"King and the Clown"
Don't ask me how I got from "standing committees" and "political factions" to King and the Clown, but now I really want to see that movie.
And in a country where homosexuality was removed from a government list of "socially unacceptable" acts only in 2004, the film centers on a gay love triangle in a 16th-century royal court: a young male clown torn between his love for a fellow clown and an amorous king.
But to everyone's surprise, not least the director's, in mid-March the movie became the most popular ever in South Korea's history, seen by more than 12 million people, or one in four residents. In U.S. terms, it would perhaps be the equivalent of "Brokeback Mountain" - to which this movie has been loosely compared - grossing as much as "Titanic."
Continued here.
And it's actually not explicit. (I think movies exploring homosexuality have an interesting premise, but I really have no interest whatsoever in sitting through explicit scenes.) Maybe if it comes out in the U.S. any time soon, I'll look into it.
...And in conclusion, the homework situation is progressing slowly.
- Kat
And in a country where homosexuality was removed from a government list of "socially unacceptable" acts only in 2004, the film centers on a gay love triangle in a 16th-century royal court: a young male clown torn between his love for a fellow clown and an amorous king.
But to everyone's surprise, not least the director's, in mid-March the movie became the most popular ever in South Korea's history, seen by more than 12 million people, or one in four residents. In U.S. terms, it would perhaps be the equivalent of "Brokeback Mountain" - to which this movie has been loosely compared - grossing as much as "Titanic."
Continued here.
And it's actually not explicit. (I think movies exploring homosexuality have an interesting premise, but I really have no interest whatsoever in sitting through explicit scenes.) Maybe if it comes out in the U.S. any time soon, I'll look into it.
...And in conclusion, the homework situation is progressing slowly.
- Kat