Please Take Care of My Cat
This is a style of Korean cinema that could be called wonerful moments, beautiful shots. That kind of sums up the genre. You take a perfectly ordinary story with believable and well drawn characters, give them a problem to overcome and they do it, or don't. It is a great kind of slice of life cinema that no American director has seemed to get, and although Hal Hartly comes close there is nothing like a movie that defines life, like Korea cinema.
There are five schoolgirls who become good friends and slowly drift apart while they pursue their carreers (or lack thereof) but keep in touch through the efforts of one of the girls. It shows us how they live, interact with each other, their streanghts and weeknesses with wonderful cinematograpy and great and steady acting. One gilr goes to Juvee after her gradparents die, but still the movie is slow and subltle always slowly building and never rushing things to fast or giving way to a violent explosion of emotion. The movie lulls you into a kind of stupor, but is not boring. It seems that even in violent cinema Korean cinema has so much respect for the quiet moments of life that we are never subjected to a shockingly violent scene or sudden switch in emotion or mood. Things happen, but they take their time and let you know eveything that is going on. They are uniform and beautiful and this movie is no execption. That being said it lags at times and would it kill them to make something blow up?
There are five schoolgirls who become good friends and slowly drift apart while they pursue their carreers (or lack thereof) but keep in touch through the efforts of one of the girls. It shows us how they live, interact with each other, their streanghts and weeknesses with wonderful cinematograpy and great and steady acting. One gilr goes to Juvee after her gradparents die, but still the movie is slow and subltle always slowly building and never rushing things to fast or giving way to a violent explosion of emotion. The movie lulls you into a kind of stupor, but is not boring. It seems that even in violent cinema Korean cinema has so much respect for the quiet moments of life that we are never subjected to a shockingly violent scene or sudden switch in emotion or mood. Things happen, but they take their time and let you know eveything that is going on. They are uniform and beautiful and this movie is no execption. That being said it lags at times and would it kill them to make something blow up?