How to evaluate Kunchiyan, the most horrible film in South Korea, which has been particularly popular recently?
The film is roughly divided into three stages: in the first stage, the producer of the horror program "The Age of Terror" Oba meets the experiencer (pendant), and the combination of four men and three women is quite eye-catching. Everyone meets in the coffee shop, eating French fries and fried chicken, and discussing Kunchi's words, just like the Korean version of If You Are the One.
However, director Baum-sik Jeong was impatient and didn't follow the routine of American ghost films. Because scaring people is more important, he simply doesn't give CP to seven people. Obviously, even in a group, only one person will be lonely.
The second stage is on the way to Kunchiyan, before six people enter Kunchiyan to start the soul-descending ceremony. The third stage is the end of the real paranormal that begins to appear and gradually takes the lives of seven people. On the way, the director skillfully inserted the background knowledge of Kunchiyan through the dialogue of four men and three women:
In the famous mental hospital in 1960s and 1970s, the female dean was awarded a government award by park chung-hee, then president of South Korea, for her outstanding performance. With the fall of park chung-hee, Kunchiyan, which was circulated as a secret experimental base of the government, was closed and the female dean hanged herself. After the hospital was closed, three female students entered the office of the female dean in the 1980s. As a result, two of them fell off the building, and the other one was still in a coma.
Before the whitsunday ceremony, frightening scenes such as ringing bells and wigs in the pool were arranged by captain He Jun and performed by the team members. When six people entered Kunchiyan and found photos and calligraphy, the political metaphor of this film appeared eagerly:
One photo shows park chung-hee giving an award to female dean Kun Chiyan. A male player said, "Wow, this is the president!" "
A female player said, "Which president?"
The male player said, "It's the father of the last president."
The female players lamented: "It turns out that their father and daughter are both presidents!"
The reference here is very obvious. The former president refers to park geun-hye who was in power from 20 13 to 20 17, and her father was undoubtedly park chung-hee who was in power from 19 1 year to 1979.
Father and daughter park chung-hee, I hate you.
It should be noted that the opening hours of Kunchiyan Hospital are also 196 1 to 1979. Only the wooden chest exposed, the bald man with a dull eye holding a doll (who flashed back in the film before, but later became a fool in the photo with the dean) and the naked ghost with a scar on his chest all suggest that Kun Chiyan is the evil embodiment of park chung-hee's high-handed rule.
At the end of the film, the audience ended with 503 people. Some netizens pointed out that park geun-hye's prison uniform number was 503. In this way, comparing the video of the female dean playing table tennis with that of park geun-hye, we will find that the film even imitates park geun-hye in the shape of the female dean.
As for the legendary room 402, which can never be opened, it is only different from the last 503 10 1. 10 1 What is it? Of course, it won't be an idol trainee and the original Korean version of Produce 10 1. Hard Sugar Jun doesn't know if any netizens have pointed out that privately guessing 10 1 implies the exchange rate of the old and new won when park chung-hee came to power, which makes people boil with resentment:
Park chung-hee's much criticized monetary reform, that is, using the currency in circulation to finance its huge economic plan. In June, 1962, 10, the exchange rate between the newly used won and the old won was1kloc-0/,and the whole country immediately fell into a comprehensive economic chaos and uncontrollable inflation.
Even park chung-hee, who has always been tough and stubborn, had to admit the failure of monetary reform: "At first, we hoped to spend a lot of idle funds on industrial construction, so the monetary structure had to be readjusted. But the result is contrary to hope. This measure led to a sharp depreciation of the currency and brought a huge blow to the economy. This is a complete mistake. The government tried its best to make up for this mistake, but it still left serious sequelae. "
Baum-sik Jeong, director of Kunchiyan, was born in 1970. His childhood must have benefited from Uncle Park's five-year economic plan. So, the audience finally understand why the political metaphors in Kunchi's words are everywhere and very straightforward, right? Director Zheng is afraid of your wild guess. He just didn't change the name of the movie to "Father and Daughter park chung-hee, I hate you".
