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 If You Were Me ( Yeoseotgae-ui Siseon )(2003) |
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Director : Jeong Jae-eun , Lim Soon-rye , Yeo Kyun-dong , Park Chan-wook , Park Jin-pyo , Park Kwang-su
Writer : Kim Byeong-seo , Im Yeon-hui , Jeong Jae-eun , Park Chan-wook , Park Kwang-su , Lim Soon-rye , Park Jin-pyo
Release Day :
14-NOV-2003
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| Seon-gyeong is a plain, overweight girl who goes to a commercial high school. As she becomes a senior at school, teachers are always telling the girls to lose weight, and some of her classmates have plastic surgery. Seon-gyeong wants to get plastic surgery on her eyes or to enter a fasting house, but her mother says no. Seon-gyeong makes a risky decision to make enough money for her plastic surgery. The residential apartment in the newly built city is square and the center is left empty. Thus, one can see everything that his neighbor is doing. One of the residents of this apartment is Mr. A whose personal information had been disclosed at a virtual sex crime related site. He is ignored by all his neighbors except a bed wetter boy living in the neighborhood. The boy, who wets his bed every night, is stripped and told to go to his neighbors and ask for a bowl of salt as punishment from his mother. 13 short scenes of the life, emotions and records of Kim Mun-ju, who has 2nd degree cerebral palsy. The scene where he crosses the Gwanghwamun crossroad alone, thinking of his friend who had been arrested while demonstrating for the rights of the handicapped, is a small outcry of the handicapped people in our society. At a highly reputed kindergarten in Seoul, the children are giving their Christmas performance. Six-year-old Jong-wu is giving his speech in English, and he is very good. But somehow, his mother doesn’t seem to be very pleased. She thought her son’s pronunciation was not as fluent as foreign children. Three years later, Jong-wu is sitting at a dentist’s. Though it will hurt a little, it is to improve his pronunciation of L and R, he is told. Will Jong-wu’s future be as bright as his mother hopes it to be? It is the parking lot of a funeral ceremonial hall attached to a hospital. The woman at the parking lot ticketing booth and the driver are quarreling. It was started by the man’s comment that her looks didn’t match with her job. Finally the man says that she is ‘acting out her pretty face.’ As their argument is drawing to an end, an obituary car passes by with a portrait of the deceased. The man blurts out “that face is a waste to have died.” In 1999 Seoul, Chandra Gureung who came from Nepal was working at a sweat shop as an assistant. In a nearby diner he orders ramen. Later he discovers that he doesn’t have his wallet, and the owner reports him to the police. The police think he is a sick homeless person when he stutters trying to speak in Korean, and he is committed to a mental institution for six years and four months. |
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