The movie uses flashbacks to tell the story of the main character Kim Yong-ho’s life, with a total of seven different segments, hitching a ride on the era and title for each segment as the opening.
The protagonist of the story, Kim Yong-ho, was originally a young man full of dreams, from a young soldier, a violent policeman, a company owner, a broken marriage, a failed career, every fluctuation in his life is closely related to the great changes in South Korea, including his accidental killing of a schoolgirl in the Gwangju incident of 1980, to the Asian financial turmoil of 1997 that made him lose his family’s fortune, each period is characterized by its own time, the youthfulness of youth, the shyness of the first time to enter the society, the youthfulness of the first time to enter the society, and the youthfulness of the first time to enter the society. Each period is characterized by its own era, the shyness of youth, the longing and confusion of entering the society, the ambition of a successful career, and the despondency of failure.
Life is like a train, constantly moving forward, there is no turning back, each journey takes us to a different experience, whether it is the sweet fruits or difficult challenges, all are part of the journey.
1999 / South Korea Japan / Drama / Lee Chang-dong / Sul Kyung-goo Moon So-ri
In the spring of 1999, Kim Yong-ho (Seol Kyung-gu), a middle-aged man despairing of his life and down-on-his-luck participant in a reunion, cries nervously and hisses in the face of an oncoming train on a viaduct: I want to go back! The train travels backwards with memories of Kim Yong-ho three days earlier, broken and looking for closure, but called by a mysterious figure to meet someone; then 1994, where he lives a life of debauchery, treating his wife (Kim Rae-jin) with coldness and beating her up; 1987, when he is a police officer and is a fierce man; 1984, 1980, and all the way back to 1978, until the seventh clip, through his first love (Moon So-ri) and “Peppermint Candy”, which is the first time he’s ever been in a relationship with a man who has been in a relationship with him. ) and “mints” this point of the title of the token, the film only to give what is crushed by the protagonist’s life, crushing the answer to its beauty.
