Oki’s Movie by Hong Sang-Soo
Footnotes
P1
1 – Considered, I think by most people who care, though maybe not as much recently, to be the “premier” international film festival.
2 – Most recent data available, I think.
3 – Roughly $41,725,748.70 in US Dollars.
4 – Or maybe I just think the plot is not important.
5 – See this page
6 – After feeling inexplicably, and, like, playfully, drawn to his name on the list of “Notable South Korean directors” near the middle of the Wikipedia page “Cinema of Korea”.
7 – I worked at night, three nights per week, while attending school part-time and spending most of my waking hours alone in a cubicle or alone in my bedroom, reading Wikipedia articles or sometimes going to a small movie theater near my house, almost never interacting with anyone in any significant matter except through email to a few friends who lived in various far-away parts of the country.
8 – I highly recommend this movie.
9 – Excluding Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, which was not available outside of S. Korea at time of publishing.
10 – 10 – Specifically this scene.
11 – Hong Sang-Soo
12 – “As I was crossing the bridge, I looked at his head.”
P2
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P3
1 – As expressed in this movie, during King of Kisses, when Jingu looks at a carton of milk left on a bench in a park and thinks to himself that if he can understand why that milk carton is there he can understand everything about life.
2 – “Up till Hahaha, I at least had a rough idea of how the story to a movie would develop but starting with Oki’s Movie, I didn’t think of even about that. […] I roughly decided the cast and locations, and came up with scenes only after starting to shoot the movie.”
3 – I mean this in a very general sense, and don’t mean to imply that Hong Sang-Soo was literally focused on these things. I think that Hong Sang-Soo was most likely, based on the movie that he made and things he has said, thinking about things that were, at least to some degree, “tinted” by these things.
4 – Me, at least.
5 – Woman on the Beach
6 – “I make a film with a spherical form. It is different from a film that serves as a medium to convey a certain message or lesson, in which every element contributes toward its expression. Such a film, I would say, would have a triangular form, with a point at the top. I want my film to integrate numerous contradictions and interpretations so that viewers can adopt a perspective that contributes to their understanding. My film can be used as a means for people to understand themselves. One day, I received an e-mail. This person saw a film of mine and thought it was very sad. But a friend sitting beside her was highly amused. And someone else felt that my film belittled women. Actually, I like that people have different reactions.”
7 – Seen here
8 – He thinks people should be humble and inquisitive and considerate and nonjudgmental, is what this means, I think.
9 – In A Day for Incantation, King of Kisses, After the Snowstorm, and Oki’s Movie, respectively.
10 – With the ontological “realm” of the movie encompassing two relationships: between Oki and her professor and Oki and her peer.
11 – See “Quotes” section of this page.
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P5
1 – I work in a call center for an insurance company.
2 – Sitting with most of my clothes removed on my mattress, which is placed directly on the floor, sweating uncomfortably and listening to the song “Get Disowned” by Hop Along on repeat.
3 – Upon relating this to my roommates they both took the information as an explanation for why such an abnormally large portion of University of Utah students are Korean.