Documentary: A sixty-year-old man adopted a 7-year-old girl and married her 10 years later, the movie "Bow", sure enough, is South Korea.
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Preface. The movie "Bow" is a film directed by Han Yin director Kim Ki-duk in 2005, and it has also won great honors for Han Yin's films in the international film industry.
In addition to adhering to Kim's consistent artistic style, that is, the setting of aphasia situations, the film reveals the secret of the conflict and adaptation of culture in the three dimensions of time, space and spirituality, which may be an unconscious unexpected gain of the director.
Similarly, interpreting this film with the concept of cultural inheritance will give you the fun and pleasure of deciphering cultural events in a new way.
Synopsis of the movie "The Bow".
The movie "Bow" tells the legendary story between an old man and a young girl, and we can't determine what the origin of the old man and the girl who live in seclusion on the sea.
The movie roughly implies that the old man retrieves a six-year-old girl from the shore and adopts her on a boat in the middle of the sea for ten years, and the old man wants to raise the girl ** and then marry the little girl when she is seventeen years old.
The long-term relationship has made the girl have an intimate dependence on the old man, and at the same time, they show a complex relationship between father and daughter and lovers, but the old man has never really pierced the layer of window paper between them.
The boat parked in the depths of the sea was the home of the old man and the maiden, and their only economy** was to use a small boat from time to time to carry tourists on the shore to the big boat for sightseeing, fishing, and leisure.
When some ill-intentioned people want to violate young girls, the old man always uses superb archery skills to kill their guts, which deviates from the fact that traditional culture has always played the image of a civilized defender in the face of frivolous foreign cultural actions.
And when the beautiful young male college student on the shore boarded the boat and aroused the girl's feelings of early spring, the girl had a strong sense of resistance and resistance to the old man who had been admired and had been getting along warmly.
The innocent girl fell in love with this beautiful boy and suddenly secretly fell in love, which made the old man fall into hesitation and struggle. After thinking about it, the old man decided to give up the girl, because he knew that the control of power could not be exchanged for the girl's sincerity and true love.
Although the girl agreed to marry him, the old man knew that the girl would eventually leave him, so after holding the marriage ceremony, the old man chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea.
The girl can be said to be his only relative, is the continuation of his life, now love can no longer love, hate and hate, since the girl will definitely leave him, he has no love.
It's just that before throwing himself into the sea, the old man raised the bow that followed him all his life and shot the last arrow of his life, which was truly earth-shattering, wonderful and weird, and infinite meaning, which could not be understood without examining it from the perspective of cultural inheritance.
The collision movement of the dualistic spirit.
Cultural inheritance has always been the collision of traditional and modern dual spirits, one is that the material products exchanged in the market are the first needs of human life, and the exchange of material culture has a certain strong internal power.
Second, the cultural symbols and information transmitted through the market not only come quickly and rapidly, but also cause a great impact on the inherent culture.
Therefore, under the collision of mutual impact and oppression, cultural inheritance will end up with the result of the dual movement of two types of culture, and each era has the spirit and ideals of each era.
When the material world changes, the needs of human beings and the spiritual world will change accordingly, and when the needs of people and the spiritual world change, the collision and resistance of the new era and new culture to the old era and the old culture will have an inevitable internal motivation and endogenous mechanism.
The old man on the boat, the girl on the boat, and the bow are the three main images of the movie: the old man symbolizes traditional culture, the girl symbolizes modern culture, and the bow is an important bridge between traditional culture and modern culture.
A large wooden boat, probably as long as an old man, is old-shaped, old-fashioned, mottled and floats alone on the sea, with a gray, wrinkled male protagonist: the old man.
The film interprets its unique cultural atmosphere in a gloomy closed environment, which is a cultural time and space that belongs to the old man's stage set.
Through such a closed cultural time and space, the old man conveys his spirit and ideals, living and dying with the ship, which carries his enigmatic life.
The young girl on the ship was young and beautiful, lively and lovely, and seemed incompatible with the old atmosphere of the ship, although she and the old man depended on each other, although she was taught by the old man, the skill of bending the bow and archery, and the skill of playing the bow and beard were very skillful.
But she will often look far away and be thoughtful, because she has never been ashore for ten years, but everything on the coast is actually full of suffocation for her**, she boarded the ship at the age of six and never left, which does not mean that she does not desire to go ashore and travel far.
Not to mention, the towering buildings and twinkling night scenes of the coastal city are so charming, but her control and education under the control of the old man and the experience of being away from the world for a long time have made her develop a quiet, peaceful, innocent temperament.
