Korean Movie《Poetry》Plot Introduction

A recently popular film and television drama called - Poetry - has become the focus of the audience's attention. Many fans of the drama began to discuss it during the announcement stage of the drama.As the series aired, its popularity continued to rise, fully meeting the expectations of the audience.Especially the plot introduction of the Korean movie - Poetry - has been attracting much attention and discussion, and I want to know more details.Today, I want to dive into this topic with you.

Since Yang Meizi signed up for a “poetry writing training class”, she has often asked others anxiously, “how to write poetry”, “where does inspiration come from, and other questions.At the same time, she also learned that her grandson, together with several classmates, raped a girl from the same school, which eventually led to the girl's suicide.In the training class, the teacher taught her that poetry should express direct inner feelings; at the same time, the teacher also taught her that poetry should seek for beauty.But these two teachings created conflicts in her heart. The guilt in her heart was so intense. How could she turn it into a beautiful poem?

When I first read Li Cangdong's poem, it told such a story.Yang Meizi, played by the veteran Korean movie queen Yoon Jung-hee, also seems a bit artificial - she loves to write poems, and she always deliberately looks for materials that can be included in poems, such as the dishes waiting to be washed in the sink, the apples in her hands, and the branches of the tree.She opened her arms as if to welcome the poetic sentiment that would come at any time. She was really trying to compose new poems and looking for sorrow.

If she is really just such an arty old lady with no poetic talent, then it is really possible for her to write a few acceptable poems.But the problem is that she does have a sensitive heart and compassionate feelings that ordinary people cannot match. Her inability to write poems is not because she has exhausted her poetry, but because her feelings are so deep that she is speechless.But Mrs. Yang herself didn't realize this.She was full of sincerity and guilt, but she was also sensitively aware that if she put this emotion into poetry, what would it mean to the dead girl?She has been unable to write directly about this matter.

Yang Meizi's emotional experience has actually been summarized by sages. After Auschwitz, writing poetry is barbaric, as Adorno said.In the face of other people's great grief, the first problem your art faces is not a creative problem, but an ethical problem.This is different from Du Fu's article "Hate Life". The former refers to facing the suffering of others, while the latter refers to examining one's own life.Only then did we discover that this movie, titled Poetry, and in which most of the plot revolves around poetry, actually has nothing to do with how the protagonist writes poetry or how well the poetry is written. It even has something to do with the poetry itself.Not big either.Its seemingly subplot, in which Meiko's grandson rapes a young girl to death, is the core of the entire story.This counterpoint between the surface and the inner main and secondary lines shows Li Cangdong's superb screenwriting skills - no wonder it won the best screenplay at Cannes this year.

Let’s start with the apparent main thread of the film and see how these two threads connect together.In the film, Meiko has a notebook to record her insights in daily life.She took it out five times in the film. The first time she learned of her grandson's crimes was during a meeting with the perpetrator's family.Meiko didn't say anything at the meeting, but the unrepentant words of other perpetrators' families made her feel on pins and needles.She got up and went outdoors, facing a bush of cockscombs, and wrote ”blood-red flowers“ in one short line.The resentment, remorse and contempt in this, it seems that any direct accusation is too weak, and it almost becomes the last helplessness in terms of left and right.Just like Xin Qiji, who is now experiencing all the sorrow, he can only say that the weather has been cold for a long time.At this time, the ethical issues in Auschwitz found a solid emotional foundation here, because there are some things you really cannot do, but this inability to do is not caused by external ethical constraints.On the contrary, these ethical constraints are jointly constructed by thousands of conscientious minds.Just like Meiko, she never knew the twists and turns involved, but her emotions and conscience instinctively told her that she could only talk about it.

In the rest of the film, every time she takes out her notebook, it is when her soul is so shocked that she cannot express it freely.This self-restraint on the soul is exactly the penance she made for the dead girl.The second time, she came to her grandson's school and saw them playing football without shame or care. She wrote: What are the songs of birds?”This almost heaven-like question expressed her confusion and confusion - she could not understand what these teenagers were thinking and why they could be so free% after killing people.Of course, the answer is not given in the film, but Li Cangdong obviously criticizes television. The dull grandson in the film spends most of his time watching TV.

The third and fourth sentences can be read together. When the doctor told her that she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she wrote “Time passed and the flowers withered”. At this time, she really felt the approach of death.So she came to the bridge where the girl jumped, and to the riverside where the corpse was floating. She seemed to have some kind of supernatural communication with the dead girl. She took out her notebook, concentrated on it, and held the pen, but in the end it came up blank.Heaven also knew that words were powerless, so it began to rain, dripping onto the paper like human tears.

The climax of the film occurs in the scene where Meiko meets the teenage mother.This is also the most poetic passage in the entire film.At the request of other family members, Meiko went to visit the victim's mother, a farmer on the outskirts of the city, to persuade her to accept the amount of compensation.But the girl's mother was not at home and was doing farm work in the fields, so Meiko strolled towards the fields.On the way, she saw an apricot tree. The branches were covered with apricots, and the ripe ones had fallen to the ground.Meiko picked one up and put it in her mouth.At this time, she wrote the fifth sentence: “Xingzi fell to the ground, willing to be trampled in order to be reborn.”

At this time, Meiko was impressed by the beautiful scenery in front of her, and her heart hoped to gain freedom at the highest price.After guilt and repentance, what is needed now is the price.But it’s not as simple as money.

Meiko met a woman in the field, with dark complexion and plain appearance.They chatted demurely about the weather, harvests and apricots, and the sun shone into every soul with the windows open. Everything was so peaceful that one could almost compose a quiet and beautiful pastoral poem based on this theme.But the most cruel thing about the director is also here: this woman is the mother of the girl - the most beautiful scenery contains the greatest sorrow in the world.Meiko only realized this after saying goodbye.It was Meiko's subconscious that did not allow her to recognize the person she should apologize for.She only dared to secretly visit the school where the girl studied, and secretly wrote these poems that did not express her feelings. She had confessed countless times in her heart, but when she met a real person, she could not say the words "I'm sorry" - in this eraBeing sorry has become as cheap as writing poetry.She wanted to say sorry through actions.

Meiko's final decision was to hand her grandson over to the police.She also gave her grandson a chance. She placed the girl's portrait in front of him, hoping to arouse his active repentance, but he did not. He continued to watch his TV.The final result is what he deserves, just as a poet in the film said that the death of poetry is what it deserves.

At the end of the film, Meiko wrote her first poem: “Can you receive the letter I dare not send?Can I give the confession that I didn't dare to make that time...” This small poem with simple meaning and simple technique is actually a tragic song deeply brewed by Meiko.Meiko is not a poet, she does not have the poet's gorgeous words and superb poetic skills; but she is a true poet because of her sensitive and compassionate heart, because she understands the boundaries of poetic art, and because of her courage to redeem herself.

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