Bonded and Unbound: Sean Connery, 1930-2020, Disney+'s The Mandalorian Makes a Valiant Return in Season Two Opener, Amazon's Truth Seekers is Missing Jokes and Scares. Mija goes home and really looks at an apple. Something in this terrible news inspires Mija to join a community education class, to learn poetry. Mi-ja, who cannot afford her 5 million won portion of the payment, is pressured to ask her daughter (Wook's mother) for the money. Yet without the plotline about the girl, it would not be the film it is. "[15] At Metacritic, based on 23 critical reviews, the film had a score of 87 out of 100, categorizing it as having received "universal acclaim. "[4], Lee wrote the lead character specifically for Yoon Jeong-hee, a major star of Korean cinema from the 1960s and 1970s. When Mi-ja asks Wook about the girl from his class who drowned, Wook insists that he doesn't know her. Mija, at the center, is perhaps determined to not fill her remaining memories with despair, and to avoid adding to the sum of the world's misery. When Mi-ja is diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's disease, she again neglects to tell anyone. She later returns after a journey to the bridge where Agnes jumped, and her hat flies off into the water. Mi-ja begins raving about how beautiful the weather, flowers, trees, and fruit are, forgetting about the task at hand. [29] It also received the Le Regard d'Or ("Golden Gaze") Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival. When she does, she appears emotionless. Though annoyed that she still hasn't contributed her sum, the fathers are overjoyed that Agnes' mother has agreed to settle, despite Mi-ja's failure to confront her. ", "Korea's Blue Dragon Award Nominees Announced", "UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Wins Best Film at the 5th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong", "Poetry wins Grand Prix in Fribourg, The Fatherless bags prizes at Graz's Diagonale", "Actress Yoon to receive top French culture honor", "Actress Yoon receives French cultural order", "Los Angeles Film Critics Make Surprise Best Actress Pick, Poetry's Yun Jung-Hee, Actor Fassbender, Director Malick, Picture The Descendants", "YUN Jung-hee wins LA Film Critics Award", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poetry_(film)&oldid=974607051, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention, This page was last edited on 23 August 2020, at 23:13.
That was the young woman in the river. This terrible event, Mija's own responses, and what they indirectly reveal about her own youth, are what define the film's tragic quality. Allow us to break it down. She learns from her doctor that she is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. "[5], On May 13, 2010, N.E.W. Share Share Tweet Email. Whether it is good or not isn't up to you. "Suddenly, it reminded me of that horrible incident, and the word 'poetry' and the image of a 60-year old woman came up in my mind. One night, a drunk Do-joon follows a high school named Ah-jung into an abandoned building. Then we meet an old woman named Mija. Mi-ja begins attending a local weekly poetry reading. It is very difficult to be sure what she is thinking, and this kind of film is more absorbing than those with characters who wear their emotions on their sleeve. "[17] It was included in CNN's list of top ten best movies of 2011,[18] and Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips named Poetry his favorite film of 2011. Mija is made to feel she must raise the money as a duty to her son. It deals with a disturbed and worthless ex-con who killed a man in a hit-and-run accident. In order to avert a full police investigation, the parents of the boys offer to pay a settlement of 30 million won to the widowed mother, a poor farmer. The idea for the film had its origin in a real-life case where a small town schoolgirl had been raped by a gang of teenage boys. [34] Yoon also won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress for her performance, marking the second consecutive year a Korean actress won the award after Kim Hye-ja won for Mother in 2010. "[5] Prior to Poetry, the last film Yoon appeared in was Manmubang ("Two Flags") from 1994.

Poor Mija repeatedly complains that she feels unable to write a poem, yet without realising it, she is becoming a poet; she is refining her consciousness in the shadow of death, shaping that raw poetic facility which may or may not ever break free into actual written language. The film was selected for the main competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. She continues with her life. The teacher is not a bad teacher, maybe even a good one, although he acts as if you can be taught to write poetry. And I must add that “Poetry” contains certainly the most poignant badminton match I can imagine. The fathers of the other boys meet with Mija and explain they're getting up a fund to pay off the dead girl's mother. [11], The international premiere took place at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where Poetry was screened on May 19 as part of the main competition.

