Kim Jae-rok (김재록)

Alienation

2007/01/20 | Source | Permalink |

While face-to-face contact is gradually decreasing, some people resort to their computers to relieve their loneliness.

Those people willing to disclose all of the little details of their personal lives on the Internet are often referred to as "publizens", a compound word made from "publicity" and "citizen". And there are also nasty netizens, also known as "evil repliers", who get pleasure from receiving mounting criticism by leaving ill-mannered replies on the Internet. However, such twisted behaviors reflect their desire to communicate with other people. Perhaps they are so desperate that they want to get attention even from anonymous people. However, these abnormal behaviors are nevertheless a remedy to cure their loneliness.

What they really might need is actual face-to-face discussions with people so they can open their mind and talk about their innermost feelings. There is a movie about two completely different people who begin to reveal their problems to each other and find...| More

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"Host and Guest": Woody Allen-style humor and satire

2006/11/15 | Source | Permalink |

Director Sin Dong-Il, who recently made Host and Guest (LJ Films), was recently invited to the Forum Category of the Berlin International Film Festival, held on Nov. 2, where peers warmly nicknamed him "Korea's Woody Allen".

Just as Woody Allen, "forever New Yorker", delivers sharp satires and caricatures of himself, Shin also questions social issues such as political situations and discrimination against religious minorities with Ho-Joon (Kim Jae-Rok), a man of the so-called "386 generation", who has become a snob, as his mediator.

With humor as its backdrop, the film accurately delivers its message in an easy-to-understand language, which is the best virtue of the Host & Guest.

Ho-Joon, a cynical intellectual who is discontent about everything, meets Kye-Sang (Kang Ji-Hwan), a young and extremely moralistic missionary. The film portrays the process of communication between the two and how each becomes the leader of their own lives.

A divorcee and part-time lecturer, Ho-J...| More

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