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These days, the news that "Memories of Killing" swept the screen yesterday is the ultimate answer to the question of "watching movies".
such as:
What a movie is
Why humans are fascinated by movies
What the hell were we thinking when we watched the movies
The film doesn't end in a close-up of a group of dramatic, emotionally charged faces (I look at these faces and can even recite lines), nor does it really end with Song Kanghao looking directly at the camera lens (looking at the audience's reverse gaze). The film pursues the murderer for sixteen years, as if it was only revealed yesterday, and the song finally dispersed. In Lee's words, the film ends in our lives — after a long sixteen years (some even want Bong Joon-ho to make a novel?!! ）
The reality caused by "Memories of Killing" is confused with the movie, which is definitely no less than the Coen brothers' "Ice Storm". Many people regard the character events in the movie as a record of the sky eye, thinking that they all correspond to their own people, the Local Fool of the Seoul Police, and some people have developed to the point of crazy looking for the murderer in the blue light tidbits, seeking the truth - just to find that "face".
It's just a movie. But countless people feel that they are on the scene, completely in the movie. In particular, I would like to point out that Park Hae-il does not confess guilt to death, and this role also has its own power. Because in an instant, it will slide into the reality of the unjust case of authoritarian state violently extorting confessions.
This side also repeatedly shows how good this film is.
The real culprit in Memories of Killing has been found! What a lifetime!
The rain that day was as heavy as the rain that Uncle Pie ran to the tunnel with the DNA report from the united States for comparison.
On closer examination, everyone thought that the suspect had seen the film in the cinema and secretly enjoyed himself in the dark, but in 1994 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for mutilating his wife and sister in the same way.
Memories of Killing has been screened twice in Taiwan, fourteen years apart.
In 2004, it was issued by Minghua International Enterprises, and the poster was replaced by the official poster of the original Korean version Chinese.
The Korean film in 2003 is too strong, "Memories of Killing" was released in South Korea a month after the big bell award, it can also win the best picture, best director, film emperor and other heavy awards, at the end of the year, it was copied by "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring", "Old Boy" and so on, only won the Best Cinematography and Most Popular Film Awards.
In 2018, on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the film's release, a 4k restoration was carried out, and the Taiwan region was re-released on July 6, 2018, and the distribution became a large garage entertainment for Taiwanese literary and art film distribution.
The poster is still the same poster, but it has changed a lot, and the poster also asks the real culprit who has not been caught: Where are you now?
At this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival, the restored version of "Memories of Killing" was screened in the "100 Years of Korean Cinema" section, and the tickets sold out.
Of course, this year, director Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d'Or in Cannes with the scenery of "Parasite", and his film history is reviewed, of course, the key "Memories of Killing", and the five cooperations with Song Kanghao, the uncle of cakes, can be called beautiful talks, and their cooperation began with "Memories of Killing".
In order to cooperate with the release of "Parasite" in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Broadway Film Center exclusively released the fifteenth anniversary restoration version of "Memories of Killing", with a warm response, continuous additions, and there are several additions this month (after the real culprit is found, it is estimated that the next few will be full).
Today, Uncle Feng wants to talk about the soundtrack of the healing department of "Memories of Killing", when Bong Joon-ho was looking for the famous Japanese soundtrack artist Iwashiro Taro to score.
About a decade back, there was a lot of communication between East Asian filmmakers, and a Japanese composer composing music for Korean films was nothing out of the ordinary. But going back to 2003, it's a bit of an era. Iwashiro's soundtrack is a key signal for The beginning of Japanese-Korean film exchanges, and it is also a pioneering work of Japanese composers for Korean film soundtracks (this year's Japan-South Korea feud, maybe film exchanges will also be hit hard).
With Iwashiro breaking the ice this time, there have been many in-depth cooperation between Japanese composers and Korean filmmakers, such as -
Hisaishi Jean ("Welcome to Dongmo Village")
Kenji Kawai (Antarctic Diaries)
Mao Mei Lin ("Daisy")
Hiroyuki Sawano ("The Other Island")
Iwashiro later scored the Korean film June Diary
The soundtrack is the most distant part of a movie, but it is also the most intimate link. Composers generally do not need to go to the shooting site, relying on communication with the director and the creation of video materials sent, which is the easiest film work to achieve international cooperation.
According to the previous suspenseful detective theme thinking, the soundtrack should be the best film element to make the heart jump out of the suspense, and it has been tried and tested.
But the original intention of "Memories of Killing" is not to have too much sensory stimulation of the case solving process, this film about the serial rape and murder case that shocked South Korea in 1986, like the real case, did not tell the audience who the murderer was at that time, but more to convey the reflection of Koreans looking back, such a serial rape and murder incident, in the end, is the product of the big era and "ordinary people".
At the beginning of the movie, the extremely elegant strings are laid, the piano is gently played piecemeal, the blue sky and white clouds, the rice fields are golden, quiet and peaceful, and there is no dispute with the world
No one can imagine that as soon as the camera turns, it will be the corpse of a woman crawling with ants under the cement slab of the ditch next to the rice field. Yes, the whole soundtrack is like this, there is no heartbreak, no madness, the music even has a kind of soothing power, but also let the audience at the end of this film that has not found the murderer, full of confusion and suspicion, can have an outlet of still water
"Memories of Killing" is a monumental work of Iwashiro's tenth year of his debut, with the simplicity and regularity of his early works, literary descriptions and layers, and, on the basis of the sweet sketches, through his solid academic string orchestration skills, he has moved towards an open and broad master's spirit. What is deeply admirable is that such a master's courage does not turn over the river and the sea is complicated and lengthy, but with a simple piano flick and instrumentation, inadvertently firmly grasping the heart of each audience.
