Soar 9 points! It s simply breathtaking! The best of the year that fans across the country are loo

Soar 9 points! It's simply breathtaking! The "best of the year" that fans across the country are looking forward to!

One day, however, he had a flash of inspiration and placed some pirated DVDs on the shelves. In this way, if he happens to have an interested customer, he can also earn extra rent. Surprisingly, the number of people who came to rent plates gradually increased, and the side business gradually surpassed the main business. Seeing the business opportunity, Jin Yongman resolutely changed careers and opened a video store.

In those days, access to movies was rather limited, but the problem didn't stop him. He actively participates in film festivals, collects films that have not yet been released, and even goes directly to the embassy in New York to reproduce the source. Kim's video store has become a treasure trove of the rarest, most special, and most obscure films in the world. Because of its rich resource base, Kim's business has become more and more prosperous, and he has opened seven stores one after another.

One of the most popular is the one, with more than 55,000 films and more than 250,000 members. The Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino and other bigwigs frequented. Of course, pirated discs have caused him a lot of trouble. Kim has received a lawyer's letter from the great director Godard, and has even been raided by the FBI, but none of this has been able to stop the tenacious growth of the video store.

In the midst of depraved New York City, King's video store has built a spiritual high ground for movie lovers, like a never-ending film festival. However, one day, the video store suddenly disappeared. A young man obsessed with the search for the truth has stirred up an uproar.

Last year, at the Beijing Film Festival, this fascinating and passionate documentary became a popular ticket grab, and the applause after the screening was thunderous, and the whole event resounded with three applause. What's even more exciting is that the film ended with 8A high score of 9 (currently maintained at 8.)8 points), and was successfully selected into the list of "Douban's highest-rated documentaries in 2023".

Some people have a unique evaluation of this film: "A video store caused a 'bloody case', and the director's ingenious operation can be called a masterpiece in film history." This proves once again that life itself is a surreal film, and that each of us is a unique genius director. ”

And this highly anticipated film is none other than "Kim's Video Store". After the turn of the millennium, people's lives have undergone a seismic transformation. With the rise of streaming, the audio-visual rental market has suffered an unprecedented devastating impact. The once grand "disc panning" method gradually disappeared in the great waves of the times, and Jin's video store was not spared and faced the fate of closure.

These tens of thousands of movies are not only the result of years of hard work by Kim Ho and the clerks, but also a richer collection than any university in the world. However, their future is worrying. Kim didn't hesitate to make a decision: donate the 55,000 films for free.

This public statement by Kim VideoStudio has attracted widespread attention. After the announcement, more than 40 schools and institutions submitted applications to King, all looking forward to finding a new home for these precious films. In the end, Kim chose the small town of Salemi on the island of Sicily, just over 60 kilometers from where "The Godfather" was filmed. This town will become the new home of these films, continuing their film history.

The promised future is now a thing of the past. Years later, the plans for the film to be safely stored in the Municipal Museum and to provide future accommodation for members of the video store seemed to have come to naught. Kim's video store, which was once a holy place in the hearts of countless movie fans, has quietly disappeared in the baptism of the years without a trace.

Back in July 2017, director David accidentally learned of the mysterious disappearance of the video store, which sparked his strong interest in the video store. With a deep love for cinema, he took his camera with him on a journey to find a video store. Trekking to the legendary birthplace of the ** party, after some careful inquiry, he finally found the "missing" video store.

However, what awaits loss is a chilling sight. The video store is not located in a historic place such as the Municipal Museum, but in a warehouse that is too ordinary to be cared for. The once prosperous "Kim's Video Store" signboard has now been eclipsed, and the color has gradually faded after years of wind and rain.

Pushing open the hidden door, David stepped into the warehouse, and the sight before him made his heart heavy. The corners of the walls were leaking, moss was overgrown, DVDs were piled up on the floor, and many boxes were already pulped and suffering from dampness. I picked up a video disc, only to find that it was empty, and the disc had long since disappeared. And the latest traces found in the warehouse are actually a few ** films.

This was originally a highly regarded resource base, and even the world's top universities could not ask for precious information, but it was treated so lightly. This can't help but be outrageous, isn't this a blatant trampling on the fair and honest fraud? David, who accidentally set off the alarm, eventually calls the police and uncovers the silent truth of the video store.

Under the rules of the year, members like David had access and free rentals. However, the other party warned him in a stern tone: only with the approval of the mayor can he enter Kim's video store. In desperation, David had to move out of his place to avoid getting caught up in the ...... of police trouble

Why did the video store end up here? Deep within him, a voice kept waking him up, prompting him to uncover the truth about the event. David made a lot of effort to contact Kim, a man who was as mysterious as a party in the eyes of others, but now he is a businessman who is gradually moving away from the film business. When David discussed the history of the video store with him, King began to hesitate, saying only that he regretted donating tens of thousands of films to Salemi because he was a troublemaker. A wave of uneasiness welled up in David's ......

After bidding farewell to Kim, David launched an in-depth investigation. He inquired with the chairman of the anti-black investigation committee and learned the ins and outs of the incident. It turned out that the mayor at the time, Salemi, was accused of being involved with the ** party, and was finally removed from the mayor's position after a five-year investigation. Kim's video store was also involved in the case. However, shortly after his interview, the chairman of the committee, Falco, died late one night, and the investigation of the case was quickly terminated and the charges of those involved were withdrawn. It's all so unusual......

David decided to dig deeper into the details of the former mayor. The former mayor is a prominent minister, not only as a deputy minister of culture and a member of the European Parliament, but also as a popular public intellectual. He was able to sell thousands of tickets for a single lecture tour, and every topic would keep him talking for hours ......

