"Miyang" is a work by Li Cangdong in 2007, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival that year, and Quan Duyan won the best actress.
The film gives us a unique perspective on love, hate, and redemption. At the beginning of the film, the heroine Shin Ae, played by Jeon Do-yeon, lost her husband, and she could only pin all her hopes on her son Jun, and took Jun to her husband's hometown, hoping to find a way to save in the place where her relatives lived, but she did not want this to be the beginning of pain. Shin Ai is strong on the outside but very fragile on the inside, and she does not want to be pitied, so she disguises herself. Because her "Lu Fu" was kidnapped and eventually died, she almost lost the courage to live. Under the influence of religion, she seemed to gradually come out of the inner haze, and when she plucked up enough courage to forgive the murderer, the murderer told her that she had received God's forgiveness. Shin Ai is completely devastated, because her forgiveness full of superiority suddenly loses its object.
Director Li Cangdong is good at portraying the inner world of the characters, everything in Miyang is from the heroine, whether it is a child or a man, it is a side line for her, but Song Changhao still contributed a very good acting skill, playing a suitor vividly. Song represents the real world, and the heroine has her own inner world, we can see that the heroine began to be incompatible with everyone when she entered Miyang, step by step to join the middle of various small circles, and those who resisted before also accepted. Miyang seems to be like a big germ, slowly devouring the inner world of the heroine, she integrates into it step by step, but we can see it from Quan Duyan's performance, especially her refusal to read Song's performance, her bones are still uncompromising.
The director maintains the dual need to promote the plot and express reality in the details, and never points to the end.
This is not a story of a suffering person being redeemed by God, God, in the face of an irresistible fate, we think that man will eventually compromise, but the heroine of Miyang, from beginning to end, has not, all her external intersections are at the service of her own heart, and no one can redeem her, including God's love.
Miyang did not intensify external contradictions and highlight the highlight moments of the hostess's life, but was surprisingly difficult one after another in the ordinary. Who would have thought that the heroine's son would suddenly join the neighbor's party, who would have thought that the heroine suddenly believed in God, who would have thought that the heroine suddenly wanted to see the murderer, who would have thought that the murderer had forgave himself first and then collapsed.
The anti-religious elements in the film are just right, the logic is clear, and the thinking is rigorous. When believers are thankful for God's love and beauty on earth and ask God for Forgiveness for all their deeds, they are extremely religious, because the starting point of prayer is the same. Perhaps in the prayer for Shen Ai, believers hear the gospel that God asked them to help Shen Ai out of grief, and they are getting closer to God, or playing God, in the process of giving love for God. But what if believers pray from the opposite point of departure. The teacher prayed to God to forgive his sins, and he thought that God heard his prayers and forgave him with a merciful heart. So he also forgave himself, and he should have been remorseful and remorseful, and he was now full of red light and calm inside.
In his view, the gospel of God is that God has forgiven him and that he does not need to blame himself for the sins he has committed. But in Shen Ai's view, God's gospel is that the teacher is suffering from sin at this moment, waiting for Shen Ai to save him and forgive him. However, when Shin Ai plucked up the courage to face the teacher and wanted to forgive him, she found that the teacher did not need her forgiveness at all. At that moment, the two gospels of God collided head-on, completely opposite, which one was the true gospel of God, and the faith of Shen Ai also collapsed at that moment, and she felt that God was not as loyal to her as she was to God, but toyed with her and deceived her. The film's anti-religious element culminates here, and at the moment I'm also full of questions about whether God really exists, and if so, why does it tease its faithful so much. When the priest was seduced by Shen Ai to have sex with her, Shen Ai looked at the sky with wide eyes and said, "See." "In fact, she is looking at God and saying, see, people who are loyal to you are not really loyal to you, they are also playing with you and deceiving you!
Shen Ai was generally a weak and gentle person, and began to be gentle with his neighbors, students, and church believers, but he was full of rejection of Zong Can and indifferent to Zong Can's kindness. Ke Zongcan didn't care at all, always smiling heartily, just like the sunshine of the miyang. While nailing the ID card to the wall, he called Shen Aila's students; used his personal connections to help Shen Ai look at the land and rent a shop; was pushed off the taxi by Shen Ai and silently followed Shen Ai; joined the church where he had no interest; even if Shen Ai did not notice to make a dinner that Zong Can attached great importance to, or was admitted to a mental hospital after Shen Ai's mental breakdown, his love did not hesitate or change in the slightest. At the end of the film, Shen Ai lost his temper with Zong Can, and when he returned to the courtyard to cut his own hair, the door opened, and it was still Zong Can's laughter, "I help you hold the mirror, like this you can see yourself in the mirror." ”
The last shot is given to the ground in the courtyard, the sun pours, illuminating the shadows on the ground, Zong Can also shines into Shen Ai's heart, even if there is a shadow, Zong Can will always disperse shen ai a little bit. In fact, God had already sent an angel to save Shen Ai, only this time, the angel was in the form of an uncle.