Regarding the remake of Korean movies, in fact, it has been quite controversial since the beginning of the 21st century. From "Back to Twenty" to "I Am a Witness", it is always difficult to have a day in the predicament of medium reputation. The biggest problem that has been summarized is the dissatisfaction of water and soil. However, in such a situation, there are still remakes to break through.
The movie "A Story More Sad Than Sad" released in 2018 is taken from the Korean film of the same name, and has not changed much in content and form. However, after only 8 days of release, it achieved a cumulative box office of 681 million, which is enough to be regarded as the best in the remake.
"A Story More Sad Than Sad" tells the story of a man with terminal cancer who, in the face of a countdown to death, resolves to find a man for the woman he loves dearly who can be relied on for life. Among them, the struggle between perfection and inseparability is wavering, and life and death are used to interpret the true meaning of love.
When the original Korean film was released in 2009, not many people were optimistic about the film. And since the beginning of filming in mid-December 2008, the film has completed most of the progress in less than a month. However, after the release of the movie, the pomp and circumstance was unprecedented.
In order to commemorate this film, South Korea published for the first time a commemorative stamp issued only for major events such as the World Cup and the Olympic Games, and the stamps were also listed in Southeast Asia and other places, and the response was particularly enthusiastic. It can be seen how powerful the influence of this film is, and it has also unconsciously developed into a classic movie, and the limelight is immeasurable.
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After 12 years of revisiting the original film, the feelings that were once thought to be redefined. When abandoning the sensual gaze of the past and analyzing the film itself from a rational point of view, each scene has a little more hatred for iron and steel when it is lamented. Is the so-called fulfillment of love really touching?
The background of the film has taken place in a new era, a machine age in which people are impetuous and social processes are fast. The male and female protagonists in the movie can be described as poor children abandoned by this era.
Like the original version, the remake of the male protagonist Zhang Zhekai lost his father since he was a child, and his mother left him alone; while the heroine Song Yuanyuan lost her parents because of a traffic accident, and she was also lonely. In the communication of fate, the two are either in love at first sight or have pity for each other, slowly approaching each other's world, acting as family, friends and unspoken "lovers".
Originally, they thought that in the days to come, they would definitely accompany each other. Of course, the change in characters has long been known. After all, starting from the choice of living together or sleeping in the same bed, although there has been no substantial intimate behavior, the ambiguous relationship is self-evident.
But who would have thought that Zhang Zhekai inherited his father's cancer, and before he was mentally prepared, the doctor had already pronounced a sentence of more than 200 days left in his life. Looking at Song Yuanyuan's magnificent style, life has just set sail, how can he bear to let the beloved woman follow his pain. Therefore, in his final days, he made the most self-righteous choices.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="32" > perfect love, only to lose both</h1>
As the Polish writer Szynchovich said: "Once a man is in despair, he has no scruples, even if he is ready to tear his wounded heart with his own hand." "Especially after this despair is accompanied by great love, it is even more cruel."
In order to let Song Yuanyuan have a better future, he took the initiative to match Song Yuanyuan and the handsome and gentle dentist together. At the expense of destroying the dentist's original love, he did not hesitate to use any means to complete the two of them. At the end of her life, witnessing the beloved girl enter the marriage hall and have her own happiness.
But what he didn't know was that Song Yuanyuan knew everything and was willing to cooperate with him. Even after he died of cancer, Song Yuanyuan followed him out of this world and hurried to find his traces. This perfect love, in the end, was still defeated by not abandoning.
When we habitually look at problems from a perceptual point of view, we are moved by this kind of life-and-death love. However, from a rational point of view, watching the two waste more than 200 days of the last companionship, and doing dreams that only touched them, I could not help but feel regret.
The so-called fulfillment is, in the end, only the wishful thinking of the self. Be good for each other in despair and hide your love in pain. And the final result, still can't escape the lose-lose situation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="32" > sadder than sad, there is no choice</h1>
When you reflect on the theme after reading this story, where is the core of the story that is sadder than sad?
On the one hand, it is the sadness of love that cannot be loved, and the powerlessness to face fate. Obviously, the two people love each other so much, but they can't withstand the life and death parting brought about by cancer. No matter how much love you can't go together, there is tragedy under the two loves, but isn't it a sad story?
On the other hand, it is the unspeakable unspeakable secret, the silent waiting to know the truth. In the face of the so-called secret of cancer, one of them pretends to be quiet in the years, and the other pretends to love and be happy to meet each other's expectations and let people not have regrets in life. But it is precisely because of this greatness that people feel even more sad.
Finally, it is sympathy for those involved in the innocent, and helplessness for knowing that it is wrong but must be done. The male and female protagonists are essentially kind, but for each other, Song Yuanyuan must pretend to love enough to enter the marriage hall with each other under the premise of not loving and suppressing. As for Zhang Zhekai, knowing that the dentist's fiancée still loves each other, he still licks his face to beg the other party to break up and break up the two who are engaged.
Under such a plot setting, the audience who believes that the essence of the film is aesthetic and warm believes that this is a great selfless love movie. People who think that the plot of the movie is bloody subjectively believe that the movie has fallen into the cliché, copying the car accident, amnesia, and terminal illness of Korean movies, and distorting the viewers to get three views. The root cause is to label it "Mary Sue".
However, the movie is largely a benevolent person, the wise see the wise, and the views are different. Even if you don't think deeply about the stories that are wrong, just from the end of the movie, it is controversial.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="32" > loyalty in the fast food era, but it was spurned</h1>
After Zhang Zhekai's death, Song Yuanyuan came to her grave and followed her to another world, leaving behind her dentist husband, who loved her deeply. At this time, life and death depend on each other, as if it has the meaning of Liang Zhu and Romeo Juliet. However, such a plot, in the current era, can only be seen and criticized.
Some people think that Song Yuanyuan does not cherish life and jokes about the dentist's feelings, which is an irresponsible attitude. Some people think that when what era, even if there is this kind of loyal love, it is just the screenwriter's self-conjecture, and such a plot is only left with dog blood film and television dramas. In the present moment, you can't see the beauty, only the dog's blood.
So, while the story is sad, I want to revisit the values that the story brings.
In the past, people said that life and death depended on each other, loyalty was the same, and all the spectators thought of was admiration and admiration, but now when it comes down, everyone is a look of contempt and disgust. It is as if everyone is drunk and you wake up alone, and you don't know that those who wake up alone are pitiful.
Times are moving too fast, and love has become a fast food. In such a living environment, "once the carriage and horse were very slow, and there was only enough to love one person in a lifetime" has become a legend, and there are countless people who flash marriage and divorce. We have also gradually become one of them with the passage of time.
But some people take love as fast food, and some people take love as the most important thing in life, unchanged until death. We can not believe it, but please do not easily despise the love of others, and do not lose hope in long-term love. In the invisible place, there is always someone who loves it vigorously.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="32" > review</h1>
If you look at the storyline and direction alone, it will inevitably make people feel dog blood. But if you look at it from the perspective of love, when you really substitute for it, you will inevitably admire the greatness and disbelief of love. From this perspective, love stories should not only be influenced by the tastes of the fast food era, nor can they be easily summarized with the words "Mary Sue".
Under love, there is the greatness of fulfillment, there is the touching that cannot be abandoned, and to some extent, it also carries the weight of life. In the face of powerless fate, we are small people; but in the face of love, they are capitalized people, controlling the miracle of life, writing the true meaning of love.
From this point of view, their "dog blood" love, worthy of the classic, is also creating a classic.