When David mentioned Kim's video store, the other party seemed a little vague and hurriedly changed the subject. Sagabisalemi, who was the mayor, had something to do with it.

Once, David offered to go to the warehouse with the other party to check, but was misled by the other party's convoy under a certain highway bridge. That place turned out to be the place where the **party carried out** and destroyed the corpses. Realizing that the situation was not good, David quickly turned the car around with his companions to avoid potential danger.

On another occasion, David ran into a political broker suspected of embezzling a large number of **, and was inextricably linked to the former mayor. When confronted by the camera, the other party strongly argued that he had never set foot in Kim's video store. However, the reality has long been clear. The introduction of tens of thousands of movies is just a means for politicians to beautify their achievements.

These films, which once inspired and accompanied countless people, are now trapped in dark, damp warehouses, dusty, damp and moldy. Whenever David thought about this, he felt extremely depressed.

Some people may question whether a bunch of shabby movies is worth the trouble of searching for the truth between New York, Seoul, and Sicily? But as David said, cinema is a testimony to existence, a residual record of life that once existed. These ghosts, ghosts, when they are meticulously organized into archives, become our collective memory of the dead.

In light of this realization, David decided to try to bring King's video store back to New York. He first considered contacting the original owner of the video store. Although Kim is a successful businessman these days, the chain of interests involved in the video store is complex and beyond King's personal capabilities.

Kim is helpless, and David, faced with confusion, has to silently examine the plot of the film, hoping to find the answer he seeks from the movie. One day, he was inspired by an old documentary called "The Crime Touch of Art". The work tells the story of a director who stole one of Hitler's favorite paintings and gave it to a Turkish family.

David is reminded of the Oscar-winning film "Escape from Tehran," which takes the form of a fictional film that commits theft and successfully rescues a group of people. It seems like a fake show, but this grotesque and genius idea inspired David. So, he drafted a fictional script set to steal Salemi's movie and hired some fake actors. After getting the mayor's approval, David began to put it into practice.

This is a just ransacking of "returning film freedom in the name of film". They became filmmakers such as Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Godard, Jackie Chan, Ingmar Burgman, Agnès Varda, Jim Jarmusch and others. David first brought a batch of films back to the United States, while the rest was packed in a shipping container and secretly hidden somewhere miles away. The film's surrealism is projected onto real life and is simply incredible.

Director David can be described as a real die-hard movie fan. In "Kim's Video Store", he uses the plot of an old movie to reflect his life experience, skillfully blurring the line between documentary and feature film, and emotionally writing an affectionate letter dedicated to the film.

I walked into the little shop and a live band was playing**, and while the noise filled the space, it silenced all the noise. A movie calmed me down quickly, and I instantly understood that I had found a new place to live, a relief similar to Diana's nightmare in the 1988 British horror film Dream Demon.

Those shadow stalks that appear from time to time are really interesting. For example, "Godard did everything right", or "The Coen brothers have waived the late fees", etc., all add a touch of ridicule to them.

However, compared with the international evaluation, it can be clearly felt that "Jin's Video Store" is more loved by Douban fans. Why did this documentary, which has nothing to do with China and is far away from us, cause countless Chinese fans to cheer?

Perhaps it's mainly because in those distant years, we all pushed open the dreary doors of King's video store. It was an era of scarcity of materials, people did not have too many extravagant expectations, and the abundance of pirated discs fairly opened the door to another world for people from all walks of life. There, light and shadow are intertwined, and the beauty is infinite.

The vigorous vitality of Hong Kong films, horror films from Southeast Asia, the fantasy world of Japanese anime, Hollywood commercial blockbusters, obscure European literary films, and Taiwanese idol dramas that carry the memories of the entire youth are all shining in the video store.

I recall that on a certain day, I found an "ordinary-looking" video in an old video store, and I couldn't calm down for a long time after watching it. Such moments have become memories that I will never forget.

The film that made me realize revealed an era, a time when grand narratives and suffering were celebrated, and we found traces of the stories of ordinary people in a corner called "cinema".

This film was shot by a young director from Fenyang, called "Xiao Wu"....

The poster of "Xiao Wu" was so eye-catching at the time.

In that era when there were no network hard disks, those ancient resource masters used pirated CDs to satisfy countless people's yearning for movies and a certain spiritual highland.

At that time, some people searched for Imamura Shohei's "Narayama Festival Examination" in different cities, which lasted nearly 20 years.

It's nothing else, just because love is the most precious.

"Pork ribs, the king of banned films, is a movie lover in Shenzhen, who said: Pirated resources have fed the cultural tastes of generations of Chinese.

I believe that this is our common cultural memory point....

David launched a "battle to defend the arts", which finally had a happy ending.

After two years of negotiations, an agreement was reached that the remaining films would be shipped back to New York to be housed in the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Manhattan.

In March 2022, the new Kim Videostore opened its doors to the public and has already rented out more than 1,700 films.

At the opening ceremony, the new owner expressed the belief that as long as humanity does not become extinct, the Kim Videostore will always exist....

The reopening of King's Video Store is not only a fan story, but also a fanatic's legend.

Mr. Kim asks David incredulously how this is done.

David replied to him: There are many filmmakers who have reached out to help, including Chaplin, Hitchcock, Godard, Jackie Chan...

In this complex world, we are longing for unique expression, pursuing original art, and calling for unconventional struggle, just to create immeasurable preciousness. Even a small effort is silently performing....