Don't presume the film "If You Were Me 3" will be a dull political morality lesson.
The third edition of an omnibus film series produced by the National Human Rights Commission is part of an ambitious project by the state to promote awareness of social discrimination in Korea. The film, however, takes the audience beyond a mere political viewpoint, luring them with styles that are distinctively new and visually stimulating.
Perhaps the fact that each section was shot by a celebrity director has something to do with this, but the six stories featured are more open-ended than didactic, poetic rather than political.
In the first and second editions, which appeared in 2003 and 2005, directors highlighted the stories of social minorities, including young North Korean defectors, ethnic Koreans from China, children and contract workers.
In "Tongue Tie" from the first edition, for example, Park Jin-pyo ("Too Young to Die") showed a young boy studying at an English kindergarten who was forc...|
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