
By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
"If You Were Me - Anima Vision 2" sketches out the biting reality of discriminations that exist in the very heart of the Korean society. But it's an omnibus animation that does the job through six colorful and heartfelt tales, making it a delightful movie for people of all ages. Entertaining, moving and thought provoking, each story is a jewel of a piece.
Produced by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, "If You" allows you to see the world from a different light, from imagining how it might be to be visually impaired to feeling the heartbreak of star-crossed, homosexual couples. Each animation has its own style and medium, and gives flight to the vivid human imagination through what's only possible in this genre.
Directors Ahn Dong-hee and Ryoo Jeong-oo bring "The Third Wish". A fairy godmother appears before a visually impaired young woman to grant her three wishes. But this is no fairytale. The irritable middle-aged fairy wants to fi...|
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