Question:“On films from your own land”
On films from your own land
A story from your own land laughs without subtitles and weeps without subtitles. That difference is not small.
Three descend. All three are by different directors. When one fits, go to that director’s next film.
- Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)A story of detectives who never catch the killer becomes the face of an age.
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)A man locked away fifteen years asks not why he was held, but why he was released.
- Christmas in August (Hur Jin-ho, 1998)A dying photographer’s love, shot without a sound.
Herodotus wrote the name of his own city, Halicarnassus, in his first line.