2015 is a small year for Korean cinema, and there are not many works that attract attention.
But at the Blue Dragon Awards ceremony at the end of the year, there was a film that caused many people to discuss.
Because the heroine of this movie, Lee Jung-hyun, defeated Jeon Ji-hyun and won the Queen of the Green Dragon Award.
And the movie she relied on was Alice in honest country.
The title of the film looks very warm, "Honest Country" represents a real world of sincerity, no lies, and even everyone's desire for themselves is undisguised, and "Alice" is a character in a fairy tale who wants to simply chase her dream life.
But why did such a simple girl become a murderer step by step in such an honest country?
Is it her own cold-bloodedness or the persecution of reality?
The story begins at a psychiatric clinic, and as the time comes close to work, the doctor impatiently dispatches the patients who come to the clinic to leave work.
However, a woman came in, locked the door sharply, and then tied the counselor to a chair and fed her fresh raw meat.
The psychological counselor thought that it was a former counselor and wanted to know why she wanted to do this to herself, and the heroine looked at her hand and said that she wanted to tell a longer story.
It turned out that the female protagonist was called XiuNan, who had obtained 13 qualification certificates in the second year of high school, and was recognized by the school as a bully.
When she obtained the 14th qualification certificate, the class teacher said, "What you have and others can't have is your body, a woman who knows this, can do anything", she naively thought that her chest was big and her dream was big, but reality poured cold water on her, and the humiliation of the internship unit also poured out her confidence.
Eventually she works in a small factory, where she tastes the bitterness of society, but also meets the first man who brings her sweetness, Guizheng.
Guizheng's ears are not sensitive and he carries a hearing aid, but Xiunan does not care, and finally agrees to Guizheng's marriage proposal with a ring wrapped in a plastic box.
The two people are full of beautiful yearning for the future life, XiuNan wants a honeymoon trip, Guizheng said that he wants to buy a big house, wants his future children to live a good life, and does not want his children to live a hard life like them.
Life is often like this, when Guizheng's ears are completely deaf when he expects a better future, Xiunan wants to give Guizheng a cochlear implant.
Guizheng insisted on buying a house, and after an argument between the two, Guizheng finally agreed to the operation.
However, because the operation was too expensive, even if he could hear the voice after the operation, he did not have the happiness from the heart.
In the honest country, even the implanted cochlear advertising campaign "does not guarantee that there will be no adverse reactions" is so honest, the result is really wrong, Guizheng's finger was crushed by the machine, because the broken finger was not saved in time, missing the best time for surgery.
However, it was later found that the broken finger was in XiuNan's pocket, which was originally placed by the worker, and before he could tell Xiunan, Gui became more and more depressed about this series of blows.
Xiu Nan loves Gui Zheng very much, and when she watches him become more and more depressed, she can't bear to see him so decadent and unhappy, and she thinks of the house that Gui Zheng has always wanted.
After calculating the market price of the house she could buy, she worked hard for several jobs. Finally, nine years later, she bought a house for Keizheng.
But at the same time, the reality of soaring housing prices in nine years has left them with a loan of 140 million.
Guizheng looked at Xiunan, who was so worried, in the face of his own incompetence and helplessness, he left a suicide note and chose to commit suicide, but Guizheng, who was saved, became a vegetative person.
When you feel that life is miserable, you may wish to look at Xiunan, a person facing life, unmotivated husband immersed in sadness, Xiunan's life is more than a tragic can be described.
Faced with reality, the doctor advised Xiunan to choose to die with dignity against Guizheng.
In such a country, it is so honest and frank to arrange the death of a person who is still alive, and does not give a little expectation and hope, but Xiunan is still unwilling to give up.
Faced with huge hospital expenses, Xiunan had to rent out the house and live in a small storage room for herself.
However, because the cost of the hospital was too high, Xiunan finally had to consider selling the house, and just happened to know that her house was in a redevelopment position, and the value increased greatly.
However, the government's redevelopment sounds grand, but the location is indeed a small part of the city center, which is unfair to some people who are not in the redevelopment ranks, so a female psychological counselor organizes a group of veterans to choose to openly confront and ask their own lot to be included in the redevelopment.
In the face of such a situation, the government chose not to come forward, but indirectly took advantage of Xiunan's situation and told Xiunan that "if they make trouble again, the development plan will be canceled."
