technical and artistic
Original Title Shi
Director Lee Chang-dong
Cast Yun Jung-hee, Kim Hira
South Korea Country
Year 2010
Duration 139 '
Synopsis The story begins with the descent of the dead body of a girl by a river.
A grandmother caring for her grandchild while the mother for it seeks life in the city.
We are in South Korea XXI century. Which to glimpse traces of tradition and unbridled capitalism fully established.
Grandma leitmotif of this story begins to lose his memory, his grandson, who live with a child is ungrateful and insolent that no one pays attention.
Grandma to his lack of memory is emerging that offer a course in poetry at the cultural center of town, and are encouraged to participate and learn to write poetry.
The creativity and the development of the same
Bonita and the movie simply gives us a series of basic guidelines over creation. Remembering the guidelines set by Maribel Gomez, psychotherapist and psychologist, in the course of the summer Mythic Journey to the realization of aesthetic Journal. The teacher told us poetry as Maribel tells his students to write down everything that moves them in the notebook. Which will be the basis on which later work in the creation, in the case of poetry.
The grandmother is extremely difficult to write poetry. At first, waiting for inspiration that never comes. It is still frustrating and fruitless persists, and follow the prompts from the teacher. Who also teaches to look and see the world through a different perspective, using the whole body and all the senses. And the grandmother, is dedicated to contemplate the trees, sunlight on their branches, the wind that whips, strokes and sounds.
contemplation allows us to discover aspects, nuances, qualities and states and to deepen our states and feel.
And what is written? Is another question that makes this grandmother. For about what moves us deeply and therefore has a meaning for everyone. Something that makes sense and helps close, understand and complete.
In this case, we discover how the creative process and change of the grandmother, to final resolution. As in therapy, in the process we go through times of sorrow and dismay implicit awareness of one's experience related to a clash of values \u200b\u200bthat create in us an internal conflict. In the case of the grandmother is very clear this conflict. In contrast are the parents of school children with those who are in this process, who do not seem to conflict or at least ask themselves the same.
be in life is conflict and the conflict can go out grown and changed or maintained in the status quo without growth or change.
fierce capitalism is gripped me chill, decision-making attitude and action of these parents about the problem at hand, in which the grandmother is involved. And making a zero reflection on their personal and social question, I reflect on the values \u200b\u200bimplicit and explicit in their attitude and way of functioning, "our children, ourselves and future first, who falls." Frightening. As the basis of a fierce capitalism where money buys everything. Where the value of things is what you will get no matter what. These people do not care about life. Care to achieve.
perceive a moral in that killing and abusing others for the welfare and benefit of one and rejection plaguing me. It is clear that these parents and this is introduced capitalism to the point that no one questioned because it neither sees. In the case of the film, these parents have the opportunity to see and to question, but not questioned. Just fear for the economic security of their children. And the rest do not care. In any case involves what to feel about what happened. They meet, where business meeting and seek a solution to the problem as they do, pay as if they paid for the use of a product. They lack empathy, and take the place of the girl and the fact itself. And just which party celebrating the results.
In contrast we have a grandmother who is wondering, growing and changing with the problem more or less difficult.
The story about capitalism presents us with a rich world, people with money who prioritize money and a poor world to be submitted and are under pressure and money rules.
this regard and following the creative interest of his grandmother, his new family conflict and incipient memory loss, the grandmother is immersed in their creative development, go to meetings of poetry. Enjoy, share fears, doubts and question values. Resumes his relationship with his grandson. And will solve the problems that be found with limited resources and isolation. So you just take the law into their own hands, redirecting their family history to a new order.
Disclaimer
This is another interesting aspect of the film, taking responsibility for our actions. No one knows why or what happens to the grandmother is taking care of her grandson and not make his mother or his father. The father did not know anything. Seems to live, but does not deal with your child. And the mother is largely absent throughout the film, appearing across the phone in the timely call Grandma's phone in which he reports his health and his new interest in poetry.
In this process, the grandmother would hide the information about the problem with your child and his health to his daughter, until it determines a solution to his loneliness.
Lack of dialogue and communication
is another feature that strikes me in this film. Being especially at the beginning of the process in which the lack of dialogue and communication are higher. Develop some communication as it grows its interest and commitment to the creation and family problem. Curiously, there will to communicate with his daughter or make shareholder.
And I question the level of aggression of this grandmother to her daughter and by itself is not looking for his daughter's involvement in solving the problem of his son, looking for the solution alone, coming to sacrifice their dignity , why pride for punishment? Ainara
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