■Title: "To Sir, With Love" ()

■Director: Im Taixiong

■Starring: Seo Young-hee/Yeo Hyun-soo/ Wu Meixi

■Genre: Thriller/Horror/Suspense

■Length: 113 minutes

■Country: South Korea

■Language: Korean

■Released: Showbox

■Premiere: August 3, 2006/South Korea

Remember those bizarre and beautiful pictures, maybe, everything It's just an illusion.

After peeling off the layers of relief-like illusion, we will see everything that makes us even more frightened.

Death; as well as the worry about death and the anxiety of our weakness and weakness, when waves come;

Dear, let us close our eyes together and enjoy this cold feeling. Feel it.

——The Vulcan Era. Inscription.

If we don’t watch the last twenty minutes of this movie, maybe we can easily draw a conclusion about this movie: This is a Cut movie with no characteristics, with a little It is bloody and weird but there is no revenge movie that can achieve the ultimate. It is just because the individual revenge is not just a character but a collective, which seems a bit confusing.

The last twenty minutes of the movie completely overturned everything that was created in the first hour or so of the movie. From this point of view, we may have to admire the director's bravery. After all, it took more than an hour to complete the film. To make a gorgeous foreshadowing for the last twenty minutes, it negates all the previous efforts. The director's decisiveness in making choices and his attempts and exploration of film art are resolute and unquestionable.

Maybe this movie should be divided into two parts of the story, or the two stories should be inseparable, but if they are separated, we may be able to see it more clearly.

The first story is everything described in the previous hour or so, which is everything described in the film materials of this movie. From this point of view, except for the revenge unit, this movie never There is not much breakthrough except that an individual is transformed into a collective. It is a bit like repeating the same old tune.

A few students returned to the seaside village to visit their old and disabled teacher on Teachers' Day. Under the seemingly warm surface, there was an unusually strange and even chilling atmosphere. All the students carry resentment from their teachers for the unreasonable punishments and ridicules they received during their childhood, and all of them harbor evil intentions.

Class monitor Shihao and deputy monitor Eunying were told by Teacher Park that they were the most suitable couple due to their poor family background when they were young; Sunhee, who was known as the "pig girl" when she was a child, weighed during the physical examination The scale was broken and was ridiculed by Teacher Park, saying that she was overweight and broke the scale; Da Feng accidentally fell down when receiving the last stick during the competition and was physically punished by Teacher Park and disabled his right foot, thus ruining his original life. Being very talented in sports should be an athlete's life; Minghao's mother, who was most loved by the old teacher, was called mentally ill by Teacher Park because she wrote a petition; he was laughed at by all his classmates because he accidentally pooped in his pants during class. Zhengyuan, who lost his mother in a traffic accident on the same day after being kicked out by his teacher, has not been going to school since then.

They hide the hurt they have suffered, but on the surface they all come back with a grateful look. Thanks to the teacher's teachings, underneath their seemingly beautiful surface are some helpless people. Only when they look back on their lives repeatedly do they realize that all of this is because of Teacher Park's unsatisfactory treatment of them in elementary school. The extremely reasonable punishment and ridicule led to their complete failure in life.

Before this, I thought this was just a gorgeous killing operation out of revenge.

Is the ever-kind smile on the teacher’s loving face really so ugly? I don’t know. However, this act of revenge was sabotaged from the very beginning by the deformed son of a teacher who appeared out of nowhere. In other words, this is an illusion misled by Meiko who has been taking care of her teacher.

Shi Hao, who was the first to collide with the teacher, was scratched with a pencil sharpener at the beach. He was taken back to the basement, tied to a chair with tape, and held open with two legs of a compass. mouth, break the blade and put a handful of fragments into his mouth, and serve it with boiling water. This is definitely a very imaginative killing. Use stationery and torture a person to death in the most painful way. Eun-young had all the eyelids around her eyes stapled shut so that she died with her eyes wide open in fear. Shun Ji accidentally fell off the cliff because she failed to murder her teacher. Da Feng was hung on the wall and cut with knives until he was bleeding. His whole body was bitten by ants, and he was beaten to death with sticks.