However, the straightforward metaphor can't turn Kunchi Yan into an excellent horror film: Zheng Dao satirized the ignorance of Korean contemporary youth about politics (even did not know the father-daughter relationship between park chung-hee and park geun-hye), mocked park chung-hee's tyrannical rule in the 1960s and 1970s, and by the way, let park geun-hye guest star as a "female dean", which almost diluted the bottom flavor of the horror film.
Dean plays table tennis, and park geun-hye plays table tennis.
Undoubtedly, Baum-sik Jeong wanted to express his reflection on Korean contemporary politics or a considerable number of people with Kunchi's words, but this reflection was carried out with an almost paranoid attitude. The president and the female dean (his daughter) are treating the whole South Korea as a mental illness, and besides awarding prizes, playing table tennis and improving the national physique, the father and daughter left South Korea with a dilapidated and abandoned building in the Amityville horror.
"Hatred" Culture and Koreans
The late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung once pointed out: "In my opinion, Korean culture has become a' hate' culture. Throughout the historical process, we have been living in' hatred'. " Many Korean scholars also summarize the soul of Korean culture as "hate" culture.
More interestingly, "hate" is written in Korean, which is consistent with the Korean writing of "Korea" in Korea. This is not only a coincidence in language and writing, but "hate", as the most representative psychological feature of Koreans, is the most direct embodiment of Korea as a "hate" country.
Judging from Kun Chi's remarks, Zheng Fanzhi expressed his hatred for park chung-hee, the female dean (played by park geun-hye), and the mental hospital for cheating and deceiving people. Of course, he doesn't like seven young directors who broadcast eyeballs live. None of them walked out of Kunchiyan alive. This is undoubtedly an out-and-out "hate", and no one can escape it.
Zhu wrote a book "Korean History: The Cycle and Destiny of Tragedy", which accurately summarized the most basic characteristics and attributes of Korean history. It is no exaggeration to say that the history of Korea is full of bloodshed, disaster, humiliation and pain. A history of South Korea is a history of struggle with mainland countries and maritime countries, a history of blood and tears in the cracks and crawling forward in difficulties, a tragic cycle and fate.
Arirang, whom we are familiar with, can be called the extreme of "hate". Probably, people rarely find its lyrics bitter:
"Arirang, Arirang, Alari, my husband still has a long way to go, to climb mountains. You are heartless. Leave me here and you will get sick within ten miles of going out. "
Kunchiyan is undoubtedly a "hate song": park chung-hee, you are so heartless that you treat us like mental illness. Park geun-hye, you are more heartless. We will always remember that your prison uniform is number 503. ..
Hard Sugar Jun suspects that Kunchiyan Hospital may specifically refer to the "New Village Movement" of that year.
This was initiated by park chung-hee at the national governors' meeting held in April 1970. At first, it was just a local self-help plan, and then it gradually expanded into a national movement. It is not only to narrow the gap between urban and rural people's living standards, but also to greatly stimulate the Korean people's independent consciousness of participating in changing the country's destiny. In reality, this model of "participation and autonomy" is a completely hypocritical "new village".
Whenever we talk about park chung-hee, people who support and oppose him think that if park chung-hee has left something memorable or cursed for Koreans, it is the so-called "New Village Movement". This activity full of show and false data is no different from Kun Chiyan's scam.
If park geun-hye's father and daughter are half of Korean contemporary history, then Kun Chiyan's metaphorical ambition is too great. It killed seven explorers in 90 minutes, leaving 503 spectators. A farce, no one lives. Political clues are almost everywhere.
The reflection on park geun-hye's father and daughter in Kunchiyan is a kind of pure "hate". As for whether this kind of reflection is rational or not, the experience of Korean audience after reading it is also "like drinking water". Only they know how warm and cold the weather is.
However, since there are foreshadowing and clues everywhere, the establishment of the "Xue Kun" index school is imminent. In the next movie, the director can consider shooting the "Shi Yue" ceremony and making a complete set, which may be even more shocking.