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"The Holy Death" is a well-known film by director Kim Ki-duk, which won the Golden Lion Award, and is said to have a hard ticket for its European premiere. Although it won the grand prize, it was also controversial.
Some people praise it as a masterpiece of literary and art films, while others joke that this year, it is as if it could not win awards without relying on "ethics" and "sex". The Douban score is not bad, but such a big award is not more than 8 points and it seems that it is impossible to say.
In fact, in the movie "Holy Death", the director collects the darkness of human nature under the high development of capitalist society on Li Jiangdao, so what is presented is a cold, cruel, and "sexually repressed" such a role.
Li Jiangdao's "sexual repression" is a very clever setting, and it is his ambivalence of longing for love but rejecting love that has led to his long-term repression.
He was a demon in the eyes of the people, and in order to collect debts, he could arbitrarily mutilate one hand or one leg of others, and he would not even frown. It wasn't until the appearance of "Mother" that he slowly changed him.
Lee Kang-do was originally an abandoned baby, but suddenly a woman who claimed to be his mother suddenly appeared, which was actually an elaborate conspiracy. Li Jiangdao is the murderer who prompted the woman's son to commit suicide, and the woman must retaliate against Li Jiangdao in the most extreme way.
The woman wants Li Jiangdao to experience the pain of losing his loved ones, so she pretends to be his mother, gives him love, and plans to die in front of him one day.
For Li Jiangdao, what he ingests from his "mother" is not just family affection, but all the emotions he lacks. He also began to change from a mechanical "killer" to a person with a temperature.
There is a very important theme in the movie, that is, "money is the root of evil". Under the trend of interests, there are too many "robots" like Li Jiangdao, who have no emotions and no temperature, and have become slaves to interests. There are also people who live for money and die for money.
This is also a theme often expressed in many literature and movies, and the more representative one is Kafka's "Metamorphometer", which vividly shows the indifference of human nature under the development of capitalism.
For Kim Ki-duk, he wants to talk not about human indifference, but redemption. So the appearance of the "mother" slowly changed him, he began to sympathize with those who were in debt, and quit the job of debt collection, afraid that the mother would be retaliated against.
Ironically, the "mother" inspires his kindness in order to pull him into another abyss.
Li Jiangdao became more and more dependent on the "mother", and the "mother" was getting closer and closer to the day of implementing the plan. On this day, the "mother" called Li Jiangdao, made a look of being kidnapped, and then disappeared.
Lee Jiang Dao began to look around for his "mother", which was also his journey of redemption. He found those who had been maimed by him and saw their miserable lives before he realized the sins he had committed.
He lent money to the other party at the same time to sign an insurance agreement, and then he crippled the other party before the money was paid, in exchange for a high insurance premium. That's why the "mother" will say that Li Jiangdao is a demon who tests human nature with money. People are willing to do anything in order to borrow money, and they are willing to agree to anything, which is greed and luck psychology in human nature, and Li Jiangdao took advantage of this to recover a debt.
Now, as he saw those who had been crippled by himself living on their lives, he began to feel sympathy in his heart. According to her plan, the "mother" led Lee Jiang Dao to an abandoned building. So the "mother" began her performance, pretending that someone behind her wanted to push her down, and Li Jiangdao pleaded bitterly, hoping to exchange his life for the life of the "mother". The "mother" really pitied Li Jiangdao, but she still jumped down and died in front of Li Jiangdao.
All the "mother" had to do was to make Li Jiangdao repent for the rest of his life, which was more cruel than killing him. Although Li Jiangdao found out that the "mother" had been lying to him, he still snuggled up next to the "mother" like a child.
In the end, Li Jiangdao completed his self-redemption by committing suicide.
Jiang Dao tied himself under the car
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > several settings in the film were carefully designed by the director. </h1>
First, it's a story of wandering outside the law. No matter how Badaru Lee did, no one called the police, as if this was a world where there was no justice. A closer look reveals that the director did not want the axiom to get involved in the story. He wants to use "love" to accomplish redemption.
Second, the film mentions many times "What exactly is money?" In fact, we can also understand human civilization as a different way of fighting in a "civilized" way. This approach is the competition of capital, like the beasts for food and spheres, and human beings for money, resources, status, and various priorities. Under such competition, money is no longer a convenient currency for trading, but a "prey".
Third, Kim Ki-duk's film is indeed very "pretended", he turns the ugliness of human nature into a child who lacks love, and as long as love is found again, even demons can be redeemed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary:</h1>
Kim Ki-duk's ability to show commercial elements is still a little worse, the film's revenge plot is easy to guess, and the suspense is not very cleverly constructed. But as a literary and artistic film that won the Golden Lion Award, it can indeed give people a lot of inspiration.
History is always strikingly shaped, Europe's economy has developed rapidly after the Industrial Revolution, but people are mercenary, and there are indifferent people everywhere, and Kafka wrote all this down. After World War II, the United States became the world's largest country, and people's hearts and minds became impetuous, so there was a "Beat Generation." The same was true of Japan, which saw its economy rise rapidly after World War II, and the suicide rate followed suit.
In China, the first rise of capitalism in the middle of the Ming Dynasty formed a erosive and chaotic society, and there was such a strange book as "Jin Ping Mei".
This seems to be an insoluble problem, as long as the economy develops rapidly, people's hearts are bound to be greedy, and the ugliness of human nature is bound to be exposed. Kim Ki-duk seems to want to give an answer to this question, and that is "love."
People's hearts always have to be filled with something, so why must it all be money? Leave a part for family affection, love, friendship, leave a part for strangers, and finally leave a part for distant places and dreams. What do you think?