The Shower (1979)
The Shower (1979)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 352 | x264 @ 1333 Kbps | 100 min | 1,14 Gb
Audio: Korean AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 352 | x264 @ 1333 Kbps | 100 min | 1,14 Gb
Audio: Korean AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Suk-ie meets Yeon-ie near the brook. She is landowner Yun's grand daughter from Seoul. After a while Yeon-ie tries to make friends with him and Suk-ie avoids her, Suk-ie finds himself lonely when she is not seen for a few days. One day they run into a shower while they were out on the field. They go under the shed and come back home safely but Yeon-ie's poor health brings fever to her. As she recovers, she comes to the brook and tells Suk-ie that she is moving to the town. Later on that same day, he runs back to the brook to give her walnuts but she is not there. His father informs him of her death on his way home and Suk-ie swallows his tears in silence.
… The sensuality of the film is very subtle and told in images: the children watch some grasshoppers mating, during the rainstorm the girl scratches the boy's back, the girl cuts her knee and the boy "sucks the germs out", the color red predominates in some scenes such as the boy eating red fruit while watching the rain sprinkle on the girl's arm. No kisses are ever exchanged but they don't have to be. They "kiss" with their eyes. This is a much more effective and gentle way to teach budding teenagers about the birds and the bees, rather than some embarrassing technical film about sex in 6th grade health class.
I cannot recommend this lovely film highly enough. Now that I have seen it I can easily recognize what an influence it has had on other Korean filmmakers. South Korean filmmakers have excelled over America's for decades.
My words are poor substitutes to describe its beauty. 10 out of 10 stars for The Shower. A true masterpiece!
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The Shower (1979)
The Shower (1979)
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