The Wonder Years (DVD) (Limited Edition) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
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YesAsia Editorial Description
Angsty 13-year-old Soo Ah (Lee Se Young) is entering junior high, and she's going through a quiet early life crisis. She feels misplaced and distant from her friends, going through the motions of a normal mundane life. Her harried single mother (Chu Sang Mi), meanwhile, is desperately trying to make ends meet running a small restaurant, and she doesn't have time to deal with Soo Ah's sullenness. Feeling lost, Soo Ah takes off for Seoul to see the concert of pop star Yoon Seol Yeong (Kim Yoon Ah), whom she has long imagined to be her real mother.
This edition comes with audio commentary, music video, theatrical trailer, and other extras.
Technical Information
| Product Title: | The Wonder Years (DVD) (Limited Edition) (Korea Version) The Wonder Years (DVD) (限量版) (韓國版) The Wonder Years (DVD) (限量版) (韩国版) 13歳、スア (DVD) (限定版) (韓国版) 열 세살, 수아 한정판 |
| Artist Name(s): | Kim Yoon Ah (Jaurim) | Chu Sang Mi | Lee Se Young Kim Yoon Ah | 秋相微 | 李世英 Kim Yoon Ah (Jaurim) | 秋相微 | 李世英 キム・ユナ | チュ・サンミ | イ・セヨン 김 윤아 | 추 상미 | 이 세영 |
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| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Release Date: | 2007-07-30 |
| Language: | Korean |
| Subtitles: | Korean, English |
| Country of Origin: | South Korea |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Publisher: | HB Entertainment Korea |
| Other Information: | 1 DVD |
| Package Weight: | 140 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1004919354 |
Product Information
* Sound Mix : Dolby 5.1 & 2.0
* Extras :
- 코멘터리 WITH 김희정 감독, 이세영
- 코멘터리 WITH 김희정 감독, 송일곤 감독
- 수아 이야기
- 나, 그리고 수아
- 숨겨진 수아
- 예고편
- 뮤직비디오 : 자우림 <프리지아>
* Director : 김희정
당신의 열세살도 이랬나요?
이세영, 추상미, 김윤아, 세 여배우의 열연이 보여주는
평범한 열세살, 수아의 특별한 이야기!!
어른들에게 열세살은 이미 까마득한 기억이다. 성인이 되기 위해선 아무도 피해갈 수 없기에 저마다 힘겹게 지나쳐왔을 테지만 ‘왜 아무도 내 마음을 몰라줄까?’ 라고 생각했던 그 때의 기분은 어느덧 더 이상 기억나지 않는 것이다. 길가에 아무렇게나 핀 들꽃마냥 의미라곤 없어 보이는 부끄러운 시기 열세살, 하지만 이세영, 추상미, 김윤아가 진실된 연기로 이끌어가는 영화 <열세살, 수아>를 따라 다시 한 번 경험하는 그 열세살의 끝에는 잊은 줄만 알았던 맑은 눈물이, 개운한 미소가 우리를 기다린다.
<열세살, 수아>로 데뷔하는 김희정 감독에게 배우 이세영, 추상미, 김윤아라는 든든한 세 명의 여배우와의 만남은 행운 그 이상이었다. 특히 일찍이 한국영화에서 흔히 볼 수 없었던 13살의 혼란스러운 정체성을 가진 사랑스러운 소녀, 수아가 되어준 배우 이세영과의 만남은 감독뿐 아니라 관객에게도 귀중하다. 이세영은 현재 활동하고 있는 아역배우 중에 가장 눈에 띄는 입지와 팬층을 가지고 있는 배우로서 지금까지 <아홉살 인생> <여선생 VS 여제자> 등에서 주연을 맡으며 성인배우 못지않은 아름다움으로 어필해왔다. <열세살, 수아>에서는 믿기지 않는 카리스마와 연기력으로 러닝타임을 이끌어가며 아역배우 아닌 배우로서의 이세영을 보여준다.
추상미는 젊은 엄마 영주 역할을 맡으며 딸을 둔 어머니로서, 그리고 한 명의 여자로서의 복잡다단한 마음을 널리 인정받고 있는 탁월한 연기력으로 표현하고 있다. <열세살, 수아>의 시나리오를 읽는 순간 자신의 어린 시절을 떠올리며 출연을 결정했다는 그녀는 “내 안에 수아가 있습니다. 모든 게 신비롭고 혼란스럽기만 했던 나의 열세살적 같은 그 아이”라며 자기가 그랬던 것처럼 관객들도 <열세살, 수아>를 통해 자기 안의 수아를 만날 수 있길 바라는 마음을 표현했다.