One night, he invites all of them over without notifying Mi-ja, who nevertheless tries to be a gracious host, offering them a snack before they disappear into Wook's bedroom. Before the facility of language deserts her utterly, Mija wishes to write a single poem. She disappears and Do-joon walks away. Instead of a film with revenge and violence seen in most Korean noir films, it subverted expectations and delivered something like a ‘Requiem for a Dream’. Wook frequently leaves home at odd hours to socialize with five other boys from school.

But now Mija finds that she can no longer remember basic words and a doctor diagnoses the onset of Alzheimer's. "[16] "Given the abundant potential for missteps into sappiness with this sort of premise," Justin Chang wrote in Variety, "what's notable here is the lack of sentimentality in Lee's approach. 0. Beware of spoilers. As she leaves the hospital she sees a woman crazy with grief because her 16-year-old daughter has drowned. Yoon later expressed satisfaction with how the role differed from what she typically played in the past: "I've always had the desire to show people different aspects of my acting and (Lee) provided me with every opportunity to do just that. The teacher encourages his students to look, really look, at things. By Chris Agar Feb 23, 2016. It begins with events and sees how they develop. released Poetry in 194 South Korean theaters with a gross revenue corresponding to around US$258,000 during the first weekend. He is puzzled by the mysteries of inexplicable behavior. Mija carries on.

[30][31] After France honored Yoon as an Officier dans l'ordre des Arts et Lettres ("Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters),[32][33] she was named Best Actress at the Cinemanila International Film Festival.

It is the body of a young woman. But then, every fruit is perfect. Poetry (Korean: 시; Hanja: 詩; RR: Si) is a 2010 South Korean drama film written and directed by Lee Chang-dong. The police arrests them. The next day, the same girl appears dead … In “Poetry,” which won best screenplay honors last year at Cannes, we have a movie that is outwardly more calm. She still attends class. She is told that the group of boys have repeatedly raped a girl, Agnes, over the past six months, before she jumped off a bridge into a river and drowned. Lee won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The most difficult part of a story to nail down is the conclusion. In 2011, Poetry was nominated as Best Film at the 5th Asian Film Awards, where Lee won Best Director and Best Screenplay. Real is a misunderstood movie. But it is more complicated than that: the discovery of a dead teenage girl, floating in the river, turns out to be connected with her, and poor Mija, at the end of a blameless life, must shoulder a terrible new burden of horror and disgrace. After prison, he meets the severely disabled daughter of his victim, he assaults her, and this begins a relationship that seems somehow to meet their mutual needs. They track him at the golf course. She deals with this in her own way, which I will not specify, except by saying that she begins to really look. When she was the victim's age, her teachers told her she had the soul of a poet. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. It floats closer on the current. At the suggestion of her teacher, she begins writing notes about the things she sees, especially flowers. Her daughter returns to an empty home, and calls Mi-ja's phone, but receives no answer. [12], The Korean DVD was released on October 23, 2010 and includes English subtitles. Mija (Yun Jung-hee) lives in a South Korean city, where she looks after her grandson, Jongwook , and is a care-giver for an old man who is half-paralyzed by a stroke. Maybe Poetry would have worked well enough if it had simply been about an … Dripping wet, she returns to elderly man, agreeing to have sex with him. Sometimes a movie's shocking twist, ambiguous ending, or artsy finale can be more confusing than satisfying. Beware of spoilers. It is not seeking answers, either. It is difficult to be sure what effect this news has. Chang continued by noting how Lee's background as a novelist sometimes shows through, and that "[t]here are longueurs here... that could be trimmed, though overall this absorbing film feels considerably shorter than its 139 minutes.

The teacher begins to read Mi-ja's poem to the class. His mother (Mija's daughter) now lives in Busan: it is an arrangement which has evidently been arrived at long ago, and never discussed. [25] The award was eventually shared by Yoon and Soo Ae, for her performance in Midnight FM.
The course assignment is to write one poem by the end of the month-long course. First published on Thu 28 Jul 2011 22.25 BST. The body of a girl in a school uniform floats by. A brash man frequently reads beautiful poetry at these readings, but follows them with crude sexual jokes that offend Mi-ja. [22] At the 47th Grand Bell Awards, Poetry won the prizes for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor.

Jin-tae was the one responsible for the damage but Do-joon ends up getting the blame. At home, she cares for her ill-mannered 16-year-old grandson, Jong-wook (Lee David), whose divorced mother lives in Busan.

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