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aquary
01-03-2004, 18:50
Korean Movies

It goes without saying that VN's youth culture has now been much changed by several external influences. One of which comes from Korean movies.(KM)
The craze for KM is reflected in fashion,music, and step by step ... our way of life.

Most KM end in tears and cancer. A number share the same range of cast. We may see one movie, and figure out how things will be like even before the end. Still, we scurry home to catch the next espisode on t.v.

So, what's the magic behind these KM?

First, it's the good-looking,fashionable cast, the marvelous scene, the well-chosen background music...the everything that helps a movie make inroads into audience's hearts. There we see penniless yet beautiful, well-dressed people making good deeds, living like angels. So they may have to work hard, but it seems without sweat and tiredness. Thus, no anger at all vented on others (if only my parents could be like that!)

Second, it's the ultimate difference from true life. Km bring us to a place of incredible romance, where people can all day moan and craze about love, without worrying what awaits them ahead . For an hour or two, we live just like how we want : you may go for a coffee with friends during working hours, and the boss is naively silent. Or you may elope (if the script forces us to do so) with your sweetheart to a peaceful, dreamlike place - still living like a lord on the little money you have! How superb!

aquary
01-03-2004, 18:53
Korean movies - wasted tears.


The fun part is that we can shed pools of tears over KM. Take the classic Autumn Heart for example. Unso, the heroine, suffers from cancer as well as some hardship in her life. People cry from beginning to end for her pitiful fate.
Yet on second thought, I don't think she ever deserves that much of our pity! She is much luckier than many others we meet in our daily life . She's beautiful and always in fine clothes. She's in the centre of everyone's hearts, including two handsome, wealthy guys. She is never left alone and gets help if need be. She dies in love and peace, without having to worry much for those alive.

But have you ever spared a thought of true sympathy for those who are really suffering in real life? Would you cry that much?
A mother of two little children and a dying husband. Everyday she skips her lunch just to save 2000VND. She is not beautiful, if not to say, her face traces the story of a hard,poor life. She cannot be a sweet angel like our Unso, but she deserves help and love much more.

Just the same story goes in environmental conservation - we contribute money just to save big, beautiful animals like tigers, birds, and we forget the also endangered but ugly, horrible insects.
We pity distressed lovely fictional figures in KM. and we leave out real distressed people around us.

KM makes us cry, and crying makes us human. But don't cry too much for things that's fictional. Cry for things that are real.

Make your tears work.

Hank Williams
01-03-2004, 20:14
They're good, quite, but one thing I can say that I do-not-care about KM :) though the girls are really good looking!
Can't say that they're bad, but they have few ones are really worth watching, they just stick around with some old screenplays, and try to make them as long as possible.

Seba
06-03-2004, 18:42
The problem is u watch 1% of their movies ( which im sure it's tv serrie ....)and think they sucks...full of cancer, tear jerker etc. In fact, Korean movies ( the movie that's they show at the cinema) now r the best movies in asia . They far better than Hk movies, mainland movies and our movie cant even compare.. Holywood now is buying many of Korean movies' copyright to do a remake , a usa vesion.

Hank Williams
06-03-2004, 19:01
Yeah, I know. But I can't fight my feelings whenever I think of our Vietnamese girls living and behaving as what they often do in movies http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/thauminh/cry.gif . In other words, Korea movies contribute to "shape" Vietnamese youngsters nowadays.

Btw, long time no see, seba! http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/thauminh/cheers.gif