<그때 그 사람들>에 이어 두번째, 영화에 모습을 보이는 김윤아는 여성들이라면 모두 되고 싶어하는 화려하고 멋진 여가수 윤설영으로 영화에 등장한다. 수아와 ‘현실’에서 만나는 순간은 잠깐이지만 모든 주인공들의 꿈처럼 존재하는 유명가수 윤설영은 수아에게도, 젊은 엄마 영주의 인생에도 큰 영향력을 행사하는 중요한 존재로서, 특유의 빛나는 매력을 가수 윤설영에 나누어주며 관객의 가슴을 뛰게 하고 있다.
초등학교를 졸업하고 중학교 교복을 입는 나이 열세살. 수아는 아버지가 돌아가신 후 식당을 운영하는 엄마와 단둘이 생활하고 있다. 허구한날 잔소리뿐 이제 막 사춘기에 접어든 수아가 어떤 생각을 하는 지에는 전혀 관심 없는 엄마는 수아의 가장 큰 불만이다. 그런 수아에게 유일한 즐거움은 가수 윤설영. 엄마는 숨기려 하지만, 수아는 알고 있다. 사실 수아의 진짜 엄마는 다름 아닌 윤설영이라는 것을!!
그러나 즐거움도 잠시! 하루아침에 생활의 터전이던 엄마의 식당이 팔리고, 친구 사귀기는 점점 힘들어지고.. 엄마와 딸 모두에게 쉽지 않은 세상에서 갈 곳이 없어진 수아는 이제 서울에 있는 진짜 엄마인 가수 윤설영을 찾아가기로 결심하는데...
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Professional Review of "The Wonder Years (DVD) (Limited Edition) (Korea Version)"
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The debut film from Kim Hee Jung, The Wonder Years makes its intentions clear from the very first scene, as a young girl confidently makes her way onto a rollerblading arena, accidentally knocking down another young girl who is nervously trying to hold her balance. The girl in trouble is Soo-Ah (Lee Se Young) and she's thirteen years old. Coping with life at that age is difficult for a young girl, the film seems to be telling us - a balancing act that some will manage to skate through unscathed, while others will fall by the wayside. For Soo-Ah, it's a particularly difficult stage in her life, as the young girl is rather taciturn, recalcitrant and self-absorbed. About to start middle school, she finds herself in limbo with no real friends and distant even from her family. Her father having died two years previously, her mother (Chu Sang Mi) has to cope by herself to keep the family's modest small-town restaurant business going and is too busy even to attend her daughter's graduation. Things don't get any better in Soo-Ah's family life when a fellow trader makes off with their savings, forcing them to close down the business and move into a junkyard run by a friend of her mother. Her mother's friendship with the man puts further strain on the mother-daughter relationship, leading Soo-Ah to dream of a more idealised surrogate mother in a famous pop singer she adores, Yoon Sur-Young (Kim Yoon-Ah). Doubts about whether her mother is indeed her natural mother push Soo-Ah to the brink of an identity crisis, one that takes her out of her small town for the big city of Seoul. There's not really much that is new in The Wonder Years' coming-of-age drama about a surly teenager who hates her parents and hates her life. As well as the standard domestic difficulties - or perhaps because of them - Soo-Ah is wary of adults and boys, is bullied at school and has trouble making friends. A brief friendship with one of the popular girls in her class comes to an end due to jealousy, while a friendship with one of the wilder girls threatens to get her into a lot of trouble. The only place Soo-Ah can turn to for comfort is within her own fantasies, usually based around her favourite pop singer, who glamorously comes to rescue her in those moments of crisis with a song. Apart from the lack of originality in the storyline, the problem with The Wonder Years is that it slouches around like its thirteen year-old protagonist, gazing forlornly at its shoes as it goes through its rote formula, dragging its heels like it can't be bothered. You're talking minimal effort, C+ material here - doing enough to get by, but not really showing any originality or personality of its own. It is able to depict Soo-Ah's problems confidently and accurately on a surface level, but it doesn't really seem to manage to get into the head of a teenage girl. Or worse - maybe it does. Perhaps all there is to find there is a desire to escape from the humdrum reality and misery of everyday life through adoration of a music star and the playing out of interior fantasies. If so, then it's not really enough to base an interesting film upon, or at least not in the unimaginative way it is directed here. The film is redeemed to a large extent however by the performances of the principal cast. Chu Sang Mi (The Turning Gate) is stretched to the extent that any mother of a difficult teenage girl would be, and remains credible throughout, but it's Lee Se Young's affecting and sensitive performance as Soo-Ah that keeps the film from drifting too far into sullen inarticulacy, giving her character a degree of personality that lifts it above the predictability of the material and the much-too-pat resolution. DVD Audio/Video The film comes with a choice of Dolby Digital 2.0 and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks and either will function equally well. There is certainly a wider dispersion of the mix on the surround track, but really it's mainly only the music score that benefits from this. Elsewhere, the dialogue remains focussed on the front and is generally quite clear. Subtitles Extras Overall by Noel Megahey - DVD Times |
