In last year's "Queendom", Zheng Ruiren performed on stage with the "Kind Gold" episode, which caused a violent response after the performance, and also brought the film to the audience again.
The thriller film produced by a South Korean company, which received a rating of 7.6 on Douban in China, is known as Park Chan-wook's revenge trilogy "Gracious Gold", directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Lee Young-ae, Choi Min-sik and Kang Hyuk-yong. The film tells the story of a beautiful young woman accused of abducting children and imprisoned for thirteen years. After Kaneko ends her long prison life, the first thing she does when she gets out of prison is revenge, and her target is Teacher Bai, who framed her and put her in prison.
This beautiful woman was arrested and imprisoned at the age of 20, which attracted media coverage and received great attention. During the 13 years of her sentence, she worked hard and enthusiastically to help those around her, and won the love of a prisoner, during which time she also received a title - kind gold. This is not because she has changed and begun to be good, this injustice has not been calmed in her heart for a day, and the flame of revenge is burning more and more fiercely in her heart.
When she was released from prison, the priest prepared a piece of white tofu and a band to greet her, and everyone who was released from prison in Korea would prepare a piece of white tofu, which meant that after she was released from prison, she would be an innocent person and start a new life, but the gold did not eat, and she calmly overturned the plate of tofu and went away. The angelic woman in the prison, as long as she spoke, no cellmate would refuse her request, but after leaving the prison gate, she was no longer kind and began to dress herself with heavy makeup. With the support of his fellow inmates, Kaneko embarks on his elaborate revenge plan.
Eighteen-year-old Kaneko is already very beautiful, and there is no shortage of suitors around such a girl, but Kaneko is young and ignorant, and has chosen an irresponsible man who abandons the pregnant her. At this time, the desperate Jinzi found Teacher Bai, hoping that Teacher Bai could help her, but this was only pushed from one abyss to another, and at the instigation of Teacher Bai, Jinzi helped Teacher Bai kidnap a five-year-old child, and this child was also killed by Teacher Bai. In order to bury this matter forever, Teacher Bai threatened her with the child of gold to convict her and imprison her, and the police also suspected the possibility of gold killing people, because all this seemed suspicious, but in order to close the case early, they tacitly accepted that gold was the murderer. In fact, the default can only be regarded as dereliction of duty, but the police in order to sit on the case, but also reminded the gold what to use, these practices make the gold can not turn over, under the high attention of the media, hastily imprisoned, a sentence is thirteen years.
Park Chan-wook is a director who is very good at writing revenge, so this trilogy directly established his position in the film industry. Jin Zi, played by Lee Young-ae, lets the audience see the tension of the actors in the drama during the transition between angels and devils. Although she was framed and imprisoned, but she did listen to Teacher Bai's words, abducted the child, the first thing out of prison is to come to the victim's home, cut off her finger and hope that they will forgive, in this performance, Li Ying'ai did not have a very exaggerated performance form when showing guilt, but this "fierce" method did give the audience a great impact.
Revenge is a belief that keeps Gold alive, and in The Ten Deadly Sins, there is a chapter about a child who grew up in prison, mingled with criminals from an early age, and learned countless methods of crime, disguise, and counter-reconnaissance. Kaneko's help to her fellow inmates in prison is not simply enthusiastic, she finds a criminal who has robbed her husband and gives her her kidney on the condition that she make a pistol, designed by one of her fellow inmates in prison, a spy who gave her and thanked her for her care.
Everyone she helps in prison has become an important pawn on her way to revenge, bullying incidents in prison are unavoidable, Jin Zi carefully takes care of the prison bully in her prison, this person is also a legend, she personally killed her husband and lover, but Jin Zi is not a "good person" who does not distinguish between black and white, she drugged the prison bully in the prison bully's meal and poisoned the prison bully. Those who have been hurt by the prison bully, in order to thank Kaneko, vow to help Kaneko get revenge.
At this time, the film began to enter the climax, Kaneko's friend had already infiltrated Into Teacher Bai's side, and after Kaneko was released from prison, he stunned Teacher Bai and took him to an abandoned school in the wild, originally wanted to kill him directly, but found that Teacher Bai had killed more than one child and recorded video files. In the end, Jin Zi and the parents of these victims "jointly" killed Teacher Bai, like a petition, everyone is guilty, and no one can run.
The film abandons the realistic concept of modern society, setting the center of the film on revenge, and elevating the results of revenge to the moral and spiritual level, which is an attempt by the director of the revenge series, and only through "redemption" can we find a way out in a desperate life. Jin zi, played by Lee Young-ae, chose to become an accomplice to the murderer because of her daughter, although this was not her intention, but when her beloved was threatened, she briefly gave up human rationality, so she chose to go to prison as a stand-in for Teacher Bai.
The film from the script, shooting to post-production aspects of the good communication, the film all the discordant parts of the perfect integration, the director also his unique black humor into it, although this is a crime revenge type of film, but in many places, a lot of details inadvertently touch people's hearts, so that the film rhythm and atmosphere is not so tense, dark, presenting a rich layer, clear plot of excellent film work. The director's choice to deal with the film in this way not only eases the black hatred part of the film, but also buffers the later climactic part of the film, so that the audience will not feel tired of watching the film because of the strong rhythm when watching the film.
Watching the whole movie, you will find that this movie is a carrier of spiritual tragedy, there is no strong hand-to-hand combat scene, more scenes are in the spiritual aspect of the pressure, will let the audience in the movie also add to the thinking, will they be the same as gold? In this revenge banquet, there are beautiful heroines and demon teachers who have killed several children, and in the contrast of the camera, this beautiful and weak woman is the sanctioner, while the fierce murderer is helplessly tied to a chair and subjected to the trial from gold. Many viewers said that this movie is a movie about redemption, Jinzi endured thirteen years of "sin", she is not completely innocent, she is also suffering all the time, but behind the suffering, more hatred, hate the thin man who abandoned her mother and daughter, and hate this demon who pushed her into the abyss. And the criminals who are caught in prison for committing crimes, the prisoners who are taken care of by gold and benefited, they all return the favor by completing the plan of gold, and they have a weak sense of morality in their hearts, although sometimes because of emotional care, but more often they have crossed hell and are fearless.
Li Ying'ai's performance in "Kind Of Gold" is so amazing, not only her beauty, but also the emotional resonance that people have in the transformation of her two images. The film pours out the director's understanding of human nature, but also presents the two sides of good and evil in front of the audience, not writing a conclusion is good or bad by the audience, sanctions are not the only way to inspire people, how to find the lost self in the process of redemption, is the film wants to express the road of redemption.