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3 Discs - The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well, 'Dwaejiga Umure Ppajin Nal' (1996) - The Power of Kangwon Province, 'Gangwondo Eui Him' (1998) - Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, 'O! Sujeong' (2000) DVD Review Hong Sang Soo Collection (2005) Director Hong Sang Soo came to a focal point at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Whenever he took part in a press conference, he was flooded with questions. Though he is not the most commercially successful director, he is the most talked-about director. In a recent Internet survey, Hong was voted as the most favored director. If you type in his name in a search engine, a huge number of pages related to him pop up. There is even a paper titled, "A Study in the Narrative Structure of Hong Sangsu's Films: With Reference to ‘The Day a Pig Fell into the Well’". What makes him so popular? The simplest, or at least, the most agreed-upon answer to the question is ironically that he discloses the hidden ugliness within most people. Some readers who are acquainted with Korean movies will think of Kim Ki Duk at this point. Unlike Kim, however, Hong reveals the ugliness in scenes of daily life and makes the viewers acknowledge that the very ugliness is a part of who they are. For better or worse, they admit that they repeat ugly behavior everyday and will probably continue to do so in the future. In most of Hong Sang Soo's movies, a man meets a woman, they drink together, they go to a hotel for the night, and in the morning they find that they spent the previous night together but not because they loved each other. Then the audience is poised to think about what love is, expecting the director to give an answer to their question. But Hong never gives it. Judging from his movies, he doesn’t seem to know or have the answer. A movie blogger stated that Hong's movies are therefore very cruel for viewers. Hong, according to the blogger, makes the viewers blame the characters in the movie for being brazenfaced in their search for mostly sexual desire and then has the audience identifying themselves with the characters. Despite all the praise bandied about him, it can be said that Hong himself repeats the same theme over in similar plots. Come to think of it, given the tone of his movies, he probably hates himself. But it's undeniable that he is widely accepted abroad. His movies have been invited to many international film festivals including Cannes. According to a local movie critic, the reason for his international fame is that he presents people's experiences as major contents of his movies which can be shared in any culture. |
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