Author |Xie Minghong.
Edit|Li Chunhui.
Filmed in 1967, the American film "Male and Female" has a French New Wave free and uninhibited soul. Clyde is a man with violent tendencies and sexual dysfunction, and Bonnie is a woman who longs to escape from a boring life. The two unexpectedly meet and form a male and female thief to rob a bank, leaving behind laughter and crazy violence along the way. Bonnie wrote their story into a poem and sent it to the newspaper, and they became American icons.
The film's amazing originality also lies in the creation of a paradigm: they are young, they love each other, and they kill people. And when this paradigm is applied to middle-aged Koreans in 2024, they neither want to declare war on this mentally incompetent tattered world, nor do they want to make headlines, become Internet celebrities, and become famous, the hero and heroine of "Long Time Haven't Done" will enshrine all the money extorted in the family's face project-
Husband Samuel arranged a luxurious birthday banquet for his father in Seoul, and ordered a bottle of water in Jingfang for his magnanimity. His wife, Yujin, gave the money to her sister to pay for her niece's piano training, and she was so moved that she made a crying voice on Pyongyang TV: "Our family has not had such a genius for many years!" ”
Korean-style sex comedy turns into a Douban life group in seconds, can't we be happy by ourselves first? is worthy of being an East Asian, breaking the law and committing crimes, caring about family inheritance, and still having to delay gratification if he has gone crazy.
From "Dark Glory" to "Long Time Haven't Done", Koreans are "going crazy" more and more frequently. "Dark Glory" is still carrying out a grand revenge, and "Long Time Haven't Done" is already a package of trivial things faced by small families in economic downturn. Madness is a presentation of the incommensurable parts of reality, and it is also a rebellion against the social order. But while rebelling against an explicit small order by going crazy, whether they are bowing down to a hidden big order, whether it is Korean madness or Chinese madness, everyone understands in their hearts that they would rather be confused.
No money drives people crazy
The protagonists of "Long Time Haven't Done" Samuel and Youjin are among the victims of the Korean real estate bubble, and the house they bought plummeted by 150 million won, making the couple's life stretched. After threatening a cheating friend to get hush money unexpectedly, the couple who tasted the sweetness started a career of blackmail to make up for the shortfall.
In this madness, the anger of bankrupt families and the exposure of the disguise of the elite are vented. Samuel works hard to open a rental every day, but he is not as nourishing as his friend Zhengxiu, who started a business with his wife. At the same time, Jeong-so's low sense of morality about the derailment makes Samuel even more angry.
Jeong-so said, "I feel like my girlfriend is cheating. Samuel black man question mark: "Don't you have a wife?" Jeong-so: "Yes, but my girlfriend cheated." Samuel looked at his phone: "Aren't you also cheating?" Jeong-so: "How can this be the same." This informative dialogue is no less shocking than Han Han's "girlfriends and wives are relatives", and echoes today's Chinese Internet "My husband seems to have lost love".
Insanity is often seen as irrational behavior, yet it is often a rebellion after rational behavior has been taken to the extreme. The two couples are not without hard work, Samuel is sleepy and sleepy, Yuzhen only eats a little pickles, and accompanies the smiling face at the hotel front desk every day. However, because the taxi was parked in the no-parking area by Samuel and soaked in water, the insurance could not pay the claim, and the last straw for the small family was pressed.
Youzhen was the first to awaken: "The price of hard work is just like this, don't you feel wronged?" Samuel was also ridiculed by Jeong-so, but he graduated from Seoul National University but became a brother. Sure enough, Korean dramas have their own "Kong Yiji literature". When they found out that Zhengxiu's daughter used pocket money ** to earn 1 million a month, but the couple couldn't come up with 2,000 car repair fees, they decided to take off their psychological caftan and let the cheaters pay the due price!
After getting the hush money that Jeong-su took out, the couple's troubles were ironed out. I changed the car first, and then bought gifts for each family member to let them see that they were living a good life. They did not squander the proceeds of fraud, but used them to fill the family's face and vanity. For example, when Samuel followed the prosecutor, he found that the other party was drinking, so he wanted to imitate that kind of high life. (Shuijingfang's advertisement is worth it!) ）
And this is the result of their long-term discipline, crazy to make money, but used it to "make up" in a strange way. Whether it's a birthday party or piano training fees, what they want in their hearts is neither money itself nor improving their personal lives, but the right to speak and family status that money brings.
Successful Learning Chicken Soup divides children's choice behaviors into timely pleasure and delayed gratification, which is mostly represented by Europeans and Americans, while East Asians are typical of delayed gratification. In terms of the experience of life's pleasures, East Asians like Samuel and Yuma are really too tired to live.
In terms of contradictory narrative alone, "Long Time No Done" is not sharply like Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite", and the Samuels have not embarked on the path of crime from which they will never recover. It's more like a little joke on East Asians who don't dare to go crazy, and the threat is still to good-looking East Asians: "I know about the cheating." If you want to save face, leave the silver. ”
Repressed family, unspeakable sex
I haven't done it for a long time", every pair of cheating CPs is a small mirror image of Korean society. They reflect not only the distorted intimacy, but also the oppressive family atmosphere behind it.
The first pair of CPs, both of whom are bank clerks, used their lunch break in the rooftop parking lot**. Eating hamburgers while stealing fishy and pinching the watch" is a ridiculous scene, which directly points to the oppression and alienation of human nature by work. The car shock plot is ridiculous and pitiful, you two are really hungry!
