South Korean director Lee Cang-dong is very talented, his films are full of anger in the blandness, full of innocence but indignant, "Oasis" and "Miyang" are the same, he turned from a writer to a director, is a well-deserved film poet. Today we come to see one of his films, Mints.
The male protagonist is also the representative of the powerful uncle: Xue Jingqiu. 2019 must be a year for Xue Jingqiu, many of his works will be released in a bunch, such as "Birthday", "Idol", "Perfect Man" and "Want to See Your Parents", this uncle who is good at horror and warmth is also one of my favorite actors.
"Mints" tells the story of a person's seven-part experience, the story is told from the back to the front, starting in 1999, Kim Yong-ho is a middle-aged uncle, he is very desperate, standing on the railway bridge he seems to be ready for death.
Three days ago, he bought a gun with the only money he had, and thinking of his miserable past experience, he said," "Pull a person who harmed him to die together," but who meets this condition? At this moment, a stranger came to Jin Yonghao, he was the husband of Jin Yonghao's first love Yin Shunren, and now Yin Shunren was in danger of life and wanted to see him for the last time, not knowing what kind of mood this man was in to tell this passage.
In short, Jin Yonghao successfully met Yin Shunren, and also brought their promise letter: mints, when every time Yin Shunren sent him a letter, there would always be a mint candy, what he did not expect was that the beauty of the first love was ultimately empty.
In 1994, Kim Yong-ho was a boss with a prosperous business, but the family was in a mess, his wife was cheating, he hooked up with his secretary, he was the most annoying kind of boss, the only thing that made him feel warm was when he ate mints.
In 1987, Kim Yong-ho was a policeman, he had a clear standard of good and evil, interrogated the prisoners with a fierce heart, completely a selfless face of the Grand Duke, in the dead of night, he had a lot of words he wanted to say to Yoon Soon-in, but he poured them out to a strange woman.
In 1984, Kim Yong-ho had just become a policeman, and he couldn't accept seeing his colleagues beating the prisoners, and at that time, Yoon Soon-in had approached him and wanted to confess to him, but it ended with Kim Yong-ho flirting with the waiter at the tavern.
In 1980, Kim Yong-ho served as a soldier, the Gwangju Incident occurred, he participated in the encirclement and suppression operation, originally wanted to send a female high school student home, but accidentally killed her, since then his psychology has a serious shadow.
He then severed ties with Yoon Soon-ren and married a woman he didn't love.
The film ends in 1979, when Kim Yong-ho is an aspiring young man who loves photography and Yoon Soon-jin. We can find that the place where he committed suicide at the beginning is the place where he and Yin Shunren first met on their first outing.
The changes in South Korea in the past twenty years are shown through seven fragments, through the changes in individual psychology and life, to trace the reasons for the change, if there is no Gwangju incident, there will be no manslaughter, he may marry Yoon Soon-in, nor will he resort to violence to the prisoner's appreciation, and will not go to the sea to do business, and the business field may be smooth, there is no lying track, suicide.
This is a butterfly effect, but not on the place but in time, Li Cangdong uses a poignant way to let us see the powerlessness of fate and the change of the times, and mints symbolize the beauty and sweetness of love in the movie.
Jin Yonghao, played by Xue Jingqiu, is constantly changing, the root can be attributed to the lack of love, which is actually a point that Li Cangdong wants to express in his heart, and another point is despair, such a simple and beautiful young man, but in the social torrent, he is constantly destroyed, and finally becomes what he does not want to be, is this not the life we are experiencing now. How many people can really resist temptation and change?
In short, this is a film with strong philosophical reflection, and after watching it, you will definitely be strongly shocked.