Wanding souls Chang Mon-hon was inspired to create her third painting by the parable of three sullen wanderers, whom you can either take on the further road in your car or leave these frightening travelers behind you. In the first case, you rely on the goodwill of random fellow travelers, in the second - on your own strength.
Should we trust strangers? Every fan of thrillers, of course, will give a very definite answer to this question, but on the mysterious Asian island, in the foggy mountains of which a lot of unusual things are happening, not everything is so clear.
His son A-Chuan is brought to Mr. Wang in a strange state of either trance or depression. The young man does not recognize his relatives - not even his sister, and the old father is so called "teacher." My family would be in time to catch up and watch out for this familiar stranger, but it's too late. A-Chuan kills his unknown sister, claiming that she wanted to hurt him. What do you do with the prodigal son?
Mon-Hon under the form of a thriller raises in his picture a number of extremely difficult problems, the main of which is the problem of trust. The storyline is inseparably connected with the question of trust to a long-known person who suddenly became different.
The situation is actually known to many - it happens that someone from old friends will get into the sect, then from the tragedy experienced changes to unrecognizability. And if it becomes dangerous to others, then there is a dissocial personality disorder. This would describe the problem of A-Chuan European psychologist. The director decides to add local flavor to the work and begins to analyze A-Chuan’s disease in a traditional way. A local doctor tells Van about the “wandering soul” and the influence of spirits – the correctness of this diagnosis, the viewer will be repeatedly convinced during the film.
In general, “Soul” resembles immersion in the fog that envelops Wang’s dwelling so tightly that it seems that more than one immature soul can wander. Here it is easy to “lose the way”, and what is hidden under the veil of fog, eventually so penetrates into the mind of the viewer that the appearance in an empty room of a messenger from “the other side of the forest” seems quite an ordinary thing. And only the old man, who manages to grow flowers in this wilderness, will continue to believe in the prodigal A-Chuan, trying at all costs to cut off unnecessary shoots for the long-awaited fruit of his return.
9 out of 10
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