The young girl's face, eyes, clothes, smile, and calm mood while swinging are another vibrant, poetic spiritual world, although she and the old man live in the same time and space and are dependent on each other.
It's just that there is an overlap in the cultural form.,From the inner world.,There must be another rich imagination in the life of the beautiful girl's youth.,Because her life has just begun.。
There are very few lines of the male and female protagonists in "The Bow", which makes it difficult for us to judge what the old man and the girl are thinking, of course, this is also the style of Kim Ki-duk's films, which uses the actors' facial expressions and storylines to interpret, and minimizes the lines and dialogues, which creates a huge space for the audience's filling and imagination.
Cultural inheritance is actually the collision movement of modern culture and traditional culture, and before the comprehensive collision, the first thing is to select their different internal needs for a tentative collision.
When modern culture is powerless, it will choose to hibernate, and traditional culture will become an absolute ruling force, of course, first of all, in the spirit and ideals, and then from the internal mechanism to promote the unity of the weak to the strong, which is the game relationship in the process of cultural inheritance.
Some people also say that the heroine's situation of possession and bondage and the hero's strong desire for control and strong patriarchal thinking are the main ideas expressed in the movie.
This generalization has its accuracy, but there is still room for improvement. The first half of the film shows the conformity in the cultural struggle, and the girl uses her quiet and soft beauty and obedience to the old man to overcome and suppress her imagination and longing.
Despite the dreams of youth in her heart, her actions were not intense, because she alone could not leave the ship in the sea that she had lived in for ten years.
She can only choose a calm way to hide the impulses of her youth, thus showing a teenager who is slightly out of step with her age.
When the environment and catalyst of the times are extremely mature, modern culture should not only inherit the advantages of traditional culture, but also independently and replace traditional culture.
Through the spiritual ignition of the ritual.
Any culture has its roots, and only by tracing and inheriting the roots can it achieve itself, and Kim Ki-duk's films are generally speechless, expressing the entanglement and struggle of human nature in a fixed or even narrow space, and finally destroying the beautiful or ugly things in the world in an extreme or violent way.
Therefore, Kim Ki-duk's films make life sad, make people painful, and make people doubt that the world is inherently gloomy and impermanent. But Kim Ki-duk made a new attempt in "Trumpet", which is a rare warm work in his works.
The girl returned to the big boat to save the old man, and after the marriage, the old man did not occupy the girl, nor did he pull the girl to martyrdom, but raised the bow in his hand and shot an arrow, the arrow flew straight into the sky and disappeared into the blue sky, and then the old man jumped into the deep blue sea while the girl was asleep, ending the rest of his life.
At the time of the wedding ceremony, the old man and the maiden were not only willing, but even always with mutual respect and love: after the ceremony, the maiden lay down on the cushion cloth on the boat in her nightdress, with grace and contentment, without the slightest reluctance or artificiality.
When the old man threw himself into the sea, his expression was calm, his eyes flashed with kindness and happiness, and he jumped not only vigorously, but also full of a sense of sacred ritual.
At last when the girl and the boy left in a small boat, the girl waved goodbye to the big ship warmly, and the big ship gradually sank into the sea.
What needs to be inserted here is that shortly after the old man threw himself into the sea, when the girl was half-asleep and half-awake, an arrow fell from the sky, between the girl's legs, but did not touch the girl's body, and the arrow pierced on the board of the boat slowly oozed a pool of bright blood.
The girl instantly fell into incomparable enjoyment and pleasure, and writhed happily and slowly, and her face instantly showed a more mature and noble beauty.
This arrow is the arrow shot by the old man before, this is the incarnation of the old man, but it is not the flesh of the old man, but a deep love and pure emotion, it is the spirit of the old man's enlightenment of the girl, and it is also Kim Ki-duk's enlightenment of the movie.
From here, we can see that the bow and arrow in the movie became a symbol: it was the male sexual organ, and the old man finally turned into an arrow, possessed the virgin body of a girl, and realized the possession of the girl.
This arrow became the most bizarre and weird episode, and it also left unlimited room for imagination and controversy in the movie.
Epilogue. The magic arrow of "Bow" can be called a magic one that comes from the ground and falls from the sky, because this arrow makes the movie Yayoi infinite imagination space, and also makes the movie covered with a dreamlike mystery.
Kim Ki-duk is basically a realistic director, he rarely shoots magic or mythological films, but his films always exude a dreamlike atmosphere.
In addition to being silent, in addition to the exquisite selection of scenes, in addition to the more somber light and harmony of the film, in addition to liking to use narrative long shots, he will occasionally use some bizarre expressions, such as the magical arrow in "The Bow".