快樂第四名 Fourth Place

12/12 (Sun) 07:30pm

南韓 South Korea ｜ 2015 ｜116 mins｜DCP｜彩色 Colour 韓語對白，中、英文字幕 In Korean with Chinese and English subtitles

導演 Director 鄭址宇 Jung Ji-woo

演員 Cast 朴海俊、李恆娜、劉宰尚 Park Hae-joon, Lee Hang-na, Yoo Jae-sang

獎項 Award 2016 釜山電影評論家協會獎評委特別獎 Special Jury Prize, Busan Film Critics Awards 2016

影展 Festivals 2015 釜山國際電影節 Busan International Film Festival 2015 2016 烏甸尼遠東電影節 Udine Far East Film Festival 2016 2016 台北電影節 Taipei Film Festival 2016

「相比起被打，我更怕兒子得第四。」 出自本片虎媽口中，導演鄭址宇揭露亞 洲競爭文化迷人又可怕之處。俊浩（劉 宰尚飾）在游泳比賽中總是得第四，令 母親大為失望，找來曾是國家隊泳手的 光洙（朴海俊飾）為他特訓。然而光洙 當年曾受教練暴力和精神虐待，現對俊 浩施以相同技倆。電影由韓國國家人權 委員會聯合監製，刻劃兒童的成長如何 被大人粗暴踐踏，狠批為成功不惜一切 的扭曲價值觀。《夫妻的世界》男星朴 海俊化身魔鬼教練，演活角色的不堪與 矛盾；而飾演年輕版光洙的鄭家藍憑本 片奪得韓國大鐘獎最佳男子新人獎。

鄭址宇 1997 年執導的短片《生薑》入 選釜山國際電影節，首部長片《快樂到 死》（1999），刻劃女性婚外情慾，被認 為是韓國新浪潮電影中具標誌性之作， 令韓國擠身國際電影製作強國。其後他 執導的《五種視線》（ 2005 ）、《羞 愧》（ 2010 ）、《恩嬌》（ 2012 ）及 《柳烈的音樂專輯》（2019）均在釜山 國際電影節放映。

映前映後 Before and After Tired of her son, Joon-ho (Yoo Jae-sang), constantly getting fourth place in swimming competitions, a mother asks former Olympic hopeful Gwang-su (Park Hae-joon) for help. However, what she doesn’t know is that Gwang-su would turn to the same abusive methods that broke him in his youth to ensure that Joon-ho achieve victory. Co-produced by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, this subversive sports drama is an anti-thesis to the clichéd “no pain, no gain” nature of typical films in the genre. Fans of Park Hae-joon’s deceptively charming performance as a cheating husband in hit TV drama The World of the Married will be mortified by his sinister turn here as the swimming coach from hell, while young actor Jung Ga-ram impresses with his Daejong Film Award-winning turn as the troubled young athlete.

Director Jung Ji-woo made his first appearance at Busan International Film Festival in 1997 with his short film, A Bit Better. His first feature film, shocking infidelity drama Happy End (1999), is often cited as one of the standout films of the Korean New Wave era that kickstarted Korean cinema as a global filmmaking powerhouse. His critically acclaimed 2012 Lolita-esque erotic drama, Eungyo, and his picturesque 2019 romantic drama, Tune in for Love, have also been screened at BIFF.