The piano is the soul of the sound of the whole movie, inadvertently, it is integrated with the sound of the environment and becomes the driving force for the development of the plot. There is a scene where two policemen sit next to a rice paddy field, the faint blowing music ethereal and ethereal, the piano just flowing out of the stars, and the camera skims over the policeman's head and pushes toward the endless rice field, creating a peaceful atmosphere in the world and minimizing the fear of the killing.
At the school toilet, someone tells the policeman Tae-yoon, played by Kim Sang-kyung, that there is often a woman crying in the back vegetable field, and the piano song at this time follows the style of the main theme of the movie, and the camera pushes towards the hut in the vegetable field, the music is beautiful, but it implies that a frightening story is about to be told.
Including the footage of Agent Park played by Song Kang-ho infusing by the lake, the scene of life is also supplemented by the piano as an embellishment. The scene that best reflects the contrast between the piano and the plot comes from a scene in which the demented young man Bai Guanghao is stimulated to run on the tracks and is killed by a train. When the train is about to collide with Bai Guanghao, and Guanghao does not dodge a thousand shots, the piano music is still indifferent, even indifferent, but it gives people a creepy strong stimulus. Perhaps, this indifferent music is also looking back at the current situation of the society at that time, which was indifferent and uncivilized from ideology to the rule of law.
Thirteen years after 2003 and 1986, the soundtrack is full of nostalgia. Shortly after the film begins, there is a passage depicting the curfew imposed in Korea at that time, the siren sound plus the soothing rhythm of the piano, and the sound of the loudspeaker announcing that the curfew is turned off, which is coherent and substitutes a strong sense of history. Some people say that if it were not for the high pressure in South Korea at that time, the curfew was imposed at night, and the gangsters would not have been given the opportunity to do evil in the open rice fields. Every time there is a killing, the killer will order a very unpopular song "Sad Love Letter" on the radio, and then attack the weak woman on the night of heavy rain.
"Sad Love Letter" is the creation of the legendary Korean male singer Yoo Jae-ha (also known as Yoo Jae-ho), who died young, who once composed and sang "Because of Love", which is called the Korean national pop song
But "Sad Love Letters" is the first tape B-side of Yoo Jae-natsu's only album, and it is not popular. There is also a bug here, The album was only released in the spring of 1987, and the story of the film is set in the middle of the summer of 1986. However, because the song and the sense of the times that the movie wants to present are very suitable, no one cares whether it is "premature" for half a year. In the winter of 1987, Yanagi died at the age of 25 after a friend crashed into a taxi while drunk driving.
Of course, the soundtrack of the whole film is not just a cup of warm water, and the background music of a chase scene can be called a wake-up call. In the scene of chasing Zhao Bingshun, a man in red panties who suppressed masturbation, there was a pure drum rhythm at first, and when the three policemen chased them to the mouth of the alley, they laid out strings. The whole piece of music, with the wonderful "street battle" type of camera cut, the quiet small village at night, the street lights projected by the high telephone pole, the sudden disappearance of the suspect, in one breath but give the audience a moment to breathe. The use of percussion is Iwashiro's specialty (recall "Chibi"), with proper prioritization and a staggered drum beat.
At the end of the film, there is a classic conflict scene at the mouth of the tunnel, when Agent Su sees the DNA test report sent by the United States, showing that the major suspect Park Hyun-kyu who is close at hand does not match the on-site sample comparison, not only he and his partner Agent Park are disappointed and even desperate, I believe that the audience is also sighing.
At this time, a piece of music that can be called the most beautiful music in the whole film hovered in the heavy rain. This piece of music, with a healing emotion, not only soothes the police's loss, but also a requiem, at the same time, a little to calm the audience's anger at this moment, which is the so-called "healing system" at that time - in the entanglement of Agent Su's desire to shoot Park Hyun-kyu a hundred times, we can even see through the picture that this music that seems to be telling a story is rising.
Then, a blank space is given to the police to question the suspects at the end. The only evidence did not match, Park Hyun-kyu ran to the depths of the tunnel, and the same variation piano as the main theme of the opening chapter sounded again, leaving the silhouettes of the two policemen in vain, and a deep sense of helplessness struck.
At the end of the film, Agent Park, who has changed careers many years later, passes by the rice field and overhears a little girl who says that there was once an "ordinary person" who had come.
Song Kang-ho's expressionless but carrying too much content is known as one of the most classic shots of Korean cinema
At this time, the female voice chanted, the end credits began, and in the music, whether it was anger, thinking, confusion, or depression, it all drifted away in the rice fragrance.
Today, 16 years after the release of the movie, the "good news" came, and I breathed a long sigh of relief to listen to a complete version of the main theme of the healing system of "Memories of Killing".
Text/Falling Mountain Wind Reprinted from Yinghua Taiwan
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