After "Parasite" shined at the Oscars, At the Berlin Film Festival awards ceremony in March, Korean films once again became a hit.
This time, the best director award was taken away by the famous Korean director Hong Sang-so's "The Woman Who Escaped".
However, in stark contrast to the national celebration and pride of South Korea after the award of "Parasite", South Korean audiences are not very kind to the Berlin Trophy.
The reason is not him, because Hong Sang-so has been on the "blacklist" of the South Korean people, and all this is related to his royal heroine Kim Min-hee.
The name Kim Min-hee can be said to be famous in South Korea, she is the double film queen of the Baeksang Art Awards and the Blue Dragon Award, and she is the only two international A-category film festivals in South Korea besides Jeon Do-yeon.
Her appearance is not outstanding, and it can even be described by the word plain, but her temperament is indeed good - and her most widely known identity is "the strongest third in Korea".
This "Runaway Woman" is not the first collaborative work of Hong Sang-so and Kim Min-hee, as early as 2015, the two of them collaborated on "This is Right Then Wrong";
In 2017, Kim Min-hee won the berlinal film festival crown with "Night Alone by the Sea" directed by Hong Sang-so.
But by then, the two had already caused outrage, because in 2016, the two men's unrequited love affair was exposed.
The reason why it is said that it is not a love affair is because when the relationship between the two was exposed, Hong Shangxiu was a husband with a wife and a marriage that lasted for more than 30 years.
But people who engage in art may put love first, and family, morality, and career can all stand on the sidelines.
Even if the scandal between the two is flying all over the world and is resisted by all Koreans, they still have not ended their relationship, and even let this relationship gradually become a "dog blood drama".
At the height of the scandal, Hong Sang-so's wife even found Kim Min-hee's mother, hoping that she could discipline her daughter, but the two did not give in to each other, and this conversation became a dispute between a bad husband and a bad daughter, which surprised people.
The South Koreans, who have zero tolerance for tainted artists, after the two people's relationship was kicked out, the agency quickly terminated the contract with Kim Min-hee, and the merchant terminated all cooperation at the first time.
At this time, Hong Sang-so did something that surprised everyone - he cut his family's expenses, on the grounds that Kim Min-hee is now more difficult and needs his support.
I would rather treat my wife and daughter harshly, but also have the "true feelings" of Xiao San, so that the Korean people call Kim Min Hee "the strongest little three".
If such a man is placed in a Chinese TV series, it will definitely make the audience scold on the hot search. Of course, the combat effectiveness of South Korean netizens is not weak, and Hong Sang-so and Kim Min-hee once hid abroad because of the pressure of public opinion.
But this did not end the cooperation between the two, and even provided them with creative inspiration, so "Night alone by the sea" was born.
This film tells the story of an actress who has been exposed and the director is not in love, because of the pressure of public opinion, and is lost in endless thoughts.
In the movie, the "director" never appears, but in the mouth of the actress, "this somewhat bald director is a married woman", which is similar to the real Hong Shangxiu.
More similarly, one of Kim Min-hee's lines in the movie , "I won't look at men's appearance anymore, that's nothing more" is simply tailor-made for Kim Min-hee.
Because, before meeting Hong Sang-so, Kim Min-hee, who looks ordinary, is a real "Korean male god harvester".
Kim Min-hee's first well-known love affair is the Korean national god Lee Jung-jae.
In 2000, 18-year-old Kim Min-hee and 27-year-old Lee Jeong-jae met for the first time.
Because they starred in "Pure Love Spectrum" together, Lee Jeong-jae politely greeted Kim Min-hee during the break, and as a result, Kim Min-hee blinked his eyes and said softly: "But the seniors seem to be thin."
One sentence made Li Zhengzai's bones crisp.
But at that time, Lee Jeong-jae already had a girlfriend, so he was very affectionate, and the two did not have much entanglement.
Until 2003, the two met again because of work, and Lee Jeong-jae, who had regained his freedom, had no worries and launched a crazy pursuit of Kim Min-hee, and the two also formally communicated publicly in the same year, showing their love in a high profile.
In this relationship, Lee Jeong-jae is very deep, and everyone can see his love for Kim Min-hee, who has publicly stated: "Although we have not yet formulated a specific marriage plan, I believe that she is a true destiny daughter who can accompany me through my life!" ”
After 3 years of love, everyone thinks that Kim Min-hee is going to become Mrs. Lee, but after a daily family dinner, Kim Min-hee suddenly said to Lee Jeong-jae: "It's better that we are separated, I don't think you understand me." ”
After saying this, Kim Min-hee quickly packed up his luggage and emotions, as if there was no one to throw himself into the shooting of the next movie, leaving Lee Jeong-jae alone to be injured for two years, and even once borrowed wine to dispel his sorrows.
Here Lee Jeong-jae has not yet come out of the emotional wounds, there Kim Min-hee has begun his new relationship, the object is a Korean male model lee so-hyuk who is six years younger than himself, but after 3 years of dating, in 2010, Kim Min-hee proposed to break up.
In 2013, Kim Min-hee harvested a male god again, and he was Zhao Yincheng, who was well known to Chinese audiences.
Who is Zhao Yincheng?
He is a character who even Qian Songyi has to show off the kiss scene with him;
It is also a male god who has been strongly hoped by Korean netizens to spark with Song Huiqiao in reality (the two have cooperated in the Korean drama "That Winter the Wind Was Blowing").
Lee Jeong-jae can't keep her, and Cho Yin-sung can't either - the two broke up after a year of dating, and the reason for breaking up is the same as Lee Jeong-jae, and Cho Yin-cheng said in an interview that the reason the two broke up was because he didn't understand her.
In 2015, Kim Min-hee seems to have finally met the man who understood her, and he was Hong Sang-so.
The two attended the crew dinner together when they were working on "Right Then Wrong", and Kim Min-hee drank wine and said to Hong Sang-so: "Director, if we had met before, how good it would be, I feel that you used to be very handsome, but now you are also very charming." ”
Everyone is an adult, can you still understand it when you say it so bluntly?
It is said that the 55-year-old Hong Shangxiu cried that night, and everyone thought that he was too stressed to shoot the scene, perhaps only he and Kim Minxi knew that it was the joy of the dead wood and the grievance of the marriage siege.
So the later story became known to everyone, and the negative man who abandoned his wife and daughter and the strongest three on the surface were born.
In the past two years, Hong Sang-so and Kim Min-hee have been cooperating, and after winning back the Berlin Best Director Award, Hong Sang-so also kissed Kim Min-hee for the first time, and the award speech also mentioned Kim Min-hee many times, which was the same as when Kim Min-hee won the film queen, and the feelings seemed to be sweet as ever.
Seeing this, it seems to be the story of a man and a woman who disregard the world for love - but the truth of the matter is that to this day, Hong Shangxiu has not divorced, is such a love really pure?
Worldliness, responsibility or love, which is more important, perhaps everyone's answer is different, I don't know what you think of hong sang-so and Kim Min-hee's feelings?
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Office: Yang Jing)