragon Award (three times), The addition of the Best Actor Award at the Three Awards of the Baeksang Art Awards (2nd Edition), the "Thriller Movie Professional Household", "The Visible Devil", and "Bad to every Cell" choi Min-sik added a lot to the film.
The story tells the story of Lee Jinzi, played by Lee Young-ae, who after 13 and a half years of imprisonment, takes revenge on Teacher Bai (Choi Min-sik), who framed her in prison.
It turned out that thirteen years ago, Teacher Bai instigated Jinzi to kidnap the little boy Hongmu and then brutally killed him. After being released from prison, the gold was finally confirmed after many investigations that a string of brightly colored small toys (marbles, rings, etc.) on Teacher Bai's mobile phone chain was obtained from the children he killed, and the number of small toys represented the number of people he killed.
Therefore, Kaneko contacted the agent who had arrested her in prison, found the remains of the children in the mountains covered with thick snow, and found the video data of the children who had been killed in Teacher Bai's home- it turned out that Teacher Bai, a pervert, not only kidnapped these children, but also recorded the whole process of killing the children for his own viewing.
Under the coercion (or demagoguery) of the gold and the sincere atonement of his own heart (in fact, he repented for his mistake in catching the gold), the agents found the parents of the children, held a meeting to discuss how to punish the demon of Teacher Bai, and finally decided to use the lottery to decide the order of abuse against Teacher Bai - everyone in the family wore transparent raincoats and took sharp weapons to retaliate against Teacher Bai madly, and everyone walked out of the scene of the tyranny covered in blood and embarrassment.
The elegant and thin Rong Su did not form a group with other families to abuse, nor did he cry bitterly after the abuse, nor did he cut and slash Teacher Bai with the same anger as them, but used a thin and long pair of scissors to give the scum Teacher Bai a fatal blow.
From the perspective of China's truth, goodness and beauty, such a TV series is simply rebellious, because it does not promote the universal values of "truth, goodness and beauty", but completely exposes the "evil" in human nature to the sun – such as the darkness of prison (sexual abuse, murder, all kinds of illegal transactions).
This is not a film that leads people to goodness in the traditional sense, and even in some cases there are parts that trigger tyranny and evil in people's hearts - such as several people joining forces to kill Teacher Bai, and still watching it with the help and full watching of a detective; the film even reflects on "If we kill him, will the children come back?" No, but we still have to do it", Teacher Bai's sin law can punish them, but their wounds are more willing to use direct and intense methods to get "salvation".
In a sense, this is a movie that reflects people's greed in their hearts - after Teacher Bai's death, several families can't wait to give their accounts to Jinzi, so that Jinzi can send the money that Teacher Bai has accumulated over the years to their accounts.
It's a movie about self-redemption, but everyone drinks the original sin — several people eat a cake made of teacher Bai's blood, thinking that killing bad people is good, and there will be angels, and they don't know that it is also a sin to punish sin.
Sins are hereditary, though the truth is hard to believe — Kaneko's daughter killed her adoptive father and adoptive mother in order to be with Kaneko forever.
However, it has to be said that this is a thought-provoking movie, if Kaneko did not ask for help from teacher Bai after she became pregnant, if Kaneko did not kidnap Hongmu by Teacher Bai' seduction, if the school that hired Teacher Bai also went to understand what happened in the school where Teacher Bai taught, if the parents of several missing children were more dedicated when taking care of their children, if they kept searching, if the police officers did not mistakenly believe the testimony of the tainted witnesses but found the key evidence marbles, Maybe so many children after Hongmu are still healthy and happy in the world, maybe Jinzi will not be imprisoned for thirteen and a half years, will not become a kind "witch", will not retaliate, and will not have the carnival of torture and killing from a group of people.
What is kindness?
Kindness is when you treat everything in the world with kindness, but not unconditionally condone sin or create it.
From this point of view, the meek gold thirteen years ago was wrong, because she became an accomplice of a demon, contributed to the fluke mentality of Teacher Bai to kill people without being punished by the law, and was the beginning of the next child after child being killed.
Thirteen years later, Kaneko realizes this and decides to take revenge, believing that sin must be ended and washed away by sin (the film says that small sins end with small sins and major sins end with big sins), but she cannot be redeemed.
At the end of the movie, Gold holds a white cake symbolizing rebirth, braving the snow to run to her daughter who is walking barefoot in the snow, behind her is the 19-year-old fresh meat with whom she has a one-night relationship, they eat the cake and snow that symbolizes the whiteness of life, thinking that they have finally been redeemed, but in fact, they also understand that, as the end of the movie says - there will be a period later.
Many people say that they can't understand this movie, in fact, it is not that there is a problem with their cognitive ability, but that China's current movies tend to be simple, clear, and do not need to spend any brain power to think about the logical relationship, before and after, because most of them are brainless love movies; and many have also been made into TV series, and the plot is infinitely stretched - for example, some palace fight TV series actually have nearly a hundred episodes, all of which are nutritious competitions and jealousy and endless careful machines between women.
In less than 2 hours, "Kind Gold" fully expressed what it wanted to express, and through continuous flashbacks and interludes, it showed people a chaotic and even upside-down world.
Such a movie, domestic directors may not be able to make, but they know that even if such a movie is made, because some force majeure may never be released, so they do not need to spend effort and time to explore whether human nature is good or evil.
What is goodness? What is evil?
Detective Chinatown II says that when you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you.
When you punish evil in an evil way, you think you are good, but you are also evil itself.
Goodness without a bottom line, like a defending tongue without teeth, is soft and powerless, a kind of cowardice that comes from the bottom of human hearts.
The same is true of the bottomless tolerance of evil, and the same is true of the bottomless punishment of evil.