Xiu Nan had a hard time buying a house with nine years of hard work not to turn into a bubble because of the opposition of individual masses, and she began to wander among the masses, striving for the consent to redevelop the joint signature.
Most of the masses seem indifferent to the time of redevelopment sooner or later, but when it comes to the veteran, he sees through Xiunan's lies, and without saying a word, he directly tears up the list and violently drives Xiunan away.
Injured and full of grievances, Xiu Nan squatted helplessly in the corner and cried.
Under resentment, Xiu Nan lit the shredded paper and threw it at the banner hanging by the veteran, but she did not expect that the lit banner burned to the gas pipeline and caused the veteran's house to explode, and the veteran was killed.
Sometimes when you're not going to fight reality, reality always loves to give you a heavy blow.
Because of his personal selfish desires, the counselor lied that the veteran had committed suicide by insulting and burning the fire because of the redevelopment plan, and incited the crowd to protest, and also used the manic laundromat owner to let the boss kidnap Xiunan and carry out severe abuse.
Xiunan, who had been trapped for two weeks, was finally released, physically and mentally exhausted, she had been worried about her husband who had no one to take care of her, and the laundromat owner was now considering handing Xiunan over to the police, although Xiunan was unintentionally killing.
Xiunan, whose spirit was close to collapse, finally couldn't help but stab the laundromat owner blindly with the card in the bread and take the opportunity to kill him.
At this time, the police also suspected that Xiu Nan was a suspect in the arson after watching the surveillance, but Xiu Nan's poor helplessness and tragic experience temporarily covered up her nervousness and speech confusion.
When Xiu Nan gave her husband a foot massage, she found that her husband's feet could move, and she was surprised to find a doctor, full of hope for a moment, but the doctor insisted on spasms, and finally there was no comfort at all.
The redevelopment was put on hold because of the protests led by psychological counselors, and the government did not dare to come forward for fear of provoking controversy. The inactive government once again took advantage of Xiunan.
At this time, XiuNan is facing her husband who needs medical expenses, and she can't turn back, so there is the scene at the beginning of the film.
She thinks that what hinders her is the one who takes the lead in inciting the counselor, so it is better to get rid of her, and Xiunan feeds the counselor the meat with deadly tetrodotoxin.
In this way, the obstacle of psychological counselors is removed, and the redevelopment of the career can be determined.
Xiu Nan thinks that the obstacles have been removed, all problems have been solved, and a new beginning is coming, and she talks about her love for Guizheng in the hut and begins to look forward to the future.
However, how could Xiunan, who had already killed three people, evade the detection of the police, and when he was looking forward to the future, the police came to the door.
Because the police said, "If you redevelop such a thing, I can also make it disappear", Xiunan, who has killed the red eye and paid so much for it, directly ended the life of the policeman, without hesitation, neat and crisp.
When paying too much for one thing, even if you do it wrong, you can only continue to be wrong, and it becomes a terrible obsession to achieve the goal by any means.
Such obsession made XiuNan become a person who "god blocks and kills god", and she can't turn back on this road.
When Xiunan finally had the money to continue to treat her husband, the doctor's attitude took a one hundred and eighty degree turn, and he had previously advised him to die with dignity, but now he was persuaded to continue treatment, but Xiunan decided to give up.
She knew that she had no other choice, and she knew what kind of punishment she would receive in the future.
Dreams will always wake up, it is better to wake up before waking up, complete the honeymoon trip that has been looking forward to more than ten years, and give your previous past a happy ending. So she took her husband on this long-awaited honeymoon trip that had been long awaited and long overdue.
A woman, because of love and the house, encounters the constant blows of reality, the terrible obsession continues to deepen, and the wrong thing slowly changes from the beginning of the unavoidable to the inevitable, and finally there is no turning back.
The whole film is repressed and deep, the husband's nine years of negativity, the doctor's ruthlessness and coldness, the residents' selfish ignorance, the cowardice and inaction of the officials, layer upon layer, resulting in every step on the darker abyss!
And when a weak woman can hand blade two policemen, it sounds ridiculous, but it is precisely because of this absurdity that we have a deeper understanding of how terrible the power that erupts when a person is forced into a desperate situation.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Lin Lin
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