Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from June, 2012

Stateless Things (2011, Korea)

A movie about one North Korean defector who faces prejudice and discrimination and one homeless boy who lives at the mercy of his male lover (who seems to be married). The movie consists of 3 parts. The first one is focused on what makes the defector boy flee from his workplace(gas station) with his colleague girl who he likes. The second one is focused on the relationship between homeless boy and his male lover. The third part is focused on what happens when 2 boys met each other. But the thing is that because of some scenes, many viewers guess that the 2 boys are actually the same person, which I cannot disagree. *I had the chance to watch the movie again in 2022 and I came to agree that two boys might be the same person. The movies is a little bit slow but I think this is okay.

2 Weddings and 1 funeral (2012, Korea)

Another movie by Korean "out" director, Gwang-su Kim-jo . He is a renowned movie producer but this movie is his first feature film of his own directing. Hyo-jin (the one with long hair) wants to adopt a boy in the orphanage. She asks Min-su who works at the same hospital to get married hoping that the marriage will make it much easier for her to adopt the boy. Hyo-jin is lesbian and Min-su is gay. Both of them are under much pressure for marriage. Min-su agrees to marry Hyo-jin but as you guess it is more complicated than they think to lead a fake marriage. Other main characters are gay friends of Min-su , who are also members of gay choir, G-Voice (which is real name of the Korean gay choir organized by Chingusai ). The lines are very straightforward and the accident which leads to 'the' funeral is so shocking (at least, to Me). Kim-jo directed two movies before( Boy meets boy and Just friends ). But 2W1F( 2 Weddings and 1 funeral ) is the most tho