36 years ago:
Adada (KR)
Original title: 아다다
The life of a mute woman.
1987-03-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/383426
#Adada #ImKwontaek #LeeKyungyoung #ClassicMovies

Jjacko is a slang for people with deformed nose. It's interesting to note that the communist is an ugly man with a deformed nose & the cop’s always wearing dark shades very much like the ones general Park (a military dictator who was assassinated in 1979)'s. Obviously intentional. But the film's all about how both sides suffered but no one really cares to remember. Through overly melodramatic flashbacks, we see how both Song and Jjacko are alike in suffering- Jjacko as a fugitive and Song as an obssessive pursuer. These are also very macho characters who never regrets anything. Remorse doesn't figure in their thoughts. And women are just there to be sacrificed &vaguely recalled. Im Kwontaek is a competent director who always provides some stunning compositions & energetic camera movements. He also weaves in two men's flashbacks as how their lives are connected in dramatic and bizarre ways. Jjacko is not a great film but an interesting one nonetheless. #koreancinema #jjacko #imkwontaek

Faith in Buddhism is soley relied upon its practitioner, w/ no help from Buddha himself nor within group dynamics. Im zeros in on human struggle to find meaning in life in two characters: Ji-san, a heavy drinking, meat eating, womanizing monk whose singular philosophy is 'don't run from life's obstacles, confront them' and that intrigues Bub-un, a young, serious monk wrestling with his own personal demons. The unlikely pair decides to travel together. A masterpiece. #ImKwontaek #koreancinema