Geuk jang jeon (2005)

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   Siskoid

   Hong Sang-soo's Tale of Cinema starts with the story of a suicidal young man who, on the eve of his dreadful act, accidentally(?) comes across an old crush and spends the night with her. A death pact is forged, but she decides to bail out of it and saves his life. Cut to a second story, in which a film director is ambivalent about an old class mate from film school dying in hospital. There's bad blood between them, and we'll discover his reasons over the course of the film. He comes across the actress who played the girl in the first part and through an almost visible cinematic transformation, the person who seemed the first character becomes the second. Hong Sang-soo doesn't go so far as to make himself the dying director, but it's definitely meta. Our protagonist is obsessed with the short film we just saw as "real" and its actress, for reasons that will become clear. The Tale has something intriguing to say about where ideas come from, and how we relate to stories when we see ourselves in them. We blur reality and fiction in this way, use characters' catharses as our own, adopt their thought processes, and in celebrity culture, confound actors for their characters. It could possibly have hit its points harder, but only at the risk of becoming a little gimmicky. 2 months 2 weeks ago
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   nbats

   https://noodlemagazine.com/watch/229735698_168087745
   https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/sublanguageid-all/idmovie-26925
   Play subs with Penguin. 3 years 3 months ago

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