The teacher’s deformed son always wears the mask of a rogue rabbit and uses some of the most common stationery, so the story develops into a gorgeous murder of the rogue rabbit.

However, when the mask was taken off, the person turned out to be Zhengyuan instead of the teacher's deformed son, so the plot seemed even more confusing.

Minghao and Zhengyuan fought. Minghao gouged out his eyes and Zhengyuan died together when Minghao cut the main artery in his neck with a compass. The movie seems to come to an end here. In the movie, Meiko, who was always fiercely protective of her teacher and extremely delicate, lived with her teacher until the end.

However, the last twenty minutes began. If people watch this movie carefully, they will find that everything mentioned above is narrated by the survivor Meiko alone, which lays the foundation for this subversive movie. Perhaps the movie promoters were deliberately vague, which is why I was as surprised as I am now.

Because Teacher Park is still in a coma, the account of the only person who experienced the incident will become a powerful testimony of this incident. So the movie spends most of its space describing everything that Meiko narrated.

Everyone is dead. All those down and out lives finally came to an end, and they died gorgeously through imaginative torture. But is this really the case?

The final subversive beginning of the movie is when Meiko's home is raided by the police, and a female body that has been dead for many years is found inside. This is Meiko's mother. The woman who was ridiculed by Teacher Park for being mentally ill and who eventually died in a car accident was actually this woman. This was definitely a stroke of genius, and the newspaper clippings on the wall completely explained everything. Who said those people were Being down and out is not actually a failure. For example, Shun Ji is already a supermodel, and Da Feng is already a famous rugby star. How can such a life be considered down and out? And since these people are not who Meiko said they are, there is only one possibility, and that is that Meiko is lying.

All the people grew up healthy and happy, and they all had successful careers and happy people, except for this seemingly weak Meiko. All the injuries suffered by her classmates were actually her own. After everyone succeeded, she felt that Teacher Park's unfair treatment of her led to her failed life, and her poor mother died. , as she said herself, lived like a dog when she was alive, and died like a dog when she died. Meiko's psychology was completely distorted.

So she distributed all her experiences to various classmates. During the process of her narration, everyone had their own hatred, but it turned out that it was only her own hatred. All were poisoned while everyone was together. Then all the layout was completed by her alone.

Torturing corpses and turning everyone into the kind of death she said.

It took me such a long text to fully describe the plot of this movie, although I still omitted a lot of side plots. However, this made me marvel at the imagination and control ability of the director and screenwriter.

Indeed, my first impression after watching this movie was so confusing and confusing, but can we conclude that this is just a Cut with nothing new? As for the movie; it's just a revenge movie with a bit of blood and weirdness but not the ultimate.

If it weren’t for the subversive effect of the last twenty minutes, maybe I would maintain this view. After all, the plot setting of this movie in the first hour or so includes torture and killing in many places, which reminds me of last year's Thai movie "Evil Fall", and if a Cut movie reminds people of other movies of the same type, then This movie can only be the kind of follow-up movie with little originality. It's just that the vengeful teacher was turned into a collective of students, but other than that there are similarities in many places.

However, the last twenty minutes undoubtedly push this movie to another level.

From a Cut movie perspective, the murders in this movie undoubtedly have rich imagination and the director’s personal style. The setting that all the murder weapons are stationery is absolutely fantastic, and perhaps the most subtle thing about this movie is its plot setting. Because of the subversion in the first twenty minutes, the previous hour or so became a lie spun by Meiko. The movie spends more than an hour describing a hysterical lie. This feeling not only subverts the plot but also subverts my perception of the movie. At least it made me understand that movies can actually be shot like this.

Use lies to create a completely gorgeous massacre. This is the most clever device used in the plot of this movie.

Writing this, I can no longer give such a flat judgment to this movie as mentioned before. I have to say that this is a Cut movie full of weird colors and imagination, whether it's the movie's gorgeous killings or the plot settings that left me full of surprises and touches. Although it is not scary enough, and although it is more than gory and even a bit straightforward, the plot setting of this movie is definitely superior. In his attempt and exploration of film art, the director has been decisive and unquestionable.

Finally, I want to say: Dear, let us close our eyes together and enjoy this cold feeling.