The Journals of Musan

Tribeca Films | Release Date: August 19, 2011

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emdashmAug 27, 2011

Saw this for free at MOMA last Friday, and it's the best Korean drama I've seen in awhile! Also glad to finally see a worthwhile emerging Korean director get some recognition after disappointments by leading veterans in the past few years.Saw this for free at MOMA last Friday, and it's the best Korean drama I've seen in awhile! Also glad to finally see a worthwhile emerging Korean director get some recognition after disappointments by leading veterans in the past few years. At heart, the film dealt with some serious contemporary cultural issues regarding Korea's backhanded discrimination of its own in the treatment of North Korean refugees living in Seoul, as well as the overzealous yet superficial adoption of Christianity and the consequences and experience of living in a super-collectivist cult-ure. Some of the tricks used to engage western audiences and evoke empathy (the dog, religious hymns in the singing room, for example) were cheap but effective; likewise, amateur-ish lens when filming chase scenes and perspective shots. Overall, the level of detail and character sketches/development made for great drama. Among the best and most subtle are scenes at the close of the film, wherein the "love interest" is reduced to just another blind follower, implicitly unworthy of the tragic hero's redemption.… Expand

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