The second pair of CPs is a pair of elderly people, the woman has been ignored and coldly violently by her husband all the year round, and she is a dispensable existence, she claims to be a woman like a rice cooker. When she watched the young man across the street kissing, she lamented that she had never kissed in her life. The waitress asked her how she gave birth to two children without kissing, and she said, "I just skipped kissing!" ”
And Uncle Jiang, who got acquainted with him because of mountaineering, made her feel what it was like to be respected and loved for the first time. This part is undoubtedly depicting the high dedication and low recognition of East Asian housewives - serving food to their husbands who watch TV will be kicked away because they block the TV. And Uncle Jiang will call her sister, and he will think that every action she does is cute.
The third pair of cp is a pair of lace, my sister is a wife, and she is ordered by her mother-in-law every day and is on call. She worked hard to play the role of a virtuous daughter-in-law, and when she was so annoyed that she couldn't do it, she spat in the handmade soap given by her mother-in-law. In fact, the hush money (two golden ducks) was finally intercepted by Tie T, but my sister asked Tie T to give the golden duck to the male and female protagonists: one is that she has to pay the price for cheating, and the other is that her mother-in-law wants to use the golden duck as her sister-in-law's dowry, and this was originally her dowry.
As a sexual minority, my sister chose to associate with Tie T from the beginning to the end, and actually experienced a complex psychological struggle. Whether she was ready to run away from her family or not, she had the courage to face herself.
There are thousands of reasons for cheating, and family depression accounts for half of them. In the case of "Long Time Haven't Done", most of what we see are not people who are addicted, but individuals who are eager to be loved and understood. Through the observation of the blackmail target, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel are also exploring how they get along as husband and wife. When you are young, you are enthusiastic, how can people reach middle age and your heart decay before you get old?
The English title of the series, "LTNS", is an abbreviation of Long Time No Sex, which is not so much "long time not done" as "long time no communication". In the process of spying on the blackmailed object, the Samuel couple not only stayed together for a long time, but also unknowingly had many more opportunities to open up. Samuel** Uncle.
After his mother was wet, he proposed to imitate the ** when he was young, and the two of them chatted with blood.
Hard Candy Jun suspects that most middle-aged couples' LTNS are caused by a lack of communication, because we East Asians are secretive about our own needs, let alone sex. The combination of the two, sexual needs are taboo in taboos, unspeakable in unspeakable. Liuliu, a creator who is so bold, can only say in "Double-sided Tape" that "wet hands are good to turn the book". The wife is not satisfied and complains about her husband, and the husband does not think about his own reasons but complains that his wife has excessive hormone secretion and should see a doctor.
Korean-style sex comedy has entered middle age
I seem to have heard that the time it takes for a male ** is 7 minutes. When Yuzhen was shocked that the bank CP had eaten again in 20 minutes, Samuel explained to his wife solemnly. As a result, Youzhen was even more confused, just for these few minutes, as for such a toss?
Compared with the movie "Color is Empty", which was popular in Chinese college student dormitories at the beginning of this century, "Long Time Haven't Done" marks that Korean sex comedy has also entered middle age, just like the college students of the year and the current social atmosphere. Instead of craving sex with a curious gaze, we look at sex with an almost cold attitude. Goddesses and sexual fantasies have long since dissipated, and only naked data and bloody adultery are laughed at by the public.
I haven't done it for a long time" uses a playful way to ** the sexual topics that middle-aged groups talk about but have to face. Samuel and Tomojin would rather do it separately than engage in married life, because they both regard sex as a task. Each of them wore skirts and ** according to each other's xp, but they all felt that the buttons were tied too tightly and their stomachs were ......So when male compatriots complain that their wives are not attractive, they also look at their belly. Instead of making mistakes in others, it is better to correct and self-examine.
Color is Empty" as a sexual enlightenment film of the *** era, with "licking posters" and "bread of life" famous Chinese forum at the beginning of the century. At that time, if you haven't watched this film, it's basically the same as if you haven't watched "Journey to the West".
Now that I watch it again, the movie is not only about the young love on the college campus, but also about thinking about love. The male protagonist who licks the dog finally wins the hearts of beauties, which is still an idealized writing. Late-maturing Eun-sik, like most East Asian teenagers. At the age when sex education is most needed, only some whimsical and outlandish knowledge can be accessed. When he confessed, he was clumsy and was stunned by the goddess. Compared with Gao Fushuai, all he has is the patience to wait.
In "Who Slept with Her", Ji-young, a beautiful high school female teacher, is the fantasy object of the male teachers and students in the school. People started talking about Ji-young's private life, but in the end, they found out that "no one slept with her". Everything is just a fragrant misunderstanding, or the prejudice against ** women engraved in men's genes.
Son Ye-jin's "Wife is Married" can be regarded as a film that turns sexually into the traditional status of men and women. Her candid attitude and independent thinking give her the meaning of transcending the established gender order. She is an intruder into the man's world, while her boyfriends are portrayed as feminine, with typical outcast-grudge traits.
Twenty years later, in "Long Time No Done", sex is no longer desirable, it is more like a kind of weak exhaustion, a dispensable coping. Dafang said that men have a short time, and they are not afraid of the local male audience's urgency. Kate Millett's The Politics of Sex writes: "The main purpose of the sexual revolution was to put an end to patriarchy, to abolish the idea of machismo and the traditional ways of socialization that carried the idea of patriarchy, role, and temperament." ”
There are no unpitiable women in Korea, and Korea is full of garbage men. "I haven't done it for a long time", and the lines are crazy to the end. In a sense, the Korean sex comedy is entering a tired middle age, and it is also a symbol of the collapse of traditional male power. In the chaotic period when the old order is about to collapse and the new order is not established, people go crazy and are confused.
Although censorship is still a threshold, Hard Candy Jun wants to say that middle-aged sex comedies should also have a great future in national dramas and domestic films. After all, accusations about sex and family are also our inexhaustible natural treasure trove.