KOR 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fot, Snowpiercer, Hwasong-5
Document Summary
New korean cinema no longer were screen subjects willing to sacrifice their lives for the nation (pg 19) Tears - acknowledged that he went back in time - self reflection. Masochistic & self-loathing characters replaced by angry characters with a tendency towards violence. Trying to overcome the male lack" present in other korean films connection to stray. Can be seen as the cause of yongho"s troubles. Yongho"s trouble starts when he is sent to subdue to kwangju uprising but gets shot accidentally. Brighter light and more serene than previous scene of military service. Foundation of peppermint candy and how yongho later came to be given a camera as if he"s thinking of the past, but he"s really thinking of the future. This is possible only through this creative representational medium. Narrative of going back to the future only because it is a film. Not fot aesthetic, emotion, deep level based on actual, unsolved serial murder in hwasong area in 1986.
