South Korean director Hong Chang-so has always been a director I like very much. Although, I have heard others say many times that people who like Hong Changxiu's works will like it, and what they don't feel is that they don't feel it, I think this is also because Hong Changxiu has always had his strong style, the consistent daily street scene, space, and a lot of dialogue, throwing out one issue after another from the dialogue, or self-dialectic.
The same is true of the new work "The Woman Who Ran Away", the heroine is still Kim Min-hee, only this time she permed her hair and changed from long hair to short hair. When I first saw the Poster of the Taiwanese version, there was only one back, and I thought, "Is this Kim Min-hee?" Why would she have her back to everyone on the poster? After all, many times, if there are well-known actors, usually there will be a positive face or at least a side face on the poster, which is usually more attractive.
Besides, what is the "woman who escaped"? Who is at large?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the inevitable social interaction of contemporary people</h1>
But at the beginning of the movie, it was actually solved immediately. This is a dialogue about "women's rooms", the scene is nothing more than in the house or café, office, this kind of daily space that hardly uses any scene conversion, let me can't help but think of a Korean drama "Romantic Physique", the main scene is the conversation between the rental house and several roommates. "The Woman Who Ran Away" is the same, but not long after the show begins, it immediately throws a dialogue theme that is enough to cause inner shock to the viewer in a very daily and stable way- is socialization inevitable, or is it a superfluous echo in life?
"Do you like to meet people?" "Everybody does it, it's necessary."
Immediately, whenever I participate in a social situation, I have to say something that I don't need to say, I don't need to do things, which I think should be the contradiction and pain in the hearts of many people. When you are young, you seem to have to attend social occasions, especially the contemporary promotion of the word "network", which makes people seem not to attend social occasions, train their social skills, that is, to rebel against society, and finally can only become marginal people. In addition, even the community has become a large"social", and the fighting to establish the image is staged every day, and it is too difficult to play the real self on the top.
And when you think that you are strong enough to freely decide whether to socialize or not, reality will coldly and directly defeat this "self-determined" moment that you have been waiting for for many years and finally waiting for. Because of the status and reputation, you have no room to refuse, some are the scenes that you have to go to, even if you just go to show your face, the people in the audience you are not familiar with at all, and it is impossible to become a real close friend with them in your lifetime, you just have to prove that your identity has reached the "kind of person" who can get an invitation and go to this occasion.
This is a kind of proof, a kind of invitation that has finally been delivered to me for so many years, wearing gorgeous clothes, entering the scene without losing momentum, and starting to say something that I don't know why I have to say it with a smile, although this process is not really dialogue and exchange at all, but in that field, you see people you have not seen before, well-known figures who appear in the media, can not be drunk, can not lose their attitude, is a perfect performance, after careful thinking, it turns out that this is the meaning of "social".
You can't just meet people you like, you're surrounded by people you don't like, but you have to try to hide, which is the basic responsibility. In the first conversation between the two women, the last sentence: "I feel so tired now." The True Voice of all. If you can, you just want to grasp the time to get along with people who deserve deep friendship, but in reality, you are full of involuntariness, one day into the rivers and lakes, you have to step on the rivers and lakes.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the hopeless superiority of human beings</h1>
Then, the director brings out the relationship between humans and animals through the neighbor, and the neighbor says, "No matter what, humans still take precedence over animals", and the reason behind this is only because the neighbor's wife is afraid of cats, and the heroine's friends think that the cats are just children, and there is nothing wrong with feeding them. Indeed, who is in the first place between humans and animals has always been a topic of discussion and debate for a long time, and even there are many albums, the beginning or the final ending, is after the destruction of human beings, the world is all right, human beings are the real culprits who destroy the balance of this universe, and always feel that being human beings are so smart, the highest level in the biological chain, but behind this is completely human self-superiority, self-righteously think that scientific and technological progress is good for everything. Human emotions are real and can be expressed through words, and only that emotion is called true emotion.
But aren't there emotions between animals? Compared with animals, it may be easier for humans to kill each other and force each other, one stepping on the other, which is the "height" of human self-righteousness.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > mode of getting along between partners: whether there is love or no love</h1>
Talking about the relationship between partners, it is throughout the movie, no matter which old acquaintance the heroine played by Kim Min-hee meets, it is inevitable to discuss: "Are you now?" Everyone has different ideas about getting along with their partners, such as choosing divorce and returning to themselves; living to a certain age only themselves, wanting to enjoy their own free life, and at the same time longing for love; getting married, but gradually becoming the most familiar stranger, no dialogue daily.
But from beginning to end, when others describe their own state, they ask the heroine's situation, she has always been the same answer: "I have been married to my husband for five years, and in these five years, there has not been a single day of separation, and this time it is a relatively short time for him to go on a business trip, so this is our first separation, he thinks that people who love each other should always stay together, this is a very natural thing", the same answer, constantly repeating the statement, and every time it is repeated, the director will always close the camera, that is, to force the viewer to focus on this naked dialogue, The camera just makes a woman's face almost occupy the entire screen, telling you through the language of the lens, listen, they think so, what do you?
Self-dialectics, mutual confirmation, back and forth conversation, every woman is in ordinary life, back to responsibility and walking next to each other through the thorns, daily life is actually plain, but there are always a few thorns that can not be removed, whether others and themselves, or the shackles that this society has been giving, let people struggle in the sting, but while saying that the current life is good.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "escape" is not shameful</h1>
In director Hong Changxiu's past works, there are also daily conversations between women and women, but there are usually between men and women. "The Woman Who Ran Away" is completely focused on the "woman", there are few real "men" to show their faces, and even if there is, it is a very awkward state, but the woman's dialogue has surfaced to become the focus and focus of the whole movie.
And who is the woman who fled? At first, I thought it was the heroine who separated from her husband for the first time, but later, the moviegoer may find that all the women in the movie have the mood of wanting to escape, not necessarily really separated from the other half, but the heart that wants to escape is the same. A woman is not necessarily a supporting character hiding behind a male character, or a hidden character. This time, women who want to escape, really reveal all their voices, in real life, society does not encourage women to "escape", but sometimes it is not shameful to run away, because women's "escape" is to be closer to their own hearts.