Beautiful cruelty

He loved movies since childhood, because of his poor family, but did not have the opportunity to enter the film school for further study, but this could not stop his ambition, he looked for a variety of opportunities to watch movies, figure out the character, after going back to learn very well.

To this end, he suffered from all kinds of destruction from childhood, in the streets of Seoul, South Korea, a teenage child, every day with a group of marginal people mixed together, the so-called marginal people, is the beggar, the cobbler and other lower-class people, he mixed with them, experienced a lot of their experience, by his most impressive thing is that these people are suffering from life, Society has ruthlessly honed them into a never-say-die sculpture, and they have no time to cry and work hard, otherwise they will be abandoned by society.

In 1989, a South Korean film company publicly recruited an actor, he was ecstatic to sign up, a sea of applicants, only three people successfully selected, one of them he, talking about the scene, the other two retreated, originally just to a walk-on to bear the brunt of the people, face to be wiped with blood, body on fire, requiring lifelike, Can't be replaced with fake props.

He was left alone, he bit his teeth, endured the roll of his eyes, calmly lying on the ground, the fighting camera is very brilliant, he can hear the sound of fighting in the wind and rain, he seems to be in the blood of the river and lake career, when he is happy, his foot on his head, the fire is up, the pain is unbearable, the director did not shout stop, dare not stop, the air has the taste of burnt flesh, He almost fainted.

That scene became a turning point in his life, although his name is inconspicuous, only in the last side of the prologue table, but for him, it seems to have found the goal and direction.

He wants to be a director, although he has not received formal education, but he has ambitions, especially life, after the torture of life must be rich and colorful, such experience is wealth, is his magic weapon.

In 1992, he shot the first play in his own home in the lane, he became famous after he could hardly remember the name of the play, he invited people are all street artists, shavers, pedicures, washers, and street sweeping aunt, they appear in the whole times with a simple face, it is refreshing, this small budget production film, He won the silver Award at the Korean Film Awards and became famous overnight.

In the face of the strong film market, how to grasp the direction of their own works, unique rather than follow the crowd, is the key to win, but he insists on taking the small role of this route, and each part of the work focuses on the cruel definition and words, in his films, all people are subjected to a variety of pressures, these pressures, From life, government, society and even himself, suffering is his favorite logic, struggle is his equation.

His first film in the formal sense was 1996's "Diary of a Crocodile Hiding a Corpse", and in 1997, he shot "City of the Beasts", without fierce fighting scenes, unexpected characters, and unsatisfactory endings, after watching it, it is unforgettable and can not bear to give up.

With his own maverick, he shot nearly 12 films in 10 years. His works shine in the major film festivals and become one of the few fine Asian films. He won the best director award of the Berlin Film Festival with "Samaritan Girl" and the Best Director Award of the Venice Film Festival with "The Empty Room". Let a person look unforgettable, but controversial, his idea is unique, let a person can not understand, his works deeply let a person want to spit, let a person want to see through the red world, escape into the empty door.

On September 6, 2012, the 69th Venice Film Festival ended, and Korean film director Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta" won the festival's Golden Lion. The film festival wrote in its evaluation of his film: "With a cruel pen, touch a cool landscape, residual and cool in his film are two completely different concepts."

Kim Ki-duk once said: cruelty actually exists in everyone's life all the time, the cruelty on the screen, let the residual as the foundation, let the cool as the ultimate goal, is also a different flavor of life.

Residual is cool clothes, residual is not torture, not blood, residual is also an element of life, can transition residual to cool people, is really understand the life of the strong.