Customer Review of "The Wonder Years (DVD) (Limited Edition) (Korea Version)"
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August 13, 2007
Home is Where the Heart Is
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This is a film that I can definitely recommend highly with no shadow of a doubt, as its a gem of a drama. The film production is a moderate indie HD film, not arty as such or a mainstream attractor, but such a film with fluidity and easy to get into, its like a breath of fresh air. About a young 13 year old teenage girl named Su-ah, who cannot relate or find proper happiness with friends and remote to her single mother, all due to shock after her father had died two years previous. She also believes that a top Seoul singer is her real mother, as a form of escapism from the banality of her every day teen life. Su-ah is played excellently by Se Young Lee (who has been in "Lovely Rivals") and the cast overall is on top acting performance. Sang Mi Choo as Su-ah's mother is perfectly honed as the struggling single mum and her amiable boyfriend (that Su-ah disapproves of) is also played out nicely, too. Although a budget picture shot in High Definition (like "My Scary Girl") the film's overall production quality is high and the pacing and cinematography is very comfortable to slip into giving the movie a pleasant appeal as you watch (even though its about a sad young girl) and doesn't lean to any form or documentary 'shaky camera' style or fast cut editing that sometime HD can do. Its all a sublime and gently edited movie that projects quite intimate feelings of the characters, without either becoming a sort of kitchen sink drama or putting Su-ah under a patronizing microscope and trying to assess everything about her sombre nature. The story unfolds itself by showing, through the eyes of Su-ah, her day to day life as she befriends similar circumstanced kids, but constantly tries to find happiness by believing a performance singer on TV is actually her mother. She daydreams a lot (and who hasn't done that....if there were no day dreamers there would be no movies etc..) and the film's surreal scenes of this singer appearing to Su-ah in her room, at a police station, on a girl friend's face at a sleep over, on a train journey etc., reveal the needful want and required happiness Su-ah seeks, when at times she sees this 'golden glow' of happiness, this pseudo mother/star she craves - and to make her smile. There is quite a lot of Korean market life and intricate snap shots of their culture in this, too, that reveals a certain insight of sociability with the people in the town the girl lives in. Although this film will seem a bit humdrum and certainly somber by the sad nature of Su-ah - this movie does, in the finish, have a good positive ending in a similar fashion to Korean films like "Herb" and " I Wish I Had A Wife", although more lighter to the latter. In fact although Su-ah is sad, the ironic surroundings to her life are contrastingly up beat (her mother struggles but is positive) like with the kid who works for his father's DVD shop and her mother's boyfriend who all seem to want to help Su-ah in subtle ways. The final premise of the movie, by the experiences of this young girl, is that sometimes we can look in far away 'places' for people or 'things' that seem like 'stars' that hold all the gold over the rainbow and could seem to fulfill utmost dreams if they were part of that dreamers own life. Yet, the main realization, by the conclusion, is that the people who really love and matter to us are most immediate, and the ones already close to us - our families, friends and loved ones. The film, though, doesn't neglect the fact that sometimes life is difficult, like with the girl Su-ah befriends at the beginning whose brother tormented her and, for her, 'home' wasn't always a peaceful haven. I really recommended this - you really have to watch this in your own way, but its certainly a film worth more than 5 stars. It may not be a movie of high romance or a feature of top 'star lites', but what you do get is a very enchanting, albeit humdrum, story. Don't miss it! |
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